Use cases

Where a shared record changes the work

Five situations Termsroom was designed around. Find the one that looks like yours and read four lines.

University and faculty association

Post-secondary

Collective agreement renewal, with ratification at the end.

90 clauses · 4 months · 6 people a side

Today
Mandate in a private spreadsheet, priorities in a group chat, versions by email. The first hour of every session goes on working out what changed.
Changes
A sealed caucus each. A shared table carrying tabled versions, open requests and an order of business both sides adopted.
Storage
University SharePoint and association storage. Neither party places documents with us.
Afterwards
Every version with its hash, who was sent which version, and when they acknowledged it, what was agreed and what was held over, attendance per sitting.

City and services contractor

Municipal

Five year contract renewal, ending in a council decision.

$60m over the term · procurement policy applies

Today
The city cannot put its reserve position anywhere the contractor might reach, and the contractor will not put its cost model anywhere the city might. Both keep two sets of files.
Changes
Positions stay in the caucus. Only what was tabled reaches the table. A request for a cost breakdown is tracked and must be answered or declined with a reason.
Storage
Each party keeps its own, under its own retention schedule.
Afterwards
If the award is challenged, what was disclosed and to whom is a query rather than a reconstruction from mailboxes.

Health authority and nurses union

Health

A mid-term dispute with a mediator, and arbitration in prospect.

2 sittings a month · mediator from the third

Today
The mediator needs to see what was exchanged without seeing either side's private position, and there is no clean way to give them that.
Changes
The mediator is added to the shared table by one side in an observer role: present, reading, unable to change status or membership. Neither caucus is visible to them, and the audit record shows who admitted them.
Storage
Stays inside the authority tenant and the union tenant, which their retention rules require.
Afterwards
The exchange is already in a form an arbitrator can read: dated, attributed, hash verified, with a session record per sitting.

Two companies, a master services agreement

Commercial

Three rounds of redlines against a signing date both boards have been told.

Legal teams in two cities

Today
Redlines arrive as attachments. Somebody works from a superseded copy, and the commercial team cannot see which clauses are settled without rereading the whole document.
Changes
An order of business tracks each open clause with a status both sides see, so settled clauses stop being reopened.
Storage
Each company keeps its own copies. Taking a version into your caucus records the release against the version it came from, rather than leaving an untracked copy.
Afterwards
The path from first draft to executed agreement, with every version, recipient and change of position dated.

School board and support staff union

Education

Bargaining with a board committee and a union executive watching.

Observers on both sides

Today
Visibility is solved by forwarding, so confidential material leaves the room and nobody can say where copies went.
Changes
Observers read and are recorded present but cannot post, change an item or alter membership. Each side manages its own and neither sees the other's.
Storage
Board and union storage respectively, with nothing held by us.
Afterwards
The record names who was sent which version and when, so a page found elsewhere can be narrowed to the people who held that version.

True of all five

Neither party places its documents with Termsroom. Each connects storage its own organisation owns, and Termsroom holds pointers, hashes and the record of who did what and when. The checks behind that are on the trust page, and a customer can run them without asking us.