From reducing contract review times to redefining legal operations, here's how OneAdvanced is using Wordsmith to scale smarter.

For most in-house legal teams, work still moves too slowly. Manual contract reviews. Repetitive compliance tasks. Limited visibility into risk. Despite growing expectations, legal teams often lack the tools and time to keep up.

OneAdvanced, a leading software provider with 2,000+ employees, saw an opportunity to change that by using Wordsmith's intelligent legal platform to speed up reviews, reduce low-value work, and free their team to focus on higher-impact tasks.

We sat down with General Counsel Xavier Langlois and Head of Legal Nicole Parker to hear how Wordsmith is changing the way their teams work and what it means for the future of legal.

A Clear Shift from Manual to Automated

Both Nicole and Xavier describe the same inflection point: the realisation that repetitive, manual legal work can and should be done differently.

Nicole recalls her first encounter with Wordsmith's technology:

"Is like having a trainee solicitor again or paralegal at your fingertips 24/7. I just thought, this is going to this is going to change our world."

For OneAdvanced, legal work is directly tied to revenue. Faster reviews mean faster deals. And every hour saved on admin is an hour reallocated to negotiation, client work, or strategic initiatives.

"We spend so much time doing repetitive tasks instead of revenue-generating work […]Wordsmith helps us flip that balance."

How Wordsmith Fits In

Wordsmith acts as an intelligent assistant for in-house legal teams. It can draft, redline, summarise, and route inbound legal work, always under human supervision, with controls that reflect each team's playbook and tolerance for risk.

At OneAdvanced, that means:

• Reviewing contracts in minutes, not hours

• Automating routine risk reviews

• Enabling legal to focus on higher-value advisory work

• Building a clear risk profile across deals and contracts

• Rolling out structured playbooks to let business users self-serve

"What used to take two, four, six hours, we'll be able to take 10, 20, 30 minutes or an hour with that human oversight review."

The Legal Tech Stack Is Changing

For OneAdvanced, Wordsmith isn't just a tool. It's becoming infrastructure.

Xavier explains it like this:

"I think AI will underpin and power all the workflows that the team does. It will power all of the routine tasks that team does. It will power things like legal research, drafting, and even how you support the business."

He believes in-house teams will soon be providing substantially more business growth and progress than we can imagine.

"So I think that's where the magic comes together and where, again, in a couple of years time, we should all, as legal teams be able to do a lot more with a lot less and drive and show a lot more value than was ever possible before."

Adoption Is About Frustration, Not Just Vision

Change management is often seen as a blocker for legal tech. But Nicole says Wordsmith's adoption was rapid, not because of big-picture ambition, but because the team was already tired of doing things the hard way.

"I really expected it to be a bit of a hesitance to make this change, but it just shows you how frustrated the team were at doing certain things.."

And as adoption spreads, legal's perception inside the business is starting to shift.

"I think there's very much still a view that legal is a cost center. But I think in this day and age, legal teams are true value drivers."

says Xavier

Legal, at the Speed of Business

OneAdvanced is already seeing the impact of Wordsmith in daily operations, but they're thinking much bigger.

Nicole sees a near-future where legal work is triaged, sorted, and often answered by the platform before it ever hits a lawyer's desk:

"I'm really excited about the fact that we are building the playbooks into Wordsmith which means that the business can self-serve and that to us, again, when we tell the commercial team that there's a world where they won't have to review every single contract, it's it just completely brightens everyone's day."

Xavier sees this as part of a broader industry shift, one that some teams will embrace, and others will resist at their own risk:

"I think general counsels should be terrified of not using it, as opposed to being worried or terrified of using it."

Human-in-the-Loop, by Design

One thing both leaders emphasise: Wordsmith doesn't replace lawyers. It enhances them.

Xavier calls it a tool that "kills writer's block", whether you're starting a policy, a clause, or a redline. Nicole compares it to a trainee or paralegal who never sleeps.

But in both cases, the technology doesn't get the final say. Humans still review, approve, and steer the work.

"As much as you want to be able to trust the tools, you always need that human oversight at the end, I don't think anyone should take any output as gospel just yet, or never for that matter."

Building Together

Both Nicole and Xavier point to Wordsmith's team as a key reason adoption went smoothly.

"they've come in really quickly and understood the problems that we have and they be open to discussing it with us. You know, brainstorming ideas with us and helping us."

says Nicole.

OneAdvanced even co-ran an internal 'legathon' with Wordsmith to get more of the legal team hands-on and experimenting.

"So it's it's the commercial team in the main that have started to utilize this. But as they are getting more and more used to it, they're becoming real champions for the change. And that is starting to make the rest of the team really want to look at it."

Final Thoughts

Legal teams have always struggled to keep pace with the rest of the business. But OneAdvanced is proving that with the right technology and the right partner, that no longer has to be the case.

Wordsmith is helping them automate the repetitive, accelerate the complex, and focus on what matters most: enabling the business to move faster, with less risk, and more control.