Traditional Review
Senior attorneys
experienced, but expensive
Contract reviewers
lower cost, but inconsistent
Large teams
more scale, more management
Multiple languages
separate reviewers and workflows
AI-powered document review
Review Partner builds an AI review team specifically for your matter. It studies your documents, refines the review protocol, validates the results and then applies it across the collection with consistent judgment.
Large document reviews have always forced tradeoffs. AI changes the economics. Review Partner changes the process.
experienced, but expensive
lower cost, but inconsistent
more scale, more management
separate reviewers and workflows
sophisticated and applied to every document
same criteria, same reasoning
add capacity without new training
review across languages
AI changes the economics. Review Partner changes the process.
Document-Driven Review
Review Partner studies your documents, exposes edge cases, asks targeted questions,
refines the protocol and tests it before applying it at scale.
A linear process. Built on assumptions.
Define the instructions once.
Apply to all documents.
Process everything at scale.
Discover issues too late.
An iterative process. Built from your actual documents.
Start with your objectives.
Analyze a sample of your actual content.
Surface ambiguities and gray areas.
Ask targeted questions and improve the instructions.
Update based on findings.
Validate against new document sets.
A stronger, more accurate set of instructions.
Apply with confidence across your full collection.
How Review Partner Works
Study the collection, find edge cases and refine the protocol through targeted questions.
Test against fresh documents and measure accuracy. Full review begins only after validation.
Validated reviewers apply the same criteria across the collection with consistent judgment.
Receive documentation of the protocol, validation results and document-level reasoning.
Merlin Review Partner
Professionals set the goals and make the calls. AI does the heavy lifting.
Judgment
directs
the review
Once the review criteria are properly developed and validated, AI changes what a review team can do.
Apply sophisticated analysis to every document.
Same attention on document 100,000 as document one.
Add review capacity without introducing inconsistent judgment.
The trained review capability remains available for later productions.
One workflow across languages.
Fewer people need access to confidential information.
Review Partner supports responsive, privilege and specialized review.
Identify documents responsive to discovery requests, legal issues or investigative criteria.
Learn more about Responsive ReviewApply sophisticated privilege criteria across communications and participants.
Learn more about Privilege ReviewBuild custom protocols for confidentiality, redaction, issue tagging, PII and more.
Learn more about Specialized ReviewCAL
For large collections, Continuous Active Learning (CAL) prioritizes documents by likely relevance, moving the documents most likely to matter to the front.
1,000,000Documents
CAL continuouslyreranks the collection
Most likelyrelevant first
Real reviews. Real deadlines. Real results.
A UK government agency faced a court-ordered deadline involving 35,000 documents requiring nuanced privilege determinations.
Result: Deadline met, with final sampling finding no privilege errors.
A large corporation needed to identify and redact confidential customer information across text and images, including customer names and logos.
Result: More accurate identification than the prior manual process.
Review Partner ensures performance before full review begins.
Illustrative validation results and sample document names.
| Document | AI Determination | Review Manager Agreement | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract_0001.docx | Responsive | Agree | |
| Email_0423.pdf | Not Responsive | Agree | |
| Proposal_v3.png | Responsive | Agree | |
| Board_Notes.docx | Not Responsive | Agree |
90%+minimum validation accuracy
95%+typical validation results
NEWS & INSIGHTS

See Merlin in action.
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Placeholder — final selection pending.See the criteria. See the questions. See the reasoning. See the validation. See the result.
Know what the AI was instructed to do.
See what commonly asked questions were considered.
Understand what drove each recommendation.
Measure before you scale.
Trace the review from start to finish.
Review Partner gives you scale without giving up control.
50,000 documents or 5 million. Responsive, privilege or specialized. We’ll show you how one experienced review manager can direct an AI team built for your documents.
Better criteria. Measured accuracy. Consistent review at scale.