Contract management has become a popular use case for AI in recent months, with inefficient contract processes costing businesses thousands.
But what does AI contract management involve, and would you benefit from it? Let's find out.
What is AI contract management?
AI contract management describes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline, automate and improve the contract lifecycle.
The idea is that legal teams use AI to automate repetitive and low-value contract admin work, allowing them to focus on the higher-value tasks that require legal expertise.
This comes with a significant upside. It means less time spent on routine admin work, faster contract lifecycles, and more time to focus on the projects that matter most.
Some AI-enabled contract tools, like Juro, will even empower you to agree contracts ten times faster than traditional tools. To find out more about how this would work for your business, hit the button below. Otherwise, keep reading to find out what AI contract management actually involves.
When we surveyed lawyers at high-growth companies, two-thirds said they felt buried in low-value work.
We all know the low-value work they’re talking about. It’s the time spent finding and amending contract templates for the hundredth time, or repeating answers to routine questions.
Legal AI solutions have the potential to transform in-house legal’s workload and automate the manual tasks that distract lawyers from higher-value work. In fact, Goldman Sachs estimate that almost half of legal tasks can be automated with artificial intelligence.
Contract management is a perfect use case for this automation, with Juro’s AI contract collaboration platform empowering businesses to agree contracts ten times faster than traditional tools and processes. This means more time to work on the big projects that matter.
Thanks to Juro, we have more time to spend on corporate governance, as well as ongoing data protection and compliance work - Alicja Kwiatkowski, Head of Legal, Iptor
Before we dive into how AI contract management works, let’s look at where lawyers stand on the use of AI, specifically for contracting.
The rise of AI-enabled contract management
Our recent Tech GC Report revealed that over half (55 per cent) of the legal professionals surveyed either already use, or intend to use, generative AI in the future.
When asked about potential use cases, many lawyers shared plans to simplify, review or analyze their contracts with AI.
What does this deployment of AI look like in practice, though? Let’s explore how the various roles AI can play in contract management processes now.
How does AI contract management software work?
Lawyers can leverage AI throughout the contract lifecycle, from automating the contract drafting process to using AI to flag key risks in a contract during the contract review phase.
What’s possible will depend on which contract AI tool you use, and the functionality available.
Juro’s all-in-one contract collaboration platform offers the functionality needed to create, review, negotiate, approve, sign, store, and track contracts more efficiently. However, Juro’s AI Legal Assistant feature can add value in a few, more specific ways.
1. AI drafting
Juro’s AI Legal Assistant enables businesses to generate contract drafts in seconds based on the information you provide in a prompt. This prompt will briefly explain the context of the contract and describe your requirements for the contract or clause you’re using AI to generate.
Juro users can even set specific guardrails and conditions in the prompting process to minimize risk when automating contracts. For example, Juro users can set parameters like “we won’t agree to liability caps in excess of $1m” and trust that these will be reflected in the output of the AI when prompted.
This empowers businesses to create contracts quickly and efficiently without losing control of their contents and parameters.
2. AI summarize
Juro’s AI Assistant can also summarize contracts, making the information within them easier for stakeholders to digest. This is also known as contract abstraction.
Juro users can either summarize whole contracts or individual clauses. Contract owners can even customize their prompt to determine the length, nature, tone, and audience for the contract summary.
This makes it quick and easy for contract owners to share important contract data with colleagues. It also reduces the time senior stakeholders spend trying to read and understand legal documents in full.
3. AI review
Juro users can use AI Assistant to review contracts and identify the risks within them, too. For example, you can prompt the AI Assistant to identify and flag all of the key legal risks in a contract.
The AI will then collate the contractual risks in a clear response, giving you instant visibility into what these are and letting you know which clauses you should focus on during negotiations.
But that's not all. Juro is an end-to-end solution for contract management, offering features that streamline the contract lifecycle at every stage. This means that Juro users can create, review, negotiate, review, approve, sign, store, track and renew their contracts within the tool.
This functionality isn't available in point solutions that focus on AI drafting or review alone. Instead, point solution users will rely on several different tools throughout the contract process. Juro, on the other hand, lets you manage your contracts in one unified workspace.
What to consider when choosing AI contract management software
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype around AI-based contract management, especially given how it can transform your contract process.
However, it’s also important to remember the risks associated with choosing the wrong AI contract management solution.
The biggest risk is choosing a vendor that doesn't prioritize the privacy of your customers (and their customers) when choosing AI contract management software.
With so many vendors rushing to the market, it's possible that many won’t have doubled down on privacy. This could mean a few things. Firstly, it can mean that your contracts and customer data is used to train aggregated models. It could also result in a lack of transparency around where sensitive and personal data is stored and how it’s used.
Unlike these solutions, Juro’s AI contract management platform was built with privacy in mind.
How does Juro differ from other AI contract management tools?
Your contracts and our AI Assistant are EEA-native, operating on highly secure cloud servers operated by AWS and Microsoft. We’ve also committed not to use customer data to train large language models (LLMs).
On top of that, Juro has processed more than one million contracts in its browser-native platform so far, and we’ve maintained a reputation for lawyer-grade, uncompromising security.
We selected Juro for its simplicity, ease of integration and security - Khalid Al Turki, Senior Strategy and Ops Analyst, Tamara
With Juro, you don’t have to choose between efficiency and security when managing contracts. Juro's AI contract management software offers a fast, secure and controlled way to automate routine contract admin, enabling you to focus on higher-value tasks.
To find out more about Juro’s legal AI Assistant and how it can empower your business to agree contracts up to ten times faster than traditional tools, fill in the form below.
