01 — Problem
The friction
Contract review is slow, repetitive, and easy to miss critical clauses.
LegalEagle
LegalEagle reads contracts like a specialist associate — extracting clauses, mapping risk, and assembling compliance checklists so counsel focuses on judgment, not search.
- First-pass time
- −55%
- Clause coverage
- 98%
- Missed risks
- −40%
Demo
See it in motion
A short walkthrough of the agent loop — from signal in to decision out.
Demo reel
MSA first-pass review
Overview
Case at a glance
Target users: In-house counsel, contract ops, and compliance teams.
02 — Solution
The approach
A legal research agent that extracts clauses, ranks contractual risk against your playbook, and produces counsel-ready review memos.
03 — Value
Why it matters
Faster first-pass reviews with fewer missed obligations.
How it works
The agent loop
From raw signal to a decision LegalEagle can defend.
- 01
Ingest
Reads the contract, including scans, and segments it into sections and defined terms.
- 02
Extract
Builds a structured clause map — liability, termination, IP, data — before forming any opinion.
- 03
Compare
Measures each clause against playbook positions and past signed agreements.
- 04
Report
Ranks deviations by materiality and separates routine variances from what needs counsel.
Capabilities
What LegalEagle actually does
Built for In-house counsel, contract ops, and compliance teams.
- 01
Clause extraction
Pulls liability, termination, IP, and data terms into a structured map.
- 02
Risk ranking
Scores findings against playbook norms and preferred fallback positions.
- 03
Compliance checklists
Generates obligation trackers tied back to specific contract sections.
- 04
Counsel memo
Summarizes what needs human judgment versus routine redlines.
Architecture
How the system thinks
Data flows left to right: sources feed the orchestrator, specialists reason in parallel, tools execute, and one artifact comes out.
Sources
- DataContract corpus
- DataPlaybook rules
- DataPrecedent library
Orchestration
- OrchestratorLegal orchestrator
- LLMReasoning LLM
Specialists
- AgentExtraction agent
- AgentRisk agent
Tools & output
- ToolOCR
- ToolVector search
- OutputReview memo
- Data
- Orchestrator
- LLM
- Agent
- Tool
- Output
In action
A real exchange
An abbreviated conversation, close to what the agent actually returns.
LegalEagle Session active
- You
Review this MSA against our playbook.
- LegalEagle
Eleven deviations, three of them material: uncapped liability in §9, a 90-day termination-for-convenience right favouring the counterparty, and IP assignment silent on background IP. The rest are wording variances within tolerance.
- You
Draft fallback language for §9.
- LegalEagle
Proposed a cap at twelve months of fees with your standard carve-outs, matching the last three agreements you signed. Flagged for counsel review — I do not send redlines.
Design decisions
Trade-offs worth naming
The constraints that shaped the system — and what was deliberately left out.
- 01
Playbook is the source of truth
Risk is measured against your written positions, not a generic notion of market standard.
- 02
Extraction before judgment
The clause map is built first and shown separately, so a reviewer can check the reading before trusting the risk score.
- 03
Human sign-off enforced
Nothing leaves the tool as a redline. Output is a memo for counsel, which keeps accountability where it belongs.
Honest limits
Where it stops, where it goes
What the agent does not handle today, and what comes next.
Current limitations
- Scanned contracts depend on OCR quality.
- Jurisdiction-specific nuance still requires counsel.
- Not a substitute for legal advice.
On the roadmap
- Obligation tracking after signature
- Multi-language contract support
- Learning from negotiation history
Stack
Technology
Nothing added without a concrete requirement behind it.
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