How Condé Nast accelerated contract processing and rights analysis with Amazon Bedrock
Rights management experts at Condé Nast spent countless hours manually identifying and matching incoming contracts to existing templates, extracting granted rights and metadata, and managing licensing agreements. The manual, rule-based approach created significant operational bottlenecks, was time-consuming and prone to human error, and caused the company to take a conservative approach to utilizing rights — resulting in missed revenue opportunities.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Contract upload triggers workflow
A user uploads new contracts to an input S3 bucket, which triggers Amazon EventBridge and starts the main Step Functions workflow.
Processing time for contract analysis was reduced from weeks to hours, significantly reducing the risk of rights violations and dramatically improving access to rights management expertise across the organization. The system handles high-volume periods without requiring additional human resources.
Results
Time savedreduced from weeks to hours
Volumeeffortlessly handles increased workloads without requiring additional human resources