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Document Analyst is the workhorse for one-off questions about a single document. Upload a contract, a complaint, a regulation, a deposition transcript - anything - and ask questions in plain English. Every answer is grounded in the document with the exact passages cited.
Document Analyst answering a question on a document, with a Transform menu and a sources panel

Asking a question on a document, with answer transforms and a sources panel

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When To Use It

  • Reading through an unfamiliar contract and asking targeted questions
  • Reviewing a complaint and pulling out causes of action and key allegations
  • Working through a long regulation and asking what applies to your client
  • Cross-examining a deposition transcript for inconsistencies
  • Anything where you would otherwise be skimming a long document for specific information

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How To Use It

1

Upload or pick a document

Drop in a contract, complaint, regulation, or transcript - or select one already in your matter.
2

Open Document Analyst

Launch it from the tools menu, with the document scoped as the source.
3

Ask in plain English

Type a targeted question. Specific questions get tighter, better-cited answers than broad ones.
4

Click any citation

Jump straight to the highlighted passage in the source document to verify the answer.
You can keep asking follow-up questions; the tool maintains conversational context for the document.

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Ready-to-run prompt

Document Analyst - extract the operative facts and obligations from any uploaded document.

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What It Does Well

  • Specific factual extraction - “What is the term of this lease?” “Who are the parties?” “What is the governing law?”
  • Clause location - “Show me the indemnification clause” “Where does it talk about termination?”
  • Comparison within a document - “Are the IP provisions consistent between Sections 5 and 12?”
  • Plain-English summaries - “Summarize the key obligations of the licensee”
  • Issue spotting - “What are the most aggressive provisions in this NDA?”
  • Risk and exception calling - “Are there any unusual carve-outs or exceptions I should be aware of?”

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What Each Answer Includes

  • A plain-English response to your question
  • The page numbers and section references that support it
  • Direct quotes from the document where applicable
  • A confidence indicator if the answer is hedged or based on inference
Click any citation to jump to the highlighted passage in the source document.

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File Types

Document Analyst works on any uploaded document type, including:
  • Word, PDF, scanned PDF, image-only PDF
  • Spreadsheets and presentations
  • Emails and attachments
  • Plain text and code files
For scanned and image-based documents, text is read automatically before analysis.

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Long Documents

For documents over a few hundred pages, the tool focuses retrieval on the most relevant sections rather than reading end-to-end every time. You can:
  • Ask the tool to summarize an entire section by name
  • Pin a specific section as the focus before asking questions
  • Run a follow-up question that scopes to “the previous section we discussed”

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Tips

Be specific about what you want. “What is the cap on damages?” beats “tell me about damages.” Targeted questions return tighter, better-cited answers.
Ask one question at a time, then follow up. The tool remembers the conversation, so “what about the exceptions to that?” works as a natural drill-down.
Promote to a Matrix when you scale. If you find yourself asking the same questions across many documents, switch to Document Matrix for spreadsheet-style extraction.

Document Search

Search across every document in a matter at once.

Document Matrix

Same questions, many documents, returned in spreadsheet form.

Contract Review

Structured clause-level review with redlines and severity flags.