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, the legal team was too slow delivering NDAs, and the company lacked consistency in its contracting process and visibility across its contract portfolio.

First attempt

The legacy contract management platform of 15 years became unviable, forcing Imerys to go to market for an AI-powered replacement.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Contract portfolio repository search
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“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, and it may cause us to think twice about some of our template terms”
2
Low-value contract evaluation
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“low value contracts that can easily be evaluated and negotiated, NDAs that can quickly be done by business users instead of Imerys lawyers”
3
NDA routing to business users
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“we wanted to empower our business clients to do that and really take a pretty basic task off the hands of our lawyers”
4
Historical contract trend analysis
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“evaluations historically of contracts so we can see trends happening and react to them rather than dealing with them as one offs”
5
Legal query response
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 under one-hour response time to legal queries, while enabling business users to handle NDAs and freeing lawyers for higher-value work.

Reported metrics
Cost savings on external counselOver 90%
Reporting speed improvement30x 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 under one-hour response time to legal queries, while enabling business users to handle NDAs…

What tools did this team use?

Luminance.

What results were reported?

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

What failed first in this deployment?

The legacy contract management platform of 15 years became unviable, forcing Imerys to go to market for an AI-powered replacement.

How is this contract management AI workflow structured?

Contract portfolio repository search → Low-value contract evaluation → NDA routing to business users → Historical contract trend analysis → Legal query response.

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