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How to choose contract review software for your firm
Ten questions to ask any contract review tool before it touches a client's contract, for NSW contracts for sale and Victorian contracts of sale, Section 32 included.
Contract review software reads the contract and its attached documents, pulls out the details and flags what needs your attention. Tools vary widely in what they can handle and how much control your firm keeps. Use these ten questions to compare them before any tool touches a client's contract.
Can it handle your contracts?
1. Is there a page limit?
A full contract bundle with title, plans, certificates and leases can run to many hundreds of pages. Some tools stop reading well before the end.
How Curia does it: No page limit. Curia has reviewed contracts of more than 3,000 pages, reading every one and checking the bundle is complete first.
2. Can it handle messy, real contracts?
Real matters are rarely tidy. Ask how a tool copes with the hard ones, not the textbook ones.
How Curia does it: Curia is built for the hard ones: multiple titles and owners corporations, parish descriptions, off-the-plan sales, duplicate documents, head agreements and commercial leases. Years of real matters taught us the edge cases.
3. Is it built for your state?
NSW and VIC contracts differ in structure, disclosure and terminology. A one-size tool misses the differences.
How Curia does it: Built separately for NSW contracts for sale and Victorian contracts of sale, Section 32 included.
4. Will it catch the rare ones?
The issue that costs a client is usually the one nobody has seen in years.
How Curia does it: Rules and recommendations built for the rare cases act as a second set of eyes. Never heard of Local Land Services rates? Curia has.
Can you trust the output?
5. Can you check every finding?
If you cannot see where a finding came from, you have to read the contract again anyway.
How Curia does it: Every extracted detail and flag is cited to the page and clause it came from.
6. Who controls the final report?
The advice is your firm's. The tool should do the groundwork, not the legal judgement.
How Curia does it: Curia prefills the review. Your team does the legal check and decides exactly what goes to the client.
7. Does the report look like yours?
Clients should get your firm's report, not a generic printout.
How Curia does it: Brand the report however you like, and add images straight from the contract, such as plans and title diagrams.
Does it fit your firm?
8. Does it work with your practice management system?
Double typing matter details eats the time a tool saves.
How Curia does it: Link Smokeball to bring matters and contacts across without re-keying, or manage them in Curia if you prefer.
9. Is it a platform or a single trick?
A tool that only produces a summary leaves you to run the rest of the job elsewhere.
How Curia does it: Reports, billing tools and team analytics all come with Curia.
10. Can you call someone?
When exchange is pending and something looks wrong, an online form is not good enough.
How Curia does it: Our Australian support team is a phone call away. We work with firms directly and know your contracts.
Common questions
Does AI review software give legal advice?
It shouldn't. Good tools do the reading and flag what needs attention. Your reviewer decides what it means for the client and what goes in the report.
Do we need to change our practice management system?
No. Look for a tool that links to the system you use, or lets you work on its own without one.
How do we see if it suits our firm?
Book a demo and bring one of your own contracts. Seeing it work on a real file tells you more than any feature list.
Prefer to see a finished report first? Get a sample report
See how Curia answers all ten
Bring one of your own contracts and we'll review it with you. Choose your state when you book.