Contract Express
Turn your organisation’s best thinking into every document you produce
Contract Express is the AI-enabled document automation engine trusted by 650+ law firms and leading organisations worldwide. Stop drafting from scratch — start producing accurate, on-brand documents on demand, with the governance your legal team requires.
Trusted by design
The right language, every time. Capable of 100+ page documents assembled correctly, first time.
Speed without shortcuts
Drafting in minutes, not days. 82% time saved vs. manual drafting.
Automation with legal control
Automation that doesn’t need a developer or an IT ticket. AI-assisted authoring puts template-building in the hands of legal — and beyond.
Better together
Extend trusted automation into the wider Thomson Reuters ecosystem: Practical Law for content starting points, CoCounsel for AI-assisted drafting and review, and HighQ for workflow and collaboration.
Built for legal teams that demand speed and accuracy
Law firm
Deliver faster through trusted automation and bill more efficiently — without lowering the quality of your work. Reuse your firm’s best precedents, extend self-service to junior teams, and add AI-assisted drafting when you need it.
In-house legal department
Give the business the speed of self-service, with the governance legal requires. Standardise agreements at scale, capture your best language before it walks out the door, and free your team from repetitive drafting.
Authoring
A low-code, AI-assisted authoring tool that lets lawyers directly build and share customisable templates in minutes — no coding expertise or third-party vendors required.
One trusted document automation engine. Choose the deployment that fits your organisation.
Cloud AI-enabled
Cloud-hosted document automation with AI-assisted authoring built in. Build templates faster with AI on your side.
On-Premise
The same proven automation engine, hosted on your own servers so your data stays in-country. Fully managed by your team, using the authoring tools you already know, with no AI dependency required.
Talk to an expert
See for yourself how Contract Express can drive efficiencies across the business, reducing cost and risk for your organisation and clients.
What do our customers think?
You can have the confidence that whatever you need to build, to solve a problem, you will be able to build it.
Tim Sherman, Partner, Chapman Tripp
Frequently asked questions
Contract Express is a document automation solution built for legal professionals. It allows law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies to convert approved templates, clauses, and legal expertise into documents that can be generated quickly and consistently, without drafting from scratch.
Instead of starting from a blank page, users answer a guided set of questions. Contract Express then automatically assembles the appropriate document using pre-approved language and business rules, reducing manual drafting, editing, and review time.
Organisations that automate contract creation can increase productivity, improve document consistency, reduce manual errors, scale capacity without adding headcount, and deliver faster turnaround to internal and external stakeholders.
Common examples include leases and licences, share purchase agreements, NDAs, employment contracts, facility agreements, and company formation agreements, among many others.
Contract Express is used by law firms, in-house corporate legal departments, and government agencies looking to reduce repetitive drafting work and scale legal expertise across their teams.
Without automation, legal teams often repeat manual tasks like searching for precedent language, adapting clauses, and checking for consistency, which consumes billable hours and can create bottlenecks for growing in-house teams.
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Transform your legal workflow – faster, smarter, and fully compliant.
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