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Audit document review:
Contract analysis cut from weeks to hours

We built a generative AI platform for audit teams that searches contracts, ledgers and policies with strict access controls and extracts risk clauses with traceable source links.

Industry: Professional & Business ServicesService: AI & Automation

Instead of weeks per audit review
Hours
Questions across large datasets
Plain language
Source link for every finding
Traceable

Overview

Project
at a glance

Business
Global audit and consulting firmAudit and assurance teams reviewing thousands of unstructured contracts, invoices and policies.
Partnership
AI product developmentWe built the RAG platform, the access controls and the clause extraction for auditors.
Goal
Faster, traceable audit reviewsFind compliance-critical clauses quickly and show exactly where each one came from.
What we built
Generative AI audit search and extractionA secure platform for plain-language questions and automated risk clause extraction.

Client

Who we
built it for

Deloitte

Global audit and consulting firm

Professional Services
About the client
Audit and assurance teams reviewing thousands of unstructured contracts, invoices and policies.
What they needed
Find compliance-critical clauses quickly and show exactly where each one came from.
Where they were
During corporate audits, analysts read through thousands of unstructured contracts, invoices and lease agreements to find compliance-critical clauses.

Engagement snapshot

Industry
Professional Services
Service
AI & Automation
Engagement
AI product development
Delivered
Generative AI audit search and extraction
Headline result
Hours · Instead of weeks per audit review

The challenge

What was getting
in the way

During corporate audits, analysts read through thousands of unstructured contracts, invoices and lease agreements to find compliance-critical clauses.

This work took weeks, and every finding had to be traceable to its exact source document for the audit file.

  • Weeks of reading

    Analysts spent weeks parsing unstructured documents.

  • Strict access

    Client documents needed tight access controls.

  • Traceability

    Every finding had to link back to its source.

The solution

What
we built

  1. 01

    Ingests audit documents

    Contracts, financial ledgers and compliance policies are brought into one secure, access-controlled store.

    Sources
    Contracts, ledgers
    Access
    Strict controls
    Format
    Unstructured
  2. 02

    Answers plain-language questions

    A RAG layer lets auditors query large datasets in everyday language.

    Search
    RAG
    Questions
    Plain language
    Scope
    Large datasets
  3. 03

    Extracts risk clauses

    A fine-tuned LLM extracts compliance-critical clauses and discrepancies into audit summaries with source links.

    Model
    Fine-tuned LLM
    Output
    Audit summaries
    Evidence
    Source links

Key features

What made it
useful

  • SECURE RAG

    Search with strict access

    A permission-aware RAG layer answers questions only from documents each auditor may see.

    Business impact

    Client data stays protected

  • CLAUSE EXTRACTION

    Finds compliance-critical clauses

    A fine-tuned LLM extracts risk clauses and financial discrepancies from contracts and invoices.

    Business impact

    Analysis in hours, not weeks

  • AUDIT SUMMARIES

    Findings with sources

    Automated summaries highlight risk exposure with a traceable link to every source.

    Business impact

    Every finding traceable

Before and after

How the work
changed

Contract review

Before

Weeks of reading

Analysts parsed every document by hand.

After

Hours

AI extracts the clauses auditors need.

Finding information

Before

Manual searching

Teams searched files one by one.

After

Plain-language questions

Auditors ask and get sourced answers.

Evidence

Before

Hand-built references

Sources were tracked manually.

After

Automatic source links

Every extracted clause links to its document.

Results

The business
difference

  1. SPEED

    Hours, Not Weeks

    Weeks become hours

    Clause extraction that took analysts weeks now takes hours.

    Before: Manual ReadingAfter: AI Extraction

  2. TRUST

    Source Link for Every Clause

    Every finding traceable

    Each extracted clause comes with a traceable source link.

    Before: Manual ReferencesAfter: Automatic Links

  3. FOCUS

    More Time on Risk Assessment

    Time for judgement

    Analysts spend their time on strategic risk assessment.

    Before: Document ParsingAfter: Strategic Review

Testimonial

What the client
says

“Parsing unstructured contracts during corporate audits used to take our analysts weeks. The AI tool extracts the exact compliance clauses we need in hours, complete with traceable source links, allowing us to focus on strategic risk assessment.”
George FacklerChief Operating Officer for Audit & Assurance, Deloitte

Key results

  • Contract analysis cut from weeks to hours
  • Traceable source links for every clause
  • More time for strategic risk assessment

Trust and control

How we kept it
safe and reliable

  • 01

    Strict access controls

    Auditors only see documents they are permitted to access.

    PERMISSION-AWARE
  • 02

    Traceable sources

    Every answer links back to the original document.

    TRACEABLE
  • 03

    Auditor review

    Auditors check every extracted finding before it is used.

    HUMAN IN CONTROL
  • 04

    Separate engagements

    Each client's documents stay separate.

    ISOLATED

Faster delivery

Built on tested foundations

Building on tested components let the team focus on audit-specific clauses and review workflows.

  • Document ingestion

    Tested parsers handled contracts, ledgers and policies in many formats.

  • Access control layer

    Reusable permission checks keep each engagement's data separate.

  • Extraction prompts

    A tested library of extraction patterns was tuned to audit needs.

  • Source linking

    Every answer and clause links back to its original page.

FAQ

Straight
answers

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We built a generative AI enterprise search and document analysis platform for audit and assurance. Using retrieval-augmented generation with strict access controls, it ingests contracts, financial ledgers and compliance policies, answers plain-language questions and extracts risk clauses and financial discrepancies with traceable source links.

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