Legal Team Reduces Contract Review Time by 75%
The Full Story
This growing professional services firm had a compliance problem disguised as a capacity problem. Their legal team was drowning in contract review (NDAs, vendor agreements, client contracts) and the backlog kept growing. Worse, they'd had a few close calls where non-standard clauses slipped through rushed reviews.
We built an AI system that pre-processes every document: extracting key terms, comparing against standard templates, flagging unusual clauses, and checking compliance requirements. The legal team still makes every decision, but now they're reviewing AI-highlighted exceptions instead of reading every word of every document. The 200-document backlog was cleared in 3 weeks.
The Challenge
Legal team manually reviewed every vendor contract, NDA, and compliance document. Backlog of 200+ documents, 2-week average review time, and critical clauses occasionally missed due to volume.
Our Solution
Deployed AI document processing that extracts key terms, flags non-standard clauses, checks against compliance rules, and routes for human approval. Humans make final decisions; AI does the heavy lifting.
AI-Powered Contract Review
How AI pre-processing cleared a 200+ document backlog in 3 weeks
Documents uploaded via email or portal
- -Email attachment parsing
- -Drag-and-drop portal
- -Automatic categorization
Convert PDFs and scans to searchable text
- -PDF text extraction
- -Scanned document OCR
- -Table recognition
AI identifies critical contract elements
- -Party identification
- -Date and term extraction
- -Obligation mapping
Compare against compliance rules
- -Standard clause verification
- -Risk assessment scoring
- -Regulatory compliance check
Flag non-standard or risky clauses
- -Non-standard clause alerts
- -Missing section warnings
- -Risk level categorization
Human experts review AI-highlighted issues
- -Focused on exceptions only
- -Strategic decision making
- -Final approval authority
Searchable archive of approved contracts
- -Full-text search
- -Clause library
- -Expiration tracking
Documents requiring counterparty changes
- -Automated redline generation
- -Counterparty notification
- -Revision tracking
The Result
75% Faster Review
“The AI catches things we used to miss when we were rushing. Our legal team can actually think strategically now instead of just processing paper.”