Overview
Contract review is one of the highest-cost, highest-risk tasks in enterprise legal teams. A mid-size Saudi company with an active procurement and partnership pipeline was reviewing dozens of contracts per month — manually, slowly, and inconsistently.
ContractIQ is the system we built to change that. It reads contracts in Arabic and English, flags risk clauses, benchmarks terms against internal standards, and suggests revisions — all before a lawyer opens the document.
The Problem
- Legal team was bottlenecked reviewing high volumes of vendor and partnership agreements
- No consistent standard for what counted as an acceptable clause
- Bilingual contracts (Arabic + English) created additional friction — different reviewers, different standards
- Junior staff lacked the experience to flag non-obvious risks
What We Built
Contract Ingestion & Parsing
- PDF and DOCX parsing with structure preservation (sections, clauses, schedules)
- Bilingual handling: Arabic and English contracts processed in a unified pipeline
- Clause-level segmentation with type tagging (liability, payment, IP, termination, etc.)
Risk Flagging Engine
- Clause-level risk classification: High / Medium / Low / Standard
- Benchmarked against a library of the client's previously approved contracts
- Flags: one-sided liability caps, ambiguous jurisdiction clauses, missing termination rights, non-standard payment terms
Revision Suggestions
- For flagged clauses, the system generates alternative language aligned with the client's internal standard
- Revision explanations included — lawyers can accept, modify, or reject with one click
- Full audit trail: every suggestion tied to the rule that triggered it
Review Workflow Integration
- Dashboard for legal team showing contract status, risk score, and flagged items
- Export to Word with tracked changes — the final review step stays with the lawyer
- Evaluation pipeline (BEval Studio) runs on every batch to monitor suggestion quality over time
Results
- Review cycle cut from ~3 days to ~4 hours for standard vendor agreements
- Risk coverage: system catches 90%+ of clause types previously flagged manually
- Adoption: legal team processes all incoming contracts through ContractIQ before human review
- Revision acceptance rate: ~72% of AI-suggested revisions accepted as-is
Notes
Client name withheld under NDA. Deployed in production, Saudi Arabia.