BlackBoiler

BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-driven contract review software automatically reviews and redlines contract drafts using Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, is today releasing a new feature, ContextAI, that enhances the markup by showing the user the reason for every redline.

Last year, I reported on BlackBoiler’s launch of Playbook Builder, a feature that helps…

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50, the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”

Today, Fastcase is…

BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automates the review and mark-up of inbound contracts right in Microsoft Word’s Track Changes, is today launching a redesigned platform with an enhanced user interface and a new tool that helps companies automate the creation of contract playbooks. 

The new platform can be used as a standalone product…

Whoa, what the f*&% just happened? This was a year few of us will ever forget. It brought untold hardships for many and unfamiliar challenges for all of us. To those who suffered losses of loved ones or illness, to those who lost their jobs or their homes, to any and all who suffered scars this year, I offer my heartfelt condolences. But in the world of legal technology and innovation, the phrase I heard often repeated this year was “silver lining.” It was a silver lining in the form of an accelerant. The challenge to modernizing the delivery of…



Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found BlackBoiler, whose AI-based technology…

BlackBoiler, the Arlington, Va., company whose AI-based technology automatically marks up draft contract language, has been issued two additional patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its AI-assisted contract review software.

That brings to seven the number of U.S. patent allowances issued for BlackBoiler’s software. It has additional patent applications pending…

BlackBoiler, a company whose AI-based technology automatically marks up draft contract language, said today that it has secured $3.2 million in funding from a group of strategic investors that includes agreement cloud company DocuSign and a lead investor whose identity was not disclosed.

Daniel Broderick, cofounder and CEO of the Arlington, Va.,…

Twenty-four finalists in eight categories were announced this morning by organizers of the inaugural American Legal Technology Awards, a new round of awards that will honor companies and individuals who are making a difference in law through technology innovation.

As I reported here in June, this is the first year of these…