Legal & Government AI for the GCC

Novatelia built an AI tool for a legal team that takes lengthy contracts and produces a summary of key terms (parties, obligations, out-clauses, dates) in seconds. Lawyers use it to rapidly understand new contracts or compare different versions. In a pilot, this tool cut review time by 50% for standard contracts, allowing the legal team to focus on negotiation points rather than rote extraction of terms.

In a litigation support scenario, we deployed an AI to sift through millions of documents and emails to find relevant evidence during discovery. The AI ranked documents by relevance to the case based on examples given by the attorneys. It surfaced an important email thread that humans hadn’t yet flagged, contributing significantly to the case strategy. This showcases how AI can augment lawyers in handling big data volumes with higher recall and speed.

As mentioned, our government services chatbot in a Middle Eastern country handles tens of thousands of queries in English and Arabic. It provides information on procedures (license renewals, public program eligibility), schedules appointments, and even helps fill out forms through an interactive Q&A. Since launch, citizen satisfaction with getting information has improved (fewer people needing to visit offices for basic inquiries), and human staff are free to tackle more complex requests.

We created an AI system for a government financial regulator that ingests transaction reports from banks and uses anomaly detection to flag potential violations of regulations (like unusual trading patterns that might indicate insider trading, or compliance lapses in customer data reporting). This helped the regulator move from random audits to a risk-based approach, focusing on the institutions or transactions the AI found most irregular. Early successes included identifying a series of transactions that breached limits and would have gone unnoticed for longer under manual review.