The problem
A mid-market law firm reviews 2,000+ commercial contracts per quarter during M&A due diligence. Base LLMs misclassify non-standard indemnification clauses 30% of the time and fail to recognize jurisdiction-specific liability language, forcing associates to manually verify every AI-flagged clause.
96% clause classification accuracy (up from 68% with base model); 70% reduction in associate review hours per deal
- How it works
- Neume fine-tunes a model on 50,000+ annotated clause examples drawn from the firm's historical contract corpus, covering 45 clause types across 12 contract categories. The model learns the firm's specific taxonomy, including non-standard clause variants that general models have never encountered. Training data includes partner-annotated edge cases where clause boundaries are ambiguous or where multiple clause types overlap.
- Outcome
- Clause extraction accuracy increases from 68% to 96%. Associates shift from full-document review to exception-only review, reducing per-deal review time by 70%. The firm can profitably offer fixed-fee due diligence engagements for the first time.