Start with the decision episode
The useful unit is not only the contract. It is the full episode: proposed commitment, evidence, policy context, economics, feasibility, decision, repair, human judgment, final commitment and outcome.
Connect decisions to outcomes
If the enterprise can see which assumptions, exceptions and term combinations predicted margin erosion or delivery failure, future decisions improve.
Why a graph matters
Commitments connect customers, products, service levels, capabilities, dependencies, policies and outcomes. A graph representation can preserve those relationships instead of flattening them into a document archive.
The moat is not data volume alone
The defensible asset is structured decision lineage: why the enterprise believed a promise was acceptable and whether reality agreed.
Do not oversell it too early
The immediate product still has to make a better pre-signature decision. The graph becomes valuable because the operational primitive is useful, not because the architecture sounds advanced.