How Sage brought AI-native legal support to its legal team

During a structured multi-week trial across several legal systems, Sage's Legal team realised immediate value, including the ability to accelerate time intensive legal work through powerful AI and reducing reliance on certain other costly third party resources.

Sage joins the Financial Times, BT, Safelite, and a growing roster of enterprise legal teams that have chosen Wordsmith as the platform for their legal function.

One platform. Ten thousand employees

Wordsmith AI, the AI platform for in-house legal teams, has announced that Sage, a global leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid-sized businesses, has selected Wordsmith to support its Legal function globally. Sage has more than 10,000 employees worldwide. Its Legal team supports complex legal and regulatory needs across regions including the UK, North America, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Australia and Asia. The team needed a platform that could manage the volume and complexity of legal activity across multiple legal systems and languages, whilst leveraging Sage’s existing technology infrastructure. Following a structured evaluation and a six-week trial, Sage chose Wordsmith.

The trial that made the decision easy

• 2 weeks: From trial completion to broad team adoption
• Reduced reliance on certain other external resources
• Reduced external translation costs

"The best in-house legal teams are building systems that scale. Not just faster lawyers - agents that understand deal history, learn from every contract, and deploy legal intelligence directly into the workflows where the business actually operates. Sage is building exactly that. Every deal they close makes the system smarter. Every workflow they deploy brings legal closer to the business. That is what the future of in-house legal looks like, and we are proud to be the platform they are building it on."

Ross McNairn, CEO, Wordsmith

Powering legal across the business

Wordsmith is deployed across Sage's entire Legal function worldwide. Supporting multi-jurisdictional and multi-lingual legal delivery.

"Wordsmith has the potential to transform how our Legal team works. We're already seeing early evidence of our return on investment. But what excites me most is where this goes. Our talented Legal team give us a genuine competitive advantage, Wordsmith can help them unlock even more value at velocity. We're only just getting started."

Vicki Bradin, General Counsel

From research to live in weeks

Sage's legal team found Wordsmith through their own research and booked a demo soon afterwards. No months of implementation. No change management overhead. No gap between buying and getting value. Built for the way Enterprise legal teams actually work.

About Wordsmith

Wordsmith is the AI platform for in-house legal departments. The platform gives legal teams the infrastructure to manage all their work in one place, covering intake, contracts, research, compliance, and governance, and to extend legal support across the business without adding headcount. Wordsmith deploys directly into the tools teams already use, so legal stays in the loop without becoming the bottleneck. Customers include Belron, Canva, BT, Financial Times, Next, and Deliveroo.