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Contract management has become a popular use case for AI in recent months, with inefficient contract processes costing businesses thousands.
But what does AI contract management involve, and would you benefit from it? Let's find out.
What is AI contract management?
AI contract management describes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline, automate and improve the contract lifecycle.
The idea is that legal teams use AI to automate repetitive and low-value contract admin work, allowing them to focus on the higher-value tasks that require legal expertise.
This comes with a significant upside. It means less time spent on routine admin work, faster contract lifecycles, and more time to focus on the projects that matter most.
Some AI-enabled contract tools, like Juro, will even empower you to agree contracts ten times faster than traditional tools. To find out more about how this would work for your business, hit the button below. Otherwise, keep reading to find out what AI contract management actually involves.
When we surveyed lawyers at high-growth companies, two-thirds said they felt buried in low-value work.
We all know the low-value work they’re talking about. It’s the time spent finding and amending contract templates for the hundredth time, or repeating answers to routine questions.
Legal AI solutions have the potential to transform in-house legal’s workload and automate the manual tasks that distract lawyers from higher-value work. In fact, Goldman Sachs estimate that almost half of legal tasks can be automated with artificial intelligence.
Contract management is a perfect use case for this automation, with Juro’s AI contract collaboration platform empowering businesses to agree contracts ten times faster than traditional tools and processes. This means more time to work on the big projects that matter.
Thanks to Juro, we have more time to spend on corporate governance, as well as ongoing data protection and compliance work - Alicja Kwiatkowski, Head of Legal, Iptor
Before we dive into how AI contract management works, let’s look at where lawyers stand on the use of AI, specifically for contracting.
The rise of AI-enabled contract management
Our recent Tech GC Report revealed that over half (55 per cent) of the legal professionals surveyed either already use, or intend to use, generative AI in the future.
When asked about potential use cases, many lawyers shared plans to simplify, review or analyze their contracts with AI.
What does this deployment of AI look like in practice, though? Let’s explore how the various roles AI can play in contract management processes now.
How does AI contract management software work?
Lawyers can leverage AI throughout the contract lifecycle, from automating the contract drafting process to using AI to flag key risks in a contract during the contract review phase.
What’s possible will depend on which contract AI tool you use, and the functionality available.
Juro’s all-in-one contract collaboration platform offers the functionality needed to create, review, negotiate, approve, sign, store, and track contracts more efficiently. However, Juro’s AI Legal Assistant feature can add value in a few, more specific ways.
1. AI drafting
Juro’s AI Legal Assistant enables businesses to generate contract drafts in seconds based on the information you provide in a prompt. This prompt will briefly explain the context of the contract and describe your requirements for the contract or clause you’re using AI to generate.
Juro users can even set specific guardrails and conditions in the prompting process to minimize risk when automating contracts. For example, Juro users can set parameters like “we won’t agree to liability caps in excess of $1m” and trust that these will be reflected in the output of the AI when prompted.
This empowers businesses to create contracts quickly and efficiently without losing control of their contents and parameters.
2. AI summarize
Juro’s AI Assistant can also summarize contracts, making the information within them easier for stakeholders to digest. This is also known as contract abstraction.
Juro users can either summarize whole contracts or individual clauses. Contract owners can even customize their prompt to determine the length, nature, tone, and audience for the contract summary.
This makes it quick and easy for contract owners to share important contract data with colleagues. It also reduces the time senior stakeholders spend trying to read and understand legal documents in full.
3. AI review
Juro users can use AI Assistant to review contracts and identify the risks within them, too. For example, you can prompt the AI Assistant to identify and flag all of the key legal risks in a contract.
The AI will then collate the contractual risks in a clear response, giving you instant visibility into what these are and letting you know which clauses you should focus on during negotiations.
But that's not all. Juro is an end-to-end solution for contract management, offering features that streamline the contract lifecycle at every stage. This means that Juro users can create, review, negotiate, review, approve, sign, store, track and renew their contracts within the tool.
This functionality isn't available in point solutions that focus on AI drafting or review alone. Instead, point solution users will rely on several different tools throughout the contract process. Juro, on the other hand, lets you manage your contracts in one unified workspace.
What to consider when choosing AI contract management software
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype around AI-based contract management, especially given how it can transform your contract process.
However, it’s also important to remember the risks associated with choosing the wrong AI contract management solution.
The biggest risk is choosing a vendor that doesn't prioritize the privacy of your customers (and their customers) when choosing AI contract management software.
With so many vendors rushing to the market, it's possible that many won’t have doubled down on privacy. This could mean a few things. Firstly, it can mean that your contracts and customer data is used to train aggregated models. It could also result in a lack of transparency around where sensitive and personal data is stored and how it’s used.
Unlike these solutions, Juro’s AI contract management platform was built with privacy in mind.
How does Juro differ from other AI contract management tools?
Your contracts and our AI Assistant are EEA-native, operating on highly secure cloud servers operated by AWS and Microsoft. We’ve also committed not to use customer data to train large language models (LLMs).
On top of that, Juro has processed more than one million contracts in its browser-native platform so far, and we’ve maintained a reputation for lawyer-grade, uncompromising security.
We selected Juro for its simplicity, ease of integration and security - Khalid Al Turki, Senior Strategy and Ops Analyst, Tamara
With Juro, you don’t have to choose between efficiency and security when managing contracts. Juro's AI contract management software offers a fast, secure and controlled way to automate routine contract admin, enabling you to focus on higher-value tasks.
To find out more about Juro’s legal AI Assistant and how it can empower your business to agree contracts up to ten times faster than traditional tools, fill in the form below.
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