NetDocuments, an intelligent document management system (DMS) for legal professionals, has announced an expansion by adding artificial intelligence-powered capabilities such as AI profiling, background apps, and an agentic AI editing tool in Microsoft Word.
According to the corporation’s press release, the new AI-powered capabilities aim to assist law firms and legal teams in maximizing their output and lessening administrative burden while utilizing AI responsibly.
“AI in the legal industry isn’t about chasing the next big thing,” said Josh Baxter, NetDocuments CEO, in the press release. “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.”
AI profiling
According to the press release, AI profiling seeks to help legal professionals enrich documents with the correct and complete metadata, eliminate manual entry, reduce errors, deal with appropriately tagged content, and enhance searchability and organization by classifying document types.
“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,” said Dan Hauck, NetDocuments chief product officer, in the press release.
Background apps
NetDocuments said the background apps are automations operating behind the scenes that aim to improve content continuously during the document lifecycle, access legal data for responsible and scalable AI use without interrupting workflows, decrease administrative workload, and improve search, automation, and AI performance.
According to the press release, these apps’ capabilities include:
- extracting structured data from contracts, leases, and pleadings
- promoting reusable knowledge assets
- classifying sensitive content
- automating onboarding workflows and process consistency
Agentic AI editing tool
In its press release, NetDocuments noted that the agentic AI editing tool is part of its evolving legal AI assistant. The tool seeks to integrate directly within Microsoft Word, permit users to provide plain-language editing instructions, and see the tool carry out tracked edits in MS Word in real time.
“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,” said Molly Callahan, a paralegal at GableGotwals, in the press release.