Litera Expands Kira’s AI Capabilities with Hybrid Gen AI/Proprietary Approach to Contract Review

Litera is significantly enhancing Kira, its AI-powered contract review platform, with new capabilities designed to address the growing demands for speed, accuracy and trusted generative AI in contract review work, the company announced today.

The enhanced version of Kira combines gen AI with proprietary AI models trained on over one million legal contracts to deliver what Litera says is a consistent 90% or greater level of accuracy in contract analysis.

This hybrid approach is designed to address limitations that legal teams have encountered with purely gen AI-based tools, which often lack legal nuance and require extensive prompt engineering.

“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, Litera’s chief product officer.

Key Features and Capabilities

Litera says that the upgraded Kira platform offers several features tailored to high-stakes legal work:

• Hybrid AI accuracy. The platform combines gen AI with tested proprietary models to extract clauses, answers and insights for complex contract review matters.
• Collaborative workflows. Kira provides end-to-end workflows that simplify tasks from organizing documents and tracking changes to managing reviews and exports.
• Integrated tools. Kira subscriptions include Lito, Litera’s drafting and comparison tool. While each operates as a standalone product, they are designed to complement each other, Litera says, with Lito providing fast, structured everyday reviews in Word, Outlook and web environments, and Kira offering high-precision contract analysis for higher-stakes matters.
• Flexible governance. Legal teams can enable or disable gen AI at the project level to meet specific firm, client or regulatory requirements while maintaining extraction capabilities and accuracy.
• Platform integration. Kira integrates with Litera’s broader ecosystem covering drafting, transaction management and knowledge management to automate deal workflows.

Plans for Further Expansion

Litera, which acquired Kira in 2021, said it plans to expand Kira’s gen AI capabilities throughout 2026 with several new features. Among them:

• Grid Chat for natural language querying across review data.
• Generative Smart Fields with custom context grounded in verified extraction data.
• New intelligent workflows for both rapid-turn analysis and large-scale collaborative reviews.
• Enhanced capabilities for how legal teams surface, interpret, and act on review insights.

Market Position

Kira is used across multiple practice areas including M&A, real estate, banking, finance, tax, and intellectual property matters. Litera says that Kira is used by 71% of companies on the Fortune 100.

Founded in 2011, the original Kira platform pioneered the use of AI in contract analysis.