Contract management · Production

Shahin cuts external legal costs by 90% with Luminance's Legal-Grade AI

The problem

Shahin's lean legal team was overwhelmed by contract volumes, with routine negotiations taking weeks and forcing the company to outsource legal work at high cost.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Contract submitted for review
trigger
“From NDAs to Lease and Agency Agreements, routine negotiations were taking weeks”
2
Traffic Light Analysis
ai_action
“Traffic Light Analysis (TLA), which automatically reviews incoming contracts and flags compliant (green) and non-compliant (red) language based on the company's internal standards”
3
Precedent-based rewording suggestion
ai_action
“Luminance suggests approved alternative wording from Shahin's precedent bank, which can be inserted with a click from within Microsoft Word”
4
Ask Lumi contract Q&A
ai_action
“With Ask Lumi, Luminance's AI-powered chatbot, Shahin's team can get instant answers to pressing legal questions—right within Word”
5
AI drafts replacement language
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“when Luminance flags non-compliant clauses, the team can ask the AI to draft new language instantly”
6
Contract returned to counterparty
output
“contracts like NDAs can now be reviewed and returned to counterparties within hours”
Reported outcome

Luminance reduced Shahin's external legal costs by 90%, saving 200,000 AED annually, and contracts are now reviewed and negotiated in hours instead of weeks.

Reported metrics
Reduction in external legal costs90%
Annual cost savings200,000 AED
Contract turnaround timehours, not weeks
Outside counsel cost (monthly to annual)from 20,000 AED monthly to 20,000 AED annually
Show all 5 reported metrics
reduction in external legal costs90%
annual cost savings200,000 AED
contract turnaround timehours, not weeks
outside counsel cost (monthly to annual)from 20,000 AED monthly to 20,000 AED annually
legal team time savedcountless hours
Reported stack
LuminanceTraffic Light AnalysisAsk LumiMicrosoft Word
Source
https://www.luminance.com/customers/cutting-legal-costs-by-90-shahin-scales-faster-with-legal-grade-ai
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Luminance reduced Shahin's external legal costs by 90%, saving 200,000 AED annually, and contracts are now reviewed and negotiated in hours instead of weeks.

What tools did this team use?

Luminance, Traffic Light Analysis, Ask Lumi, Microsoft Word.

What results were reported?

Reduction in external legal costs: 90%; Annual cost savings: 200,000 AED; Contract turnaround time: hours, not weeks; Outside counsel cost (monthly to annual): from 20,000 AED monthly to 20,000 AED annually (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this contract management AI workflow structured?

Contract submitted for review → Traffic Light Analysis → Precedent-based rewording suggestion → Ask Lumi contract Q&A → AI drafts replacement language → Contract returned to counterparty.

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