Currently accepting a limited number of pilot firms in the UK and US. Help shape the next generation of evidence-first legal review.

An AI review platform for legal teams

Legal review,
built on evidence.

Every finding cited. Every decision explainable. Cogveo turns hundreds of contracts into a graded review grid — every clause pulled verbatim, checked against your playbook, and linked back to the source.

A graded cell opened in Cogveo — the verbatim clause and its page citation in the evidence drawer
The evidence behind every cell — the verbatim clause, cited to the page.
The problem

Hundreds of contracts.
One missed clause can change the outcome.

A data room on a transaction, a portfolio being repapered, thousands of case files under deadline — a team reviews hundreds of contracts hunting the few clauses that change the risk, the price or the obligation. Generative AI makes that faster — and riskier: it paraphrases, its outputs can't be verified, and a paraphrased clause is one no lawyer can defend. Cogveo turns that review into a graded, cited one — every finding traceable to the page it came from.

See Cogveo run a real data room.

Four minutes, no slides — loading the data room, the review grid filling in, playbook grading, and the citation behind every cell.

Recorded on the live product. Book a walkthrough to see it on a matter from your own practice.

A tour of the product.

Five screens from the live app — the path a matter takes from data room to client sign-off.

01 · DOCUMENTS

Connect the data room

Read straight from where the documents already live — SharePoint, OneDrive or your DMS, with further connectors in development. The whole set is pulled in one go, read-only, with nothing exported. Each document passes a normalisation gate — OCR, de-duplication, type detection — before review, and anything that needs attention is flagged up front.

Cogveo Documents view — 210 imported files with normalisation status
02 · PLAYBOOK

Your positions, per matter

One playbook per document type — and tuned per matter for deal structure, governing law, size and the parties — each clause topic with your preferred position, the fallback you'll accept, and what triggers an escalation or a reject. Tell the playbook assistant a rule in plain English and it becomes a graded position, versioned like any other change. Not one fixed template.

Cogveo Playbook — graded negotiation rules with preferred and fallback wording, plus the playbook assistant
03 · REVIEW GRID

Every contract, graded

Clauses across, documents down — every cell graded Green, Yellow, Red or Black against your playbook, with filters for the cells that need a human. Need a clause the partner just asked about? Add a column and the whole data room is graded on it.

Cogveo Review Grid — contracts graded clause by clause against the playbook
04 · DELIVERABLE

From grid to work product

With one click, the graded grid becomes the output the matter needs — a due diligence report on a deal, the right details filed into your case-management system on an employment matter, or a regulator-ready report on a loan book. Cogveo writes the first draft and feeds it into the system you already use; nothing is final until a lawyer signs off.

Cogveo Redlines — tracked changes drafted from the playbook, ready to apply and push to SharePoint
05 · COLLABORATION

Review is a team sport

Open any cell to the verbatim clause, its page citation and grade — then discuss it right there. Invite the client or co-counsel as a guest: they see the findings, add comments, and the whole thread stays on the matter record.

Cogveo collaboration — a clause cell open with verbatim citation and a comment thread with the client
Why now

As AI becomes mainstream in legal work, trust has become the limiting factor. Lawyers need systems they can verify, defend and explain — not just systems that generate answers. So Cogveo is built around a simple principle:

"If a lawyer cannot verify a finding,
they cannot rely on it."

Every extraction is verbatim. Every grade is traceable. Every recommendation is backed by evidence.

Enterprise-grade review, without the enterprise-scale budget.

The funded incumbents chase the largest firms. Cogveo is built for the mid-market — the law firms, in-house teams and deal teams across the UK and US doing the same work on tighter budgets.

Law firms

Legal due diligence on transactions and financings — review the target's contracts against your playbook, with the citations and precedent a partner can sign off.

In-house & corporate legal

Legal teams at large corporates — bulk contract updates and repapering, employment programmes, and mass-claims review across thousands of documents at once.

Private equity & corporate development

Deal teams — surface the risk buried in a data room of hundreds of contracts before you commit, without waiting on outside counsel.

Advisory, Big 4 & finance

Deal advisory, transaction services and in-house finance — the same defensible, cited review across every document in the transaction.

Why Cogveo?

Most AI legal tools rewrite the clause.
Cogveo cites it.

Four pillars that turn AI extraction into evidence a lawyer will sign off on.

Verbatim extraction

Every clause Cogveo extracts is the exact text from the document — never paraphrased, never rewritten. Each entry links back to the page and paragraph, and is flagged when the match needs a second look.

No citation, no extraction.

Playbook-graded review

Your firm sets the playbook — one per document type, tuned per matter for structure, jurisdiction and the parties. Cogveo grades each clause against your positions and surfaces the deviations in priority order. The rules are yours. The grading follows them.

