Contract management · Production

APEM transforms legal into an AI-powered business partner using Luminance

The problem

APEM's legal team needed to centralize contracts spread across seven global offices and provide timely business insights on risks, obligations, and key contract dates — tasks that required efficient, scalable tooling the team previously lacked.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
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Contract repository centralization
integration
“APEM uses Luminance's AI-powered repository to centralize contracts across their seven global offices in North America, Europe and APAC”
2
AI-powered complex search
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“Luminance enables the team to conduct complex searches across the repository within seconds, instantly surfacing risks or opportunities within contracts, pinpointing necessary information, and allowing the team to answer business questio…”
3
Natural language chatbot queries
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“APEM is also utilizing Luminance's Legal-Grade™ chatbot, Ask Lumi, to rapidly locate, query, and understand documents within the repository. The team can simply Ask Lumi questions in natural language such as, 'how many contracts fall und…”
4
Automated contract date alerts
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“Luminance's 'Alerts' functionality, the AI automatically notifies the legal team of key periods within contracts such as commencement, breaks and expiration dates. This allows all teams to reduce revenue leakage and improve business proa…”
5
AI risk highlighting in review
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“With the AI instantly highlighting areas of risk, the legal team can focus their time and attention on the areas that matter most, ensuring the business is on the front foot during contract negotiations”
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Workflow Editor approval automation
output
“the team uses Luminance's Workflow Editor to achieve smoother approval processes across the business. By setting clear parameters and reducing the back-and-forth over email, APEM is accelerating the time to signature for these routine co…”
Reported outcome

Luminance empowered APEM's legal team to centralize contracts, answer complex queries in seconds, receive automated alerts to prevent revenue leakage, and accelerate time to signature through automated workflows.

Reported metrics
Contract query response timeanswered in seconds
Revenue leakagereduce revenue leakage
Time to signatureaccelerating the time to signature
Workflow bottlenecksreducing bottlenecks
Show all 5 reported metrics
contract query response timeanswered in seconds
revenue leakagereduce revenue leakage
time to signatureaccelerating the time to signature
workflow bottlenecksreducing bottlenecks
revenue loss preventionpreventing revenue loss
Reported stack
LuminanceAsk LumiWorkflow Editor
Source
https://www.luminance.com/customers/how-apem-transformed-legal-ai/
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Luminance empowered APEM's legal team to centralize contracts, answer complex queries in seconds, receive automated alerts to prevent revenue leakage, and accelerate time to signature through automated workflows.

What tools did this team use?

Luminance, Ask Lumi, Workflow Editor.

What results were reported?

Contract query response time: answered in seconds; Revenue leakage: reduce revenue leakage; Time to signature: accelerating the time to signature; Workflow bottlenecks: reducing bottlenecks (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this contract management AI workflow structured?

Contract repository centralization → AI-powered complex search → Natural language chatbot queries → Automated contract date alerts → AI risk highlighting in review → Workflow Editor approval automation.

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