NetDocuments unveils AI-powered DMS features for legal teams
The company's latest capabilities include AI Profiling, background automation applications, and an agentic AI editing tool for Microsoft Word. These additions aim to reduce repetitive manual work, improve document accuracy, and support compliance without disrupting established workflow processes.
AI Profiling for document organisation
AI Profiling is central to NetDocuments' enhanced DMS, providing automatic enrichment of documents with comprehensive and accurate metadata. This reduces the need for manual data entry, which is often time-consuming and susceptible to human error, and supports the sector's increasing requirement for AI-ready content.
The system classifies and enriches documents with metadata, supporting legal teams in achieving secure, reliable, and easily searchable records. NetDocuments believes these features establish a robust foundation for knowledge management and regulatory compliance.
Dan Hauck, Chief Product Officer at NetDocuments, commented, "Great AI outcomes depend on knowing your data, and AI Profiling lets you classify and extract metadata on every document exactly the way you want, ensuring that your content is structured, secure, and reliable."
Background automation and content enhancement
In addition to profiling, new background apps work across the document lifecycle to automate regular tasks and improve content quality without requiring manual intervention. These apps extract structured data from various contracts, leases, and legal pleadings and support tasks such as onboarding and knowledge management.
The automations are intended to reduce administrative burden, enabling legal teams to focus on higher-value work. The apps also contribute to smarter search, more efficient processes, and improved AI performance by continuously organising and analysing legal content in the background.
Agentic AI Editing in Microsoft Word
The agentic AI editing tool forms part of the evolving NetDocuments Legal AI Assistant. The tool works directly in Microsoft Word, allowing users to issue editing instructions in everyday language and immediately see track-changes applied in real time within their documents.
This eliminates the need for switching between tools or copying content into separate AI platforms. Legal professionals can make updates such as amending pricing, revising risk language, or standardising clauses across multiple templates within the familiar Word environment.
Molly Callahan, certified paralegal at GableGotwals, shared her experience with the Legal AI Assistant, "The NetDocuments Legal AI Assistant has already made a noticeable impact on the way the firm works. By integrating NetDocuments AI with our case-specific data, we unlock the ability to generate secure, precise, actionable insights that directly inform our legal strategy. It's a tool that doesn't just enhance analysis, it fuels creativity. The potential truly expands as far as your imagination can take it. The addition of Agentic AI is an exciting next step that will allow legal teams to use NetDocuments AI from within Word to get suggestions on how to update a document and then have AI make the necessary edits. The addition of intelligent tools like the Editing Tool that increase output, and efficiency is exactly the kind of innovation we value in a long-term partner like NetDocuments."
Strategic commitment to practical AI
The updates to NetDocuments' intelligent DMS are part of a broader strategy to introduce purposeful, legal-focused AI where professionals already work. The company emphasises applicability and immediate value over speculation around AI trends.
Josh Baxter, CEO of NetDocuments, explained, "AI in the legal industry isn't about chasing the next big thing. Rather, it's about empowering professionals every day. With our Intelligent DMS as the foundation, we're bringing AI where it's needed most, and into the tools legal professionals already trust."
The Legal AI Assistant is expected to continue evolving, with forthcoming features such as clause extraction and timeline generation in the roadmap. These developments are designed to help law firms and legal teams further streamline tasks and improve content reliability across their practices.
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