AI contract review
AI contract review: one question across every document.
AI contract review as a grid, which we call tabular review. Contracts run down the rows, your questions run across the columns, and every cell is filled with an answer that cites the clause it came from. Governing law, termination rights, indemnity caps, and change of control across a whole portfolio at once.
How it works
A spreadsheet that reads.
The unit of work changes. Instead of opening a hundred contracts and noting the answer to one question a hundred times, you write the question once and the grid fills.
Rows are documents
Upload a folder, a disclosure bundle, or select documents already held against the matter.
Columns are questions
Write them in plain language. Governing law, notice period, assignment restrictions, liability cap, anything you would otherwise note by hand.
Cells carry citations
Each answer links to the passage it was drawn from, so you verify against the document rather than trusting the summary.
Export the result
The completed grid exports to Excel with its citations, or as a PDF report for the file or the client.
Where it earns its keep
The jobs this replaces.
- Due diligence. Extract the same twelve data points from every contract in a target’s portfolio and see the outliers immediately.
- Lease and supplier portfolios. Break clauses, rent review dates, assignment restrictions, and indexation across an entire estate.
- Regulatory change. When the law moves, ask the whole client base one question at once rather than opening files for a month.
- Litigation disclosure. Dates, admissions, and inconsistencies across a production set, each answer citing its page. See attorney case management.
- Post-signing review. Confirm that what was executed matches what was negotiated, across every document in the transaction.
FAQ
Questions, addressed.
What is AI contract review?
AI contract review is software that reads contracts and answers defined questions about them: which law governs, how the agreement terminates, whether assignment needs consent, where liability is capped. Done one contract at a time it saves reading. Done as a grid across a whole set, which is how ModulawAI does it, it turns review into extraction you can sort, compare and export, with every answer citing the clause it came from.
What is automated contract analysis?
Automated contract analysis uses AI to extract and compare specific terms across many contracts at once, rather than reviewing each document individually. In ModulawAI this takes the form of tabular review: documents form the rows of a grid, your questions form the columns, and each cell is answered with a citation to the clause it came from.
How is a grid better than asking a chatbot about a contract?
A chat conversation handles one document at a time and leaves no structured output. A grid gives you a comparable answer for every document in the same format, which is what makes outliers visible, and it exports as a working document rather than a transcript.
Can I trust the answers?
Every cell links to the passage it was drawn from, so each answer is checkable in seconds against the source. Treat it as extraction you verify rather than a conclusion you adopt.
What file types does it handle?
Standard legal document formats including PDF and Word, including scanned documents, which are processed so their text can be searched and cited.
Can the output go to the client?
Yes. The completed grid exports to Excel with citations intact, or as a formatted PDF report suitable for a client or the matter file.
A worked example
Ninety leases, four questions, one afternoon.
Take a property portfolio acquisition. The question is not complicated, it is repetitive, and repetition at volume is what turns a two-day job into a two-week one.
- Put the documents in as rows. Point at the folder or the data room export, or select documents already sitting against the matter.
- Write the questions as columns. What is the governing law. What notice is required to terminate. Is there a change of control provision. What is the liability cap. Plain language, written once.
- Run it, then read the exceptions. The grid fills with an answer per cell, each citing the clause it came from. You are no longer reading ninety leases, you are reading the eleven that answered differently from the rest.
- Check the ones that carry risk. Every cell links to the passage. The cells that will appear in the report get opened and read in the document.
- Take it into the advice. The grid exports, and the citations travel with it into the memo you are drafting.
The value is not the time saved on the ninety that agree. It is that the eleven exceptions are found reliably rather than by whoever happened to be reading carefully at four in the afternoon on day two.
Where it helps and where it does not
Good at the repetitive question. Not a substitute for judgement.
Bulk review earns its place on a specific shape of problem. It is worth being clear about the shape, because used on the wrong task it produces confident answers to the wrong question.
- It suits a defined question over many documents. Diligence, lease portfolios, supplier terms, employment contracts after an acquisition, disclosure sets in litigation.
- It does not suit one document that needs deep reading. A single complex agreement is better read, not gridded.
- It reports what a document says, not what it means for your client. A liability cap extracted correctly still needs someone to decide whether it is acceptable on this deal.
- It will not find what is absent. A missing clause is a judgement about what should have been there, which is a question you have to think to ask.
- Scanned and handwritten material remains harder. Quality of extraction follows quality of source, as it always has.
The verification rule. Treat a filled cell the way you would treat a trainee’s note: a reliable pointer to the right clause, checked before it goes in front of a client. Every cell links to its source precisely so that check takes seconds rather than minutes.
Bring a bundle you already know.
Book a demo with a set of contracts you have already reviewed, and check the grid against your own answers.