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PwC's AI-Driven Annotation (AIDA) on AWS reduces manual contract review time by up to 90%
Contract analysis consumes significant time for legal, compliance, and procurement teams because important insights are buried in lengthy, unstructured agreements. As contract volumes grow, keyword and pattern-based extraction methods and contract management systems fall short of providing consistent insights at scale.
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 · Document upload and storage
After authentication, uploaded documents, OCR outputs, and associated metadata are stored in Amazon S3.
Tools used
Amazon ECSAmazon S3Amazon RDSAmazon SQSAmazon OpenSearch ServerlessAWS FargateAmazon CognitoAWS WAFAWS LambdaAmazon EventBridgeAmazon Bedrock Knowledge BasesAmazon Bedrock GuardrailsAmazon CloudWatchAWS X-RayAWS KMSAWS IAMAWS CodeBuildAWS CodePipelineAWS CloudTrailAmazon Quick SightNGINXOCRRAGLLMs
Outcome
AIDA helped reduce manual contract review time by up to 90%, enabling teams to retrieve key information more quickly and shorten review cycles. One major film and TV studio reduced rights research time by 90%.
What failed first
Teams relying on keyword and pattern-based extraction or contract management systems found these approaches unable to provide consistent insights at scale.
Results
Time savedup to 90%
Volume90%
Grounding & classification
Source type: technical build writeup
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