Contract review against your playbook
Standard agreements read against your own positions, with deviations flagged, the fallback position suggested and the clause cited - so the lawyer reviews exceptions rather than whole documents.
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Legal AI that respects privilege and the playbook
In-house teams are asked to cover more matters each year without more lawyers. The realistic gain is not machine-generated advice; it is removing the reading, routing and first-drafting that stands between a lawyer and the judgement only they can supply.
The pressure right now
What we hear from legal
- Contract volume rising while headcount stays flat
- The business routing legal questions through whichever lawyer they know
- Precedents scattered across drives, inboxes and a document system nobody searches
- Outside counsel spend that is hard to interrogate after the fact
- Business teams already pasting draft contracts into consumer AI tools
Where it pays off
Six places AI earns its keep here
Not everything on this list will apply to you. Most organisations start with one and extend once it has been measured.
Matter intake and triage
A structured front door for the business that captures the facts, classifies urgency and risk, and routes to the right lawyer with the context already assembled.
Precedent and knowledge retrieval
Answers grounded in your own executed documents and advice notes, with the source cited, replacing the search that currently happens by asking a colleague.
First-draft production
NDAs, DPAs, standard orders and routine correspondence drafted from your templates with the matter facts filled in, for a lawyer to finish.
Obligation and renewal tracking
Extracting the dates, notice periods and commitments buried in executed agreements into something the business can actually act on.
Outside counsel management
Reviewing invoices and matter narratives against scope and agreed rates, and making the spend picture answerable at board level.
Where we would start
The first three moves
1
Fix the front door
Matter intake and triage is usually the cheapest high-impact change, and it produces the data that makes everything after it measurable.
2
Codify one playbook
One contract type, positions written down, review automated against them. It forces a useful conversation about what your positions actually are.
3
Give the business a safe route
People are already using AI on your contracts. A sanctioned, grounded tool is a risk reduction, not an indulgence.
Risk and regulation
The part most suppliers skip
Where the risk sits
- Legal professional privilege and whether a third-party processor threatens it
- Confidentiality obligations owed to counterparties and to the business
- Hallucinated authority reaching a document that leaves the building
- Access control: matter-level confidentiality within your own organisation
- Records and retention obligations attaching to AI-assisted drafts
How we handle it
Retrieval is access-aware: a user can only ever be shown passages from matters they are already entitled to see, enforced in the system rather than by convention.
Every grounded answer carries its citation to your own source document, and the system is built to say "not in the material" rather than to improvise an authority.
Where privilege or client obligation rules out third-party processing, the deployment is private - in your tenancy or on your own infrastructure.
Where this fits
Where to go next
Questions
Questions from legal
No. It drafts, retrieves, extracts and flags; the advice and the accountability remain with the qualified lawyer. Systems that blur that line create professional risk that no efficiency gain justifies.
It is a question your team must decide on the facts, and it depends heavily on the processor, the terms and the jurisdiction. Many teams conclude that privileged material should not leave their boundary at all, which is why we offer private deployment as standard.
Partly. UK regulated practices have distinct obligations - SRA standards, client money, file audits, Legal Aid billing - so we cover those separately on our page for solicitors.
Start with an audit of what you already run
Two to four weeks to an evidenced picture of your AI use, spend and risk - and a ranked list of what to do first.