Shoosmiths launches Project Apollo — proprietary AI contract review built with Microsoft on Azure
- Vendors
- Microsoft
- Significance
- High
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Shoosmiths has made a tracked AI move, with Microsoft in the stack. This is a high-significance signal for buyers benchmarking their panel.
UK firm Shoosmiths unveiled Project Apollo, a self-developed generative AI contract review platform built over a year with Microsoft support and now deployed firmwide. Running in Microsoft's Azure environment, the tool marks up contracts against a playbook and gold-standard drafting derived from Shoosmiths' dealmakers — explicitly avoiding opaque 'black-box' models. Designed to mirror how a senior associate justifies changes to a partner, every step surfaces its reasoning, creating a real-time learning environment that accelerates development of junior lawyers.
""With our platform, developing lawyers can learn more, faster. Our self-developed generative AI software enables the firm to deploy its collective dealmaking expertise at scale, allowing lawyers to not only see what amendments have been made, but most significantly, why." — David Jackson, CEO, Shoosmiths"
- Significance
- High
- Source type
- Trade Press
Vendors involved
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