AI legal document review that quotes every risky clause
Upload the contract, say which side you are on, and get a clause-by-clause analysis back: every material provision quoted, translated into plain English, rated 🔴🟡🟢 against your interests, and — for each risk — the replacement language you would actually put in the redline.
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What is AI legal document review?
Legal document review is the work of reading a document closely enough to know what it obliges you to do, what it lets the other side do, and — hardest of all — what it quietly fails to say. AI document review does that first pass for you: it reads the whole file, quotes each material clause, explains it in plain English, rates the risk of it to you specifically, and names the provisions that should be there and are not. What it does not do is decide. The verdict at the end is a recommendation you check, not an answer you file.
Every review returns the same eight sections, in the same order
This is the part most tools leave to chance. A summary that is shaped differently every time cannot be skimmed, cannot be compared against last week’s review, and cannot be trusted to have covered the thing you were worried about. The structure below is fixed: sections are never renamed, never reordered, and never skipped.
TL;DR
An overall risk score, the single most important finding, a tally of how many high, medium and missing items there are, and a one-line verdict. Any response deadline buried in the document is surfaced here rather than on page nine.
Document Overview
What it is, who the parties are, when it starts, how long it runs, and which law governs it — including whether that governing law clause conflicts with where you actually are.
Key Terms & Provisions
The clause-by-clause pass. Each material provision is quoted, put into plain English, marked standard or unusual for this kind of document, and rated for risk with a one-line reason.
Risk Assessment
Every red finding first, then amber. For each one: the worst case if the clause is enforced exactly as written, and how often that actually happens — common, uncommon, or rare.
Missing or Weak Provisions
The clauses that should be in a document of this type and are not there: termination rights, dispute resolution, liability caps, IP ownership, notice provisions. Each graded critical gap, notable omission, or nice to have.
Suggested Revisions
Actual replacement wording for every red and amber finding — not "consider negotiating better terms". Each rewrite is tagged must-have, should-push, or nice-to-have so you know what to spend your leverage on.
Jurisdiction Notes
Enforceability under the jurisdiction you picked: clauses that may be void, statutory protections that override what the contract says, and filing or registration requirements you would otherwise miss.
Recommended Actions
A numbered plan split into before signing, during negotiation, and after signing — ending in one of three verdicts: sign as-is, sign after these changes, or do not sign.
Read the analysis next to the contract
The analysis sits beside the document it is about, not instead of it. Every finding quotes the language it is reacting to, so checking a claim means glancing left rather than starting again.
Mutual NDA — Review
Page 6 of 14
8. Term and Survival
9. Governing Law
A mutual NDA that is not actually mutual: the confidentiality obligations run in perpetuity against you while the counterparty’s expire after two years. Negotiate before signing.
3 high-risk findings · 4 medium-risk · 2 missing provisions
§ 8 — Term and Survival
High“…shall survive in perpetuity, notwithstanding any termination…”
Plain English
You are bound by this confidentiality obligation forever, even after the agreement ends and even after the information stops being commercially sensitive.
Market standard
No — three to five years is typical for commercial information. Perpetual terms are normally reserved for trade secrets.
The layout and section structure are the real ones. The clause language is invented for this illustration — no real agreement, and no real authority, is quoted here.
The original, rendered
PDFs page by page, Word documents, plain text and images — shown as they came to you, with page navigation. Drag the divider to give either side more room, or collapse the document entirely.
Follow-up on any clause
The review is the start of the conversation, not the end of it. Ask what happens if the indemnity is triggered, or what the counterparty is likely to accept, and it answers with the document still in context.
Export the analysis
One button turns the eight sections into a clean printable report — save it as a PDF for the file, for a colleague, or to send to the client under your own cover note.
It keeps going without you
A long agreement takes a few minutes. Close the tab and the analysis finishes anyway; the saved result is waiting when you come back, and every past review stays in the list.
It writes the clause you would have written
Spotting a bad clause is the easy half. The expensive half is knowing what to put in its place — which is why every red and amber finding comes back with drafted replacement wording rather than advice to “consider negotiating better terms”.
§ 8 — Term and Survival
🚨 Must-haveCurrent language
The obligations of confidentiality set forth herein shall survive in perpetuity, notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement.
Suggested alternative
The obligations of confidentiality shall survive for three (3) years following termination, save that obligations in respect of information constituting a trade secret shall continue for so long as that information remains a trade secret.
Why this is better
It caps your exposure at a period you can actually police, while keeping the protection the counterparty genuinely needs — which is what makes it a change they can accept rather than a change they will simply refuse.
Illustrative wording. Read it the way you would read a junior’s first draft — as a starting point that still needs your judgement on the deal in front of you.
Must-have
Walk away if it is refused. Unlimited personal liability, an indemnity with no cap, a perpetual restraint on your ability to earn.
Should-push
Worth negotiating, and expect pushback. Notice periods, cure rights, the width of a confidentiality definition, who pays for what on termination.
Nice-to-have
Ask, but do not die on this hill. Knowing which requests are cheap is what stops a negotiation stalling over something that was never going to matter.
