- AI is very good at first drafts, summaries and comparisons of long documents.
- Use your own templates and clause libraries as the source, not the open internet.
- Legal and commercial judgement stays with qualified people.
Contracts, proposals, policies and reports consume a large share of professional time. AI can shorten that time substantially, provided it is used for the right tasks with the right safeguards.
Good uses
- Summaries: one-page summaries of long agreements, tenders or reports.
- Comparison: spotting differences between a counterparty's draft and your standard terms.
- First drafts: proposals, letters and standard agreements from your templates.
- Extraction: pulling key dates, amounts, parties and obligations into a register.
- Checklists: flagging missing clauses or information against your checklist.
Build on your own material
Give the AI your templates, clause library, past approved documents and style guide. Outputs will be more accurate and consistent than drafts based on general knowledge.
Where people must decide
Legal advice, negotiation positions, regulatory interpretation and final sign-off stay with qualified staff or external advisers. Treat AI output as a draft from a capable junior: useful, fast, and always reviewed.
Confidentiality
Use enterprise tools with appropriate data protection terms, keep confidential documents out of consumer AI services, and set access controls so that each user sees only the documents they are allowed to see.
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