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Customer story · Axiom pilot

Faster contract work. Stronger consistency.

After evaluating eight AI vendors, Axiom selected DraftPilot for an eight-week pilot on real client work. Attorneys moved routine contracting tasks faster while keeping every suggestion open to review and judgment.

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40–60%average time savings on routine contract work
89%reported improved quality or consistency
28in-house legal teams represented

The challenge

More work. The same quality bar.

Commercial contract review is a large part of Axiom’s client work. Rising volume, routine-review bottlenecks, consistency requirements, and cost pressure created a clear need: help attorneys move faster without lowering the standard of their advice.

Why DraftPilot

Built around how attorneys work.

DraftPilot stood out for third-party contract review, rapid playbook creation, attorney-verifiable suggestions, an intuitive interface, and its place inside Microsoft Word.

  • Tracked changes and comments in Word
  • Reusable playbooks from existing contracts
  • Attorney control over every AI suggestion
  • Minimal training for adoption

Pilot methodology

Real work, measured over eight weeks.

Eighteen volunteer attorneys used DraftPilot on live client engagements. Axiom gathered evidence through surveys, product analytics, regular feedback sessions, and individual participant calls.

Use cases

Where attorneys saved the most time.

Average reported time savings were highest for summarizing contracts, drafting ad hoc clauses, and creating playbooks. Every measured use case showed a meaningful gain.

  1. Issue spotting42%
  2. Drafting redlines39%
  3. Creating playbooks49%
  4. Creating contract templates38%
  5. Summarizing contracts54%
  6. Drafting ad hoc clauses55%
  7. Generating pushback narratives39%
Axiom pilot data. Percentages are rounded averages derived from reported time-saving bands.
“For short contracts, review is reduced from two hours to 30 minutes.”

Axiom pilot participant

Time savings

40–60% faster was the largest response group.

44% of participants reported significant time savings of 40–60%. Another 6% reported exceptional savings of 60–90%, while no participant reported decreased productivity.

The largest response group reported significant savings; some use cases exceeded 60%.
“Output is more consistent as it uses the playbook religiously.”

Axiom pilot participant

Work quality

16 of 18 participants reported a meaningful improvement.

Nine participants reported a moderate improvement and seven reported a significant improvement. Together, that is 89% of participants.

No improvement1
Slight improvement1
Moderate improvement9
Significant improvement7
No participant reported a negative impact; nine reported moderate improvement and seven significant improvement.
“It suggests things that wouldn’t have crossed my mind.”

Axiom pilot participant

Business impact

From routine review to higher-value judgment.

By accelerating repetitive parts of contract review, DraftPilot gave attorneys more time for negotiation strategy, client advice, and the exceptions that genuinely require experience.

Axiom carried the pilot into its AI-enhanced legal services offering, applying DraftPilot where both the client and legal team see a clear fit.

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