If the dozens of case studies on our website aren’t enough to convince you that we do what we say, why not put us to the test?

A trial lets you experience what it’s like to use Nomio as a real customer. There’s no ‘sample data’ or pre-prepared demo environment: we give you a fully functioning repository that’s built from your actual contract data.

If you want to know whether Nomio can handle your contracts and surface the data that actually matters to your business, asking for a trial is the best way to find out.

How a Nomio trial works

Step 1: Upload your contracts

We’ll set you up with a Nomio account and ask you to upload a sample of 10–15 contracts.

These can include:

• Messy/non-standard formats: scanned PDFs, redlined drafts, foreign language documents.
• Linked contracts: MSAs with dependent SOWs, multi-document or amended contracts.
• Live contracts: active agreements with upcoming dates like Renewal Notice Deadlines.
• A variety of agreement types: leases, customer contracts, supplier agreements, NDAs, complex agreements.

You won’t be asked to configure anything or input data yourself. Our team takes care of everything, just as we would for a real customer.

Step 2: We review your documents and make observations

Once your documents are uploaded, we review them to understand how your agreements are structured and what patterns emerge.

By looking through your contracts, we start to build context around how your business operates: which terms are common, which are unusual, and what information might be valuable to surface.

Step 3: Jump on a short discovery call

We then host a short discovery call to discuss what we’ve found and get your insights.

Before the call

We’ll send you a short spreadsheet in advance listing the data points we think you might want to capture from your contracts.

Some examples might be:

• Common data points — data points we suggest because:
  • They appear regularly in your contracts.
  • We already capture this information for other customers
  • For example, Governing Law, Payment Terms or Liability Cap. See our full list of Custom Data Field packages for more.
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• Suggestions based on your business context — these are data points that:
  • We already capture for other customers.
  • Recommend to you specifically because of what we know about your business context.
  • For instance, if we know you operate across multiple entities or make frequent acquisitions, we might suggest a Right to Assignment data point to help understand which contracts can be transferred.
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• Data fields unique to you — data points that are:
  • Totally unique to your business context or industry, and not things we already capture for other customers.
  • Designed specifically for your business to capture ‘niche’ (but important) information within your contracts.
  • For example, we worked with a pharmaceutical company and came up with a new Product Name data point to track which drugs were being purchased under each agreement.
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You’re welcome to leave comments in the spreadsheet ahead of the call, but there’s no obligation to do so — we’ll go through everything together live.

During the call

We’ll explain each suggestion, why we raised it, and how it relates to your contracts or commercial context. You can tell us what’s useful, what’s not, and what else matters to you.

We’ll ask a few guiding questions to better understand your priorities. From there, we do the heavy lifting of working out how to model and represent that information in Nomio.

• What are the most important pieces of information currently locked inside your contracts?
• What type of questions about your contracts do you often find yourself asking, or get asked about from others in the business?
• What do you wish your current contract management system was able to do or tell you?

Step 4: We process your documents

Using everything we’ve learned, we get to work on processing your contracts and capturing the information you care about.

What do we mean by processing?

• Naming agreements clearly and consistently.
• Modelling document relationships and precedence (e.g. MSA → SOW → Amendment).
• Proactively flagging any inconsistencies, drafting errors or missing information in your contracts.
• Grouping and organising documents into structured agreements.
• Capturing and validating key information from your contracts.

Step 5: We walk you through your trial account

Once your repository is ready, we’ll run a short kick-off session to show you what we’ve built.

In this session, we’ll show you:

• How your contracts have been structured and grouped.
• The specific data points we’ve captured, and where they appear across your agreements.
• How you can use search, filters, timelines, and other features to make the most of Nomio.

It’s also your chance to ask any questions and understand the logic behind the way we’ve built your database.

Step 6: Full access to Nomio for 1 week

After the walkthrough, we’ll activate your trial account for one week of full access.

You'll get a fully functional repository with your contracts and curated set of data points, along with full use of Nomio's features.

We’ll be on hand throughout to support, answer questions, or provide demos to other stakeholders if needed.

Once the trial period is up, we’ll schedule in another call to get your feedback and discuss where to go from there.

Things to keep in mind during your trial

Give us your worst

If you think a document is too messy, too complex, or too non-standard — upload it.

There’s no point trialling a contract repository on clean, templated agreements. The only way to know if it works is to see how it handles the real-world complexity of contracts.

That includes poorly scanned PDFs, unusual or complicated clause structures, and agreements split across multiple linked or interdependent documents.

