Use Case: AI Smart Contracting
Apr 11, 2024

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The Challenge

Contracting officers and acquisition specialists across government manage thousands of documents throughout the procurement lifecycle—requirements development, solicitation, evaluation, award, post-award, and closeout. Each phase generates vast amounts of unstructured data: performance work statements, market research, evaluations, award synopses, and post-award performance reports.

These documents are distributed across proprietary systems and public portals, often in inconsistent or inaccessible formats. Existing GenAI contracting tools struggle to interpret complex tables, forms, and attachments—flattening key structures and losing contextual meaning. As a result, acquisition professionals still rely heavily on manual review, slowing procurement timelines and increasing compliance risk.

The Solution

Unstructured provides the data foundation for GenAI-enabled Smart Contracting. We ingest, normalize, and enrich unstructured contracting data across the full lifecycle—requirements, solicitations, modifications, correspondence, evaluations, and performance documentation—preserving structure, hierarchy, and metadata lineage.

We integrate securely with proprietary government contracting systems and sensitive data environments, while enabling the use of public procurement data streams. This ensures agencies can harness the full spectrum of contracting content without compromising data security or compliance.

By producing structured, explainable datasets, Unstructured allows GenAI copilots and automation tools to support market research, proposal evaluation, contract drafting, risk analysis, and supplier performance management. Unstructured’s technology already serves as the data preprocessing layer for many widely-known GenAI contracting assistants used across the Federal Government—demonstrating how high-fidelity data preparation enhances model accuracy and trust.

The Results

By enabling structured data ingestion and AI-ready analysis, Unstructured empowers contracting teams to:

  • Reduce document review and reporting time by 60% or more, according to independent research (IRJMETS, Feb 2025)
  • Conduct faster, data-grounded market research and supplier performance assessments
  • Generate compliant, traceable contracting documentation across the full acquisition lifecycle

What begins as an effort to automate document review becomes a foundation for intelligent, GenAI-powered contracting—where every phase of acquisition is informed by structured, explainable data.

Governance and Deployment

Unstructured supports flexible and secure deployment models, including on-premises, private-cloud, GovCloud, and in-VPC configurations. Agencies maintain full control over proprietary, competition-sensitive, and classified data while avoiding vendor lock-in.

Comprehensive metadata management, lineage tracking, and role-based access controls provide transparency and accountability across every workflow. Our platform’s open architecture enables interoperability with existing contracting systems and enhances the reliability of GenAI copilots that operate within them.

Mission Impact

Unstructured enables a new era of GenAI-powered contracting across government—where contracting professionals can accelerate procurement, strengthen compliance, and improve oversight through structured, explainable data. By bridging the gap between legacy contracting systems and AI innovation, Unstructured helps agencies reduce Procurement Administrative Lead Time (PALT), improve workforce efficiency, and deliver mission outcomes faster.