Kira

Kira Systems was acquired by Litera in 2021 and continues to operate as Kira, one of the leading AI contract analysis platforms for enterprise legal work.

## Contract Review at Scale

Manual contract review is one of the most time-intensive tasks in legal practice. Kira's ML models are trained on millions of contracts to identify and extract: - Defined terms and defined term usage - Parties, governing law, and jurisdiction clauses - Termination and notice provisions - Limitation of liability and indemnification language - Change of control provisions - IP ownership and assignment clauses - Representations and warranties

For M&A due diligence, a team might review 500+ agreements in a data room. Kira extracts the relevant provisions across all documents simultaneously, producing a structured summary rather than requiring attorneys to read every page.

## Machine Learning Architecture

Kira trains "Smart Fields" — ML models for each clause type. The system ships with 1,000+ pre-built Smart Fields covering common commercial, real estate, employment, and finance contract provisions. Legal teams can also train custom Smart Fields for proprietary clause types using as few as 20 example contracts.

## Playbook Comparison

Upload a standard contract playbook; Kira flags where agreements deviate from acceptable positions. Useful for in-house teams reviewing vendor contracts against approved terms.

## Integration with Legal Workflows

Kira integrates with: - Document management systems (iManage, NetDocuments) - Microsoft Word for in-document markup - Excel export for due diligence summaries - Major law firm practice management platforms

## Audience

Primary users: large law firms (M&A, finance, real estate practices) and in-house legal teams at Fortune 500 companies. Pricing is enterprise subscription; implementations typically require an onboarding engagement.