9 November 2024

Multi-summaries

New feature In the Summaries module of ClauseBuddy, you can now create "multi-summaries". Those summaries consist of a concatenation of individual summaries, applied together on one document.

For example, assume you are a legal counsel who has to provide an overview of every contract for which you sign off, in which you have to list (1) all deadlines mentioned in the clauses; (2) all interest rates; and (3) all partner companies co-signing the agreement. With the help of the multi-summaries tool, you can now perform this in one go, instead of having to run several summaries after each other.

Semantic Search

Improvement The Semantic Search part of DocAnswer has been upgraded to make use of the additional intelligence layers we introduced in October.

Essentially, you can now specify a search query, and DocAnswer will provide a list of all parts of the document that are semantically associated with the search term. For example, when searching for "GPDR" in a license agreement, the software will not only show a definition that literally contains this term, but also a clause that does not mention this term exactly.

This semantic search facility is still ideal for situations where MS Word's literal search capabilities fall short — so you should try it when you're quickly searching for something in a long document and your literal search doesn't deliver any results. Unlike the "Ask Questions" part of DocAnswer, it does not involve any LLM.

Chunking (API)

New feature Our API now provides an endpoint for "chunking" a document, i.e. split it into pieces (usually clauses, but potentially also other types of divisions).

This allows for intelligent splitting of documents, which can help to have LLMs analyse your documents.

Rate limitations

To protect against programming errors or abuse, Clause9, ClauseBuddy and the API now include automatic rate limitations. When a certain customer or user is over-using the server, an error will thus be generated.

In normal situations, you should never encounter these errors — if you do and you are affected by it, please let us know.