Kira

Score7.6 out of 10

27 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Litera Kira are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

User-Friendly Interface: Several users have praised Kira for its user-friendly interface, describing it as easy to use and intuitive. They appreciate how the interface allows for a smooth and efficient workflow, making their tasks more streamlined and productive.

Accurate Text Analysis: Reviewers have been impressed by Kira's powerful NLP and AI capabilities, which enable automatic detection of provisions in contracts and other documents. Users highlight the software's accuracy and speed in analyzing and extracting text. This feature has proven to be invaluable for legal professionals conducting thorough reviews.

Efficient Project Management: Many users commend Kira's project management features, finding them helpful in assigning tasks to multiple resources and managing projects effectively. The software streamlines project workflows, allowing teams to collaborate seamlessly while maintaining organization.

Reviews

21 Reviews

Kira for Single Document Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 14, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Practice Innovations department handles setup and manages all ongoing Kira projects. We currently use Kira to speed up high-volume contract reviews for clients and to organize our outside counsel policies.

Pros

UI/UX - tagging and naming feels much easier than you'd expect machine learning to feel
Accuracy - Kira's built-in models perform well out of the box
Assistance - Kira's support team gets back to me same day if I have a question

Cons

Missing functionality - rules; regex; that's the next step in our workflow we'd like to automate
Quick Study - I'd prefer a quick study window that I could personalize more. Alphabetical foldering means I usually have to search for my clauses because it's too hard to find them when scrolling. There are too many clauses in Quick Study that we've never used and can't edit. Why not have a separate built-in clause bank?
Renaming documents - people upload them with crazy names. I'd rather be able to change the name than have to determine whether it's worth the cost to re-upload the same document with a helpful name.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kira is great for extracting text from a document. It doesn't have legal judgment. It doesn't understand whether a clause should be in a contract, but it can tell you if it's there or not.

Verified User

Analyst (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Fantastic product, highly customisable, highly recommended!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 3, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is almost exclusively used as a due diligence tool at my firm. The main users are trainees, junior associates and our ALT teams in Belfast and Australia. As far as I'm aware, it is mainly used for M&A transactions.

Pros

Automated review of documents which are in a similar form.
Use of smart fields/filters.
Customisation.

Cons

Integration with other providers.
Desktop launch.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kira is a great due diligence tool and can be well utilised on both large and small transactions. It also has good application if you are looking to compare multiple documents against a model form document or market standard templates. Kira is less useful if you are looking to review emails (e.g. as part of a disclosure exercise); or if your review involves non-Latin based script languages.

Verified User

Employee in Legal (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Kira: Making review easier

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 2, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Kira is used across our international business by any practice group that needs to undertake document review and due diligence. We use Kira to improve the quality and efficiency of our document review process.

Pros

Good for quickly getting to the relevant part of the document in the English language, the smartfields are accurate.
Handles large scale review well with an excellent UI and helpful project management features.
Cloud-based platform handles multiple simultaneous reviewers efficiently and easily.
Ability to self-train smart fields is a definite advantage.

Cons

Inability to relabel smart fields to suit the review process means it is hard to align it to particular projects (e.g. it would be useful to relabel the "Assignment" smart field as "Is the contract assignable?")
Not enough non-English smart fields.
Needs the ability to resell user-trained smart fields in a marketplace.
Output is not customizable enough.
Built-in analysis tools are useful but a little basic.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kira is particularly useful in large scale review exercises with multiple reviewers across different departments. Its benefits scale with volume.

Verified User

Manager in Legal (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Brazilian Perspective

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a Brazilian law firm. As such, Kira is not able to be used in the majority of our work out-of-the-box. In addition to training Kira to handle Portuguese documents, we are already using Kira in M&A Transactions and to read and extract certain information from legal certificates (in both cases limited use only).

Pros

Reading M&A Contracts
User-friendly interface
Simple training process

Cons

Develop other languages out-of-the-box
Customize options to extract information
More interactions with VDR providers with need to download documents

Likelihood to Recommend

Being a non-English-speaking user, although Kira is a very useful tool and has great potential, having to invest many hours in training before being able to effectively use the software in real-life application is by far the greatest drawback. If that initial barrier is surpassed, Kira is very useful for any contract-based law practice. It is not very useful for Brazilian litigation standards.

George de Magalhães Carvalho

Lawyer in Legal at Lobo & de Rizzo Advogados (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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My review of Kira

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Complete an initial review of standard contracts for certain important terms of the contract, and to extract those terms into a visually appealing document.

Pros

It does what you tell it to do. By that I mean you have to train it to find relevant passages in a contract. Once you do that, it does it well, but that process requires a lot of time to train and many examples.
It does it over and over again: Once trained, it can repeat the process ad infinitum.
It can learn: When you review a document and realize it either highlighted something it shouldn't have or didn't highlight something it should have found, you can alert Kira to that correction and it learns from that information.

Cons

Finding that many contracts aren't that 'standard' and if not standard, it is impossible to find enough examples to train with
Many contracts have handwritten data, especially the key terms that it cannot read.
Sometimes the contracts have attachments with important terms, we find that harder to train.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great: Standardized machine legible contract reading and extraction. Not so great: non-standardized terminology or illegible or handwritten documents.

