Legal document review · Production

Luminance performs first-pass contract markup and risk routing for AMD's legal team

The problem

AMD's small legal team handles a large volume of NDAs and commercial agreements annually, plus software license reviews from thousands of engineers, with insufficient staff to review all contracts in depth.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Third-party contract arrives
trigger
“any third-party NDA that comes in, it just goes through Luminance”
2
Luminance first markup
ai_action
“Let Luminance do the first mark-up to take some of the work that is commodity-based work. Let the AI do the first mark-up. Let the AI identify the issues that we know are there all the time”
3
Risk-based routing
routing
“Any identified risks and it has to go to the legal department. Or yellow light might mean it doesn't have to go to legal, but it has to go to your VP for approval”
4
Lawyer handles high-value negotiation
human_review
“let the lawyer or the paralegal do the high value negotiation”
5
Past clause retrieval via Lumi
ai_action
“Now I just say hey Lumi, pull up all my feedback clauses that I have written in the last five years”
Reported outcome

Luminance handles first-pass markup and risk identification on contracts, routing low-risk agreements automatically and enabling lawyers to focus on high-value negotiation, while also enabling rapid retrieval of past contract clauses.

Reported metrics
Contract review speeddo that work faster
Risk identification quality vs. paralegalas good a job as my paralegal can at identifying the risks
Time to find past contract clauseshalf an hour
Reported stack
LuminanceLumi
Source
https://www.luminance.com/customers/luminance-is-far-above-the-competition
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Luminance handles first-pass markup and risk identification on contracts, routing low-risk agreements automatically and enabling lawyers to focus on high-value negotiation, while also enabling rapid retrieval of past…

What tools did this team use?

Luminance, Lumi.

What results were reported?

Contract review speed: do that work faster; Risk identification quality vs. paralegal: as good a job as my paralegal can at identifying the risks; Time to find past contract clauses: half an hour (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this legal document review AI workflow structured?

Third-party contract arrives → Luminance first markup → Risk-based routing → Lawyer handles high-value negotiation → Past clause retrieval via Lumi.

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