How a 3-Person In-House Team Cut Contract Review Time by 60%
A small legal team processing 80 contracts a month needed to review faster without adding headcount. Here is how Praxa changed their workflow.
The Problem
A Series B SaaS company with a three-person legal team was processing over 80 vendor and partner contracts per month. Every agreement required a first-pass review before it could move to negotiation. The team was spending 60% of their time on first-pass work that, in most cases, surfaced the same issues on repeat.
The backlog was growing. Deals were slowing down. And adding a fourth lawyer was not in the budget.
What Changed
The team deployed Praxa and uploaded their standard contract playbook covering liability caps, payment terms, IP ownership, and termination clauses. From that point, Praxa handled every first pass automatically.
Each incoming contract arrived pre-scored. High-risk clauses were flagged with plain-English explanations. Standard terms were cleared. The legal team opened every agreement already knowing exactly where to focus.
The Outcome
Within the first month, first-pass review time dropped by 60%. The team reclaimed roughly three working days per week across the group. That time moved into higher-value work: negotiation strategy, external counsel management, and commercial advisory for the business.
Contract turnaround time dropped from an average of 9 days to 4. No new hires. No change to the team's existing tools.
What This Looks Like in Practice
Praxa does not replace legal judgment. It removes the administrative layer that sits in front of it. A lawyer who previously spent 90 minutes reading a vendor agreement before forming an opinion now spends 15 minutes reviewing a prioritized risk report and acting on it.
For small in-house teams operating under resource constraints, that difference is not marginal. It is the difference between keeping up and falling behind.
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