Choosing Between Document Interact and Document Search

After selecting the documents to analyse, the next step is to choose how Lexlegis should work with them. This choice determines not only the type of result you receive, but also how follow-up questions behave.

You can choose between:

• Document Interact for insights, analysis, and inference
• Document Search for locating exact information in documents

Your selection directly controls how Lexlegis processes documents and responds to follow-up queries.

If you are new to Interact, start with Using Interact to Analyse Documents for an overview of the full workflow.

1. Document Interact

Document Interact uses AI-powered reasoning to analyse your documents and generate structured insights.

1.1 What Document Interact Does

• Interprets clauses and provisions
• Summarises key risks, obligations, and patterns
• Draws inferences across multiple documents
• Answers analytical, comparative, and contextual questions

This option is designed for understanding and evaluation, not just extraction.

1.2 Use Document Interact When You Want To

• Identify risks or red flags in contracts
• Compare clauses across multiple documents
• Understand implications or outcomes
• Generate structured insights or summaries

To see how Interact applies analysis across documents, refer to Choosing Document Interaction Mode.

1.3 How Follow-Up Questions Work in Document Interact

When you choose Document Interact:

• Follow-up questions build on prior analysis and reasoning
• Lexlegis retains contextual understanding from earlier responses
• You can ask deeper questions such as:
  • “Explain why this clause is risky”
  • “Compare this obligation with the one in the other agreement”
  • “What are the downstream implications of this provision?”
• Each follow-up refines or expands the analytical thread

Document Interact supports iterative exploration and layered understanding.

2. Document Search

Document Search directly finds information within your selected documents without interpretation.

2.1 What Document Search Does

• Locates exact terms, clauses, or references
• Retrieves specific facts or sections
• Shows where information appears in the documents

This option focuses strictly on retrieval.

2.2 Use Document Search When You Want To

• Find a specific clause or keyword
• Check whether a term exists in a document
• Locate references, dates, or definitions

2.3 How Follow-Up Questions Work in Document Search

When you choose Document Search:

• Each follow-up question is treated as a new lookup
• Lexlegis does not carry forward interpretive context
• Follow-ups work best when they are specific, such as:
  • “Find the termination clause”
  • “Search for references to indemnity”
  • “Locate the effective date”
• Analytical or inferential follow-ups will not be performed

Document Search is precise but non-contextual.

3. Key Differences at a Glance

4. How Your Choice Affects Results and Follow-Ups

• Choosing Document Interact enables insight-driven responses and contextual follow-ups
• Choosing Document Search returns direct matches with no interpretive continuity
• The follow-up behaviour always matches the interaction mode you selected

You can change your selection at any time before running the analysis.

5. Best Practices

• Use Interact for reviews, comparisons, and legal insight
• Use Search for verification and precise lookups
• If you expect to ask follow-up questions that build on reasoning, choose Interact
• If you only need confirmation of text, choose Search

6. What Happens Next

After choosing between Document Interact or Document Search, the next step is to define what Lexlegis should extract from your documents.

You will select a Prompt, Question Set, or provide custom instructions to guide the analysis.

See Selecting Prompts or Question Sets.