Shoosmiths launches Project Apollo — proprietary AI contract review built with Microsoft on Azure

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.