Litera unveils generative AI tools to transform Kira platform
The enhanced functionality forms part of all Kira subscriptions, requiring no separate setup and eliminating the need for users to provide an Azure OpenAI key. The new features build on Kira's existing predictive AI and traditional search technologies and are powered by Litera AI+.
Functionality update
With the addition of generative AI, Kira users can analyse documents across various languages and jurisdictions, aiming to increase speed, accuracy, and compliance. The AI capabilities are designed to streamline case workflows, highlight potential risks and emerging trends, and decrease the time spent on document review processes.
Adam Ryan, Chief Product Officer at Litera, said: "The re-engineering of Kira with GenAI represents a transformative leap forward for legal teams everywhere - accelerating contract analysis across languages and jurisdictions. By empowering our users with instant, smarter contract analysis and seamless compliance tools, we are redefining what's possible in legal technology and ensuring our clients are always ahead of the curve."
New tools
The updated Kira platform includes several developments. Generative smart fields allow for the creation of custom fields in any language using a prompt, which does not require coding or training cycles. This capability is intended to enable quicker insights across more document types, going beyond Kira's existing 1,400 built-in smart fields.
Kira users will also have access to a grid-based workflow, which features a new tabular layout for contract and document reviews. The layout provides an immediate overview of risks and trends by displaying extracted language and answers, and it enables interaction with documents via chat. Legal teams can also create smart fields within this interface. These features are available for preview and user feedback among cloud customers in the form of the new Analysis Chart.
Additional enhancements include concept search, which uses predictive AI based on large language model technology to enable identification of legal concepts across project documents from a single example. Project-level generative AI governance offers compliance options, allowing legal teams to enable or disable Litera AI+ features specific to client or project needs.
Expanded ecosystem
Litera has also recently introduced Lito, an AI legal agent integrated into its Litera One portfolio. Lito is designed to work in conjunction with Kira, adapting to different case requirements, user groups, and document complexities. Together, these tools intend to provide support for collaboration, analysis, and document summarisation for legal teams.
Kira's Rapid Clause Analysis functionality identifies and organises clauses across documents, supporting efficiency and consistency, while Kira Smart Summaries allow teams to generate client memo-ready summaries from organised clauses using Litera AI+. A newly designed search architecture is also included, which produces results more quickly - even in larger matters with tens of thousands of documents - and powers the latest generative AI functions in Kira's revised interface.
Market context
Kira has been recognised in the industry for its contract review functionality, including Tier 1 ranking in Legaltech Hub's 2025 Contract Review Competitive Analysis for the second consecutive year. The platform caters to sectors such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, and finance.
According to Litera, the updates are aligned with helping legal teams meet client expectations and requirements through accelerated document analysis and risk assessment, while offering informed decision support across a variety of legal document types.
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