# Check routine contracts against your standards with AI

By Ali Peivandizadeh, business growth and AI implementation specialist.
Published Nov 14, 2026. Last checked Nov 14, 2026. Last changed Nov 14, 2026.
Section: AI at Work. Verdict: WATCH
Who it is for: Any business that signs many similar contracts. 10 to 100 employees. Owner or operations lead.

A company's legal team built an AI agent that checks contracts against written standards and proposes edits. A business that signs many similar contracts can use the same method. Start by writing your standard terms as a numbered list.

## Why
CIO reported on Nov 11, 2026 that the legal team at Fujifilm Biotechnologies devised an agent to read contracts. It checks the terms against company standards and proposes edits, and the legal team reviews them. The agent is in a test area, and the company expects full use in early December. A smaller business does the same kind of check on supplier contracts, customer contracts and software terms. Often the standards exist only in the owner's head.

## Steps
1. Pick one contract type you sign often, such as supplier contracts or software terms.
2. Write your standards as numbered rules: payment terms, contract length, renewal, liability, and who owns the data.
3. Have your lawyer read the list once.
4. Take ten contracts of that type that you already signed.
5. Give the rules and the ten contracts to an AI tool the business has approved. Ask it to list every term that breaks a rule.
6. Compare its list with what you know about each contract.
7. Add a rule for each problem it missed.
8. Use it as a first check on new contracts. A person still decides what to sign.

## What data may go in
Contracts hold prices and terms that the other side may expect you to keep private. Use a tool whose terms say it does not learn from what you upload.

## Who checks the output
The owner or the person who signs reads the list of flagged terms. A lawyer reads the contracts that matter most.

## Cost and time
The report gives no cost. About half a day to write the standards, with an AI tool the business already pays for.

## The rule to check
An AI check is not legal advice. For a contract with large sums or long terms, a lawyer still reads it. Check that the contract itself allows you to put it into an AI tool.

## What can go wrong
The report gives no results yet, because the agent is still in a test area. A missed clause costs more than the time saved. Use the check to find questions for a person, and not to replace the person.

## Sources
- CIO, news report, Nov 11, 2026: https://www.cio.com/article/4246026/as-employees-build-ai-agents-cios-manage-the-lifecycle.html

General information, not legal or financial advice.

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