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Introducing External Views: Client-facing deal intelligence

AI has changed what clients can do for themselves: generate documents, run playbooks, and answer routine questions. What keeps them coming back to outside counsel is the expertise behind the documents: the judgment built across a cross-section of the market that no single legal department can see.

GCs only touch a handful of deals a year, but law firms see hundreds of transactions across clients and industries. Your experience is your product. Today we're releasing External Views, a powerful new way to make it tangible: secure, white-labeled deal dashboards that give clients direct access to the documents and data they urgently need, and that only you can provide.

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Data you can put your name on

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Views, launched earlier this year, allows firms to analyze trends, benchmark what's market, and visualize data from their private deal databases in Centari. External Views extends these capabilities with new ways to demonstrate value-add to your clients.

Each View is fully customizable with granular permissions, so you can create everything from a client-specific document repository to an anonymized and aggregated market study. Source documents, individual data points, and matter names can all be hidden, so a View shows exactly what's intended and nothing more.

Whenever you stamp your firm's name on client-facing data, a portal or shared space built on unreliable AI workflows is a risk no firm can take.

External Views is built on structured data from Centari's Deal Reasoning Engine, a proprietary system that processes complex documents with attorney-level precision and produces a citation-backed deal database. When you tell a client that a term appeared in 90% of comparable transactions, you can back it up with all the relevant precedent in one click.

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Your deal history, put to work

A View draws on any database across practice groups and matter types, so a single dashboard can reflect the full breadth of the firm's experience. Here are just a few of the use cases that become possible with External Views:

• Deal and market studies. Demonstrate the breadth of your practice with anonymized, aggregated data drawn from the firm's own deal history. A leading healthcare M&A practice, for example, can show prospective clients its coverage of the market rather than assert it. Tangible market leadership is one of the most compelling proof points for winning new work.
• Real-time benchmarking and risk calibration. A client can see where their terms sit against comparable deals, kept current as the market moves. Help your client go into every negotiation armed with data no one else at the table can provide.
• Counsel that continues after the close. Give clients direct access to final deal documents, closing sets, and compliance and obligation tracking through the firm, all built on the same citation-backed data. Treat the closing of the deal as the start of an ongoing advisory relationship on risk and opportunity across the client's portfolio.

Your clients have never had more legaltech tools at their disposal. They have also never needed your expertise more. External Views is how you deliver it: continuously, tangibly, and backed by the data from every deal you've done.

Learn more about how Centari helps firms like Fried Frank, Wilson Sonsini, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Gilbert + Tobin deliver greater value to clients.

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