Trench Group cuts average contract review from 150 to 30 minutes with Luminance

Trench Group faced a vast volume of contracts requiring review through a lengthy but highly standardized process. Legal capacity was consumed by day-to-day contract work, limiting time for strategic, value-add activity. The business also lacked a centralized, searchable repository for post-execution visibility into obligations, renewals, and risk.

Trench Group deployed Luminance’s Legal-Grade™ AI to automate first-pass contract review, highlight risk and deviations from organizational standards, and suggest acceptable alternatives insertable with a single click. Non-legal users in Sales and Operations can now run first-pass reviews autonomously, escalating only high-risk or nuanced agreements to Legal. All contracts processed through Luminance are housed in a centralized, searchable repository with instant metadata extraction for obligations, renewals, and risk analysis.

Average contract review time fell from an estimated 150 minutes to about 30 minutes—less than one third of prior effort—freeing Legal to focus on strategy. The wider business now handles 80% of contracts without waiting on Legal, improving decision speed and contractual consistency. A tariff review project that previously took 2.5 weeks was completed in under 2 hours with Luminance.

• • Automating standardized first-pass review lets Legal concentrate on escalations and strategic work rather than routine volume.
• • Giving non-legal teams an intuitive AI interface for day-to-day contracts can shift ~80% of volume off Legal while preserving escalation for high-risk deals.
• • A centralized AI-analyzed contract repository turns contracting into a single source of truth for obligations, renewals, and exposure questions.