Uber's legal team cuts contract review time 20% with AI redlining add-in
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Uber's legal team built a Microsoft Word add-in that suggests accept, reject, or modify decisions on contract redlines, with lawyers making the final call.
Per Uber Engineering, the team moved from plain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to a feedback-driven system with agentic drafting and a rules database, raising AI decision accuracy to 91% and cutting average contract review time by more than 20%. The source reports these results in four iterations of redesign, as summarized by a post on X from @shao__meng.
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meng shao@shao__mengXUber's legal redlining agent moved from failed RAG to 91% accuracy in four iterationsAIUber's legal team built a Microsoft Word add-in that suggests accept, reject, or modify decisions on contract redlines, with lawyers making the final call. Per Uber Engineering, the redesign from plain RAG to a feedback-driven system with agentic drafting and a rules database raised AI decision accuracy to 91% and cut average contract review time by over 20%.

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