Most contract management platforms stop at signature. They help legal draft cleaner templates, redline faster, and route approvals without the email chaos. Malbek does that well and was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CLM.
But signing a contract is not the same as capturing its value. Once ink is dry, a different set of questions starts. Is the supplier delivering the volume we committed to? Has the rebate threshold been crossed? Is the MFN clause being honored? Are the accruals on the finance side matching what we have actually earned? Malbek's BusinessIQ module surfaces commercial insights from the contract repository, but it does not reconcile those terms against live ERP transactions. It knows what was agreed. Not whether it is being delivered.
Vendortell picks up where the contract is signed.
Vendortell was built for exactly that gap. Where Malbek stops at the repository, Vendortell picks up. It connects your signed contract terms to live ERP data (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Visma) and tracks in real time whether each vendor relationship is performing against what was agreed. Rebate thresholds, volume commitments, incentive tiers, claim deadlines: all monitored continuously, not reconciled after the fact at quarter-end.
The result is a finance-grade view of your contract portfolio that no CLM can produce: what you negotiated, what you delivered, and what you have earned. Live in 30 days. This is what Contract Performance Management delivers.
Beyond signature: The operational layer that turns contracts into daily decisions.
Vendortell's contract repository is engineered to eliminate manual work across every department that touches contracts. Upload thousands of contracts and amendments in one bulk operation. Vendortell reads and understands each contract, extracting every obligation, financial and non-financial, into a structured, searchable overview. Renewals, indexations, rebate thresholds, service-level commitments, exclusivity clauses, delivery windows: All captured, all monitored, all connected to the right owner in procurement, finance, sales or legal.
This is the operational layer no CLM was built to deliver. Every dashboard is fully configurable, so each department sees exactly the view that supports their decisions. With Vendortell, you are investing in a future-proof foundation that safeguards content, delivers overview, and captures every euro of value.
When obligations come due, a rebate threshold approaches or a renewal date nears, Vendortell generates the task automatically and routes it to the person who owns it: Procurement lead, category manager, finance controller or sales account manager. And with the Vendortell email extension for Outlook and Gmail, every user can pull the exact contract knowledge they have access to, respecting role-based permissions, directly from their inbox: Without leaving the tool they already live in.
How they compare
Who should you choose?
Choose Malbek if your primary pain is pre-signature: contract drafting volume, slow redlining cycles, no clause library, Salesforce-native workflow. Malbek is a strong fit for that problem.
Choose Vendortell when the pain is not getting contracts signed but getting the value out of them once they are. Vendortell gives every department self-service access to the exact obligations they own, financial and non-financial, and eliminates the manual work behind every contract question. Beyond solving today's pain, you are investing in a platform that safeguards content, delivers overview across the organisation, and captures every euro of value. Most customers recover more in uncaptured rebates within the first two quarters than the platform costs for the year.
Use both if you have both problems. Vendortell reads contract data from Malbek or any other CLM and adds the post-signature financial layer on top. They are complementary by design.
