LawVu Lens is an AI-powered contract analysis tool designed to help legal teams extract insights, surface risks, and accelerate business decisions at scale.
By automatically identifying key clauses, obligations, and metadata across your contract library, Lens makes large volumes of agreements instantly searchable, analyzable, and actionable.
In this article:
Overview
With Lens, you can:
Analyze your entire contract repository and bring hard-to-reach data to the surface.
Go beyond keyword search to find the exact clauses, terms, or obligations you need.
Review thousands of contracts for trends, gaps, and risks - ideal for M&A, audits, compliance checks, and strategic initiatives.
How to enable Lens
Lens is currently available through Early Access.
If you'd like to try it, please contact your Account Manager to have the feature enabled for your organisation.
Administrators can enable LawVu Lens by navigating to:
Settings → Contract Management → LawVu Lens
From here, simply switch on Enable Extraction for each Contract Type you want Lens to process.
LawVu automatically maps your existing Contract Types to pre-configured Lens Contract Types. This removes the need for manual setup of clause groups or metadata fields.
Note: While Lens currently uses predefined clause group configurations, the team is exploring options to support fully custom extractions in the future.
Once enabled, Lens immediately starts extracting clause groups and metadata from all matching contracts - no additional steps required.
Accessing Lens
After activation, Lens becomes available in the left-hand navigation under Contracts.
The Lens grid provides a centralised view of all extracted clauses, metadata, and insights for each contract.
Example Use Case
Imagine a scenario where a new privacy requirement is introduced in California. Your team needs to identify all NDAs with confidentiality obligations that may not meet the new standard.
Traditionally, this would require opening and reading each agreement to locate relevant rights, definitions, or restrictions - a process that could take days or weeks.
Lens streamlines this entirely. By selecting the clause groups you want to analyze, the grid instantly displays only the relevant obligations, allowing your team to filter, compare, and interpret contract data efficiently.
The sections below walk you through how to customise and filter the Lens grid to support this type of review.
Working with the Lens grid
Lens allows you to tailor the grid so you see only the information relevant to your review.
To customise your view:
Select the Columns icon on the right side of the screen.
Deselect all current options.
Choose the clause groups you want to display (e.g., confidentiality obligations, definition of confidential information, governing law).
The grid updates instantly, showing only the selected information in a clean, focused layout.
Applying filters to narrow results further
Lens includes powerful filtering tools that help you refine results with precision:
Global search bar: Search across all columns simultaneously to surface any matching text.
Column-level filters: Apply filters to a specific column for more precise queries - for example, filtering the Governing Law column by “contains California” to identify NDAs affected by new state requirements.
Advanced filter panel: Build complex search logic using AND / OR rules in the side panel. This allows you to combine multiple criteria for deeper, more targeted searches.
Viewing and verifying extractions
Lens makes it simple to review and confirm extracted text:
Click any cell to expand and view the full clause directly in the grid.
Use “Expand rows” to open all rows at once, making it easy to compare clause language across multiple contracts.
Hover over a cell to copy the extracted text instantly.
Select the eye icon to open the source contract and view the clause in its original context for verification.
Exporting data
All extracted data from the Lens grid can be exported to Excel for further analysis, reporting, or cross-team collaboration.
Lens accelerates marketing clearance by giving teams instant visibility into rights and obligations. With accurate, verified data, organisations reduce legal risk, avoid infringement issues, and prevent campaign delays or takedowns.