Conditional duties: obligations that only trigger on events — this article focuses on “Conditions” within Obligation tracking. Who owes whom what — including post-termination duties. Below is a practical playbook you can apply immediately, and how a knowledge graph keeps facts from living only in PDFs and spreadsheets.
Why “Conditions” deserves its own focus
Under Obligation tracking, teams often cram every detail into one summary — and the items that blow up before a deadline get buried. Isolating “Conditions” gives owners a clear definition of done, and gives reminders and dashboards something concrete to hang on.
fida lab’s approach: extract parties, obligations, dates, and amounts from PDFs into a knowledge graph. Chat, expiry radar, cashflow, and calendar all read that graph — they do not re-guess the source text.
Practical steps
- Define what success looks like for “Conditions” (observable, with a named owner)
- Pull related contracts/clauses into the graph and confirm entities and dates are complete
- Set reminders or expiry buckets so you are not relying on personal calendars alone
- Review with a fixed weekly question set and escalate exceptions
One-week checklist
- Key dates (effective, notice, expiry) are all captured
- Counterparty name variants are merged
- Obligations can answer “who owes whom what”
- Reminder rules reach the right group
Common pitfalls
- Tracking only the “expiry date” and forgetting the “notice period” — a few weeks’ gap can close the renewal window.
- The same counterparty appears under different spellings and gets counted as two companies.
- Keyword search finds a paragraph but cannot answer cross-document portfolio questions.
Summary and next steps
If you are building an operating rhythm around Obligation tracking, finish the first two checklist items before automating reminders. Once contract facts live in a knowledge graph, Q&A, expiry, and cashflow views get much cheaper — that is the time fida lab aims to save for SMEs.
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