2025 may prove to be the year when AI tools become widely used daily by companies of all sizes. A great example is Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant, which now offers new capabilities to help businesspeople quickly and easily understand a single contract and compare multiple contracts.
Many professionals already use Adobe Acrobat to review and sign agreements with a click of a mouse or a tap of a phone. With contract intelligence now built into Acrobat AI Assistant, the full contract workflow is getting easier and faster than ever before — from start to signature.
Acrobat AI Assistant helps people like Andrzej Lewandowski get quick, straightforward explanations for complex contract language. Lewandowski, a bilingual pediatric speech therapist in a small private practice, also uses the tool to generate summaries and navigate to key clauses with one click.
Lewandowski feels more confident by using the tool to improve his understanding of important agreement terms. “I love asking Acrobat AI Assistant to summarize fees, penalties, and key due dates in contracts we have with software developers and educational institutions,” he says. “The minute you click on AI Assistant you get helpful prompt suggestions.”
The tool speeds up Lewandowski’s contract reviews so he can spend more time with patients. “By asking Acrobat AI Assistant to create summaries of lengthy agreements for me, I save 15 to 20 minutes in review time per document,” Lewandowski says.
Effortless comparisons of multiple contracts and prior versions
Melissa Arbesman, dental industry knowledge leader and consultant, appreciates using the tool to compare multiple contract documents, checking for small changes or oversights that might be hard to spot manually. “Acrobat AI Assistant makes it easy to ask, ‘What’s different?’ and compare previous versions of a contract,” Arbesman says.
Arbesman chats with the tool to quickly organize and view key comparisons at a glance. “Using Acrobat AI Assistant to ‘show me the differences between contracts in a table format’ is phenomenal for helping me understand my risk exposure,” she says. “It’s a lot faster to get an instant head-to-head comparison on key contract terms versus comparing manually and getting slowed down by legal boilerplate wording.”
As a daily user of Acrobat for managing her company’s master service agreements and statements of work, Arbesman feels safe using Acrobat AI Assistant. “I feel confident about privacy and security with technology backed by Adobe,” Arbesman adds.
Austin Bailey, who oversees compliance and operations at a real estate development firm, has seen substantial time savings since adding the tool to his contract review process. “Using Acrobat AI Assistant to review contracts saves me more time than I expected! I used to allow 30 to 45 minutes per contract for an initial review. Now I can do it in 8 to 10 minutes, simply by clicking in on the key summary bullet points that AI Assistant brings to my attention,” Bailey says. “The compounding time savings is huge. It will pave the way for our company’s growth.”
Adobe Acrobat core and AI Assistant capabilities help accelerate vendor agreement reviews. “Using Acrobat AI Assistant to compare agreement versions is a game-changer. It’s easy to spot differences in proposals among the large number of contractors we work with for important property development steps like surveying land and moving dirt,” he says. “With Acrobat AI Assistant, we can more quickly come to terms with vendors and get new neighborhoods springing to life faster.”
For Bailey, trust factors heavily in choosing Acrobat AI Assistant to improve contract workflows. “Acrobat has always had important security and compliance controls baked in. That’s why our company handles all contracts as PDFs,” Bailey says.
Contracts, simplified
Let’s face it — for most people, contracts are a pain. They’re important and essential, but they’re also usually complex, boring to read, and hard to parse. By using the analytic powers of the new Acrobat AI Assistant experience, available on desktop, web, and the Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app, professionals can focus on the most important contract terms. And that leaves them more time for the work they really enjoy doing.
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Acrobat AI Assistant can provide helpful insights but should not be used as a substitute for professional legal advice.