Yes. AI can read contracts and answer questions about them, provided every answer points back to the exact document it came from. Without that traceability, an AI reading contracts is a liability, not a tool.
How it works in Butterflai
Upload contracts, agreements, and policies (PDF, Word, and more). Butterflai parses them with AI document intelligence and indexes their content semantically, so a question finds the relevant clause even when it uses different words than the document. Ask “what is the notice period in the supplier agreement” or “which contracts mention price revisions”, and the answer cites the files it used. You can also mention a specific file to scope the question to exactly that document.
What makes it safe for business use
- Source citations: every document answer shows which files it drew from, so a human can verify the clause in seconds.
- Permission-aware: a contract is readable by the AI only for users the file is shared with. Access is enforced at retrieval time.
- No training on your documents: your files are not used to train AI models.
- Documents plus data: because contracts sit next to your synced business records, you can connect them: “we agreed volume discounts in this contract; did our order volumes actually reach the threshold?”
More on traceability under Explainable AI, and on data protection under Security. Get a demo.