From Review to Report: Introducing the First-Draft Red Flags Report
AI Summary
Kira’s latest release brings AI contract review closer to the finished report. Three new generative smart field types (Yes/No, Multiple Choice, and Extraction) return structured answers or verbatim excerpts from project documents. Grid Chat opens cited documents in one click, and a new skill for Lito, Litera’s award-winning Legal AI agent, creates a first draft of a red flags report from a Kira or Lito Grid export.
TL;DR
- Three new generative smart fields return Yes/No results, Multiple Choice answers, or verbatim excerpts from project documents
- Grid Chat draws on more of a project’s data, and selecting a cited document opens it directly in the Document Viewer
- A new Lito skill creates a first draft of a red flags report from a Kira or Lito Grid export, a step toward more connected workflows
Reviewing hundreds of contracts before a deal closes shouldn’t mean copying clauses into a spreadsheet at midnight. And a fast AI answer only helps if a lawyer can check it. When a response arrives without a clear path back to the document it came from, the review isn’t finished. It just moves to a second pass, and the time the team hoped to save goes to re-checking.
Kira connects review to reporting, turning structured, source-backed findings into insights legal teams can review, verify, and act on.
How Do You Ask More Specific Questions of Contracts with Smart Fields?
Choose the generative smart field that matches the answer you need: a Yes or No result, the best-matching option from a fixed set, or the contract’s exact words. The new fields sit alongside a team’s existing smart fields in the Field Library and Quick Study.
| Field type | What it returns | Example diligence question |
|---|---|---|
| Yes/No | A Yes or No result | Does this contract include a change of control provision? |
| Multiple Choice | The option that best matches each document, from a fixed set | Does this contract permit assignment, require consent, or prohibit it? |
| Extraction | Verbatim excerpts from the source document | Find the termination clause in this contract? |
Reviewers can preview the results of any of the new field types against project documents before the field is applied to a worksheet, just like existing Insight fields. A new Generative/Trained filter helps users narrow the field list according to how answers are produced.
How Does Grid Chat Help Teams Ask Sharper Questions and Check the Answers?
Most review questions aren’t about a single document. They’re about the project: which agreements fall under a certain document type, which carry a given tag, which is still waiting for review. Grid Chat now draws on the smart fields, folders, document types, document tags, and review status a team has already set up. A plain-language question can reflect how the project is organized, and the answer can speak to both content and status.
When a response cites a document, selecting it opens directly in the Document Viewer. The reviewer goes from the answer to the contract in one click, so checking the source becomes part of the flow and not a separate hunt.
The results are also easier to use. A Grid Chat table copied into Word arrives as a formatted table, not raw markdown, so findings can move into a memo or an email without reformatting by hand. Behind the scenes, Grid Chat works through larger data batches more efficiently and applies deeper reasoning to questions that take more than one step to answer.
How Do You Create a Red Flags Report from a Due Diligence Grid?
Export the Grid from Kira or Lito, then use the new Lito skill to turn it into a first draft of a red flags report on the target’s commercial contracts. The report is designed to flag deal-relevant items such as consents, termination rights, and inherited liabilities.
Reviewing a target’s contracts is only half the job, because the findings still must become a report. The steps:
- Review the target’s commercial contracts in a Kira or Lito Grid
- Export the Grid
- Use the new Lito skill to create a first draft of the red flags report from the export
- Read the draft against the source contracts and refine it for the deal
The skill is also a step towards a more connected workflow. The Grid, a team that has already built, becomes the starting point for the report, so the work of review connects directly to the work of reporting across Kira and Lito.
What Else Helps Teams Get Started and Keep Their Work?
Kira now opens a redesigned homepage intended to make the starting point clearer for both new and returning users. Ready-to-use worksheet templates are surfaced and mapped to common workflows, so teams can understand the available options and begin working more quickly. The Imports page, side navigation, worksheet dialogs, text boxes, chips, alerts, and the Create Generative Smart Field panel also have updated styling. These updates are visual only.
Why Does Connected Contract Review Matter for Deal Teams?
Kira ships with 1,400 contract review fields trained on 45,000 lawyer hours across 50 jurisdictions, and the new generative fields sit beside them. Lito is included for Kira customers at no additional charge. Connected workflows are part of the answer: from questions in the Grid to a first-draft report, the work moves between Kira and Lito.
The payoff isn’t measured in saved hours alone. Time reclaimed from first drafts and manual work returns to judgment, advice, and the client relationships that win the next matter. That is Return on AI (RoAI), Litera’s framework for measuring efficiency, deeper client trust, and the capacity to take on more work from the same investment.
See How It Works
Let’s talk about what it means to your team. If you’re already a Kira customer, reach out to success@litera.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the new generative smart fields do in Kira?
Kira adds three generative smart field types. Yes/No returns a Yes or No result, Multiple Choice selects the best-matching option from a fixed set, and Extraction retrieves verbatim excerpts from source documents.
What is Extraction in Kira, and how is it different from a summary?
Extraction retrieves verbatim excerpts from source documents instead of a summarized response. It is designed for exhaustive excerpt retrieval grounded in the document’s exact language.
Can you chat with a contract review grid in Kira?
Yes. Grid Chat answers natural-language questions about project content and status. Selecting a cited document in response opens it directly in the Document Viewer.
How do you create a red flags report from a due diligence grid?
Export a Kira or Lito Grid, then use the new Lito skill to create a first draft of a red flags report. The draft is designed to flag deal-relevant items such as consents, termination rights, and inherited liabilities.
Is Lito included for Kira customers?
Yes. Lito is included for Kira customers at no additional charge.
Does the visual refresh change existing workflows or data?
No. The updates to the homepage, Imports page, side navigation, dialogs, and panels are visual only, so existing workflows and data are not changed.
