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AI Contract Summarization
A contract's parties, term, payment and termination terms distilled into a plain-language summary in minutes.
Sales, finance and operations often need to know what a contract says without reading forty pages or waiting for legal. AI Contract Summarization reads each submitted contract and produces a plain-language summary of parties, term, payment, termination and renewal in a set layout. Summaries are saved to your document or matter system, and uncertain items go to a person for review.
- Key terms and obligations summarized in a consistent layout
- Summaries saved back to your document or matter system
- Low-confidence items sent to a person for review
$4,400
20–30 working days
Optional maintenance $249/mo
What it is
AI Contract Summarization reads one submitted contract and produces a plain-language summary of its parties, term, payment, termination and renewal terms. It works one contract at a time, on demand. It does not flag playbook deviations or give legal advice. For terms extracted across a whole contract library, see AI Contract Intelligence.
Why businesses buy it
Every time someone outside legal asks what a contract says about renewal or payment, a lawyer stops to read it again. Summaries written by hand vary in style and detail, and they rarely get saved where others can find them. This build produces the same structured summary for every contract and files it where your team already looks. It is tested on your sample contracts before launch, with an accuracy report. The Scope Card fixes the document types and fields in writing, and it gives no legal advice.
Problems this solves
Colleagues ask legal what a contract says because it is too long
The build reads each submitted contract and writes a plain-language summary of its key terms. Parties, term length, payment obligations, termination and renewal are set out for someone who needs the gist.
Summaries written by different people cover different points
Every summary follows the same fields and validation rules, up to 25 fields per contract type. Readers learn where to look, and nothing important is left out by habit.
Renewal and termination terms are missed in a quick skim
Termination and renewal are standard parts of each summary, pulled from the contract itself. Uncertain extractions go to a human review queue before the summary is used.
Incoming contracts pile up waiting for someone to read them
Contracts arrive through one intake route, such as an inbox or upload folder. Summaries pass to the agreed destination system, so the team sees the gist without opening every document.
A good fit if
Business stakeholders or new team members regularly ask for a plain-language summary of a contract before a meeting or a decision.
You can supply at least 20 real sample contracts, redacted if needed, covering the document types you want summarized.
You know the specific fields a summary should always cover, parties, term, payment, termination, renewal notice period.
You want summaries delivered to one destination, your matter management, document management platform or inbox.
Not the right fit if
You need key terms and renewal dates extracted across your whole contract library as structured data. See AI Contract Intelligence.
You need deviations from a playbook flagged, not just a summary of what the contract says. See AI Contract Review Workflow.
You need to compare two versions of a contract for what changed. See AI Contract Comparison.
You need more than three document types or more than 25 fields per type summarized. Add a note at checkout for a Change Quote, or start from our Custom AI enquiry form.
You need the tool to negotiate or redraft clause language, not summarize existing terms. Start from our Custom AI enquiry form.
How it works
- You supply at least 20 real sample contracts per document type, redacted if needed, plus the fields a summary should always cover, up to three document types and 25 fields each.
- An incoming contract arrives through the intake route you chose, an email inbox or an upload folder, the same place contracts already arrive today.
- The workflow extracts the defined fields, parties, term length, payment obligations, termination and renewal notice, from the full document.
- A plain-language summary is assembled from those fields, written so someone outside legal can understand the contract's shape without reading every clause.
- 100 sample documents are processed during testing and checked against an accuracy report before anything goes live.
- Summaries are written to the destination system you connected, such as your matter management platform or an inbox, ready for the reader who requested them.
What you provide within 72 hours
Your portal lists these the moment you order. Delivery starts the working day after everything is in and your access is checked.
- At least 20 real sample contracts per document type, redacted if needed.
- The list of fields a summary should always cover, parties, term, payment, termination.
- Access to the destination system, your matter management platform or inbox.
- The name of the person who reviews low-confidence summaries.
- The intake route contracts already arrive through, an email inbox or an upload folder.
- Admin access and API keys for every connected system, shared by adding our team as a user or creating a key you control, never by email.
- One person on your side who can approve decisions during the build.
- An API key for your own AI model account (for example OpenAI or Google Gemini), created for this build with a spending limit.
The 72-hour rule. Send everything on your checklist, including access, within 72 hours of ordering so your build starts on time.
Timeline
Start
Intake verified, summary fields agreed.
Weeks 1–2
Extraction and summarization logic configured.
Week 3
Source and destination systems connected.
Weeks 3–4
100 sample documents processed with an accuracy report.
Week 4
Your review and two rounds of changes.
Go-live
Live, recorded handoff session, support starts.
| Option | Delivery time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 20–30 working days | $4,400 |
| Express | 15–25 working days | $5,150 |
| Rush | 10–20 working days | $5,950 |
What you receive at handover
- AI Contract Summarization, configured and deployed to your environment
- Summary fields and validation rules for up to three contract types, with a human review queue
- One intake route and connections to up to two systems, source and destination
- A test report with an accuracy report from 100 sample contracts
- An admin guide, the recorded handoff session and 30 days of post-launch support
Expected benefits and how to measure them
- Can cut the time colleagues wait to understand a contract
- Helps every summary cover the same key terms
- Makes renewal and termination terms easier to spot
- Time from receipt to summary
- Compare intake and summary timestamps after launch with how long manual summaries took before.
