Agiloft Launches Astra for Contract Review and Analysis

Agiloft has launched Astra, a contract AI product for review and redlining in Microsoft Word and analysis across existing agreements. Its free plan supports unlimited users, and Agiloft commits not to use customer contracts to train AI models. Alongside general availability, Agiloft added agents to Ask AI in its CLM to create and update contract records. The launch makes contract AI easy to try; the harder test is whether teams can trust its findings and control the actions that follow.

Astra entered early access on April 21, 2026, and became generally available on July 14, removing the waitlist. Teams can use it independently or alongside Agiloft CLM.

What Agiloft Launched

Agiloft Astra grew out of Screens, the contract review company whose acquisition Agiloft announced in January 2025. Screens founder Otto Hanson now runs it as VP of Product and GM. Screens already reviewed contracts in Word and analyzed contract sets in bulk. Under the Astra name, Agiloft has added a conversational assistant, organized portfolio work into Projects, moved to credit-based pricing, and aimed the product at legal, procurement, finance, and sales, covering both sides of signature: getting an agreement under negotiation into shape, and understanding what the organization has already signed up for.

• Four capabilities. Review and redlining in Microsoft Word, playbooks that capture company standards, Projects for analyzing groups of contracts, and Astra Assistant for plain-language questions across uploaded agreements.
• No CLM required. Teams can sign up and get going without implementing Agiloft CLM. Agiloft says new users reach meaningful use in about five minutes on average, though it hasn't published how it measures that.
• How data is handled. Under Agiloft's Clean Data Promise, customer contracts are never used to train AI models, and that applies to free accounts too. Agiloft's documentation names OpenAI as Astra's model provider, with AWS handling hosting. Agiloft's documentation lists the US, EU, Canada, and Australia as data residency options. Workspaces linked to Agiloft CLM follow the CLM's AWS region, while standalone customers should confirm their region with Agiloft.

Playbooks Set the Standard

Agiloft Astra's review work starts from a Screen, which is Agiloft's name for a playbook. Each Screen pairs the standards a contract should meet with the questions a reviewer wants answered. The same Screen can check a single agreement in Word or a whole set of contracts in the web app.

• Create a Screen or use a ready-made one. Teams can build playbooks with their own review rules, such as requiring Delaware law, or use expert-written Community Screens. A shared library lets them reuse rules and questions across Screens.
• Set acceptable alternatives. Each rule can have up to three approved fallbacks. If the preferred terms are not met, Astra checks these alternatives in order. Results show whether the contract meets the preferred terms, an approved fallback, or neither.
• See how the contract scores. Each review gets a score out of 100 showing how well the contract meets the Screen’s standards. In Agiloft CLM, review results can also guide approval workflows. The score covers only what the Screen checks, so it is not a complete assessment of contract risk.

Teams still need to agree on their preferred terms, approve acceptable alternatives, and keep Screens up to date. Astra helps apply those decisions consistently, but the instructions need to be clear.

Review and Redline in Word

Agiloft treats the Word add-in as the front door to Agiloft Astra. Review in Word is uncapped on every plan, the free one included, and it doesn't use any credits.

• Screens run inside the document. The reviewer picks a Screen and sees, standard by standard, how the agreement measures up, with each answer linked back to the wording it came from.
• Edits arrive as tracked changes. Suggested redlines and explanatory comments show up as ordinary tracked changes. Failed standards can be fixed one at a time or all together, and the reviewer decides what to accept, adapt, or reject.
• People keep the final say. Gilbane Development describes Astra as an extra set of eyes that speeds up its go or no-go calls on incoming contracts, with its own staff still owning the final review (vendor-published).

Analyze Contract Portfolios With Projects

Projects let teams look at many contracts at once instead of opening them one by one. Picture a spreadsheet: each row is a contract, and each column answers one question about it, such as the renewal date, the notice period, or whether the supplier can raise prices.

• How a Project starts. Users either run an existing Screen across a set of contracts or type in the questions they want answered, and Astra fills in the table.
• Answers can be checked. Results show the supporting contract language and reasoning, so users can verify an answer themselves.
• Quick questions without a table. For a one-off question, such as "which of these agreements renew automatically?", users can ask Astra Assistant in plain language instead of building a Project.

This is most useful when the business needs an answer that nobody set up the contract system to track. The limit is that Astra reads what the contract says, not what actually happened. Knowing a supplier owes a service credit for downtime doesn't tell you whether the downtime occurred; that still takes operational data.

How Agiloft Astra Connects to Agiloft CLM

General availability brought Agiloft Astra closer to Agiloft CLM, with CLM customers getting access through Agiloft's AI on the Inside package. The CLM supplies what Astra lacks on its own: contract records, approvals, and workflows that can act on what the review finds.

