Until recently, Tim McDonald would have been quick to use the phrase “transformational” to describe the real estate platform developed by his team at law firm Lander & Roger-s. It allows staff at client companies in the construction industry to generate automated contracts, and to make use of options for workflow approvals, esignatures and evaluating the risks in any projects they will be undertaking.
“No one would have thought that processes this complex could be automated,” says McDonald, a partner at the Australian firm.
But the lawyers’ opinion of their platform changed in late 2022, when generative AI — the fast-emerging technology that can produce novel content such as text, graphics or literature — caught widespread attention.