Paralegal AI Assistant
Discover how DIAL was leveraged to create a Virtual Paralegal Assistant for Altera to boost legal and compliance team’s productivity by transforming myriads of scanned legal documents into searchable knowledge and enabling quick extraction of insights and comparison of contracts through natural conversation powered by AI.
1.7x
Faster contract review time~$1M
ROI over 5 years~$2M
ROI extrapolated company-wideChallenge
Altera's legal and compliance teams struggled to efficiently manage vast libraries of legal documents, many existing only as scanned images.
They spent valuable hours manually reviewing contracts for key clauses and obligations, creating bottlenecks and increasing the risk of missing critical details.
Industry
LegalDev team size
3 developersDuration
2 monthsSolution
The Altera’s legal team worked with documents existing in many cases only as scanned images. The Virtual Paralegal Assistant developed by DIALX employs an automatic optical character recognition (OCR) layer that converts these images into machine-readable text.
Behind the scenes, the system employs multiple agents, each optimized for a specific task, and uses advanced prompting instructions to make them focus on legally significant elements within contracts, helping identify important clauses that might otherwise go undetected.
The solution also excels at comparing multiple documents—a particularly valuable feature when reviewing amendments or related contracts—and can consolidate information from a primary agreement and subsequent amendments into a comprehensive summary, providing a complete picture of the current legal relationship.
DIAL Chat provides conversational experience where users can ask natural language questions about contracts.
Intelligent Document Processing Pipeline
Automatic optical character recognition (OCR) layer (based on Azure AI Vision) transforms scanned legal documents into searchable text, enabling AI analysis of contracts previously inaccessible to digital tools.
Conversational Interface
DIAL Chat provides Chat GPT-like conversational experience and powerful tools for working with conversations and prompts.
Task-Oriented Framework
Multi-agent architecture uses task-oriented agents to perform specific requests, significantly improving performance over general-purpose AI approaches.
Results
Faster contracts review
Legal teams can analyze contracts in minutes instead of hours, allowing them to handle more documents and respond to business requests quickly without expanding headcount.
Complete contract understanding
Automatically combining main agreements with all amendments provides a clear, current view of partner relationships without tedious manual document comparison.
Financial loss prevention
By systematically identifying critical clauses like penalty conditions, price escalation terms, and renewal deadlines, the system helps prevent costly oversights that could result in unexpected fees or unfavorable contract extensions.
Breaking document silos
Previously inaccessible scanned contracts and legacy documents are transformed into searchable, actionable information, unlocking value from forgotten archives and connecting isolated legal documents into a unified knowledge base.
Used Components
DIAL Ecosystem
Set of tools, agents and applications for building AI-powered business solutions
DIAL Core
Primary system component and integration center