Doc-Insights featured as leading AI technology in South Africa by Engineering News

Creamer Media’s Engineering News has featured Doc-Insights in an article discussing how AI technology is increasingly being adopted by South African legal firms.

In conversation with Deep Learning Café and Doc-Insights CEO, Dries Cronje, Schalk Burger of Engineering News describes how legal firms have traditionally been slow to adapt new technologies, fearing the devaluation in their services should technology be able to replicate or supersede some key tasks.

However, in recent years there has been a tidal shift in the profession towards a more technology savvy and open approach. Legals are waking up to the realisation that AI can assist their profession to fast track laborious and costly data processing.

An example in this regard is Doc-Insights’ natural-language processing semantic search engine. Using proprietary AI, Doc-Insights search navigates below the superficial layer of keyword, or like-for-like, searches and unearths insights and findings that are nuanced and conceptually linked. Conventionally, this would take a huge amount of time, many people armed with highlighters, and a mountain of paper files to do. Furthermore, with the Doc-Insights AI tool, smaller law firms can tackle larger cases that would have otherwise been out of the scope of their resources.

Read the full article on Engineering News.