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Structured Answers Across Thousands of Documents in Minutes with NetDocuments Tabular Review

Tabular review
Jared Beckstead

Jared Beckstead

Senior Product Marketing Manager – AI      

Your team has two hundred agreements, and you need the change-of-control triggers, the assignment restrictions, the governing law – across every agreement, by end of week. NetDocuments tabular review pulls every answer into a structured table in minutes, right where the documents already live.

Ask any legal team that has to compare a set of documents – contracts, claims, filings, whatever the stack is – and the process has looked the same for years. Open a document. Find the term. Copy it into a spreadsheet. Open the next document. Repeat.

For a handful of documents, that’s a manageable afternoon. For a hundred or a thousand, it becomes a project that can eat days, and almost none of that time goes toward the judgment the legal team is trained for. The extraction itself, the part that should be the easiest step, ends up consuming the most hours.

NetDocuments tabular review was built because the gap between the work legal teams want to spend their time on and the work they’re stuck doing instead continues to get wider as document volumes grow. We’re excited to bring another AI capability to where legal professionals already work.

Where NetDocuments tabular review helps

NetDocuments tabular review is built for any scenario where teams need to extract, compare, or analyze the same information across large document collections. That shows up constantly, wherever organizations manage high volumes of documents:

  • Comparing market or deal terms across a batch of agreements – change-of-control triggers, assignment restrictions, and governing law, pulled from every contract in the collection
  • Running due diligence across hundreds of target-company contracts – extracting key obligations, renewal dates, and risk flags in hours instead of days
  • Abstracting a portfolio of leases – effective dates, renewal options, termination notice periods, and rent escalation clauses in a single pass
  • Benchmarking license agreements – royalty structures, exclusivity terms, and IP assignment provisions side by side
  • Reviewing documents produced in litigation – building fact chronologies, identifying parties, and extracting key dates across a production set
  • Pulling terms from HR agreements and policy acknowledgments at scale

Wherever work used to require the manual review of documents one by one, NetDocuments tabular review transforms that effort into a structured, searchable table – freeing your team to spend less time extracting information and more time applying the judgment, expertise, and strategic thinking that matter most.

How NetDocuments tabular review works differently

NetDocuments tabular review takes a different approach: it runs AI-powered review inside the system that already governs your documents, instead of exporting them somewhere else to get an answer. NetDocuments customers already trust the platform to govern their organization’s most sensitive documents; bringing AI to your content, rather than asking teams to move sensitive documents into a new, separate tool to get the benefit of AI-powered analysis.

That difference shows up in a few concrete ways. Documents never leave NetDocuments during review, so there’s no separate tool and no new place for sensitive content to end up outside the environment where it is already governed. Every answer in the resulting table is linked directly back to the exact spot in the source document from which it was extracted, so your team can verify each result as easily as opening the file itself, without switching tools to double check the AI’s work. And because the review runs inside NetDocuments, the same data loss prevention, access permissions, and information barriers your organization already relies on are enforced automatically, every time, without anyone having to configure them separately for AI.

The result is AI-powered document analysis that fits naturally into existing workflows, without requiring teams to adopt a new platform, move sensitive documents, or compromise on governance.


How It Works

How NetDocuments tabular review works in 3 easy steps

1

Choose your documents

Select the documents you want to review directly in NetDocuments – individual files or entire folders.

2

Describe what you are looking for

Describe what you need: the governing law, the termination notice period, whether there’s an assignment restriction. NetDocuments tabular review builds the columns for you. No formulas, no templates to configure.

3

Review your results

Run the extraction and the table populate as AI analyzes the documents. Every cell includes a citation linking to the exact passage in the source document, so your team can verify any answer without leaving the table. From there, sort by any column, filter to what matters, edit a cell if something needs a closer look, and export to Excel when you’re ready to share.


What’s next

If your team spends days extracting the same information from large sets of documents, NetDocuments tabular review can reduce that work to a single prompt and a structured table of results. And it isn’t another separate tool to learn, it’s right where your documents already live.

To see how you can accelerate document analysis for your organization, book a demo or contact your NetDocuments representative.

If your team spends days extracting the same information from hundreds or thousands of documents, NetDocuments’ tabular review can reduce that work to a single prompt and a structured table of results.

To see how you can accelerate document analysis for your organization, book a demo or contact your NetDocuments representative.

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Review thousands of documents without leaving NetDocuments.

Accelerate document review with structured, source-linked results, all within the governance and security your organization already trusts.

What is NetDocuments tabular review?

Describe what you’re looking for in plain language, and tabular review extracts the information across your documents into a clean, structured table you can sort, filter, compare, and export.

 Ask “What is the termination notice period?” across two hundred vendor contracts, or “Does this agreement contain a change-of-control clause, and what triggers it?” across your acquisition-target agreements, and tabular review pulls every answer into one structured table in minutes.

Why is NetDocuments tabular review better than other AI document review tools?

Most AI review tools require exporting your documents to a separate platform to get an answer – which means your sensitive content leaves the environment where it’s governed, and whatever access permissions, data loss prevention rules, and information barriers your organization relies on no longer apply once the files leave. NetDocuments tabular review runs the extraction from inside NetDocuments, so those same governance controls are enforced automatically and your documents never leave the system you already trust. It’s also one of the few approaches where every answer is cited directly back to its source passage, so your team can verify a result as easily as opening the file itself – instead of trusting a chatbot response and hoping it’s right.

What kinds of projects is NetDocuments tabular review best suited for?

Any time your team needs to pull the same handful of data points out of a large set of documents. That includes comparing deal terms across a batch of agreements, running due diligence across hundreds of target-company contracts, abstracting a portfolio of leases, benchmarking license agreements side by side, building fact chronologies from a litigation production set, or reviewing HR agreements and policy acknowledgments at scale. If the work involves opening file after file to find the same type of information, tabular review turns it into a single prompt and one structured table.