This blog outlines four areas where contract automation and AI are helping procurement teams make better decisions—and a bigger impact—across the business: intake, negotiations, obligation management and contract analysis.

Unlike general-purpose AI, contract AI is trained and fine-tuned on legal prose, structured clauses and jurisdictional standards. Docusign IAM is an AI-powered platform that helps teams draft, review and analyse contracts at scale while maintaining accuracy, consistency and oversight.

Legal teams are increasingly leveraging AI in 2026 to automate repetitive tasks like contract intake, negotiation and obligation management, effectively reducing deal bottlenecks and operational risks. 

Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) now includes an AI contract review assistant, helping organisations review agreements faster by analysing contracts, answering questions, and suggesting edits directly within their workflow.

AI-Assisted Review in Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) speeds up agreement review and negotiation in line with your company’s legal and other requirements. Review agreements against your pre-approved playbooks and get redline suggestions to align language with your standards.

The AI Data Controls setting gives customers additional control in-product over sharing data for AI training.