Legal document intelligence

Turn contract review into a governed, searchable, auditable workflow

DigiScience helps legal and operations teams build document intelligence for clause extraction, obligation tracking, review queues, legal knowledge search, and audit-ready evidence.

Legal document intelligence and contract review workflow

Review with accountability

The workflow surfaces clauses, obligations, risks, and source references while legal owners remain accountable for decisions.

Legal AI workflow modules

CR

Contract review

Classify documents, summarize key terms, identify missing clauses, and route exceptions for human review.

CE

Clause extraction

Extract termination, renewal, liability, data protection, payment, jurisdiction, and obligation clauses with source references.

KA

Legal knowledge assistant

Search across contracts, playbooks, templates, policies, and prior guidance with access control and audit trail.

Pilot success criteria

A credible pilot should measure review productivity, extraction precision, exception routing quality, user confidence, and auditability.

Document ingestion and classification
Clause and obligation extraction
Review queue and approval workflow
Audit trail and source traceability

Pilot blueprint

Data inputs

One contract family, approved templates, clause playbooks, obligation categories, policy documents, metadata, and controlled prior guidance.

Reference architecture

Document repository → secure ingestion and OCR → classification and extraction → retrieval and comparison → legal review queue → approval → source traceability and audit.

Target measures

Review time, extraction precision and recall, clause exception quality, obligation completeness, source-link accuracy, reviewer acceptance, and audit completeness.

How do we verify an extracted renewal or notice obligation before relying on it?

Keep the extracted statement connected to its document version, exact source and review decision. Separate finding words in a document from deciding their legal effect. Missing dates, conflicting amendments or ambiguous parties should enter a review queue rather than become an automatically accepted obligation.

Begin with one document family and an approved review playbook. Ask the buyer's legal reviewer to label a representative sample, including amendments, poor scans and absent clauses. Agree what counts as a correct extraction before evaluating the system.

A source-to-review worksheet

On smaller screens, scroll the worksheet sideways to see every column.

Illustrative record fields; use redacted or synthetic examples first
FieldWhat to captureExpected review outcome
Document and revisionDocument ID, version and related amendmentsReviewer identifies the applicable source set
Source evidencePage or section and the extracted passageReviewer can locate and compare the source
Candidate obligationAction, responsible party and relevant conditionAccept, correct or reject the candidate
Date componentsTrigger, stated period and required reference dateMissing components remain unresolved
Uncertainty and dispositionConflict, missing evidence, reviewer and decisionClear owner and next action before reliance

Worked fictional example

In an invented contract, section 8 refers to notice “30 days before renewal,” but the extracted record contains no confirmed renewal date. A second uploaded document appears to amend the notice provision. The workflow should retain both source references, mark the date and applicable wording unresolved, and ask the authorized reviewer to determine which provisions apply.

It should not choose today's date, assume the newest filename controls or issue a notice automatically. This example illustrates a review design; it is not a customer result or legal interpretation of an actual contract.

Measure extraction separately from legal judgment

On the labelled sample, precision is correct extracted items divided by all extracted items; recall is correct extracted items divided by all reference items. Define item matching consistently. Report missing fields, wrong source references and unresolved cases alongside these measures.

A model confidence score can help route review, but is not proof that an obligation is legally correct. Choose thresholds from the task's evidence and consequences; this worksheet sets no universal pass score.

Choose a bounded next step

A Solution Assessment can examine one document-review problem and recommend a workflow and implementation brief. It does not replace legal advice or include coding, a working proof of concept or production integration. Review the document-intelligence blueprint, then describe the review decision without sending confidential contracts through the public form.

Technical reference, checked 20 September 2026: Microsoft guidance on extraction accuracy and confidence. The worksheet is an illustrative review method, not legal guidance.

Start with one document family and one review workflow

Expand after accuracy, source traceability, governance, security, user acceptance, and legal accountability are clear.

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