GREEN YELLOW RED BLACK

Precedent-backed grades

For every clause, Cogveo surfaces the three most similar clauses from your firm's library of signed deals — so the grade comes with evidence, not an opinion. Every matter you close sharpens the next review.

Your precedents become your firm's edge.

Tamper-proof audit trail

Every extraction, grade, reviewer override, and export is permanently recorded. Reproduce any decision months later — for a partner review, a client request, or a regulator.

Defensible by design.

One workflow. The whole data room.

Cogveo clusters the data room by document type and runs the same evidence-first review across every contract in the deal. Each type carries its own playbook and its own library of past deals.

Non-disclosure agreements

Mutual and one-way NDAs. Confidentiality, term, return of materials, permitted disclosures, and jurisdiction clauses graded against your playbook.

Commercial contracts & MSAs

Master service agreements, supplier and vendor contracts, distribution terms. SLA, liability, indemnity, and termination clauses against your commercial playbook.

Share purchase agreements

SPAs, asset purchase agreements, and heads of terms. Warranties, indemnities, completion conditions, and earn-out mechanics extracted and graded.

Lease & real estate

Commercial leases, licences to occupy, and property transaction documents. Term, rent review, break clauses, and repair obligations against your real-estate playbook.

Built on the same engine.

One grid for contract review across deals, property, employment and lending — the same extract–grade–cite engine for any high-volume document job.

Repapering & bulk updates
Employment programmes
Mass claims & group litigation
Estate-wide clause review
Explore the engine →

We do the setup. Your team does the law.

Cogveo ships with practice-ready starter playbooks, so you never begin from a blank page. Three steps from first look to firm-wide rollout — each one earns the next.

Discovery — 1 day

See it on your documents

Send 5–10 sample contracts and we run them through Cogveo with an industry-standard playbook — same-day to next-day turnaround. No setup, no commitment.

Pilot — 30 days

One practice area. One playbook. One live matter.

Fixed price, one named partner sponsor, up to ten lawyers. We tune a starter playbook to your positions and run a real matter end to end — so the rollout decision is made on evidence.

Production rollout — 6–10 weeks

Firm-wide deployment

DMS integration, your precedent corpus ingested, playbooks authored with our consultants across practice areas, and user training — through to your first live production matter.

Unusual clause types or jurisdictions? Custom-trained extractors are a 12–18 week bespoke build — see the engine.

Every output your matter needs.

The same review, delivered in whatever form the work takes — across deals, property, employment and lending.

Output 01

Extraction grid

Every clause across every document, graded and cited — the line-by-line data. Sort by deviation, filter by clause type, or export the whole set.

ExcelPDF
Output 02

Risk register

The issues that matter, ranked by severity, in plain language — each with the position it breaks from and the evidence behind it.

PDFWord
Output 03

Redline & comparison

Every clause shown against your playbook standard — or one version against another — as a visual redline you can read or share as a PDF.

PDFWord
Output 04

Client report

The client-facing write-up of the review, formatted for the file and ready for partner or deal-lead sign-off.

PDFWord

Behind all of it: a tamper-proof audit trail — every extraction, grade and override permanently logged.

Two AI modes. Your client decides.

Some matters allow generative AI. Some clients contractually forbid it. Cogveo runs either way — set per project — so a procurement requirement is never the reason you lose the work.

Standard

Generative mode

Full-strength LLM extraction, grading and redline drafting — fastest to value and highest coverage across a messy, mixed data room.

Deterministic

No-GenAI mode

Classical machine-learning extraction and verbatim playbook language only — no text ever leaves to a generative model. For clients and matters where GenAI is off the table.

Your data stays yours.

We do not copy your document management system, we do not train on your documents, and every decision Cogveo makes is logged for audit.

Nothing leaves the room

Documents are read in place — from your Microsoft 365 or DMS. Cogveo does not copy or move the files; citations point to the page and line, not a stored copy.

Never used for training

Your playbooks, your precedents, your documents — none of it is ever used to train any model, ours or anyone else's. Your firm's data is isolated from every other firm's.

Built on Azure

Hosted on Microsoft Azure. Documents are encrypted both in storage and in transit. Every action — extraction, grade, override, export — is permanently logged.

Security, compliance & integrations in detail →

Run your first pilot in 30 days, not 30 weeks.

Fixed price. One practice area. One named partner sponsor. Up to ten lawyers. We do the implementation — your team does the work it was hired to do. Book a 30-minute walkthrough and we'll show the review on a sample matter from your practice or pipeline.

Book a walkthrough

Currently accepting pilot partners in the UK and US — email us at admin@cogveo.com