Lawyers are already sick of “AI slop”: thoughtless, unsubstantiated language and redlines generated by AI. AI “trained on legal documents” was supposed to improve this—but it didn’t work. Luckily, there’s an answer emerging: market-grounded contract review. AI is making market data more transparent than ever, and by using a new technique called “market grounding”, we can generate redline suggestions backed by statistical data that you can cite and inspect.

This will mark the end of “one-size-fits-all” AI systems which serve no one in particular: lawyers will have significantly more control over which jurisdictions, industries and deal sizes they want to use as a reference point.

We’re entering the era of data-driven negotiation, where lawyers will use data to win better deals.