Reviewing Multilingual Contracts 4× Faster

Cross-border deals almost always involve at least one contract you can't read fluently. Traditional workflows send it to a translation agency, wait three days, and then have a paralegal skim for red flags. There's a faster path that keeps a human in charge of the final call.

The workflow

1. Upload the source PDF and run Smart Translate into your working language. Layout is preserved so clause numbers still align.
2. Open Chat with PDF against the original (not the translation) and ask it to list every clause that shifts risk, limits liability, or creates automatic renewal.
3. Ask it to quote the exact clause text and page number for each finding.
4. Only then send the shortlisted clauses to a human translator or counsel for a formal opinion.

Why chat the original, not the translation

Machine translation is excellent but not perfect. Asking the model to work directly on the source language and then quote the original text back means you review the actual clause, not a paraphrase of it. Your translator has real text to check.

A realistic time saving

Teams we've spoken to report first-pass review dropping from roughly two hours per contract to around thirty minutes, with the same or better rate of catching problem clauses. The savings compound when you're reviewing a stack of NDAs or supplier agreements.