How Luminance’s Legal-Grade™ AI is Transforming Trench Group’s Contract Activity 

Reviewing with Speed and Confidence 

Faced with a vast volume of contracts in need of review, Trench Group decided to automate this lengthy but highly standardized process. Luminance is able to do the first-pass review, highlighting areas of risk or deviations from organizational standards and suggesting acceptable alternatives which can be inserted with a single click. 

This empowers users to complete reviews far more quickly, able to ignore points already addressed by Luminance to focus on the highlighted areas which are flagged as risky or non-standard This cuts contract review time to less than one third of what it was before using Luminance: Average review time was previously estimated to be 150 minutes; this is now down to about 30 minutes. As a result, the legal team has more time to think strategically and prioritize value-add work.

Empowering the Wider Business

Beyond the legal team, Luminance’s intuitive interface means non-legal users can confidently conduct first-pass reviews autonomously. Sales and Operations can handle day-to-day contracts without waiting on the legal department, with Legal only receiving the escalations for more high-risk or nuanced agreements that require their expertise. 

Luminance’s Legal-Grade™ AI ensures that nothing critical is missed, aligning any contract with Trench Group’s gold standards and surfacing the “unknown unknowns” that might otherwise slip through the cracks. 

This shift has freed up Legal to focus on strategy while enabling faster business decision-making and ensuring contractual consistency. The organization can now analyze contracts – pre- and post-execution – instantly to answer questions, assess exposure, or quantify risk.

Creating a Single Source of Truth 

All contracts processed through Luminance are now housed in a centralized, searchable repository. With advanced analysis capabilities, metadata can be extracted instantly to understand obligations, renewals, or risks. This single, organized source of truth gives the business full visibility and confidence in their data. Business leaders can ask a question and receive an answer or source information instantly, helping to support data-driven decisions.