How we reduced legal contract processing from 31 days to hours with AI

Standard Draft - AI powered Legal Contract Creation, Negotiation & Signing Platform

  • From $7K per contract and 31 day cycles to minutes of drafting - see how we solved legal inefficiency
  • Built first of its kind AI templating engine with SOC2/GDPR compliance over multi year development
  • Delivered 10x faster contract processing while reducing costs by several times for enterprise legal teams

10x

Faster Processing

$7K

Per Contract Saved

31→8

Days to Hours

89%

Inefficiency Solved

🤔  Problem

The current legal contract process is slow, expensive, and inefficient with devastating financial impact on businesses. The average cost of processing and reviewing a basic everyday contract is minimum $7,000 per contract, with magnitudes higher costs for multi-party and complex contracts.

The average cycle for a routine contract to be drafted and negotiated among surveyed corporate legal departments is 31 days. Even after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, 89% of surveyed organizations don't view their contracting process as "very efficient".

Legal teams are trapped in chaotic workflows involving tens of email threads, MS Word comments, redlines, and DocuSign processes that create bottlenecks and inefficiencies across entire organizations.

“It felt like there are these partners around the table with me, not just people that are carrying out discrete tasks"

Ryan Samii
Founder - General Draft HQ

💡Solution

We built Standard Draft, an AI-powered legal contract creation, negotiation, and signing platform. Ionio designed, built, deployed, and iterated on the platform over a multi-year journey from inception to user onboarding. We R&D-ed and built the first-of-its-kind templating, legal contract creation, and comparison engine that drafts enterprise-ready NDAs in minutes via wizard-style interface.

The platform includes an LLM-powered AI chatbot to draft contracts in laymen-speak and provide context on counter-party changes. We built the platform to be SOC2 and GDPR compliant with DocuSign integration and successfully handed over to the CTO and technical staff post-MVP. The technical stack uses ReactJS, Express.js, LLMs, Embedding, RAG, AWS, and Docker.

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🎯 Result

Standard Draft cuts contract creation time from approximately 31 days to hours, delivering over 10x faster processing while being several times cheaper than traditional legal workflows. Legal teams can now draft, negotiate, and sign contracts in a fast, modern, and unified purpose-built AI-powered legal platform that eliminates the chaos of email threads, manual redlines, and fragmented processes.

The platform enables businesses to draft contracts in minutes and get them signed in hours at a fraction of the cost, transforming legal operations from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.

Client's Prespective

Here is the summary of this case study

" "It felt like having partners around the table with me, not just people carrying out discrete tasks."
"You guys brought willingness to understand the product deeply rather than just wanting to start coding."

I'm Ryan, a corporate lawyer who left my law firm to build Standard Draft - a platform that accelerates contract drafting and negotiation between companies. I saw a significant problem with the lack of standardization in how contracts are handled.

When exploring how to build this, I considered partnering with a CTO, US outsourcing, or low-code solutions.
I experimented with no-code platforms like Bubble, but realized for the type of product I needed to test Standard Draft, low-code wasn't going to cut it. There would be so much custom code on top that it made sense to build it properly from the start.

What stood out about Ionio was that you weren't mercenary-like. Other teams wanted project clarity upfront, but you brought willingness to understand the problem I'm solving rather than just start coding. You pushed back in healthy ways on points I hadn't considered.

The fixed-price, project-based approach was crucial. As a first-time founder, I needed cost clarity rather than hourly billing since I couldn't predict development timelines.The wireframing process taught me that everything we skimmed over came back with a multiplier - it was twice as time-consuming when actually developing. The micro proof-of-concept was crucial for building confidence in your technical capabilities.

During user testing after MVP, you didn't disappear when bugs came up. You acted quickly on important issues and stayed engaged throughout.

What I appreciated most is having partners around the table, not just people carrying out tasks. That partnership approach has been instrumental as a first-time, non-technical founder.

Case Review

Ionio delivered a complete AI-powered legal contract platform that reduced contract processing from 31 days to hours. The multi-year development created first-of-its-kind templating and negotiation engine with SOC2/GDPR compliance, delivering 10x faster processing and 10x cost reduction.

Case Timeline

Multi-year development

Industry

LegalTech - Contract Management

How we helped

  • Product Strategy & Wireframing
  • Full-Stack Development
  • AI Engine Development
  • Enterprise Compliance Integration

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In this demo, watch how Standard Draft eliminates this legal bottleneck entirely. See the AI-powered platform draft enterprise-ready contracts in minutes with wizard-style interfaces and automated negotiation workflows. Built by Ionio over multiple years with first-of-its-kind templating engine, SOC2/GDPR compliance, and DocuSign integration. The platform delivers 10x faster processing while reducing costs by 10x.

What you'll see in this demo

  • Live contract creation with simple point-and-click interface for selecting contract sections
  • Real-time negotiation between parties with instant updates and collaborative editing features
  • Enterprise security and compliance features with automated DocuSign integration for signatures
  • Complete contract process from drafting to signing in minutes instead of 31-day cycles
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