Contract review AI delivery, by the numbers
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- review time reduction on routine contracts
- 40-70%
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- week delivery cycles
- 8-14
A 30-page NDA still requires a full read to confirm the standard clauses are present and the non-standard ones aren't. A legal team reviewing 300 commercial contracts per year is spending significant attorney time on work that doesn't require attorney judgment: confirming the confidentiality clause is present, the liability cap is standard, the governing law is correct. Only then can they get to the clauses that actually need their attention.
AI contract review inverts this. The AI reads every clause, classifies it, compares it against your playbook, and flags the deviations and missing provisions. The attorney reviews the flagged items, not the whole document. The routine confirmation work disappears. The detailed judgment work remains.
Capabilities
What we build
01Clause extraction and classification
LLM-based extraction returns each clause as a typed JSON object with clause type, extracted text, page reference, and confidence score, validated against a JSON Schema so hallucinated fields never reach the review interface. NER identifies parties, dates, monetary values, and notice periods as structured data. Covers limitation of liability, indemnification, confidentiality, IP assignment, termination, governing law, and any custom clause types in your playbook.
- Built with
- GPT-4o · Claude 3.5 Sonnet · spaCy · AWS Comprehend Legal
02Playbook deviation detection
Extracted clauses compared against your defined playbook positions: acceptable ranges, positions you'll accept with modification, and positions requiring escalation. Deviations get a three-tier severity classification, standard, deviation, or high risk, each with the extracted language, the position it deviates from, and why it matters, replacing the manual line-by-line comparison that occupies most of a routine review.
03Missing provision detection
Detects required provisions absent from the counterparty draft against your standard agreement checklist: GDPR DPA clauses under Article 28, warranty disclaimers, IP assignment language, governing law, dispute resolution. When a required provision is silently missing, most reviewers don't notice what isn't there. The system flags the specific absence and the reason it's required.
04Risk scoring and prioritisation
A confidence-scored risk rating per contract section and overall, factoring deviation severity, clause category weight, number of non-standard positions, and counterparty history. High-risk contracts and sections surface first in the review queue. Low-confidence extractions route to a separate manual-attention queue so attorneys know what the AI is confident about and what needs independent judgment.
When a clause deviates and your playbook defines a fallback position, the system generates a tracked-changes redline comparing counterparty language against your preferred position, saved directly into iManage, NetDocuments, or SharePoint. The AI generates the first draft of the redline, not the final version; attorney review and approval is required before anything goes to the counterparty.
06CLM and workflow integration
Integration into your existing contract lifecycle so AI review is a step in the workflow, not a separate tool requiring export and re-import. Contracts landing in an iManage matter or NetDocuments cabinet trigger review automatically via webhook; SharePoint libraries are monitored via Microsoft Graph API. For organisations without a CLM, we build a lightweight review interface that tracks status and stores results alongside the document.
- Built with
- iManage · NetDocuments · Microsoft Graph API
How we work
From scope to live review system
- Week 1
01Playbook workshop and scoping
We run a structured workshop encoding your playbook positions per contract category. You leave week 1 with a written scope document and a fixed-price quote.
- Weeks 2-4
02Model evaluation against your contracts
Extraction and deviation detection accuracy validated against a labelled sample from your own contract library before build starts.
- Weeks 5-10
03Build and integrate
Extraction, deviation detection, risk scoring, and CLM/DMS integration built and tested against real contract volume.
- Final 2-4 weeks
04Rollout and feedback loop
Attorney accept/reject feedback wired into the playbook refinement loop before full rollout.
Why us
Why legal teams choose RaftLabs
01Senior engineers build what they scope
The engineers who assess your contract review problem also build the solution. No bait-and-switch, no offshore handoff after the contract is signed.
02Fixed price before development starts
We scope the work, calculate the cost, and lock it in writing before any development starts.
039 years and 100+ products shipped
Clients include Vodafone, T-Mobile, Aldi, Nike, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin. Track record building AI extraction and document-intelligence systems.
04Accuracy validated before deployment, not after
Extraction and deviation detection are evaluated against a held-out sample from your own contract library before go-live, not shipped on generic benchmarks.
05The AI flags, it doesn't decide
Every redline and every high-risk flag requires attorney review. Confidence scoring means the system tells you what it's certain about and what needs a human, instead of presenting every classification as equally reliable.
Have a contract review AI project?
Tell us your contract volume, the contract types you review most frequently, and how much attorney time the review cycle currently takes. We'll scope the system and give you a fixed cost.