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Contract review is one of the most time-intensive and risk-sensitive tasks legal teams' handle. Manual reviews slow teams down, make consistency hard to maintain, and increase the chance that important issues slip through under pressure.

Synoptix AI helps legal teams work smarter by summarising contracts, extracting key clauses, analysing risk in context, and checking alignment with internal policies and legal playbooks.

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Contracts bind, guide, and set the pace for every transaction, partnership, and agreement in the business world. Yet for legal teams, reviewing and analysing contracts remains slow, repetitive, and mentally draining work.

Legal teams are expected to move faster without sacrificing accuracy, manage growing contract volumes, and reduce risk, all while working with dense language and tight deadlines. With AI already handling complex analytical work in other domains, the practical question arises: can contract review be conducted more efficiently?

This article examines how Synoptix AI supports contract review, where it delivers real value, and how legal teams can use Synoptix AI as a reliable tool without compromising accuracy or control.

Contract Review Today: Key Challenges for Legal Teams

Time-Consuming & Manual Process

Manual contract review is slow and heavily dependent on human effort. Reading contracts line by line eats up hours, especially at scale.

Human contract review takes an average of 92 minutes per contract, even for relatively simple agreements.

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Inconsistent Risk Detection

When reviewers are under pressure, tired, or working at speed, risks get missed. This problem grows as contract volumes increase.

89% of businesses struggle to manage a high volume of simple contracts, making consistency almost impossible when everything is reviewed manually.

Finding the right contract or clause

Finding specific clauses, obligations, or even the correct contract is slow and frustrating.

90% of contracting professionals say finding a specific document is a challenge, and many spend up to two hours searching for specific language in a single agreement. Nearly half of businesses lack a defined process for storing executed contracts.

How Does Synoptix AI Help in Reviewing Contracts?

Summarisation and clause extraction

Synoptix AI can quickly scan contracts and produce clear summaries that surface key terms, obligations, risks, and critical dates. It also identifies essential clauses, including indemnity, limitation of liability, termination rights, payment terms, governing law, and confidentiality.

Instead of wading through dense legal language, reviewers can jump straight to the sections that matter most and focus their attention where it’s needed.

Risk-focused, document-level analysis

Synoptix AI reviews contracts as a complete document rather than a collection of isolated clauses. It highlights language that appears unusual, ambiguous, or outside internal standards, including elevated liability, one-sided termination rights, or missing protections.

By assessing risk in context and against predefined risk positions, legal teams get a clear, end-to-end view of potential issues across the agreement, while final judgment remains with the lawyer.

Alignment with policies and playbooks

Consistency is a major challenge when legal teams handle large volumes of repeat agreements. Only 20% of legal teams currently use AI for contract-related work, often due to concerns about loss of control or inconsistent outputs.

Synoptix AI compares contract language against company-approved clause libraries and legal playbooks.

It shows where agreements align with preferred standards and where they diverge, helping teams maintain consistency across contracts and reduce manual policy checks, particularly for repeat or high-volume agreements.

Redlining and drafting assistance

As reviewers work through a contract, Synoptix AI can suggest alternative wording based on approved language and common industry standards.

It generates draft redlines for proposed changes, helping legal teams revise contracts faster and more consistently while retaining full control over what is accepted or rejected.

Contract negotiation support

By analysing past agreements and negotiation outcomes, Synoptix AI can identify patterns in language and structure.

It can then suggest alternative clauses or phrasing to strengthen a company’s negotiating position, providing legal teams with a more informed starting point for discussions.

Structured data extraction and tagging

Synoptix AI automates contract data extraction, identifying key data points, including party names, contract values, renewal dates, notice periods, and core obligations.

These structured outputs can be tagged for reporting and analysis or synchronised with contract lifecycle management systems, improving visibility and reducing errors from manual data entry.

Regulatory and legal compliance checks

Synoptix AI helps identify whether contracts include the required clauses for applicable laws, regulations, or industry standards.

When configured with clear compliance requirements, it supports early gap detection and reduces the risk of missed obligations while still relying on formal legal review for final assurance.

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Version comparison and amendments

Synoptix AI compares different versions of a contract and clearly highlights what has changed between drafts.

This makes it easier to track edits, additions, and removals during negotiations or renewals without manually reviewing multiple documents line by line.

Clear citations for verification

To support explainability and trust, Synoptix AI links every identified issue back to the exact section of the contract where it appears.

These citations allow legal teams to verify findings, review context, and take action with confidence.

Ready to Modernise Contract Review?

If your legal team is spending too much time on manual reviews, searching for clauses, or managing repeat agreements, it may be time to rethink how contract work gets done.

Synoptix AI helps legal teams review contracts faster, surface risks earlier, and maintain consistency without sacrificing control or legal judgment.

Request a demo to see how Synoptix AI supports real-world contract review workflows

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