A property developer was drowning in paperwork. Every sale, lease, and vendor agreement had to be read, checked, and logged by hand, and the backlog was growing faster than the team could clear it.
The challenge
Contract review was the bottleneck. Each document took a trained reviewer around four hours to work through, and volume was climbing into the thousands every month. Accuracy was non-negotiable, a missed clause could be expensive, so simply throwing more junior staff at the pile was never going to work.
What we built
We built a document-intelligence pipeline tuned to their specific contract types. It reads each document, extracts the clauses and data points that matter, flags anything unusual, and routes the result to a person for a fast final check rather than a slow cold read. Every correction feeds back into the system, so accuracy compounds over time.
The outcome
- Review time per document fell from 4 hours to 12 minutes.
- 94% accuracy on the first pass, before any human review.
- The pipeline now handles 15,000 documents a month, with no extra headcount.
"The team stopped reading every contract line by line and started reviewing the exceptions. Same people, a fraction of the time, far less risk."
What started as a way to clear a backlog became a permanent capability. The developer now treats document volume as a solved problem rather than a growing liability.
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