Extract data from subscription agreements

A subscription agreement is the contract behind a recurring service, and it is read as much for how it renews and how it ends as for what it costs. Revenue operations analysts, contracts lawyers, and vendor management teams all pull the same terms from a SaaS or service subscription: the subscription term, the tier, the billing frequency, and, above all, the renewal mechanics, because an auto-renewal clause with a short cancellation window is what silently locks in another year. Together the commercial and legal terms track the categories a contract review works through, the same clause set the CUAD corpus annotates: auto-renewal and renewal term, cancellation notice, cap on liability, minimum commitment, license grant, intellectual-property ownership, a data processing agreement, service-level uptime, change of control, anti-assignment, and audit rights. What makes it hard is that the money is recurring and the renewal terms are conditional. A subscription priced at $144,000 over three years billed quarterly in USD is not the same cash profile as one billed annually in advance, and a renewal clause that permits a price increase capped at a percentage on 60 days notice behaves differently from a flat renewal. Header fields carry the subscriber and provider, the effective and expiration dates, the term in months, the tier, and the total, but the value sits in the conditional fields: whether auto-renewal is on, how many days of cancellation notice are required, what the SLA uptime percentage guarantees, whether a separate Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is referenced, and whether the security exhibit points to an ISO 27001 certificate or a SOC 2 report. Talonic reads the subscription agreement and returns the parties, the term and pricing, the renewal and cancellation mechanics, the SLA, and the legal clauses as discrete fields, each clause captured with the text that establishes it. One three-year subscription with Northwind Cloud Inc., effective 2026-04-01 and running through 2029-03-31, a Professional tier billed quarterly at $48,000 a year, auto-renewing with 60 days cancellation notice and a 99.9 percent uptime SLA, loads into a contract system with its renewal terms flagged, so a reviewer reads the commitments from fields rather than the fine print. No advice is attached: the terms are structured as written, with no view on whether a clause is enforceable.

What gets extracted from subscription agreements

How extraction works for subscription agreements

Subscription agreements are generated from contract lifecycle management and billing systems such as Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, and Salesforce, and reach a reviewer as an executed PDF or a countersigned scan where the renewal and liability terms live in prose. Talonic classifies the agreement and maps it to the contract schema in the Field Registry, which separates the pricing header from the clause set. From the header, the subscriber, provider, effective and expiration dates, term in months, tier, and total are captured, the itemized subscription charges return as a line array with their billing frequency, and each clause, auto-renewal, renewal term, cancellation notice, cap on liability, minimum commitment, license grant, IP ownership, data processing agreement, SLA uptime, change of control, anti-assignment, and audit rights, is returned with the text that establishes it and tagged to its category. Boolean terms such as auto-renewal and the presence of a data processing agreement are read as true or false, and the cancellation-notice days and SLA percentage are typed as numbers. Per-field confidence and a pixel-region pointer accompany each value under DIN SPEC 91491, so a reviewer can verify a renewal clause or an SLA against the source agreement. Enforceability stays a legal question; the extraction returns the terms exactly as written.

Sample extraction

A multi-year SaaS subscription agreement, quarterly billing

{
  "document_number": "SUB-2026-0451",
  "document_date": "2026-03-25",
  "effective_date": "2026-04-01",
  "expiration_date": "2029-03-31",
  "subscriber.name": "Meridian Industries Inc.",
  "provider.name": "Northwind Cloud Inc.",
  "governing_law": "State of Delaware, USA",
  "currency": "USD",
  "total_amount": 144000,
  "subscription_term_months": 36,
  "subscription_tier": "Professional",
  "payment_frequency": "quarterly",
  "auto_renewal": true,
  "cancellation_notice_days": 60,
  "data_processing_agreement": true,
  "sla_uptime_percentage": 99.9,
  "renewal_terms": {
    "renewal_period_months": 12,
    "price_increase_permitted": true,
    "max_price_increase_percent": 5,
    "renewal_notice_days": 60
  },
  "subscription_charges": [
    {
      "service_name": "Professional platform subscription",
      "subscription_tier": "Professional",
      "unit_price": 12000,
      "quantity": 1,
      "frequency": "quarterly",
      "total_charge": 12000,
      "currency": "USD"
    }
  ]
}

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