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Contract review against a playbook, 58% faster

An agent that reads contracts, compares each clause against a standard playbook and flags deviations with the reasoning attached — so review starts from a shortlist rather than page one.

58%less review time

At a glance

Duration
17 weeks
Team size
1 person
Engagement
New build
Project type
AI & automation
Industry
B2B SaaS

The situation

The challenge

Contract review is mostly confirming that standard clauses are standard. The value is in the deviations, but finding them means reading everything — and a tool that summarises without citing gives a reviewer nothing they can act on.

What we did

Clause-level comparison against an explicit playbook, with every flag anchored to the text that produced it.

The calls that mattered

  • Clause segmentation before comparison

    Contracts are segmented into clauses and compared individually against playbook positions, so a deviation is located rather than merely described.

  • Every flag cites its source text

    A reviewer needs to verify in seconds. An uncited flag costs more to check than it saves.

What changed

reduction in review time
58%reduction in review time
of flagged deviations carry cited clause text
100%of flagged deviations carry cited clause text

Review time down 58%, with every flagged deviation carrying the clause text and playbook position that triggered it.

Services used

  • Clause segmentation and playbook comparison engine
  • Deviation flagging with cited source text
  • Reviewer workflow and audit trail

What we would do differently

Every project has one of these. Publishing it is the point — a case study with no regrets in it is marketing, not evidence.

The playbook is the product. The quality of the output tracked the precision of the written positions far more closely than it tracked anything about the model.

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