Litera enhances Kira with next generation capabilities for AI contract intelligence

Litera, a global leader in legal AI technology solutions, is offering enhanced Kira upgrades, driving the next evolution of its AI powered contract intelligence solution that helps legal teams analyze contracts at scale with the accuracy, governance, and collaboration required for high-stakes legal work.

“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.”

According to the company, Kira provides a hybrid AI approach that combines GenAI with proprietary AI models trained on over 1 million legal contracts—delivering consistent 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:

• Grid Chat for natural language querying across review data.
• Generative Smart Fields with custom context grounded in verified extraction data.
• 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 about this news, visit www.litera.com.