Legal and compliance document AI

RAG and OCR workflows for legal and compliance documents.

Extract contract terms and obligations, retrieve approved policies and precedents with citations, and prepare review work without replacing expert judgment.

OCR turns contracts, policies, correspondence, and scanned evidence into structured legal data. Validation flags uncertain or missing fields, RAG retrieves relevant approved material, and a controlled AI agent assembles a review packet for counsel or compliance specialists.

Clauselevel extraction and comparison
Versionstatute pinned to the matter date
Authoritybinding sources outrank commentary
Counselapproves every substantive conclusion

Governed review workflow

Keep every extracted term and retrieved answer tied to evidence.

Combine OCR document processing with enterprise RAG to prepare legal and compliance work with visible sources, permissions, and review points.

Legal inputs

Work with contracts, amendments, policies, regulatory material, correspondence, audit evidence, and approved internal precedents.

OCR legal extraction

Capture parties, effective dates, renewal terms, notice periods, governing law, configured clauses, obligations, and signature details.

Validation and exceptions

Check required provisions, date logic, field confidence, referenced schedules, and document completeness. Flag uncertainty for expert review.

RAG legal retrieval

Search only approved policies, playbooks, standards, or precedents and present the supporting passages beside the answer or comparison.

Review packet

Produce a clause schedule, obligation register, missing-term list, cited policy comparison, and draft issue summary for the assigned expert.

Expert control

Apply matter or team permissions, record source and version details, and require counsel or compliance owners to approve substantive conclusions and actions.

Authority and version

Relevance is not enough. The source has to be binding and in force.

Legal retrieval fails in ways that look like success: a fluent answer built on commentary, or on a version of a statute that no longer applies. The workflow orders sources by authority and pins them to the date that matters.

Authority

Binding before persuasive

Statute and regulation outrank case law, which outranks official guidance, which outranks commentary. A relevant textbook passage cannot displace the primary source currently governing the point, and the review memo shows which tier each citation comes from.

Version

Pinned to the matter date

Every statutory passage carries the version it belongs to and the dates it was in force. Retrieval filters on the matter date before ranking, so a tenancy question is answered from the law that applied to that tenancy, not from the current text by default.

Read how hybrid search and version filtering work together

Suitable first use case

Start with contract intake and clause extraction.

Select one agreement type with an agreed clause checklist and a named expert reviewer. OCR creates the structured contract record, validation flags missing or uncertain information, and RAG compares the document with approved internal guidance. The reviewer receives the original text, extracted terms, exceptions, and citations in one packet.

This bounded start establishes extraction quality, source permissions, and review rules before expanding into obligation tracking, policy comparison, or audit evidence. For the retrieval design behind cited answers on legal text, read why legal RAG needs hybrid search. Learn how controlled AI agents route work, or explore more industry document AI workflows.

Governed document review

Prepare legal work with evidence and expert control.

Bring a representative agreement set, extraction checklist, approved reference sources, and review path for a practical RAG and OCR assessment.