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Magalu cuts its legal contract cycle by 89% with the netLex platform
From January 2024 to June 2026 average review time fell from 176 to about 20 business days, and monthly completed reviews rose from 8 to 444.
- Profession
- Lawyer
- Tools
- netLex, Review Agent, Creation Agent
- Source
- itforum.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- November 5, 2026
- Verified on
- November 6, 2026
See more: AI for lawyers
What they did
Magalu adopted netLex's contract management platform for its legal contract cycle. The tool supports review, drafting and workflow with AI agents under rules set by the legal team (the company calls this controlled autonomy): the Review Agent compares documents to a company playbook, flags risk clauses and suggests changes; the Creation Agent builds contracts from templates and accepts natural-language edits. Approvals outside a user's authority still go to a human owner.
How it went
According to IT Forum on 5 November 2026, from January 2024 to June 2026 Magalu's legal review cycle fell 89%, from 176 to about 20 business days, and monthly completed reviews rose from 8 to 444. In the same piece, Gupy (also a client) cut commercial addendum creation from 38 to 25 days, legal response time from 1.58 to 0.31 days, and raised addenda signed with no changes from 16% to 60%. The new Review and Creation agents were announced that day after co-creation with large companies.
Good to know
The percentages come from netLex platform operations reported in the article; the new agents launched alongside that coverage. Keep the historical cycle reduction separate from what the newest agents will still deliver.
The prompt
I am a lawyer at [company] and need to review this [type] contract [paste excerpts with no sensitive customer data]. Using this internal playbook [paste preferred rules and clauses], flag clauses that diverge, rate the risk (high, medium, low), suggest alternative wording aligned with the playbook and list what a human still needs to approve before signing. Do not approve anything the playbook reserves for another authority.
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