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What is Clause Hunt?
Clause Hunt is a search tool that helps legal teams find useful clauses inside their existing documents.
Instead of manually opening old contracts and scrolling through them, Clause Hunt extracts and organises clauses from DOCX and PDF files so you can search and reuse them directly in Microsoft Word.
Think of it as a clause-focused search engine for your drafting history.
With Clause Hunt, you can:
Search your LawVu contract datasets
Search across your own uploaded documents
Automatically extract clauses from these documents
Search across extracted clauses
Insert clauses directly into your current Word document
Add strong clauses to your Quality Library
✅ Use Clause Hunt when:
You remember writing a clause but cannot find it
You want inspiration from real precedent language
You want to search across large volumes of past contracts
Your Quality Library does not yet contain what you need
You want to build a Quality Library gradually
❌ Don’t use Clause Hunt when:
You expect perfectly vetted clauses
You do not have time to assess clause quality
Your Quality Library already covers everything you need
How Clause Hunt works
Clause Hunt is organised into three tabs at the top of the screen:
How the tabs work together
The three tabs are designed to be used together:
Use Clauses for fast comparison
Use Documents for context and structure
Use Manage to upload and organise content
Depending on your task, you can move seamlessly between them.
Clauses tab
The Clauses tab lets you search across all extracted clauses from your selected LawVu contracts or your active document.
You can:
Search by term (e.g. a defined term)
Search by content
Filter results (e.g. Definition, Strict)
Clauses are grouped by similarity and displayed side by side, making it easy to compare different versions of the same provision.
This tab is designed for speed and comparison, helping you quickly explore alternative wording across many documents.
Documents tab
The Documents tab lets you search across full documents.
You can review clauses in their original context, extract specific paragraphs, or use an entire document as the starting point for a new draft. This tab is focused on context and helps you understand how clauses fit within the overall structure of a contract.
Although both the Clauses tab and the Documents tab are designed to help you find strong clauses in previously drafted documents, they approach the task differently.
The Clauses tab takes you directly to extracted provisions for quick comparison, while the Documents tab lets you navigate through complete documents to understand structure and context.
They are complementary rather than alternatives. Depending on what you need - fast comparison or contextual review - you can move seamlessly between them.
Manage tab
The Manage tab is where you prepare your content for Clause Hunt.
This is where you upload documents and trigger automatic clause extraction, preparing your content so it can be searched in both Clauses and Documents Mode.
Here you can:
Upload documents (DOCX or PDF)
Organise documents into baskets
Choose whether to extract:
Documents
Clauses
Trigger clause extraction
Once uploaded and processed, your documents become searchable in both the Clauses and Documents tabs.