Be thorough and brutally honest

We want you to evaluate Nomio thoroughly. That means:

• Flagging even the smallest gaps or inconsistencies.
• Asking tough questions about how things are captured, modelled, or categorised.
• Telling us when something looks different to how you expected, or if you’d prefer to see it another way.

In short: try to break Nomio.

This is the best way to test how deep we really go when it comes to data quality. The more scrutiny you apply, the more confidence you’ll have in what we’ve built (or the faster we’ll be able to improve it).

This reflects how we work with real customers. The more our customers use Nomio, the more we learn about their business and adjust their setup in real time based on evolving preferences or requirements. The trial is no different.

Keep it small to begin with

We recommend starting with just the stakeholders who’ve been involved so far.

Bringing in wider teams too early (especially without context) can lead to confusion. People might assume it’s a finished implementation, expect to see a specific piece of information represented a certain way, or misunderstand what’s being shown.

Once you've had a chance to explore the trial yourself, we’re happy to help bring others in and answer all their questions directly.

This is the worst it’ll ever be

Our trial process is deliberately light-touch for you. We use our own judgement to structure your repository, so you’re not burdened with decisions or setup tasks.

That has a side effect: some things might not be captured the way you’d want long term. You might wish a clause was captured differently, or that we’d included a data point specific to your industry.

This isn’t because we can’t do it — it’s because the goal is to demonstrate Nomio’s capabilities quickly, without the process demanding too much input from you.

If you become a customer, we run a full calibration process:

• Building a tailored blueprint for how we manage your repository going forward.
• Refining how documents are categorised.
• Adding or adjusting data points based on feedback.

Nomio is built to be flexible. The trial gives you a snapshot, but what comes afterwards is much more fine-tuned to your business needs.

How to evaluate Nomio against other tools

Here’s a few things to consider when evaluating Nomio against the other tools you’re considering.

How much work is expected from you?

One of the biggest differences between providers is how much manual effort they expect from you.

• Are you responsible for uploading, naming, and organising all your contracts?
• Do you need to manually input data and keep everything up-to-date?
• Will you have to maintain the system yourself once it’s live?

Nomio handles all of this set-up, data capture, organisation, and ongoing maintenance work for you.

See: Nomio wins back your time

See: The best time to get started is now

Is the data reliable?

A good contract repository should give you confidence in what’s been captured.

• Can the system handle real-world complexity — like modelling MSAs with multiple SOWs or amendments with conflicting terms?
• Is the data captured in a way that reflects how your contracts actually function?
• Can you trust it — or do you find yourself double-checking everything manually?

Getting to that level of accuracy requires structured processes, human review, and a clear standard for what accuracy looks like.

AI-only solutions hit a ceiling. DIY systems fall apart with inconsistency. Nomio combines automation with humans in the loop to build a database that’s actually reliable.

See: What level of inaccuracy are you willing to accept?See: Why we use Humans and AI

See: Why you shouldn’t DIY a contract repository

What kind of solution are you looking for?

It’s important to be clear on what type of solution you actually need.

If you’re looking for a tool that covers the full contract lifecycle — including drafting, collaboration, approvals, and e-signatures — a comprehensive CLM might be the better fit.

Nomio doesn’t try to do all of that. Our sole focus is on being the best possible contract repository, and we don’t try to compete with end-to-end solutions on functionality. If your goal is to get your contract data organised, searchable, and reliable (without the overhead of managing it yourself), that’s where Nomio fits best.

That said, it doesn’t have to be one or the other. Nomio can integrate into CLMs and other systems, and often acts as the underlying data layer that makes those tools more effective.

See: Why most contract repositories overpromise and underdeliver

See: The no-brainer step before rolling out a CLM

Does it meet the true definition of quality?

There’s a whole host of other things to consider to assess whether a contract repository meets the true definition of quality.

If you want to know what separates a decent repository from a great one, check out The Contract Repository Quality Checklist for a deeper dive on how to evaluate contract management tools.

Put us to the test

Our trial gives you the same experience you’d get as a real customer. By the end of it, you’ll have a clear sense of how Nomio works, how to use it, and what it’s like to work with us.

Getting started takes no more than an hour of your time across a couple of short calls, plus uploading a small set of documents. We handle everything else.

The trial feels light-touch — not because it’s been simplified or watered down – but because that’s just how Nomio works. Whether you’re trialling us for a week or storing thousands of contracts with us long-term, our role stays the same: take the work off your plate, and make your contracts easier to manage.

Put us to the test.

If you’re interested in kicking off a trial with Nomio, please email Oliver (our Head of Customer Success) at oliver.rutherford@nomio.com and he’ll get back to you on the same day.

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