Structured Reviews

Structured reviews allow you to extract and organize data from multiple documents into a simple, tabular format. This is perfect for analyzing contracts, tracking obligations, or summarizing communication threads across your workspace.

Creating a Structured Review

To get started with a structured analysis:

1. Navigate to your workspace.
2. Select Structured Reviews from the left navigation menu.
3. Choose New structured review to start from scratch, or select Browse templates to start with predefined columns.

Starting from scratch opens an Untitled review in the current workspace. Rename it at the top of the review, then add your documents and columns.

Using Templates

Templates provide pre-configured columns and AI extraction prompts tailored for specific scenarios. Some of the available templates include:

• Correspondence & Communications Review: Summarizes emails, letters, and meeting minutes to spot issues, instructions, and follow-ups.
• Notice & Time Bar Review: Detects contractual notices, claim alerts, time bars, and required next steps.
• Contract Obligations Overview: Analyzes signed agreements to compile key obligations and requirements.
• Risk & Opportunity Document Review: Identifies contractual risks, project opportunities, and corresponding impacts.

To create a review from a template:

1. Select Browse templates, then choose the template that matches your task.
2. Confirm the Review name and Workspace.
3. Select Create review.
4. Open the new review and add the documents you want to analyze.

The template adds its predefined columns and AI extraction prompts. It does not choose source documents for you, and you can edit, duplicate, delete, or add columns afterward.

You can also select Templates from an existing review. After choosing a template, select Add columns to this review to append its columns, or Create a new review to keep the analyses separate.

Adding Documents and Columns

A structured review consists of two main axes: Documents (the sources) and Columns (the data to extract).

1. Click Add documents to select the files from your workspace that you want to analyze.
2. Click Add columns to define what information to look for in each document.

When adding a column, you can define it as:

• Manual Input: A simple column where you can type your own findings.
• AI Extraction: A column powered by an AI prompt. You provide the prompt (e.g., “What is the notice period mentioned in this document?”), and Contradic AI will extract the corresponding information from the documents.

Running the Review

Once you have added at least one document and one AI extraction column, you can process the analysis.

1. Click Run review.
2. Cells display Generating Output… while Contradic processes the documents, then show the extracted value or - when no value is available.
3. Review the extracted data directly in the table.

If an extraction fails, a warning icon replaces the value. Point to the icon to read the error, then select Re-run review when you are ready to try again.

Verifying Extracted Evidence

Some completed AI extraction cells display a small evidence indicator beside the value. Point to the indicator to review the available details:

• Confidence: The confidence percentage returned for the extraction.
• Reasoning: A short explanation of how the result was derived.
• Citations: Numbered source badges linked to the supporting document excerpts.

Point to a citation badge to preview its excerpt. Select the badge to open the source document in the details panel at the cited passage. Use the source text to verify the extracted value before relying on it. A cell may show only some of these details when the extraction does not provide all three.

Adding Selected Rows to Chat

Use row selection when you want to discuss only part of a structured review with Contradic AI.

1. Select the checkbox beside each document row you want to use. Use the checkbox in the table header to select or clear all rows.
2. Select Add to context in the toolbar. The button shows how many rows are selected and remains unavailable when no row is selected.
3. Open Contradic AI. In the context panel, the structured review shows the selected row count and the total number of rows, so you can confirm the scope before asking a question.

Contradic adds the extracted values for the selected rows and any cited document excerpts attached to those results. Other rows from the review are not included. Adding another selection from the same review replaces its previous row scope in the context.

To use every row instead, add the structured review directly from the chat context menu. You can remove the review or clear the context from the context panel.

Exporting Your Results

Export the review table when you want to work with its results outside Contradic. Export becomes available after the review contains at least one document and one column.

1. Select Export in the review toolbar.
2. Choose CSV (.csv) or Excel (.xlsx).

The downloaded table includes the document filename, every configured column, and every document in the review. Selecting row checkboxes does not limit the export; row selection applies only to actions such as adding selected rows to chat context.

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