USE CASES
Where Cradle already delivers measurable impact.
Four departments, four concrete problems, four outcomes with hard numbers. All cases come from mid-market reality: 100–500 employees, regulated industries, sensitive data.
Case 1 / 4
Legal documents and contracts
What changes for the legal department
BEFORE
- 4–6 hours to review a single contract
- Lawyer reads every contract by hand
- Comparing against templates — by eye
- Searching the archive for similar cases — days
- Contracts pasted into ChatGPT — leak risk
AFTER
- 20–30 minutes per contract
- AI flags deviations from the template in seconds
- Highlights risky clauses with citations
- Surfaces similar contracts from the archive
- Everything stays inside the perimeter — no cloud
BUSINESS IMPACT
× 8
speed-up for the legal team
−40%
legal department headcount cost
0
document leaks in a year of use
What you load into the system: 3–5 years of contract archive, internal templates, local regulations and company policies
Case 2 / 4
Market intelligence and supplier pricing
What changes for sales and procurement teams
BEFORE
- 2–3 days to compare suppliers
- A buyer manually compares 5+ supplier price lists
- Excel files with thousands of rows in different formats
- Decisions made by gut feel
- Competitor pricing tables sit in cloud spreadsheets
AFTER
- 15 minutes for any tender
- Drop every supplier price list into the system
- AI reconciles line items and totals across all of them
- Highlights alternatives and risk lines
- All commercial data stays inside the company
BUSINESS IMPACT
× 50
tenders per day instead of 1–2
−12%
procurement cost from better choices
100%
of commercial data stays with you
What you load into the system: supplier price lists, specifications, industry analytics, market research material
Case 3 / 4
Business reports and financial analytics
What changes for the CFO and COO
BEFORE
- Monday report — built starting Friday
- An analyst stitches data from 4–5 systems
- Every report is rebuilt from scratch from a template
- Board questions — answered next week
- Financial numbers into a cloud AI — strictly forbidden
AFTER
- Any report in 5 minutes via a plain-language query
- AI pulls data straight from ERP, CRM, 1C
- “Show regional sales for last quarter” — chart
- Explains anomalies: where, by how much, why
- Every number stays inside the secure perimeter
BUSINESS IMPACT
× 20
speed-up in reporting
−2 FTE
analyst headcount you can free up
24/7
answers to any question on the numbers
What you load into the system: ERP / CRM / 1C exports, P&L, cash-flow, departmental reports for 2–3 years
Case 4 / 4
HR and internal employee support
What changes for HR and line managers
BEFORE
- HR answers the same questions a hundred times
- “How many vacation days do I have?” — five times a day
- New hires hunt for policies for 2–3 months
- Training is meetings, slides, repeats
- Tribal knowledge leaves with key people
AFTER
- AI knows every company policy by heart
- Employees ask in Telegram and get an instant answer
- It cites the exact clause with a link
- Available 24/7 in the language of your team
- Knowledge accumulates and is never lost
BUSINESS IMPACT
−60%
tickets to the HR department
1 week
to onboard, instead of 3 months
× 3
productivity of new hires
What you load into the system: policies, job descriptions, internal regulations, HR FAQ
Show the impact on your data in two weeks.
Paid pilot — €2,500. One use case, your documents, your infrastructure. The pilot fee is credited against the annual contract.