Tracking obligations
Renewals, notice deadlines, and key dates from your contracts — extracted automatically, resolved to real dates, and tracked in one place.
An obligation is a key date or deadline that comes out of a contract — a renewal, an auto-renewal cutoff, a notice deadline, a payment, a deliverable, a reporting requirement, or a milestone. Fusial pulls these out of your contracts so the dates that matter don't slip past once a deal is signed.
Obligations show up in two places: on each contract, and on the organization-wide Obligations page in the sidebar — "Renewals, notice deadlines, and key dates resolved from your contracts."
Where obligations come from
Obligations are created two ways:
- Extracted by AI. When Fusial analyzes a contract, it reads the language for dates and deadlines and creates obligations from them — for example, an "Auto-renewal notice deadline" derived from a renewal clause. Each extracted obligation records the clause it came from.
- Added by hand. Anyone who can edit the workspace can click Add obligation, choose a contract, and fill in the details themselves.
How a due date is resolved
Many obligations are described relative to something — "60 days before the term ends," "30 days after the effective date." Fusial stores that rule and computes the actual calendar date once it knows the contract's anchor dates.
An obligation's rule is made of:
- Measured from — the anchor: the effective date, the execution date, the term end, a fixed date, or an event.
- Offset — on the anchor, or a number of days / weeks / months / years before or after it.
- Repeat (months) — for recurring obligations, how often it comes back.
If the contract doesn't have the dates an obligation depends on yet, the obligation waits as Needs a date until you supply them. On a contract, a banner flags how many obligations still need a date — click Set dates to enter the effective date, execution date, term length, and renewal details. Fusial then resolves every waiting obligation to a real due date.
Statuses
Each obligation carries a status that reflects where it stands:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Needs a date | Extracted, but the contract's anchor dates aren't set yet. |
| Scheduled | Resolved to a due date in the future. |
| Passed | The due date has come and gone. |
| Completed | You marked it done. |
| Dismissed | You chose to ignore it. |
Needs a date, Scheduled, and Passed are set automatically as time passes and dates resolve. Completed and Dismissed are yours to set — and you can Reopen either one later.
Working with obligations
The Obligations page lists everything across your contracts, with tabs for Upcoming, Scheduled, Needs a date, Passed, Completed, and Dismissed. Each row shows the obligation's title and type, the contract and counterparty it belongs to, its due date (with how far away it is), and its status.
From the row's menu you can:
- Edit — change the title, type, rule, or notes.
- Mark complete — when the obligation has been handled.
- Dismiss — when it doesn't apply.
- Reopen — bring a completed or dismissed obligation back.
- Delete — remove it entirely.
The same obligations appear on each contract, where you can add and manage them in context. If a contract has no obligations yet, the card reads "No obligations tracked yet."
To stay ahead of these dates without checking the page, set up reminders — Fusial will notify the contract owner and assignees before each one is due.