Contracts are a goldmine of business-critical data. According to the 2025 ACC Law Department Management Benchmarking Survey, over 60 percent of legal teams have now adopted contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions. Gartner research supports this momentum, noting that “interest remains strong as organizations seek better efficiency and visibility”.

But while CLM technology has become foundational, one major challenge remains:

Getting the right data into the system and doing it at scale. Manual data entry remains a bottleneck – especially when intake starts with business users who may skip fields or miscategorize information.

AI-powered contract management: The key to smarter, faster contract workflows

The great news? AI is unlocking new efficiencies at every stage of the contract lifecycle. In fact, 96 percent of legal professionals now say AI helps them achieve business objectives more easily.

One of the most powerful and proven applications of AI in legal operations is automated contract data extraction. By reducing the need for manual entry, legal teams get time back, contracts get into the system faster, and businesses benefit from more reliable, accessible data and faster contracting workflows.

A tool for every stage: Key use cases of AI-powered CLM

AI isn’t a single tool, it’s a collection of technologies that can support and enhance every stage of contract lifecycle management, with a breadth of proven and emerging use cases that reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and increase legal’s ability to manage risk and respond quickly.

Key applications of AI in CLM include:

• Extracting data for visibility: AI identifies and pulls out key terms, dates and clauses from contracts – great for populating systems and surfacing critical data fast.
• Automated contract review: Speeds up review by surfacing risks, deviations from templates or approved playbooks and missing clauses, helping legal teams maintain control and consistency.
• Advanced contract analysis: Allows legal leaders to analyze large volumes of contracts to identify trends, track compliance and drive strategic decision-making.

Want to dive deeper? We’ve comprehensive the following AI guide to help you learn more about how to evaluate, choose and adopt the right AI tools:

Introducing: intelligent contract upload in LawVu

At LawVu, we believe the foundation of great contract management is a clean, complete and searchable contract repository. That’s why we’re excited to announce a powerful new AI feature, intelligent contract upload, to get rid of manual data entry and get contract data into the repository faster.

Currently in early access and launching soon, this feature helps both legal teams and business users build richer contract repositories, faster.

• Populate your CLM – no manual data entry: Upload a contract and AI automatically extracts key data – dates, parties, terms – and populates repository fields, saving valuable time.
• Improve data quality from the start: Capture the data that matters most to your team, including hard-to-extract clauses that are often missed during manual entry.
• Enhance accuracy and streamline data entry process at intake: Business users can submit contracts with fewer errors, giving legal the correct data they need upfront and reducing delays.

How LawVu’s intelligent contract upload will work

Intelligent Contract Upload is an embedded feature of LawVu Contracts, a simple but robust CLM in the LawVu legal workspace. This feature will extract critical data from your contracts at upload into the system; you can customize the clauses you want extracted to ensure AI is capturing what’s important to you and populate them appropriately in the repository. Here’s what makes it so powerful:

• Starts at intake to help both legal and the business: Business users can upload contracts themselves. AI completes intake forms with key data needed by the legal team, even when business users forget, ensuring legal receives consistent, accurate and useful information each time.

• Batch uploads to help legal at scale: Legal teams can upload up to 100 contracts at once. AI suggests contract types, auto-fills metadata, and displays results in a grid-based review interface for quick validation. This saves hours of manual entry, ensures consistency, and accelerates onboarding of large volumes of contracts.

LawVu: Embedded AI that works as part of your workflow, securely, from day one

Unlike standalone AI tools that require significant change management and risk fragmented workflows, LawVu’s AI features are embedded directly into the legal workspace you already use. Which means:

• No steep learning curve – our AI works intuitively with your existing processes.

• Security and privacy by design – our AI runs inside our secure Azure ecosystem and complies with global standards like ISO 27001, SOC2, HIPAA and GDPR.

• Real results from day one – AI that enhances legal workflows without disruption or risk.

Whether you’re uploading contracts, improving intake, or just trying to keep up with demand, intelligent contract upload helps you build a better contract repository with a lot less effort.

See AI-powered contract management in action

Want to see how AI can transform your contract management from day one?

Book a demo to experience LawVu’s AI-powered contract management features inside the legal workspace.