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AI-Powered Document Search Platform

A platform that uses LLMs to search, summarise and extract insights from large document repositories — built for a legal team that was spending hours finding the right clause.

Year
2025
Engagement
AI search platform, end to end
Focus
Generative AI, AI/ML
Status
Delivered
AI-Powered Document Search Platform — architecture overview

01 — The problem

Thousands of contracts and filings, searchable only by exact keyword. Lawyers knew what they were looking for but not the words it was written in, so research meant opening document after document.

02 — Our solution

Hybrid search that combines keyword precision with semantic similarity, plus LLM summaries and key-term extraction on every result. Answers link back to the exact passage, so every claim can be checked against the source.

Architecture

How it works

The pipeline, step by step — from the first input to the final output.

  1. 01

    Ingest

    Documents are parsed, chunked and indexed with both keyword and vector representations.

  2. 02

    Hybrid search

    Elasticsearch keyword scoring combined with embedding similarity for meaning-based matches.

  3. 03

    Summarise

    GPT-4o summarises results and extracts parties, dates and obligations.

  4. 04

    Cite

    Every answer links to the passage it came from, with access controls per matter.

Features

What we built

Semantic document search
Auto-summarisation
Key-term extraction
Secure user management
Intuitive dashboard
Impact

The outcomes

01

80% reduction in document review time

02

Improved accuracy of legal research

03

Secure, matter-level access controls

Engineering notes

Challenges we solved

Trust needs citations

Legal users won't accept an answer they can't verify, so every summary is grounded in and linked to its source text.

Technology stack

PythonNext.jsOpenAI GPT-4oLangChainElasticsearch

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