Automation guide
How to Automate Contract Review with ChatGPT / GPT-4o (OpenAI)
Extract key terms, flag non-standard clauses, compare against standard templates, and summarise risk points.
The problem
Legal review of routine contracts takes 2-4 hours per document. Most of that time is reading for standard issues a checklist could catch.
The outcome
Contracts arrive for legal review pre-annotated. Lawyers spend time on edge cases, not routine reading.
The tool
ChatGPT / GPT-4o (OpenAI) — OpenAI's GPT-4o is the most widely deployed LLM.
How it works — step by step
- 1
Contract PDF received via email or upload portal
- 2
AI extracts key terms (parties, dates, payment, IP, termination)
- 3
Clauses compared against approved template and flagged if non-standard
- 4
Risk summary delivered to legal team with specific line citations
About ChatGPT / GPT-4o (OpenAI)
OpenAI's GPT-4o is the most widely deployed LLM. Excellent function calling, vision, and broad general capability.
Strengths
- ✓ Function calling
- ✓ Vision / multimodal
- ✓ Broad ecosystem
- ✓ Structured outputs
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