In July, NetDocuments commenced a trial launch of its AI-based product, PatternBuilder MAX. This generative AI tool aspires to facilitate firms in creating customized AI automation that caters to their specific practice areas, offering a glimpse into the transformative potential of AI in streamlining operations for legal firms. This product was intended as the forebear of upcoming workflow-enhancement tools, all designed to be part of the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.
Recently, at the company’s Inspire user conference in San Antonio, it was declared that PatternBuilder MAX is now widely available. More impressively, the product comes along with nine readily usable apps that successfully integrate generative AI into solutions for addressing standard legal use cases.
Firmly rooted in insights and AI applications from hundreds of customers, the pre-built PatternBuilder MAX applications, or what NetDocuments dubs its “Studio Apps”, can be leveraged in their original form or adapted to fulfill the particular needs of a firm.
The following nine apps were released:
- Summarize: This app produces a summary of a document in NetDocuments. This summary can be generalized or it can apply a predefined template for assigned tasks like depositions or loan agreements.
- Drafting: Allows users to automatically create a new document using a precedent as an example or basing it on custom instructions. The various use cases incorporate analyzing a patent application rejection and framing an appeal, drafting a new lease from a fact sheet, or replying to a demand letter with a rejection.
- Extract: This app can be used to extract one or more entities from the selected document. The resulting data can be stored in a database, written into a document, or both. Its primary function is to identify and save contract data.
- Contract Playbook: Enables users to swiftly analyze an agreement, utilizing the selected contract playbook that incorporates organization-specific contract playbooks to analyze any kind of required agreement.
- Timeline: Designed to generate a timeline of events corresponding to the text selected.
- Translate: Functions to automatically translate text from one language into another with support for over a dozen languages.
- Compare: Enables users to contrast two documents based on the criteria they provide.
- Continue Draft: This app drafts the subsequent section of a document, drawing upon the preceding content in the document. Users can optionally include prior precedents to enhance the draft quality.
- Query Document: Allows users to pose one or more questions to a document filed in NetDocuments, ensuring swift responses even if the answers are hidden in long, complex documents.
As stated by Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer at NetDocuments, the company started noticing recurrent themes around the use cases for which their customers desired app creation. The currently available Studio Apps don’t just cater to these common needs, they also give users a head start with generative AI. The team at NetDocuments plans to persist with the creation of more Studio Apps and making them available to customers.
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