Verified User

Partner in Professional Services (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Kira goes international: difficulties of implementing Portuguese smart fields

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our firm has used Kira so far mostly for training it to read contracts in Portuguese. We have achieved good accuracy in some clauses so far and have used the software in a few due diligences for M&A transactions. Kira was used only in controlled scenarios and by people that are part of our project on implementation.

Pros

Good out of the box clauses in english with great accuracy.
Good costumer services, always with fast and efficient responses.
Easy to use, not requiring much training for using.

Cons

Kira doesn't have out of the box clauses in other languages.
High prices, especially considering the market in Latin America.
Capacity of reading other types of documents, such as certificates.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for law firms focused on M&A in North America, Canada, or the UK. For firms outside English speaking countries, I believe Kira can be too expensive to be used, once it requires that the firm itself teaches Kira how to read in their language. In our experience, once Kira is ready to go it can be an extremely important and useful asset. However, it takes a lot of time to get it ready to go. And it can make Kira very expensive in countries where English is not the primary language.

Verified User

Professional in Legal (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Kira - Good doc review platform

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it broadly across the whole organisation, however some teams use more than others (Commercial and Real Estate). We use it for business as usual document reviews, as well as some larger projects focussed around diligence exercises and/or contract reviews. It solves the problem of inefficient doc review tools / manual processes being carried out by junior members of the firm. Speeds teams up a lot on that first level of review.

Pros

UX - very easy to use and train people on.
OCR and doc search is well organised and functional.
Comparison feature really good.
Project management features make review teams easier to manage.
Built in provisions really useful for standard documents.

Cons

Training new provisions can sometimes be a bit unwieldy.
Search across all documents sometimes too over inclusive (in documents it is great).
Inability to rename folders and files in the platform.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited - standard reviews of similar document sets. BAU work where similar documents are repeatedly reviewed. Any large scale review really, just as long as it is managed properly and the limitations are explained.
Less appropriate - Looking for nuanced or complex information that patterns are less likely to be found in. Like doing a general provision for 'Restrictions.'

Verified User

Advisor in Legal (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

A great AI tool with some limitations, a great company to work with

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

By a number of departments, but not all. To speed up due diligence carried out by lawyers and to improve accuracy and project management.

Pros

Intuitive system: easy for users to pick up.
Constantly improving product with regular publication of new pre-trained fields.
Excellent training videos and online help available, plus a knowledgeable help desk.
Strong account management with account managers who really do know the product and their customers.

Cons

Extension of the tool so that it is not just extraction of clauses, for example, some products can re-draft contracts once areas for change have been identified.
Direct link with iManage.
Ability to change name of document once uploaded, which is not currently possible.
Ability to change the name of pre-trained fields to better match client requirements.
Extension of the tool so that if a certain clause is found a pre-written shorter summary is inputted.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best used for more standardized documents. It can sometimes struggle to read poorly drafted documents because of a lack of pattern in them.

Verified User

Team Lead in Legal (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Kira Review

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used by attorneys in our transactional practices on select projects. It helps organize incoming workflow and enables us to manage tasks by spreading the work across multiple resources. Additionally, it streamlines the process of document review by automatically detecting provisions. It reduces the time typically used to do the same tasks manually.

Pros

Automatic detection of provisions
Ability to assign tasks to multiple resources
Easy to use interface

Cons

Significantly lacking different levels of permissions for user accounts
Significantly lacking alerting and notification mechanism
It is not competitively priced in comparison to other platforms that offer the same technology

Likelihood to Recommend

Kira Systems is suited for projects that:
Require quick turnaround
When the typical size is 50 to 500 documents
Where the typical scope is focused on generic provisions

Ali Shahidi

CInO in Professional Services at Sheppard Mullin (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Kira offers an in-depth analysis of contracts and other documents.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ENSafrica uses Kira Systems for our contract and document review projects in order to improve efficiency, speed, and accuracy. Kira is also used to reduce risk and costs in regard to our contract and document review. Kira is open for usage to our entire organization. Kira is mostly used by our Corporate Commercial departments regarding, inter alia, due diligence investigations.

Pros

Kira quickly identifies, analyzes, compares, and extracts text in contracts and other documents.
Kira has project management features.
Kira has hyperlink features.
Kira has exporting features.

Cons

Not having the ability to analyze handwritten or less legible content.
Kira should bestow clauses that cover jurisdictions globally.
The structure of Kira could improve. For example Worksheets could follow Document List.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kira systems is well suited for the review of contracts and documents relating to due diligence, compliance, labor law matters, lease abstraction, finance and project management, amongst others. Kira is also well suited for comparisons of contracts and documents, a tool our Firm has also utilized. Furthermore, Kira is well suited for exports and project management. Kira is less appropriate for languages such as Mandarin or Arabic. Kira is also less appropriate when dealing with contracts or documents containing less legible content. Though our Firm has not requested training (quick study), the element of training Kira and the pursuit of documents in order to train Kira can also be seen as a hurdle.

Coleta Wesso

Attorney in Legal at ENSafrica (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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