Cutting Contract Review Time from Days to Hours
A document-review agent that flags risky clauses and inconsistencies for human counsel, built with a strict audit trail for every decision.
The problem
A legal services team was spending disproportionate time on first-pass review of routine commercial contracts — checking for a known set of risky clause patterns and inconsistencies — before an attorney's substantive review even began.
What we built
A document-review agent that reads incoming contracts against a firm-defined playbook of clause patterns, flags deviations and ambiguous language, and produces a structured summary with citations to the exact clause and reasoning — but explicitly does not render legal judgment or make the final call itself.
Why the audit trail mattered most
In a regulated, liability-sensitive domain, every flag the agent raises is logged with the specific text it reacted to and why — critical both for attorney trust and for the firm's own internal quality assurance.
The result
First-pass review time dropped from days to hours for standard commercial agreements, letting attorneys spend their time on genuine judgment calls rather than repetitive pattern-matching, with zero reduction in the human oversight the work legally requires.
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