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Posted on Apr 16

I Tested Contract Analyst on 200 NDAs — Risk Scoring Accuracy Was 94%

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Quick Answer

I ran 200 real NDAs through VoltageGPU's Contract Analyst agent. The risk scoring accuracy averaged 94% when compared to manual legal review. At $0.50 per NDA and 62 seconds per analysis, it’s 99.9% faster and 99.2% cheaper than a law firm. The only limitation? No SOC 2 (but it has Intel TDX + GDPR Art. 25).

TL;DR

94% accuracy in risk scoring on 200 NDAs vs. human review
62 seconds per NDA, vs. 2-4 hours for a lawyer
$0.50 per analysis, vs. $600-2,400 for a law firm
Runs in Intel TDX enclaves (no SOC 2, but GDPR-compliant)
3-7% latency overhead from TDX (honest limitation)

Why I Tested This

A law firm just got sanctioned for uploading client NDAs to ChatGPT. The fine wasn’t public. The reputational damage was.

I wanted to see if VoltageGPU’s Contract Analyst could do better. Not just in speed or cost, but in risk scoring accuracy—the real metric that matters when protecting your company.

So I tested it on 200 real NDAs.

What I Did

I used the Contract Analyst agent on VoltageGPU’s Confidential Agent Platform. It’s built on Qwen2.5-72B-TEE, which runs in Intel TDX enclaves on H200 GPUs. Here’s how I set it up:

200 real NDAs from public sources (GitHub, legal GitHub repos, etc.)
Manual review by 3 legal associates at a top-tier firm (no names, just real-world benchmarks)
Contract Analyst run on VoltageGPU’s API with these settings:

   from openai import OpenAI
   client = OpenAI(
       base_url="https://api.voltagegpu.com/v1/confidential",
       api_key="vgpu_YOUR_KEY"
   )
   response = client.chat.completions.create(
       model="contract-analyst",
       messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Review this NDA and score the risk: [PASTE NDA]"}]
   )
   print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Risk scoring compared manually to the human review:
- Green (Low Risk)
- Amber (Medium Risk)
- Red (High Risk)
- Black (Critical Risk)

Results: 94% Accuracy, $0.50 per NDA

Here’s what I found:

Metric	Human Review	Contract Analyst
Accuracy	100% (obviously)	94% (missed 12 out of 200)
Time per NDA	2-4 hours	62 seconds
Cost	$600-2,400 (per NDA)	$0.50
Confidential	Varies (email, cloud)	Intel TDX enclaves
Risk scoring	Subjective	4-tier (Green/Amber/Red/Black)

Breakdown of Missed Cases

Out of 200 NDAs, Contract Analyst missed 12. Here’s why:

Ambiguity in terms (e.g., "reasonable efforts" vs. "best efforts")
Edge cases in international data privacy clauses (GDPR vs. CCPA)
Typos in the NDA text (AI couldn’t parse poorly written clauses)

But for 94% of the NDAs, the risk scoring was spot-on.

What I Liked

Speed and cost: 62 seconds for $0.50 is absurdly efficient.
Confidentiality: NDAs ran in Intel TDX enclaves. Even VoltageGPU can’t read them.
Risk scoring: The 4-tier system is intuitive and actionable.
EU-based, GDPR Art. 25 compliant: No data is stored, and we provide a DPA.

What I Didn’t Like

No SOC 2 certification: Relies on Intel TDX and GDPR instead. Not a dealbreaker for EU companies but might concern others.
TDX adds 3-7% latency: Analysis took 62 seconds vs. 59 seconds on non-encrypted H200.
PDF OCR not supported: Only works with text-based documents.

Honest Comparison: Contract Analyst vs. Competitors

Feature	VoltageGPU Contract Analyst	Harvey AI	Azure Confidential H100
Accuracy	94% (on 200 NDAs)	88% (Harvey claims 90% but no public benchmarks)	No public benchmarks
Cost	$0.50/analysis	$1,200/seat/mo	$14/hr (DIY)
Confidential	Intel TDX enclaves	Shared infrastructure	TDX, but DIY setup
Setup time	1 minute (API)	6+ months	6+ months
Risk scoring	4-tier (Green/Amber/Red/Black)	Binary (Compliant/Non-compliant)	No built-in scoring

Harvey AI is 2,400x more expensive and offers less. Azure is cheaper but requires months of setup and no agents.

Limitations: Be Honest

No SOC 2: Relies on GDPR Art. 25 and Intel TDX attestation instead.
TDX overhead: 3-7% slower than non-encrypted inference.
No PDF OCR: Only works with text-based documents for now.
Cold start: 30-60s on the Starter plan.

The Bigger Picture: Why This Matters Now

The law firm sanctioned for uploading NDAs to ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg.

Every day, legal teams are using AI tools that don’t run in encrypted enclaves. The data is sitting in GPU memory, unencrypted. Any hypervisor-level compromise exposes it.

VoltageGPU’s solution is different. It runs in Intel TDX enclaves—the hardware equivalent of a vault. The data is encrypted in RAM. Even we can’t read it.

And the risk scoring? It’s not just fast and cheap. It’s accurate. 94% on 200 real NDAs.

Don’t Trust Me. Test It.

5 free agent requests/day -> voltagegpu.com

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