ThoughtRiver is an integrated contract intelligence and workflow management platform providing automated metadata capture, evaluation, workflow/governance and insight.
ThoughtRiver

Intelligent Contract Pre-screening
Automated and bespoke interrogation of your contracts, providing a risk assessment and recommended next steps.
ThoughtRiver addresses a fundamental problem for lawyers: you simply don’t know which part of a contract to focus on without reading it all.
Our pre-screening technology automates this review process by
- reading the contract,
- answering key questions,
- suggesting what to do next.
It works by deploying a sophisticated machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) engine which understands the contract at the sentence level. The Lexible framework then asks and answers thousands of individual questions of that contract to build a detailed picture of the obligations and rights within it.
These answers are then compared against your own playbook to produce a bespoke risk assessment and a decision on next steps for each contract.
Most commercial agreements are reviewed within minutes.
Headquartered in London and Cambridge, with offices in New Zealand and Singapore,ThoughtRiver draws on the expertise of experienced industry lawyers, leading-edge computational linguists and a customer-focused commercial team.
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Manual legal review hinders progress, eats into margins, and kills deals. It’s time for lawyers to adopt a smarter approach to contracting.
How contract analytics can help inside counsel balance the demand for speed with the need for accuracy.
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The legal team is the ultimate guardian of business risk during deal negotiations. However, the business's need for speed, and the legal team's need for risk management inadvertently creates friction.

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Guest blog by ThoughtRiver
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