First-pass contract review
- The problem
- Lawyers spend hours finding standard clauses and deviations in routine contracts.
- How AI helps
- The model compares a contract with your standard playbook, highlights deviations and drafts suggested wording for the lawyer to accept or reject.
- Start with
- Language model with your playbook, redline output.
- Guardrails
- A lawyer reviews everything and the tool confidentiality terms are checked before use.
Full details
Example in practice
A vendor sends an NDA. The tool compares it with the firm playbook, shows that the liability cap and governing law differ and drafts the replacement wording for the lawyer to accept or reject.
How it works
- Write the playbook: preferred, acceptable and unacceptable positions for each clause.
- Upload the contract and ask the model to compare clause by clause.
- Generate redlines and short explanations.
- The lawyer reviews all changes before anything goes to the other side.
Data you need
The playbook, standard templates and the incoming contracts.
Measure success
- Review time per contract
- Deviations missed
- Turnaround time
- Lawyer edits to the suggestions
Indicative rollout
Weeks 1-2: define scope, collect data and agree success measures. Weeks 3-6: build and run in parallel with the current process. Weeks 7-8: review accuracy and effort saved, then decide whether to scale. Timing is indicative and depends on your data and systems.
Data handling
Use approved tools only, keep personal and confidential data protected as required by law (for example the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 in India), and keep a person responsible for every decision that affects people.