- Summaries corrected at review
- Count summaries edited in the review queue each month. A falling count shows the rules are bedding in.
- Contract questions sent to legal
- Tally internal questions about contract terms for a month before launch and a month after.
Before you start: Record how long a manual summary takes today and how many internal contract questions legal fields each month.
These are things to track, not promised results. Outcomes depend on your data, your team and your market.
Running costs
The build price is one-time. Running it is billed in your own accounts, mostly OCR and AI model usage plus storage: roughly $30 to $200 a month depending on contract volume.
AI usage during the build and testing is also billed to your accounts, so you keep ownership of every provider relationship. Nothing runs through us.
Ask about running costsCustom requirements
If you need something outside the Scope Card, add a note at checkout. You get a written Change Quote, and that work only starts once you accept it. Your original order runs on its normal timeline either way. Larger or bespoke projects go through the Custom AI request form instead.
Request a custom versionKeep it running
For AI Contract Summarization, monthly maintenance covers monitoring, fixes, model and platform updates, a monthly health report and monthly hours for changes, enough for a new field or document type to summarize. It starts after the thirty days of support, bills monthly, and can be cancelled any month.
$249/mo (the minimum fee, includes 2 change hours)
Optional. Starts after the post-launch support period. Cancel any month.
How maintenance worksHow this compares
| Do it yourself with a SaaS tool | Hire a custom agency | Upmark Labs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | A CLM platform's summary module is bundled into a per-seat subscription | A law firm quotes hourly for a contract summary memo | Ours is one fixed price, shown on this page before you buy |
| Scope | A CLM platform summarizes with its own fixed field set, not yours | A firm's summary depends on who is assigned that week | Ours covers exactly the fields you defined, on the Scope Card |
| Turnaround | A CLM platform's summary appears once the contract is fully processed | A firm's turnaround depends on their current caseload | Ours is delivered to your destination system automatically |
| Delivery | A CLM platform requires migrating contracts into its own format first | A firm's turnaround depends on their current caseload | Ours has a fixed delivery time shown before you buy, with faster options |
Questions about this product
How much does AI Contract Summarization cost?
The build is a one-time fixed price, shown in the price panel on this page next to each delivery speed. It covers the summary layout and fields, validation rules, the human review queue, connections to your source and destination, accuracy testing on sample contracts and the review rounds on the Scope Card. We charge nothing per contract afterwards; OCR and AI usage run in your accounts.
How long until AI Contract Summarization is live?
The delivery time is fixed before you buy and shown in the delivery panel on this page, with faster options where offered. It starts once your sample contracts, preferred summary layout and system access are in. Most of the build goes into tuning the summaries against your real contracts and writing the accuracy report, so you can judge the output before anyone relies on it.
What is the difference between AI Contract Summarization and AI Contract Review Workflow?
AI Contract Summarization distills a contract's key terms into a plain-language summary for anyone who needs the gist. AI Contract Review Workflow instead checks the contract against a playbook and flags deviations for a lawyer. Summarization tells you what the contract says; Review tells you whether it matches your standard terms.
Can AI Contract Summarization be trusted for every clause?
It is built to summarize the fields you define, parties, term, payment, termination, renewal notice, accurately and consistently, validated against 100 sample documents and an accuracy report before launch. It is a distillation for a quick read, not a substitute for a lawyer reading the full contract when a decision depends on precise clause language.
What does AI Contract Summarization cost to run each month?
Running costs are separate from the build price and paid directly to your own providers, typically $30 to $200 a month for OCR, AI model usage and storage depending on contract volume. Teams summarizing higher volumes of contracts sit toward the higher end. Monthly maintenance is optional.
Can we add a new field to AI Contract Summarization's output later?
Yes, within limits. Two rounds of changes are included in the build, so most field adjustments happen before launch based on the accuracy report. After that, a new field within the 25-field limit fits inside the monthly change hours in maintenance, and a fourth document type comes as a quoted add-on.
Does AI Contract Summarization connect to our document management system?
It writes summaries to the destination system you connect, up to two systems including source and destination, which can be a document management or matter management platform such as iManage or NetDocuments if it accepts programmatic entries. Confirm your specific system during intake so we can plan the connection correctly.
Who owns the contracts and summaries AI Contract Summarization produces?
You do. Every sample contract, field definition and generated summary stays under your own account and storage throughout the build and afterwards, and we never hold a separate copy. We configure and test the extraction and summarization logic, hand over an admin guide and a recorded session, then step away at launch, apart from the 30 days of included support.
Stop reading every page just to answer one question.
Order AI Contract Summarization and it starts distilling incoming contracts into plain-language summaries on a fixed delivery date. The scope above is what you get, in writing, before you pay.
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