Trench Group cuts contract review from 150 to 30 minutes and handles 80% without legal

Before Luminance, Trench Group’s contract reviews were slow, decisions were delayed, and key risks or obligations risked being missed. The legal team faced a vast volume of contracts needing review, creating a document-review bottleneck that kept lawyers on manual processing instead of strategic advice.

Trench Group adopted Luminance’s Legal-Grade AI platform for first-pass contract review. The system highlights areas of risk or deviations from organizational standards and suggests acceptable alternatives that can be inserted with a single click, so reviewers focus only on flagged risky or non-standard terms. Sales and Operations teams now conduct first-pass reviews, with Legal receiving escalations for high-risk or nuanced agreements.

Average contract review time fell from about 150 minutes to about 30 minutes. The wider business now handles 80% of contracts autonomously without legal intervention. A tariff-impact assessment across 700 contracts that previously took 2.5 weeks was completed in under two hours with Luminance, giving management faster, data-backed decisions.

• • Democratizing first-pass AI review to Sales and Operations can clear legal bottlenecks while reserving counsel for high-risk escalations.
• • AI-assisted clause risk flagging and one-click alternatives materially compress routine contract turnaround.
• • The same platform can turn multi-week portfolio analyses (e.g., tariff impact across hundreds of contracts) into hour-scale exercises.