The Financial Times has chosen Wordsmith as its enterprise legal AI platform, deploying it across its legal, compliance, and company secretarial function to drive efficiency and give the business faster access to legal support.

• The FT's legal team chose Wordsmith not as a point solution for a single task, but as the platform to handle the full breadth of their work, from contract review and drafting to compliance activities and legal support designed to extend across the business.

• With around 3,000 employees across 6 continents and a legal function covering  commercial, data privacy, and regulatory compliance from London to Hong Kong, the FT's legal team operates at a scale and complexity that demands more than point solutions.

A platform for the whole business, not just one problem

Wordsmith AI, the AI command center for in-house legal teams, has announced that the Financial Times has selected Wordsmith to power its in-house legal function.

The Financial Times is one of the world's most respected media organisations, trusted by millions of readers and businesses globally for authoritative, independent journalism. Its legal function spans legal, compliance, and company secretarial, supporting everything from commercial contracts and content rights to data privacy and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Like most in-house legal teams, the FT's lawyers were being pulled in every direction. Routine queries, contract reviews, vendor due diligence, work that consumed time and created bottlenecks, but didn't always need a lawyer to complete it. What the team needed wasn't just a tool to make individual lawyers faster. It was the infrastructure to handle routine work at scale, and the foundation to eventually bring legal closer to the flow of the business, giving commercial, procurement, and other teams faster access to legal support.

Following a structured pilot, the FT chose Wordsmith. Not for a single capability, but because it  could work across the full scope of the function, spanning legal, compliance, and CoSec, and provide the potential to extend that support into the business teams that need it most.

 "The Financial Times is one of those organisations where you just want to get it right. Their legal team came to us with a clear view of what they needed. Not a tool to speed up one task, but a platform to change how legal works across the whole organisation. That's a harder problem to solve, and it's exactly the one Wordsmith is built for. We're proud to be their partner."

Ross McNairn, CEO, Wordsmith AI

Powering legal across the business

Wordsmith will be deployed across the FT's legal, compliance, and company secretarial teams , supporting everything from contract review and drafting to multi-jurisdictional legal research and compliance. The platform's repository and agent functionality also creates the foundation for extending that support into the wider business, potentially giving teams in commercial, procurement, and beyond the ability to complete routine tasks like vendor due diligence and compliance FAQs through the tools they already use, with legal oversight built in.

"We chose Wordsmith because it's not just a tool for the legal team, it's a platform that powers our entire legal, compliance, and company secretarial function, and gives us the foundation to connect legal to the rest of the business. Unlike point solutions, Wordsmith gives us the infrastructure to embed AI into how we actually work, across every part of the legal function."

Dan Guildford, General Counsel, The Financial Times