Contract review & drafting
AI contract review and drafting for GCC law firms
Review Arabic and English contracts against your firm's playbook, check clauses against GCC laws with citations, and redraft as tracked changes, all inside the documents workspace your team already shares.
The problem
Why contract review stalls in Gulf firms
Most GCC contracts are negotiated in two languages, reviewed by several lawyers, and turned around over email. Risk hides in the gaps between versions, reviewers, and languages.
| The problem | Email and Word review | Contract review in Qanu |
|---|---|---|
| Two languages | Email and Word review: Arabic and English versions drift apart from one turn to the next | Contract review in Qanu: Both versions sit in the same matter, with one history and one set of permissions |
| Review standard | Email and Word review: Each reviewer applies their own positions | Contract review in Qanu: Every review runs against the firm's published playbook |
| Risk flags | Email and Word review: Issues surface late, in the partner's final read | Contract review in Qanu: Findings tied to each clause: preferred, acceptable, non-negotiable, or missing |
| Legal grounding | Email and Word review: Clauses are checked from memory or in a separate research tool | Contract review in Qanu: Clauses are checked against GCC laws and regulations, with citations you can open |
| Drafting | Email and Word review: Redlines travel as attachments until no one knows which version is final | Contract review in Qanu: Edits land as tracked changes on one live draft, with comments on the text itself |
How it works
Review and draft inside the documents workspace
Playbook review, legal checks, redrafting, and negotiation all happen on the same file, so nothing gets lost between tools.
- Playbook reviewClause findingsArabic or English
Run a published playbook on the contract. Findings map to each clause as preferred, acceptable, non-negotiable, or missing, with a suggested fallback.
Arabic and English
Bilingual contracts in one matter
In the Gulf, the Arabic text often governs while the deal is negotiated in English. Qanu treats both languages as first-class.
Both language versions together
Keep the Arabic and English versions of a contract side by side in the same matter, under the same permissions and version history.
Review in the contract's language
Pick Arabic or English as the review language when you run a playbook, to match the language the clauses are written in.
Redlines that respect right-to-left
Tracked changes, comments, and clause numbering render correctly in Arabic, and stay intact when you export to Word or PDF.
Who it's for
For GCC law firms and in-house legal teams
Qanu is for the lawyers who sign off on the contract. It is not a free upload-a-PDF tool for one-off checks.
Law firms
Corporate, commercial, and disputes teams reviewing and drafting Arabic and English contracts for clients across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the wider GCC.
General counsel and in-house teams
Legal departments handling a steady flow of NDAs, supply, lease, and services agreements that need one standard across every reviewer.
Government and regulated entities
Teams whose contracts must stay in-country or inside their own cloud, with encryption keys they control.
Built for accountable review
Every finding is traceable
Contract work only helps if a partner can check it. Qanu keeps the evidence next to the answer.
Citations you can open
Legal answers link to the law, regulation, or clause they relied on, so reviewers can verify before the client sees a word.
Permissions per matter
Invite editors and viewers per project or document, and revoke access when a matter closes or counsel rotates.
Version history on every draft
Named snapshots and restore points keep each negotiation turn auditable and easy to roll back.
Explore the workspace
The products behind contract review
- Explore documents
Documents
Store contracts and matter files in Arabic and English, with permissions and version history.
- Explore playbooks
Playbooks
Publish your firm's positions once, then review every contract against them.
- Explore the editor
Collaborative editor
Draft together in Arabic and English, with comments and tracked changes on the clause.
- Explore chat
Legal chat
Ask about the contract or the law and get answers with citations.
- Review security
Security
Encryption, in-country hosting, BYOK, and deployment in your own cloud.
- Legal AI for GCC contract review
Arabic-first legal AI
How Qanu works for GCC law firms reviewing Arabic and English contracts.
FAQ
AI contract review questions
What is AI contract review?
AI contract review uses language models to read a contract, compare each clause with your firm's positions, and flag risk. In Qanu it runs on your own playbook inside the matter workspace, and every finding points back to the clause.
Can Qanu draft contracts in Arabic?
Yes. Qanu drafts and redrafts clauses in Arabic or English. Edits are proposed as tracked changes on the live draft and grounded in the laws and regulations it cites, so a lawyer accepts or rejects each one.
Does it work for contracts governed by Saudi or other GCC law?
Qanu is built for GCC legal work. The library covers official sources for supported jurisdictions, including Saudi and UAE legislation, and more jurisdictions are on the roadmap.
Who sets the review standard?
Your firm. Playbooks hold your preferred, acceptable, and non-negotiable positions as your lawyers write them, not a generic checklist we impose.
Is this a free tool to upload a contract and get a summary?
No. Qanu is a workspace for law firms and in-house legal teams. Contracts stay in a permissioned matter with version history, and review supports the lawyer's judgment instead of replacing it.
Is our contract data used to train AI models?
No. Customer content is not used to train foundation models. Data can be hosted in KSA or the UAE, and enterprise teams can bring their own keys or run Qanu in their own cloud.