A Denver mid-market commercial GC reviewing 180-page AIA A201 MSAs line by line, two to three hours per contract, across a deal flow the legal team could no longer keep pace with. We built a pipeline that triages each contract in 8 minutes against a 34-clause house taxonomy signed off by in-house counsel.
| Contract | Counterparty | Clause | Deviation | Reviewer | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSA-24817 | Brookfield Properties | A201 §3.18 indemnity | 0.12 | Deal lawyer | cleared |
| MSA-24818 | Hines Interests | A201 §15.1 disputes | 0.17 | Deal lawyer | cleared |
| MSA-24819 | Trammell Crow Co. | A201 §14.4 termination | 0.41 | Senior counsel | flagged |
| MSA-24820 | Ridgeline Design Group | A201 §11.3 insurance | 0.14 | Deal lawyer | cleared |
| MSA-24821 | Cushman & Wakefield | A201 §9.10 final payment | 0.23 | Deal lawyer | redline back |
| MSA-24822 | Mortenson Construction | A201 §8.3 no-damages-for-delay | 0.38 | Senior counsel | flagged |
| MSA-24823 | Granite Peak Holdings | A201 §13.7 statute of limit. | 0.16 | Deal lawyer | cleared |
| MSA-24824 | Cedarwood Owners LLC | A201 §9.3.1 retainage | 0.19 | Deal lawyer | cleared |
| MSA-24825 | Apex MEP Subcontractors | A201 §3.18 indemnity | 0.21 | Deal lawyer | redline back |
At a glance
A legal team that already knew its house positions, a contract form the industry already standardises on, and a review process that had never caught up to the deal volume.
The engagement
The stack
ISO 27001 · ISO 9001 · DPA and NDA signed at kickoff.
Before, the legal desk
The legal team was not slow. The process was linear: open, read, markup, close. A linear process does not scale against a deal calendar that doubled in two years.
Every AIA A201 MSA got a full read. The lawyer highlighted every deviation from the house position and wrote the comment in Word. On a clean counterpart, 2 hours. On a heavily redlined draft, longer.
Pre-build baseline: 2 to 3 hours per contract, measured across a month on the Denver in-house desk.
The house taxonomy existed. It lived as a PDF on SharePoint. Lawyers consulted it from memory or pulled it up alongside the contract. New lawyers onboarded over three months of shadowing, not a day of documentation.
Pre-build baseline: no machine-readable taxonomy of clause positions in the prior workflow.
When a project demanded sign-off before legal could finish a full review, business leads signed with a partial check. The residual risk sat unmeasured in the contract library. Exposure reviews came up quarterly, not per deal.
Pre-build baseline: approximately 15% of MSAs signed with partial legal review in the prior year.
What we built
The pipeline follows the same five stages we run on every contract review engagement. The details below are the ones we wrote against this GC's house positions, signed off by in-house counsel clause by clause.
Contracts pulled from DocuSign CLM on creation. Owner counsel email routed via secure mailbox. Subcontractor portal polled on a 30-minute cadence. All normalised to a contract record with party, project, and version.
LlamaParse handles the full document structure: article, section, sub-paragraph. Signed PDFs with scan layers route to LandingAI for text recovery. Section-level confidence below 0.92 holds the contract.
Each section classified against the 34-clause house taxonomy: indemnification, limitation of liability, insurance, warranty, change order, termination, venue, and 27 more. LLM classifier tuned to the taxonomy.
Each classified clause diffed against the house position text. Severity graded by counsel-approved rules (critical / standard / acceptable). Below a match threshold, the clause surfaces with the deviation highlighted.
The triage report posts to DocuSign CLM as a review annotation. Counsel sees a ranked clause list, not a 180-page scroll. Critical deviations route to senior counsel; standard ones to the deal lawyer.
After, the numbers the legal desk signs off
Same lawyers, same house positions, same CLM. The pipeline triaged each contract against the taxonomy and fed counsel a ranked clause list. The review did not get shallower; it got focused.
Counsel still owns every critical deviation. They still draft the redline, still negotiate, still sign off. The difference is that a 180-page MSA arrives on their desk with a ranked list of 34 classified clauses, each diffed against the house position and graded for severity.
From the in-house desk
We never wanted faster review. We wanted no MSA signed without a clause-level check. The pipeline got us there.
Associate general counselMid-market GC, Denver
Handover
The engagement ends at a clean handover. The legal team runs the pipeline; Hexaa stays on call for a fixed retention period, then steps back.
Related cases
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You'll leave with a clear next step.
The counterpart's indemnification clause runs three paragraphs. The house position carries the standard language. The pipeline classifies the clause, diffs it against the house text, grades the severity, and surfaces the deviation with a counsel-approved recommendation.
