Solution: Contract review assistant
Contracts take too long to review
Upload a contract and get a structured first review: key terms extracted, risky or unusual clauses highlighted and differences from your playbook explained. A lawyer makes every call.
Sounds familiar?
Signs this is costing you time
Contracts pile up in every business: NDAs, supplier agreements, leases, client contracts, partnership terms. Each one needs someone to read it carefully, compare it with what you normally accept and flag problems. Legal teams and business owners spend hours on documents that are mostly standard, looking for the few clauses that are not.
Speed matters, because deals wait while contracts sit in a queue. So does consistency, because different reviewers accept different terms.
An AI review assistant reads the whole contract in minutes and points reviewers to what matters, using your own positions as the benchmark.
Over time, the same system becomes a searchable record of every contract you have signed, which answers questions like "which suppliers can we terminate on short notice?" in seconds.
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Deals wait days for contract review.
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Reviewers read long, mostly standard documents line by line.
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Acceptable terms vary depending on who reviews.
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Finding what was agreed in past contracts is slow.
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Renewal and notice dates are missed.
Before and after
How it works today, and how it works after
How it works today
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A contract arrives by email.
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A reviewer reads it from start to finish.
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Issues are noted in comments or a separate email.
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Key dates are copied into a calendar, sometimes.
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The signed version is filed and rarely looked at again.
How it works after
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The contract is uploaded or forwarded to the assistant.
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Key terms, parties, dates and obligations are extracted.
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Clauses that differ from your playbook are highlighted with explanations.
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The reviewer focuses on flagged sections and makes decisions.
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Key dates flow into reminders, and the contract becomes searchable.
What we build
What we build
Your playbook
Term extraction
Long-document handling
Contract search
Date tracking
In practice
What it looks like in practice
An illustrative walk-through, not a client story.
A property management company signs many service contracts with contractors and suppliers. The operations director reviewed each one personally, which delayed new suppliers by a week or more.
Now contracts are forwarded to the assistant. Within minutes, the director receives a one-page summary: parties, term, payment, liability cap and notice period, plus three flagged clauses: an automatic renewal with a short notice window, uncapped liability and a payment term longer than usual. Each flag cites the clause and the company's standard position. The director negotiates those three points and signs. Notice dates are added to the calendar automatically.
Models and tools
AI models and MCP servers that usually fit
We choose models by task, data sensitivity and cost, and test them on your real examples before we commit. These are common starting points, not a fixed recipe.
How we build it
The services behind this solution
Most solutions combine two or three of our services. These are the ones this one usually needs.
Document automation
Read invoices, forms, contracts and IDs, pull out the right fields and route them for review.
RAG knowledge assistants
Assistants that answer questions from your own documents and show where each answer came from.
AI copilots
AI helpers built into your product or internal tools that draft, summarize and suggest while people decide.
Industries where it fits best
Honest limits
Limits and human checks
This is an assistant, not a lawyer. AI can misread complex clauses, miss context outside the document or be confidently wrong, a problem known as hallucination. Every flag cites the exact clause so reviewers can check it, and final decisions and advice stay with qualified people. We do not provide legal advice.
Results depend on a clear playbook. We help you write down your standard positions, which is valuable in its own right because it makes reviews consistent across your team.
Contracts are confidential. We use providers with suitable business terms, or self-hosted models, restrict access and keep documents in your own storage.
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Services, industries and case studies
Related services
View all related services- Document automation Read invoices, forms, contracts and IDs, pull out the right fields and route them for review.
- RAG knowledge assistants Assistants that answer questions from your own documents and show where each answer came from.
- AI copilots AI helpers built into your product or internal tools that draft, summarize and suggest while people decide.
- Customer portals A secure place where your customers upload documents, check status, pay and message your team.
- AI agents AI that takes actions in your systems, such as qualifying leads or processing requests, with people checking the results.
- AI model evaluation Test candidate AI models on your real data and tasks, then pick the one that balances quality, speed and cost.
