Processed 5,000 contracts in our first month — here is what we learned

We just finished our first full month of production use and processed just over 5,000 contracts. Here’s the real, unfiltered recap.\n\n## By the Numbers\n- Documents processed: 5,127\n- Average processing time: 12 seconds per document\n- Accuracy (spot-checked 10% sample): 96.3% on key fields\n- Template types used: 7\n- Manual interventions needed: ~180 documents (3.5%)\n\n## What Went Well\n- The template system is incredibly powerful once you invest the setup time\n- Batch processing via the API was reliable — zero downtime in a month\n- Support team was responsive when we hit edge cases\n- Excel filling saved us from building a custom export pipeline\n\n## What Was Hard\n- First week was rough — lots of template tweaking\n- Some older scanned documents (pre-2010) had poor quality that affected accuracy\n- Had to build our own QA dashboard to manage the review workflow\n- Learning curve is real — budget 2 weeks for setup if you’re doing this at scale\n\n## Would We Do It Again?\nAbsolutely. The time savings alone justify it, and the accuracy is better than what our human team was achieving (we did a comparison). The ROI was clear by week 3.\n\nHappy to answer specific questions!

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Impressive numbers. What was your biggest bottleneck — processing itself or QA review?

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Definitely QA. Processing was fast and reliable. We built a simple review interface and got review time from 5 min to 1 min per flagged doc.

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