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Use cases
Contract review agent
📄 Legal Operations
AI reads every clause. No commitment is made without a named human.
Contract review agents can analyse NDAs, vendor agreements, and service contracts at speed — flagging risk clauses, comparing against your standard terms, and drafting redlines. Policy Gateway ensures that no recommendation becomes a commitment without a named legal reviewer. Every analysis recorded. Every approval attributed.
Contract review · agent output
NDA · Vendor A · Standard terms
No unusual clauses · matches template · agent recommends accept
RISK: LOW
Routed to counsel for sign-off
MSA · Vendor B · Non-standard IP clause
Cl. 14.3 assigns IP to vendor · material deviation · agent flags for review
RISK: HIGH
Escalated to GC · agent held
Software licence · unlimited liability clause
Cl. 22 · no liability cap · outside policy · agent blocked from recommending accept
RISK: BLOCKED
Flagged · reason recorded
How it works
AI does the reading. Legal does the deciding.
01
Contract received · agent analyses
The contract review agent ingests the incoming agreement, compares it against your standard clause library, identifies deviations, and classifies each clause by risk level. It generates a structured analysis — not a recommendation to sign.
02
Policy Gateway classifies the contract
Your policy rules evaluate the analysis: contract value, deviation count, clause types (IP, liability cap, termination, data processing). Every contract with a material deviation or above a value threshold is automatically routed for legal review before any response is drafted.
policy rules:
if clause.type == "ip_assignment" → escalate_to_gc
if liability_cap == null → block + flag
if contract_value > 50000 → require_gc_approval
if clause.type == "ip_assignment" → escalate_to_gc
if liability_cap == null → block + flag
if contract_value > 50000 → require_gc_approval
03
Legal reviewer sees the analysis · decides
The legal reviewer receives the structured analysis alongside the original contract — flagged clauses highlighted, deviations from standard terms identified, risk classification visible. They review the agent's analysis, make the legal judgment, and record their decision with their identity.
Decision recorded · reviewer named · timestamp sealed
04
Agent drafts response · provenance record sealed
Once the reviewer has decided — accept, redline, or reject — the agent drafts the response communication or redline document within the approved parameters. The full provenance chain is sealed: the analysis, the reviewer's decision, and the response are cryptographically linked. If this contract is ever in dispute, you have a complete record of who reviewed it, when, what the agent found, and what the legal team decided.
Response sent · provenance sealed · discovery-ready record created
Why legal teams use this
Speed at scale. Accountability at every step.
Standard contracts processed in minutes
NDAs, standard vendor agreements, and low-value contracts that match your template are analysed and routed for a quick legal sign-off — without taking up senior lawyer time on clause-by-clause review.
Senior lawyers focus on material risk
IP assignments, unlimited liability clauses, unusual termination rights — the agent surfaces these automatically. Legal resources are focused on the clauses that matter, not on reading every standard provision.
Discovery-ready record for every contract
If a contract ever becomes the subject of a dispute, you have a complete record: what the agent flagged, who reviewed it, when, what they decided, and what response was sent. The record is tamper-evident.
Named accountability — not "AI decided"
"The AI recommended we sign" cannot be the answer in any legal dispute. Policy Gateway ensures a named legal reviewer approved every contract action. Their identity and decision timestamp are permanently recorded.
EU AI Act alignment
For contracts in regulated sectors, the human oversight requirement is satisfied — and documented. The reviewer identity, decision timestamp, and full context record meets Art. 22 meaningful human oversight standards.
Contract intelligence over time
Over time, the DEO trail becomes institutional legal intelligence: which clause types you consistently redline, which vendors have non-standard terms, how long your review cycle takes. Queryable. Organisationally owned.
Get started
Governed contract agents in your legal ops stack.
A conversation about your contract volume, your standard clause library, and how Policy Gateway enforces your legal review thresholds at the agent layer.
We'll also send the EU AI Act and GDPR Art. 22 compliance mapping document.