Claude Code missed about $800,000 in contract value and gave the wrong renewal deadline in a procurement test. An unlinked amendment explained the missing value, despite correct annual spending totals and plausible-looking tables.
Natalia Connolly and Kevin Madura tested Claude Code on a replica of a post-merger procurement operation. The exercise covered more than 40,000 contract documents spread across disconnected databases, with hundreds of vendors shared by the merged businesses.
An audit found that Claude Code missed an amendment worth about $800,000 because it was not linked to its parent contract. It also gave December 1 as the deadline to prevent an automatic renewal, when the correct date was November 1.
The pair spent about 2 weeks building a 5-stage pipeline to extract terms, classify documents and rebuild contract relationships. They then gave Claude Code structured tables and reusable tools, putting business rules in code rather than prompts.
Correct spending totals and polished tables were not enough to make the output reliable for procurement decisions.
Teams building contract agents need to account for amendments and document relationships, not just extract individual figures.
The report does not establish the rebuilt pipeline's final accuracy, so reliable unattended use remains unproven.
Written automatically by the Made in 10 Newsroom from the source above.
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