AI for legal operations
In-house legal-ops is the right target for automation. Outside counsel runs by the hour and prices that way. In-house teams are bottlenecked on the contract intake, the obligation calendar, and the diligence assembly, none of which require the lawyer's judgment to be the work itself.
Obligation extraction post-signature
Every signed contract gets parsed for renewal dates, MFN clauses, audit rights, SLA commitments, and change-of-control language. Tickets file in the CLM with calendar reminders. Obligations stop dying in PDFs nobody re-reads.
Diligence room assembly
Fundraises and M&A trigger the diligence pull. The agent assembles every signed agreement of the relevant class, checks for change-of-control clauses, and prepares the disclosure schedule. The lawyer reviews. The two-week diligence prep compresses to a couple of days.
Frequently asked
Does this work without a CLM?
Yes. The agent reads from the shared inbox and a Drive folder, which is the most common starting state for in-house teams. Adding a CLM is the maturity step, not the prerequisite.