How to Build Legal Contract Search and Insights with RAG Using Unified's Storage and KMS APIs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a prevalent method for creating AI systems that utilize enterprise data, particularly in legal contexts for tasks such as contract searching, clause-level question answering, and ensuring AI responses are based on actual agreement text. Unified's Storage and Knowledge Management (KMS) APIs offer a real-time data layer that supports building robust, permission-aware, tenant-isolated, and incrementally synchronized RAG pipelines tailored for legal contracts. RAG in legal applications focuses on retrieval rather than inference, ensuring deterministic and metadata-driven processes that respect permissions and tenant boundaries. The Unified platform facilitates this by normalizing data from file storage and knowledge management systems while offering event-driven ingestion through webhooks to maintain up-to-date contract information. Although Unified does not provide embeddings or manage vector indexes, it supports the foundational elements necessary for effective legal RAG systems, such as real-time access, stable schemas, and explicit permission metadata, making it a suitable choice for organizations aiming to implement compliant and reliable contract analysis tools.