Many in-house teams have realized the benefits of digital transformation with CLM, but tapping into the full value of a centralized contract repository remains out of reach. The sheer volume and complexity of contracts make it challenging to extract meaningful insights. Risks are buried in dense legal text, and when the business needs answers fast – whether during an M&A, audit, risk event, board reporting, or regular contract management activities such as legislative changes and supplier reviews – legal teams scramble to locate, analyze, and interpret key contract data. What should be a strategic advantage instead slows the business down and often becomes an outside counsel cost.

The good news is that emerging AI, NLP and ML technologies are making contract analysis faster, more accurate, and scalable – supporting business-critical activity and transforming contract repositories into a valuable source of intelligence. And LawVu is harnessing these cutting-edge technologies to develop LawVu Lens – currently in early access with select customers as we move towards general access in early 2026. LawVu Lens is an advanced AI contract analysis tool that surfaces contract data for analysis and key business activities.

Key use cases for contract AI – and the role of AI-powered contract analysis

AI tools can be applied at every stage of a contract’s journey – from intake to review, through to post-signature insights. Some of the highest value AI use cases across the contract lifecycle include:

• Data extraction for visibility: Precisely identifies and pulls out key contract data like clauses, renewal dates, and parties – ideal for accurate metadata and clause extraction.
• Contract review and drafting tools: Speeds up contract creation by utilizing templates and past clauses, and contract review by flagging deviations, missing terms, or red flags, in minutes.
• Contract analysis: Surfaces key contract data for quick answers to complex questions for audits, risk reviews, reporting, routine and ad hoc business requests.

AI-powered contract analysis fits squarely in the post-signature phase of the CLM lifecycle, where the focus shifts from drafting and negotiation to managing rights, obligations, reporting and risks. By extracting and structuring specific clauses and contract information across legal’s contract repository, AI transforms static documents into searchable, actionable data – enabling faster reviews, better compliance, and strategic insights at scale.

Why AI-powered contract analysis is a must-have for in-house legal teams

In today’s economic climate, businesses can’t afford delays – they need quick answers, sharper insights, and faster risk assessments. This puts unprecedented pressure on in-house legal teams to move at the speed of the business. Yet, a recent IDC White Paper shows many are falling behind due to “legal friction” – inefficient manual processes and administrative burdens that drain capacity and limit strategic impact. Only thirty seven percent feel adequately resourced to meet rising demand, with inefficiencies costing millions each year in wasted time, outsourcing, lost revenue, and reputational damage.

That’s why AI is no longer a “nice to have” in legal operations: it’s the key to both unlocking efficiency and transforming contract repositories from static storage into a strategic asset at scale. According to Ironclad’s state of legal in AI, seventy four percent of legal professional respondents already use AI for legal work – a clear reflection of in-house teams using AI to move faster and deliver insights the business can act on.

Some of the high-value use cases for advanced AI contract analysis include:

• M&A and risk audits: Instantly surface change of control, assignment, termination, indemnities, and other critical clauses across thousands of contracts. For example, when a data breach occurs, legal need to quickly determine which counterparties are affected and understand what obligations apply so they can assess their exposure.
• Regulatory and incident response: Quickly pinpoint affected agreements, obligations, and breach protocols during compliance reviews or security events.
• Revenue and renewal optimization: Detect auto-renewals, lapsed SLAs, and unfavorable terms to protect and grow revenue.
• Legislative changes: When a change occurs, legal need to determine which contracts are impacted. For example, which services the business provides in the affected jurisdiction so they can assess the impact of the new legislation.
• Board and executive reporting: Generate insights across the contract portfolio (e.g. governing law, exclusivity terms, termination risk) without manual spreadsheet analysis.

LawVu Lens: Advanced AI-powered contract analysis for legal teams

At LawVu, we believe your contract repository shouldn’t just store information – it should deliver intelligence that lets legal teams move faster and serve the needs of their businesses in timely, cost-effective ways. That’s why we’re building LawVu Lens: an AI-powered contract analysis tool that opens the door for legal teams to extract value, surface risk, and support business decisions at scale.

LawVu Lens harnesses the latest AI technologies and is in early access as we build a solution based on our customer’s greatest needs. Lens will transform static contract data into practical, business-ready intelligence.

• Extract, structure, and surface insights: Analyze your whole contract repository and bring hard-to-reach data to the surface.
• Work with a complete, structured view: Interact with your entire repository in a clear, structured grid format, with built-in filters and sorting for faster analysis and easier sharing.
• Get quick answer to business questions: Go beyond basic keyword search to find exact clauses, obligations, or terms.
• Work smarter with outside counsel: Prepare in-house and share structured datasets that reduce billable admin and speed up analysis.
• Deeply embedded with LawVu CLM: Embedded directly in LawVu Contracts, ensuring AI-powered insights without exporting data, adding extra tools, or creating security gaps – with the potential to do so much more in the future as the technology we build on evolves.
• Insights at scale: Analyze thousands of contracts at once to identify trends, gaps, and risks during M&A, audits, compliance checks, or strategic reviews.

LawVu Lens makes your contracts searchable, analyzable, and actionable with secure, scalable insights embedded in LawVu CLM to answer questions, manage legal risk, and deliver better insights to the business. LawVu Lens is currently in early access so stay tuned for more updates.

Embedded AI in the LawVu legal workspace

At LawVu, our AI capabilities are deeply integrated into the LawVu legal workspace – a unified platform for intake, contracts, matters, documents, and spend. Embedding AI directly into your workflow means:

• Your data stays in one place: Secure, organized, and ready for analysis
• Your existing work becomes more valuable: AI amplifies what you already have
• Your team saves time immediately: No new prompts, tools or systems to learn

And because LawVu is built with privacy and security at its core, you can use AI confidently, knowing your data is protected by best-in-class safeguards, including ISO27001, SOC2 and GDPR compliance. Read this help article to learn five ways how embedded AI create superior workflow efficiencies.

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