Release: New features to contracts - September 2026 🖊️

This release brings AI into your contract obligations, so you can find them automatically instead of adding each one by hand. We've also made it easier to link an obligation back to its source text, added calculated fields for contract templates, and tidied up how internal and external parties show up on a contract. Here's what's new.

Find obligations with AI

You can now let AI find obligations for you, straight from the documents on your contracts. Open a document on the contract, click the new "Find obligations with AI" icon at the top, and the system reads through the document looking for anything that could be an obligation. Where it finds one, it suggests a name, a description and any other details an obligation can hold.

Ai obligation feature

You stay in control throughout and can edit anything the AI suggests. Where a start date can be worked out from the text, it's filled in for you, but you'll always need to set the responsible person yourself. Before anything is created, you can click through each suggestion, adjust the description if needed, and decide whether to go ahead, or simply exclude any suggestion you don't want.

Find obligations with ai

If the system suspects a suggestion might duplicate an obligation you already have, it flags this and leaves it out by default. You can still choose to create it anyway.

The same AI-powered search is also available directly from the obligations tab, where you can pick any document on the contract and run it through, without needing to open the document itself first.

This feature requires the "Contract Obligations" and "AI Features" add-ons.

Add document, section and clause text to obligation

When you create an obligation on a contract, you can now link it directly to where it comes from in the source document. Since a contract can have several documents attached, you start by choosing which one the obligation relates to, then add a section and the clause text itself.

Source in contract

To make this quicker, we've added a "Select text in document" option. Mark the relevant passage in the document and choose "Use as clause", and the clause text field fills in automatically with your selection, along with a suggested section. From there, you can use "Preview clause" to see the document again with your selected text highlighted, so you can check it's the right one before saving. 

Use as clause

This feature requires the "Contract Obligations" add-on.

Add calculated fields to contracts 

You can now add a calculated field to your contract templates that automatically sums selected fields for you. Start by going to "Settings" > "Contract input fields" and adding a new input field. Give it a name, such as "Total value", and choose the type "Calculated field". Any description you add here will show up as an i-icon next to the field on the template, so it's a good place to explain what the field covers.

Calculated field

Once your field is ready, head to "Settings" > "Contract templates" and choose the template you want to add it to. Go to the relevant step in the template, click "Add field" and select your new field under "Custom fields" in the dropdown. You'll then be asked which fields it should sum, and you can choose freely among the amount fields already on the template.

Contract setup of calculated field

From here, the field is set up and will automatically total the amounts you selected, every time the template is used.

Calculated fee on contract

This feature requires the "Templates and Custom Fields" add-on.

New division of contract parties

We've updated the "Contract parties" step in contract templates to make it clearer at a glance. Previously, internal and external contract parties appeared together in a single list, which could make it hard to tell them apart. Now they're split into two separate lists, "Which internal legal entities are involved in this contract?" and "Which external legal entities are involved in this contract?", so the distinction is clear from the start.

Contract parites division

Frequently asked questions

How does .legal find obligations in a contract with AI?

Open a document on the contract and select the "Find obligations with AI" icon at the top of the document viewer. The AI reads through the document and suggests an obligation wherever it finds one, including a name, a description and the other details an obligation can hold. The same search can be started from the obligations tab on the contract, where you pick which document to run it through without opening it first. Finding obligations with AI requires the Contract Obligations and AI Features add-ons.

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Do I have to accept every obligation the AI suggests?

No. Nothing is created until you have been through the suggestions. You step through them one at a time, edit the name, the description and the other details, and exclude any suggestion you do not want. Where a start date can be worked out from the text it is filled in for you, but you always set the responsible person yourself. If a suggestion looks like a duplicate of an obligation you already have, it is flagged and left out by default, and you can still choose to create it.

Can I link an obligation to the exact clause it comes from?

Yes. When you create an obligation you can record its source in the contract: which document it comes from, the section, and the clause text itself. Choose "Select text in document", mark the relevant passage and select "Use as clause", and the clause text is filled in along with a suggested section. "Preview clause" shows the document again with your selection highlighted, so you can check it is the right one before you save. This requires the Contract Obligations add-on.

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What is a calculated field on a contract template?

A calculated field is a contract input field that adds up other amount fields on the same template instead of being filled in by hand. You create it under Settings > Contract input fields with the input type "Calculated field", add it to a template under Settings > Contract templates, and choose which of the template's amount fields it should sum. On the contract it shows the total together with the fields it is made up of. Calculated fields require the Templates and Custom Fields add-on.

What changed for internal and external contract parties?

The contract parties step used to list internal and external parties together, which made them hard to tell apart. They are now two separate lists, one asking which internal legal entities are involved in the contract and one asking which external legal entities are, each with its own button for adding a party. Nothing you have already registered changes; the same parties are simply shown in the list they belong to.

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