Contract management · Production

Imerys achieves over 90% cost-savings on external counsel with Luminance AI contract management

The problem

Imerys's 15-year-old contract management solution had become unviable, lawyers were burdened with low-value work such as NDAs causing slow turnaround times, and the company had never analyzed its contracts as an ecosystem to understand trends or enforce drafting consistency.

First attempt

The legacy contract management solution in place for about 15 years was no longer viable, forcing Imerys to seek a replacement with AI capabilities.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Contract or NDA request arises
trigger
“One of the main complaints we've gotten over the years is that we're a little slow getting those NDAs out.”
2
AI repository search
ai_action
“The repository is such a powerful engine that we've already run some searches and gotten some real surprises about the way we've negotiated contracts in the past”
3
NDAs routed to business users
routing
“NDAs that can quickly be done by business users instead of Imerys lawyers”
4
Legal query response delivered
output
“< 1-hour response time to legal queries”
Reported outcome

Imerys achieved over 90% cost-savings on external counsel, 30x quicker reporting with instant access to key information, and a sub-one-hour response time to legal queries, while empowering business users to handle NDAs and freeing lawyers for high-value work.

Reported metrics
Cost-savings on external counselOver 90%
Reporting speed30x quicker
Response time to legal queries< 1-hour
Reported stack
Luminance
Source
https://www.luminance.com/customers/imerys
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Imerys achieved over 90% cost-savings on external counsel, 30x quicker reporting with instant access to key information, and a sub-one-hour response time to legal queries, while empowering business users to handle NDA…

What tools did this team use?

Luminance.

What results were reported?

Cost-savings on external counsel: Over 90%; Reporting speed: 30x quicker; Response time to legal queries: < 1-hour (source-reported, not independently verified).

What failed first in this deployment?

The legacy contract management solution in place for about 15 years was no longer viable, forcing Imerys to seek a replacement with AI capabilities.

How is this contract management AI workflow structured?

Contract or NDA request arises → AI repository search → NDAs routed to business users → Legal query response delivered.