Agiloft makes Astra contract AI generally available

Agiloft has made its Astra contract AI platform generally available, opening it to legal, procurement, finance and sales teams without a waitlist.

The free plan includes unlimited users and uncapped access to Astra's Microsoft Word add-in, allowing organisations to upload contracts for analysis, redlining and term extraction without upfront cost.

Astra was previously offered through an early access programme. Agiloft said users are reaching meaningful use in an average of five minutes, which it attributed to the product's standards-based review and redlining functions.

These functions let users test contract language against internal playbooks and risk thresholds using generative AI. The system can identify risk, flag non-compliant provisions, extract key terms, generate redlines and answer questions across a single agreement or a wider contract portfolio.

The release also expands links between Astra and Agiloft's contract lifecycle management software. Through the Ask AI assistant, CLM users can identify contracts in their repository and send them directly to Astra for analysis.

Agiloft has also added two new AI-driven workflows to its CLM product. AI-Assisted Contract Intake extracts structured data from an uploaded contract and uses it to create a contract record. Guided Contract Updates lets users amend fields such as key dates, contract status and attachments through plain-language prompts.

Broader access

The move reflects a wider push among software suppliers to embed AI tools directly into legal and commercial workflows rather than position them as separate specialist systems. Contract review has become one of the more active areas for this trend because many organisations hold large archives of supplier and customer agreements but lack a practical way to interrogate them at scale.

Astra is aimed at teams handling supplier contracts, customer agreements and other sensitive documents. Every Astra account also operates under what Agiloft calls its Astra Clean Data Promise, under which customer contract data is not used to train AI models.

That assurance addresses a persistent concern in legal and procurement settings, where organisations have been cautious about exposing confidential contract terms to third-party AI systems. Data handling has become a key point of competition as vendors try to persuade in-house teams to adopt automated review tools.

Agiloft framed the launch around operational pressure on contract owners as tariff changes, supply chain disruption and shifting vendor relationships create new areas of exposure. In such conditions, access to renewal dates, pricing clauses, termination rights and compliance language can have direct commercial consequences.

Otto Hanson, Vice President of Product and General Manager of Astra at Agiloft, said the product was built to close a long-standing gap for professionals handling contracts.

"Most professionals responsible for contracts within their organization have been working without the tools that would let them do their jobs properly," Hanson said. "Astra was built to close that gap, giving professionals the tools they need, and giving the business the data and intelligence it needs to make faster, more confident decisions. When new users are getting value within five minutes, you stop asking whether the product works and start asking how fast you can get it in front of everyone who needs it."

Use cases

Agiloft outlined several examples of how organisations are using the software. A procurement team might scan vendor agreements to identify contracts nearing auto-renewal and assess the financial exposure tied to each one. A compliance team could review a portfolio against a new rule and isolate missing or non-compliant terms. Finance teams could search for price-escalation clauses, while sales operations could examine customer contracts for non-standard discounting.

One customer described using Astra to analyse a large supplier portfolio. The example points to a common use case for in-house legal teams that need to move beyond individual document review and assess trends across many contracts at once.

"We already had Agiloft running our contract operations; what Astra changed was what we could ask of that data," said Rick Lackner, Senior Corporate Counsel at The Imagine Group. "When your practice spans SaaS agreements, multi-million-dollar equipment transactions, and supplier contracts, any portfolio-wide analysis is a significant undertaking. We needed visibility into auto-renewal windows, pricing escalation clauses, and termination rights across a large supplier portfolio. With Astra, we surfaced that information and came out with a prioritized action list in a fraction of the time it would have taken us to do it manually."

The launch gives Agiloft a broader route into contract AI at a time when legal operations, procurement and finance teams are under pressure to carry out more portfolio analysis with fewer manual steps. By making the entry tier free and linking it more closely to its CLM software, the company is betting that easier access will help turn contract data into a more routine source of business intelligence.