AI Assistant 'Ria'
Understands the whole contract and handles complex fields. Delivers clear reasoning with detailed clause and page references for every recommendation.
When Curia processes a property contract, it extracts data, prefills review fields, and calculates defaults from regulation. Most of that work happens silently. But not everything in a contract is silent-fill safe — purchaser land tax liability, GST treatment, the implications of an unusual special condition. For those moments, Ria steps in: with a proposed answer, the reasoning behind it, and a citation to the page and clause. You accept or dismiss, deliberately. Ria is the AI contract review assistant designed to keep your judgement in every high-risk call — not to replace it.
The problem with most AI-assisted contract review
The temptation in legal AI is to do as much as possible automatically and shorten the review. But automation bias is real: the more confident an AI summary sounds, the more likely a busy conveyancer is to accept it without checking. Mistakes get rubber-stamped. The conveyancer didn't review — they clicked through.
In conveyancing, that's dangerous. A purchaser's land tax liability has consequences that an unreviewed click can't fix. The same is true for GST treatment, complex special conditions, and a handful of other touchpoints where the wrong default does real harm.
How Ria works
Ria steps in at the touchpoints that matter. Curia handles the silent fill — names, dates, basic checkbox values — without bothering you. For the small set of nuanced calls, Ria pauses the review and asks for your decision.
Ria shows her reasoning. When Ria steps in she shows the proposed value (e.g. "Liable" for purchaser land tax), the reason it was derived, and a citation to the page and clause. One click on the citation takes you to the source.
Two buttons. Accept or dismiss. No tacit acceptance, no default-yes, no "all clear" path that walks you past the decision. Ria is deliberate friction. A small cost in time at the moments where rubber-stamping is dangerous.
Built for Australian property contracts — NSW and VIC
Curia Contract Review supports both the NSW standard form contract and Victoria's custom contracts with their Section 32 statements . Ria steps in at the touchpoints that matter in each jurisdiction — NSW special conditions and adjustable land tax clauses sit alongside VIC's Section 32 disclosure obligations and vendor warranties. The pattern is consistent across states; the touchpoints reflect the way contracts actually work in each.
Real results
Brenda Gately runs Gately Conveyancing and has 30 years of conveyancing experience. By stepping through Curia's review workflow and engaging with each Ria moment as it came, she cut her average contract review time from 60 minutes to 30. Curia handled the silent-fill work; Brenda decided the judgement calls herself.
See Curia in action
Book a 15-minute demo to see Ria step in during a real review. Or read about Smart Prefill and Workflows — the parts of Curia that surround Ria at decision time.