Risk depends on which side you are on
Most AI document analysis tools summarise a document. A summary has no side. But risk is not a property of a clause — it is a property of a clause and the person signing it, and the same words are a threat to one party and a protection to the other.
One clause, in a non-compete
“For twelve (12) months following termination, the Employee shall not engage in any business competitive with the Company within the United States.”
I am the Employee
High risk to youTwelve months out of your industry with no compensation attached. Flagged as a high risk, checked for enforceability in the state you selected, and given replacement language that narrows it to named competitors and adds garden leave.
I am the Employer
Medium risk to youThe same width that threatens the employee threatens you differently: an over-broad restraint is the one a court is most likely to strike out entirely, leaving you with nothing. The suggested revision tightens it so it survives review.
14 party roles
Employee or employer, tenant or landlord, buyer or seller, freelancer or hiring client, borrower or lender, partner, consumer, service provider. Pick one and the entire analysis is re-pointed: what benefits you, what disadvantages you, and where the drafting quietly favours the other side.
19 document types
Naming the type is what lets it check the document against what a document of that kind normally contains — which is how the missing-provisions section knows a lease should have a repair obligation and an NDA should have a carve-out for compelled disclosure.
Your situation, in a sentence
An optional line of context — "I am a freelancer being asked to sign this by a US client", "this is the third round and they will not move on the cap" — changes what gets flagged as urgent and what the recommended actions actually recommend.
Enforceability where you actually are
A clause is not risky in the abstract. It is risky, or void, or unenforceable, somewhere in particular — and a review that does not know where you are is guessing at the only part that matters.
- 61 jurisdictions: US federal, all 50 states and DC, plus the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, South Africa and the UAE — or a worldwide mode when the deal is genuinely cross-border
- Clauses that may be void or unenforceable under the law you selected are flagged as such, not just as 'aggressive'
- Mandatory statutory protections that override what the contract says are called out, because they are the ones a contract cannot sign away
- Registration, filing and compliance requirements attached to the document type are surfaced rather than assumed known
- Where a governing law clause points somewhere other than home, the conflict is raised in the overview instead of buried
Five clause types it checks without being asked
These are the provisions whose enforceability turns on local law more often than anything else in a commercial document. When one appears, the review goes and verifies it rather than reciting a general rule — and where the question turns on US law, it searches real case law and links what it read.
- Non-compete and non-solicitation covenants
- Mandatory arbitration clauses
- Liquidated damages provisions
- Limitation of liability and indemnification caps
- Penalty clauses
Where it cannot verify a citation with the tools it has — which is most non-US law — it says so in the answer instead of producing a confident-looking reference you would have to check anyway.
Nineteen document types, nine file formats
Upload the file exactly as it arrived — a scan, an export, a document someone emailed you as a picture — or paste the text if that is faster.
Reviewing a commercial agreement? Contracts get their own walkthrough — the twelve clauses that decide a deal, the worst case behind each risk, and the drafted counter-language sorted by what is worth negotiating — on the AI contract review page.
PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text
PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and TXT, up to 20MB per document. Or switch to paste mode and drop the text straight in — useful for a clause someone sent you in an email.
Photographs of paper
PNG, JPEG and WebP. A phone photo of a signed lease is a legitimate input, which matters more than it sounds — the documents that most need reviewing are usually the ones that only exist on paper.
Deep reasoning for the hard ones
A toggle that puts a more capable model on the document when it is long, unusual, or written to be difficult. Available from Starter upward, with a daily allowance that grows with the plan.
How to use AI for document review
Four steps, in the order that actually works. The whole loop takes minutes on a document that would otherwise eat an afternoon.
Upload it exactly as it came to you
Do not retype it, do not clean it up, do not extract the clauses you think matter. The whole document is the input, because half the value is in the provisions you were not going to look at — and the other half is in the ones that are not there at all.
Say what it is and whose side you are on
The document type tells it what a complete version of this document looks like. Your role tells it what counts as a risk. Skipping either turns a targeted review into a neutral summary, which is the thing you could already get anywhere.
Read the TL;DR, then go straight to the red ones
The executive summary is built to be read in fifteen seconds and to give you the verdict and the deadline. Then work down the risk assessment, highest first. The clause-by-clause pass is a reference to come back to, not a document to read front to back.
Take the drafted language into the negotiation — and check it first
The suggested revisions are written to be pasted into a redline, and that is exactly why they need your eyes on them before they go out. Read every rewrite against the deal you are actually doing. The review saves you the first two hours, not the professional judgement at the end.
Where document review earns its keep
The eight-section structure is the same everywhere. What changes is what a complete document looks like, which clauses are worth arguing about, and what the missing-provisions pass goes looking for.
Family law
AI document review for family law is mostly about disclosure and drafting under pressure. Separation agreements, parenting plans, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, financial statements — read for what has been left out as much as what is in them, from the perspective of the spouse you act for.
Custody and divorce
For custody cases the questions are practical: does the parenting schedule actually resolve holidays, relocation, and decision-making, or does it leave three future disputes on the table? Divorce settlements get the same treatment — asset division, support terms, waiver language, and the release you cannot undo.
