Kira evolves to meet rising demands for speed, accuracy, and trusted GenAI in contract intelligence

Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, introduces enhanced Kira upgrades, driving the next evolution of its AI‑powered contract intelligence solution. As deal activity increases and GenAI adoption accelerates across a growing market of legal tools, Kira helps legal teams analyze contracts at scale with the accuracy, governance, and collaboration required for high-stakes legal work. Trusted by 71% of the Fortune 100, Litera provides the proven, enterprise‑grade foundation Kira builds upon—delivering reliable, governed AI for the most demanding legal environments.

“While LLM technology has been a true game changer for contract review exercises, when LLM technology is paired with Kira’s proprietary AI models, we are seeing incredible levels of accuracy and precision from simple natural language prompts,” said Adam Ryan, Chief Product Officer at Litera. “The new iteration of Kira combines Litera’s 30 years of legal expertise and a decade of AI refinement to bring GenAI to legal work with accuracy that teams can trust and governance they can control. By pairing GenAI with proven AI models and flexible oversight, Kira provides contract intelligence firms can rely on for their most critical matters.”

In high-stakes contract review, generic and pure GenAI tools are missing legal nuance and requiring extensive prompt engineering to produce reliable results. Kira addresses these challenges through a hybrid AI approach that combines GenAI with proprietary AI models trained on over 1 million legal contracts. This delivers consistent 90%+ accuracy while enabling legal teams to reduce review time, manage risk with confidence, identify and prevent contract value leakage, scale contract review workflows, and meet governance requirements without compromising reliability.

Used across M&A, real estate, banking, finance, tax, and IP matters, Kira supports complex legal work where precision and consistency are essential. Law firms and legal teams are choosing Kira for:

• Consistent, multi-layer accuracy: Hybrid AI combines GenAI with tested proprietary models to deliver reliable extraction of clauses, answers, and insights for high-stakes contract review.
• Collaborative, easy‑to‑use workflows: Intuitive end‑to‑end workflows that simplify complex tasks—from organizing documents and tracking changes to managing reviews and exports—so teams can work together and scale effortlessly.
• Two Powerful Tools: Lito for Drafting and Comparing in Word, Kira for High‑Precision Analysis: Lito is included in the Kira subscription, and while each tool is fully standalone, they’re designed to complement one another depending on the task. Use Lito for fast, structured everyday reviews in Word, Outlook and web, and rely on Kira when the stakes are high and require deeply accurate, high‑precision contract analysis.
• Flexible governance controls addressing varying compliance mandates: Legal teams can enable or disable GenAI at the project level to meet firm, client, or regulatory requirements without losing extraction capabilities and accuracy.
• One Tech Partner, One Platform, One AI Agent: Leverage Kira together with Litera's complete ecosystem—drafting, transaction, knowledge management—to automate every step of a deal.

In 2026, Litera plans to expand Kira’s GenAI-powered capabilities to include: 1) Grid Chat for natural language querying across review data, 2) Generative Smart Fields with custom context grounded in verified extraction data, 3) A new wave of intelligent workflows designed to elevate both rapid‑turn analysis and large‑scale, collaborative reviews, while introducing forward‑looking enhancements that deepen how legal teams surface, interpret, and act on their review insight.

For more information on Kira, visit: https://www.litera.com/products/kira

About Litera

Litera is a leader of the legal AI revolution, on a mission to Raise The Bar™ for the legal profession by delivering transformational, globally-trusted solutions to law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide. The company's comprehensive suite of Generative and Agentic AI-driven tools powers and unifies workflows across three key pillars: Legal Workflow & Drafting, Firm Intelligence & Knowledge Management, and Business Development with next-generation Proactive Relationship Management (PRM) capabilities. Integrated directly into where lawyers work in Microsoft 365 and across devices, Litera enables legal professionals to effortlessly create exceptional work, win more business, and streamline operations. This is all accomplished with seamless governance and data security through AI, dramatically reducing context-switching. With more than 30 years of legal tech innovation, a majority of the world’s largest law firms as clients, and 2M+ daily users, Litera is the proven, trusted platform that takes modern legal practices to the next level. For more information, visit litera.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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The new iteration of Kira combines Litera’s 30 years of legal expertise and a decade of AI refinement to bring GenAI to legal work with accuracy that teams can trust and governance they can control.