Solutions
View all solutions- Automated quoting Draft accurate quotes and proposals from a request, your price rules and past work, for a person to approve.
- AI document processing Read forms, applications, IDs and statements, extract the fields you need and route each document for the right review.
- Compliance tracking Track filing deadlines, licenses and obligations in one place, with reminders and AI summaries of relevant rule changes.
- Knowledge assistant (RAG) Ask a question in plain words and get an answer from your own documents, with links to the sources.
- Screening assistant Summarize each application against your criteria, flag strong matches and missing information, and leave every decision to a person.
- AI-assisted content workflows Briefs, first drafts, edits and repurposing in a workflow where people set the angle and approve every word.
Industries
View all industries- Legal Contract review assistants, knowledge search, intake and document automation for law firms and in-house legal teams.
- Real estate Listing sites, lead handling, CRM automation and document workflows for agencies, brokers and developers.
- Insurance Claims intake, document and photo processing, policy knowledge assistants and customer portals for brokers and insurers.
- Professional services Client portals, proposal drafting, knowledge assistants and internal tools for consultancies, agencies and firms.
- Finance and accounting Client portals, document collection, invoice and receipt processing, and reporting for accounting firms and finance teams.
- Tax and compliance services Client portals, document checklists, case queues and deadline tracking for tax preparers and compliance firms.
Case studies
View all case studiesGuides and articles
View all guides and articlesAI models
View all ai models- Reasoning Models that think through multi-step problems before answering: analysis, planning, math, complex documents and agent work.
- Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic's recommended starting point for most serious work: long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a 1M token context window.
- GPT-6 Sol The middle model of the GPT-6 family, positioned for complex coding and agentic workflows at a mid price level.
- Claude Fable 5.1 The top tier of the Claude family, for the most demanding reasoning and long-horizon agent work, priced above Opus.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Google's most advanced Gemini model for reasoning, software engineering and agent work, reading text, images, audio, video and PDFs. Available as a preview.
- GPT-6 Astra OpenAI's most capable model, built for the hardest end-to-end work: complex reasoning, coding, computer use and research.
MCP servers
View all mcp servers- Files and storage Servers that connect AI to cloud drives and object storage, so it can find, read and organize documents.
- Google Drive Google's own Drive MCP server lets AI search, read and create files in Google Drive, with your Google Workspace sign-in.
- Box Box's official MCP server lets AI search and read files, ask questions across documents with Box AI, extract data and upload files.
- Dropbox Dropbox's own MCP server lets AI list, search and read files, convert them to markdown and create, move, share and delete files. In beta.
- Filesystem The MCP project's Filesystem reference server lets AI read, write, edit, move and search files, only inside folders you allow.
- OneDrive Microsoft's OneDrive MCP server, part of its Work IQ preview, lets AI find, read, create, move, share and delete files in OneDrive.
Glossary terms
View all glossary terms- Reasoning model A reasoning model is an AI model that works through a problem step by step before answering, trading speed and cost for better results on hard tasks.
- Context window A context window is the maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that an AI model can consider at once, including the question, documents and its answer.
- Hallucination A hallucination is when an AI model states something false or invented as if it were true, such as a made-up fact, figure or source.
- Large language model A large language model, or LLM, is an AI model trained on vast amounts of text that can understand and generate language, and often images and code.
- Prompt A prompt is the instruction and context you give an AI model to get the output you want.
- RAG RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, is a method where an AI system first finds relevant passages in your documents, then answers using only those passages.
FAQ
Questions about contract review assistant
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It is good at extracting terms and spotting differences from a clear standard, and it works quickly. It can still miss or misread things, so it supports review by qualified people rather than replacing it.
No. The assistant highlights and explains; decisions and advice come from your lawyers or qualified staff.
Yes. Your templates and standard positions become the playbook it compares against. See RAG knowledge assistants.
Contracts stay in your storage, processing uses providers with suitable data terms or self-hosted models, and access is restricted. See legal industry work.