AI LexReview
User Guide
AI LexReview
User Guide
LexReview compares an agreement you upload against your organisation's approved reference document for that type, and shows you exactly where the wording drifts from it. You decide what to accept. Everything below takes a few minutes to read, and covers the whole tool.
This is the single most important habit. LexReview works out what kind of agreement you uploaded so it can pick the right reference document to compare against — and it reads both the file name and the title inside the document to do it.
Say what the document is. For a non-disclosure agreement, the words "NDA" or "Non-Disclosure Agreement" should appear in the file name, the title on the first page, or ideally both. The same goes for every other type — a Master Services Agreement should say "Master Services Agreement" or "MSA".
Give the document a real title too — the heading on the first page should state the
type, such as "MUTUAL NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT". A meaningful title
rescues a badly named file: even if the file is called final_v3.docx,
LexReview will still recognise it from the title.
Nothing breaks if the name is unclear — LexReview simply asks you to choose the document type before the review starts. Good naming just saves you that step, and saves someone else guessing later.
Upload, run the review, then work through the findings one at a time. Nothing changes in your document until you accept a change yourself.
Drag a .docx file onto the upload area, or click to browse. The document appears exactly as it does in Word.
If the type was recognised from the name or title it is shown at the top. If not, pick it from the list — the type decides which reference document you're compared against.
Each finding shows the original wording, the recommended replacement, and the reason behind it, along with a category and a confidence score.
Click a finding to highlight it in the document. Accept applies the replacement; Reject keeps your original wording. You can undo a decision afterwards from the same panel.
Click Export DOCX. Only the text you accepted is changed — fonts, spacing, numbering, headers and every untouched paragraph stay exactly as they were in your original file.
Two more tools sit beside the findings: Manual Replace, for a find-and-replace you've decided on yourself, and AI Chat, for asking questions about the document or the reference wording without changing anything.
The Admin panel holds one approved reference document per document type. These are the standard every uploaded agreement is measured against, so keeping them current is what keeps the reviews useful.
Replacing a reference. When a policy changes or the standard wording is updated, upload the new version over the existing one. It takes effect on the very next review, and the old reference is no longer needed — you don't have to keep it anywhere.
Adding a new type. To review a kind of agreement that isn't listed yet, type its name and upload its reference document. That single step creates the type. Name it for what the document actually is — "Master Services Agreement", "Statement of Work" — because that name is what appears in the type list, and it is also what LexReview matches uploaded documents against.
Removing one. Deleting a reference leaves the type without a standard to compare against, so reviews for it can't run until a new reference is uploaded.
A reference document should be a clean, approved example of the type — not a marked-up draft or a signed copy full of one deal's specifics. The AI treats it as a drafting-style standard, not as a source of facts.
LexReview can draft an agreement from scratch. This is a starting point to work from, not a finished contract.
Give it a title that matches the type. The title tells the tool what to draft, so write the type plainly — "Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement", not "New doc" or "Draft 1".
Put everything you know into the content box. Party names, addresses, effective date, term, governing law, the purpose of the agreement — the more you provide, the more of the draft comes back finished.
Anything you leave out comes back as a placeholder. You don't need to
have every detail ready. Missing information is written as a marker such as
[insert name / title] or [Effective Date] — so after
generating, read through and fill in every placeholder before the document goes
anywhere.
Generation draws on the AI model's own legal knowledge — it does not copy from your reference documents. So a generated draft is not automatically in your house style. Once it's generated, run a review on it against the matching reference to bring it in line, and always have a qualified person check it before use.
If a review returns nothing, check that the document type is right and that a
reference document has been uploaded for it in the Admin panel.
If an upload is refused, confirm the file is a real .docx — older
.doc files and PDFs aren't supported; open them in Word and "Save As"
a .docx first.