• Moving contracts between the two. CLM users can send contracts to Astra through a dedicated action or straight from an Ask AI search, and Screen results are written back to the contract record. Both products share one login.
• Agents that fill in records. The July release added two agents to Ask AI, the CLM's assistant. One reads an uploaded contract and creates a new record from it. The other updates key dates, status, or attachments when a user asks in plain language.
• Obligations become tasks. Obligations found in a contract can be turned into tasks and reminders for a named owner.
• Word reviews need the right starting point. Results from the Word add-in only flow back to the CLM if the user opened the document from the CLM first. Contracts uploaded straight into Astra stay in Astra.
• Who can see what. Each Agiloft knowledge base connects to exactly one Astra workspace, and Requester licenses don't include Astra. In this setup, users see only the documents and Projects they uploaded themselves.
• No custom agents yet. Customers can't yet build their own native agents in Agiloft. Agiloft plans to let them connect their own agents through MCP, and in the meantime offers Prompt Lab for adding AI steps to existing workflows.

These agents belong to the CLM, not to Astra, so a standalone Astra account comes with neither the CLM workflow nor its agents.

Availability and Pricing

Agiloft Astra runs on credits, but Word review never touches them on any plan.

• Free. Unlimited users, uncapped Word review, 1,000 credits a month, and up to three custom playbooks.
• Pro. From $120 a month on the annual plan, with credit tiers from 2,500 to 40,000 a month and unlimited custom playbooks.
• Advanced. Custom pricing for larger, cross-department use, adding single sign-on, enterprise controls, and dedicated onboarding.
• How credits get used. Uploading a document outside Word costs five credits, screening in the web app costs roughly one credit per standard per document, and assistant questions vary with the task. Credits refresh monthly, are shared across the workspace, and don't carry over.
• Inside Agiloft CLM. The core package includes Astra with uncapped Word review and a monthly credit allowance for everything else. Agiloft is keeping CLM seat licenses while it works out usage and consumption pricing for parts of its offering.

Teams that mostly work in Word may never reach a credit limit, while those planning regular analysis across large sets of contracts will use credits faster and should estimate a typical month of work before choosing a plan.

Early Customer Examples

Agiloft has published customer examples illustrating two core uses of Astra: reviewing individual agreements and analyzing contract portfolios.

• NetApp: faster review in Word. NetApp’s experts built Screens for specific agreement types and tested them with experienced users before rolling them out to the wider legal team. Agiloft’s September 2026 account reports seven live Screens. NetApp’s Legal Operations Manager says reducing first-pass redlining gives attorneys more time to negotiate larger deals.
• The Imagine Group: insight across a supplier portfolio. Already an Agiloft CLM customer, The Imagine Group used Astra to examine auto-renewal windows, price escalation clauses, and termination rights across its supplier agreements. Senior Corporate Counsel says the analysis produced a prioritized action list in less time than a manual review would have taken.

Our Take

This upgrade is more than a rebrand of Screens. Screens already handled contract review in Word and the web app, including bulk analysis. Agiloft Astra adds a conversational assistant, gives portfolio work a clearer home in Projects, and deepens the connection to Agiloft CLM, where review results can drive approvals, tasks, and records. That last step matters most. When Astra flags a risky clause in Word, that warning is easy to lose once the document is closed. When the same warning is saved to the contract record, the system can send the contract to the right approver and remind someone to follow up.

Projects are the feature most likely to be overlooked, and one of the most useful. Sooner or later, someone in the business asks a question like "which of our suppliers can raise prices this year?" Usually, that means a person opening contracts one by one to find out. With Projects, Astra builds a table with the answer for each contract and the contract language behind it. That makes contract analysis practical for procurement and finance teams, not just lawyers.

The new agents are a welcome step, and they also raise the bar. When AI only suggests edits, a lawyer still decides what happens. When an agent creates a contract record or changes a renewal date, that change flows into reminders, approvals, and reports and can set off other workflow rules in the CLM. Agiloft has built in sensible checks here: the agents ask users to confirm details before saving and respect each user's permissions. Teams should still look at how changes are logged and how easily they can be undone, because a record filled in quickly but wrongly just creates cleanup work later.

The link between Astra and the CLM works today, and Agiloft is clearly building toward a closer fit. For now, though, Astra is integrated with the CLM but remains a separate product, and Agiloft itself describes it as a sister product. It uses the CLM's users and login, but it has its own workspace and its own assistant, separate from the CLM's Ask AI, and Screen results are what pass back to the contract record. That shows up in a few details worth knowing when planning a rollout: Word reviews only flow back to the CLM when they start in the CLM, users in the connected setup see only their own uploads, and customers can't yet build their own agents. None of this is unusual for a first release, but it shapes how a team sets things up and how much switching between the two its users will do.

The free plan makes it easy to try Astra on real contracts. For review work, though, results will only be as good as the Screens behind them. NetApp's experience shows both sides of this: its experts built and tested each Screen before a wider rollout, and its main challenge since has been building new Screens fast enough to keep up with demand.

Before rolling Astra out more widely, buyers should:

• Test with their own Screens and contracts, including agreements with amendments and schedules, and count the time spent checking the output.
• Ask how the agents' changes are reviewed, logged, and reversed.
• Walk one contract from the CLM into Astra and back to confirm the results land on the right record for the right people.
• Estimate a typical month of credit use and check which plan includes the single sign-on and data controls they need.

Agiloft Astra is at its best when contract review leads straight to action. Teams that put real care into their Screens and keep a close eye on what the agents change will get the most out of it.