Employment
Offer letters, employment agreements, restrictive covenants and separation agreements, reviewed from either side. Non-competes and non-solicits get an enforceability check against the state you selected, which is where most of the real answer lives.
Corporate and commercial
Master services agreements, SaaS terms, partnership and operating agreements, IP assignments. The sections that earn their keep here are liability caps, indemnities, and the missing-provisions pass — commercial drafting fails by omission far more often than by an obviously bad clause.
Real estate and leases
Commercial and residential leases, purchase agreements, assignments. Repair obligations, break clauses, renewal mechanics, service charge provisions and personal guarantees — all read against the party you represent rather than in the abstract.
Estates and personal documents
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney and settlement agreements. Documents people sign once, keep for decades, and rarely read closely — which is exactly where a structured second pass earns its place.
Which AI is best for document review?
We are not going to claim to be the best AI for document review — every vendor in this category says that, and you cannot check it from a landing page. Here are the six questions that separate them, including the one where the honest answer is not us.
Does it quote, or does it summarise?
A summary you cannot trace back to a clause is a claim you have to verify from scratch. If the tool will not show you the language it is reacting to, it has moved the work rather than removed it.
Does it write the replacement?
Anything can tell you a clause is aggressive. The question is whether it hands you wording you could put in a redline — and whether that wording is something the other side might actually accept.
Does it know whose side you are on?
Neutral analysis is the wrong shape for a document with two parties. If a tool cannot be told you are the tenant, it will keep telling you things the landlord already knows.
Does it check your jurisdiction?
A non-compete is not one thing. Whether it is enforceable, narrowed, or void depends on where you are, and a tool that answers the same way for every state is not answering the question.
Is your document excluded from training?
This is a confidentiality question before it is a product question. It should be answerable in one sentence, in writing, without a sales call.
Can you try it on a real document?
You will know within one genuine contract whether a review tool fits your practice. Any pricing model that hides that behind a procurement cycle and a seat minimum is telling you something.
Where an eDiscovery platform still wins
If the job is eDiscovery document review — a production set of forty thousand emails, technology-assisted review with a defensible sampling protocol, a privilege log, and a coding workflow across a review team — a dedicated platform earns its licence fee and this does not replace it. What this replaces is the other kind of document review: one agreement, read properly, by someone who has to decide whether to sign it this week.
What this is not
Every vendor in this category has a feature matrix with ticks all the way down. Here is the honest version, so you can rule us out in two minutes rather than two weeks.
It is not a lawyer, and not advice
The verdict at the end is a recommendation to check, not an opinion to rely on. Where enforceability turns on facts that are not in the document, the review says so rather than picking a side — but the judgement call is still yours.
One document per review
There is no folder upload, no batch queue, and no review across a set of documents at once. If you need to look at fifty agreements, that is fifty reviews — or a job for a different category of tool.
No tracked-changes redline file
The suggested wording is text you copy into your own redline. The export is the analysis as a PDF, not a marked-up DOCX with tracked changes in it.
No version comparison view
There is no side-by-side diff of round three against round four. You can upload both to a chat and ask what moved, but the review surface itself takes one document at a time.
No eDiscovery, TAR, or privilege logs
No predictive coding, no defensible sampling, no production sets, no review-team workflow. Deliberately out of scope rather than quietly missing.
20MB per document
Large enough for almost any single agreement, and not large enough for a scanned bundle. If your PDF is a hundred exhibits stapled together, split it first.
Your document stays yours
Uploads and analysis are encrypted at rest, stay private to your account, and are never used to train models. That is the whole answer, and it is the same answer whether you are on the $19.99 plan or the $89.99 one — read the details on our Trust Center.
Document review starts on Starter
The $0 plan is real and it is not a trial — but it covers legal Q&A and case law search, not document review. Reviews begin at ten a month on Starter, rise to fifty on Pro, and are unlimited on Business. Every paid plan starts with a free trial, so you can put a real contract through before you decide.
Free
Legal Q&A and case law search — no document reviews.
Free forever. No card required.
- 3 legal questions per day
- File uploads up to 1MB (3 per message)
- Case law search access
- No document reviews
Starter
Ten reviewed documents a month.
- Unlimited legal Q&A
- 5 deep reasoning requests/day
- 10 document reviews/month
- 10 document generations/month
- File uploads up to 10MB (5 per message)
- Case law search access
- Email support
Pro
For anyone in contracts every week.
- Everything in Starter
- 15 deep reasoning requests/day
- 50 document reviews/month
- 50 document generations/month
- File uploads up to 25MB (10 per message)
- Priority email support
Business
Unlimited reviews, plus case management.
- Everything in Pro
- Cases: shared chats, documents & matter context
- 30 deep reasoning requests/day
- Unlimited document reviews
- Unlimited document generations
- File uploads up to 50MB, unlimited attachments
- Real-time web search
- Dedicated live chat support
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What it looks like in practice
The same two surfaces, captured live rather than rebuilt.
Document review questions
Find out what you were about to sign
Take the agreement sitting in your inbox, tell it which side you are on, and read the eight sections. That is the fastest way to know whether this belongs in your practice.