Multi-Agent Document Review to Cut Negotiation Time

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing document management systems face inefficiencies in managing electronic documents due to the complexity of multi-agent interactions, leading to increased computational burden, power consumption, data transmission, and memory usage, as well as prolonged negotiation times and unnecessary document versions.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes machine learning models to generate multi-agent reports by identifying and collaborating specialized personas, resolving conflicts, merging or splitting agents based on vector embeddings, and determining optimized workflows to improve efficiency and accuracy in document management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If multiple specialized agents are used to analyze electronic documents, then analysis accuracy and comprehensiveness are improved, but computational burden and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoidcomputational burden
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the document analysis task into multiple specialized agents, each responsible for specific aspects such as legal analysis, financial review, compliance checking, and technical validation. This segmentation allows each agent to focus on its expertise area, improving overall analysis accuracy while maintaining manageable computational complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a universal multi-agent framework that can handle various types of electronic documents (agreements, contracts, proposals) through a common architecture. Each agent is designed with multi-functional capabilities to analyze different document types and clauses, reducing the need for separate specialized systems and thereby lowering overall computational burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If multiple specialized agents are used to analyze electronic documents, then analysis accuracy and comprehensiveness are improved, but power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring specialized agents with their respective expertise and analysis protocols before document processing begins. Historical document data and organizational profiles are pre-loaded into agent memory, allowing agents to perform analyses with reduced real-time computational requirements and lower power consumption during actual document review.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If multiple specialized agents are used to analyze electronic documents, then analysis accuracy and comprehensiveness are improved, but data transmission and memory usage increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoiddata transmission
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and isolates specific document portions relevant to each agent's expertise, such as extracting legal clauses for the legal agent, financial terms for the financial agent, and technical specifications for the technical agent. This extraction approach reduces the amount of data each agent needs to process and transmit, thereby lowering overall data transmission requirements while maintaining comprehensive analysis accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Measurement precision

If multiple specialized agents are used to analyze electronic documents, then analysis accuracy and comprehensiveness are improved, but negotiation time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoidnegotiation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous parallel processing where multiple specialized agents analyze different aspects of the electronic document simultaneously rather than sequentially. The legal agent, financial agent, compliance agent, and technical agent all process their respective portions of the document at the same time, with results aggregated into a comprehensive multi-agent report, thereby maintaining high analysis accuracy while significantly reducing total negotiation time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

5Measurement precision

If multiple specialized agents are used to analyze electronic documents, then analysis accuracy and comprehensiveness are improved, but the number of document versions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanalysis accuracyVSAvoiddocument versions
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the analysis results from all specialized agents into a single integrated multi-agent report that consolidates legal, financial, compliance, and technical feedback. This merging approach presents a unified set of recommendations and identified issues to users, avoiding the proliferation of separate document versions for each agent's analysis while maintaining comprehensive review coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP4703916A1Multi-agent reports for electronic documents
Publication Date: 2026.03.04 DOCUSIGN INC
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AI summary

A system determines first revision information based on a first plurality of changes and generates, based on the first revision information and content of an electronic document, first feedback information for the first persona. The system determines second revision information based on the second plurality of changes and generates, based on the second revision information and the content of the electronic document, second feedback information for the second persona. The system generates, based on the first feedback information for the first persona and the second feedback information for the second persona, a multi-agent report for the electronic document and outputs the multi-agent report.