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Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Kira — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Luminance is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both platforms auto-extract clauses from bulk contract uploads for due diligence and portfolio review. To move from Kira to Luminance: export your Kira Analysis Grid results to Excel as a baseline record, then upload the same source documents (PDF/Word) to a new Luminance project in the Analyze module. Luminance's LITE engine will automatically classify and surface clause categories including those mapped in Kira's Smart Fields. Review Luminance's extracted clause list against your Kira Excel export to confirm parity on deal-critical provisions before decommissioning Kira. To move from Luminance to Kira: download documents from the Luminance project, create a Kira matter, and configure Smart Fields to match the clause types previously reviewed; the 1,400+ proprietary models cover most standard provision types without custom training.
- Warning: Kira reports 90%+ extraction accuracy across 1,400+ proprietary AI models trained on 45,000+ lawyer-hours; Luminance uses an unsupervised LITE engine approach — accuracy comparisons on your specific contract mix should be validated before go-live.
- Warning: Kira's bulk import supports native integrations with HighQ and Intralinks data rooms; Luminance does not document equivalent VDR connectors, so migration of documents currently pulled via those integrations will require manual re-upload.
- Warning: Kira's Smart Fields are configured per matter type by admins and are portable as templates; Luminance playbook positions serve a similar function but live in the Negotiate module rather than the analysis layer.
Both tools let users locate relevant language across a large contract portfolio without manual document-by-document review; they differ in framing — Kira provides free-text concept search while Luminance benchmarks documents against a golden-copy standard. To shift this workflow from Kira to Luminance: identify a representative reference contract or template to serve as the golden copy, upload the full document set to Luminance's Analyze or Negotiate module, and run document comparison. Luminance surfaces clause-level deviations from the standard conceptually (not just word-for-word), covering the same risk-identification job as Kira Concept Search. To shift from Luminance to Kira: upload all documents to a Kira project and use Concept Search to locate the specific provisions previously flagged as deviating; no admin setup or model training is required for Concept Search.
- Warning: Kira Concept Search operates independently of the GenAI toggle, so it remains available on projects where generative AI is restricted; Luminance's document comparison is part of the LITE engine and does not have an equivalent governance control documented.
- Warning: Luminance comparison requires a designated reference document; Kira Concept Search has no such requirement — it is a free-text query across the corpus. Firms without a clean golden-copy template will need to establish one before using Luminance comparison effectively.
- Warning: Luminance comparison is conceptual / position-level; Kira Concept Search finds relevant passages by concept or example phrase. Neither is a word-for-word diff tool — for that, a separate document comparison product (e.g., Workshare) may still be needed.
Both products produce redlined Word output with tracked changes for use in deal workflows. To move redlining from Kira to Luminance: complete your Kira review cycle, export findings as Word (with tracked changes) to establish a deal-history baseline, then onboard the contract set to Luminance's Negotiate module. Luminance will surface non-standard clauses, suggest alternative language from playbooks and prior deals, and let reviewers insert markup with one click. The Luminance Word plugin allows this inside Microsoft Word directly. To move from Luminance to Kira: download negotiation markup from Luminance, upload documents to a Kira project, run extraction, and use the Analysis Grid export to generate a redlined Word deliverable; Kira's export also produces Excel and PDF formats for client reporting.
- Warning: Luminance supports autonomous auto-negotiation mode that can exchange counterparty redlines without human intervention per round; Kira has no equivalent autonomous negotiation mode — it is a review and extraction tool, not a negotiation agent.
- Warning: Kira's Word export is positioned as a client-delivery output from a completed review; Luminance's Word plugin embeds the AI inline during live negotiation. Teams switching to Luminance gain in-Word AI but lose the standalone grid-based multi-document view.
- Warning: Luminance's Ask Lumi chatbot provides inline redrafting and compromise-language generation within the negotiation workflow; Kira's chat interface (Chat and Smart Summaries) is read/summarise-only and does not produce redline suggestions.
Both platforms meet enterprise legal security requirements but under different certification schemes, requiring IT and risk review before switching. Before migrating contract data from Kira to Luminance: confirm Luminance's single-tenant AWS instance is provisioned in your required jurisdiction (Luminance hosts in the same region as the backup, using AWS infrastructure); obtain the current ISO 27001:2022 certificate and SOC 2 Type 2 attestation report from Luminance for your InfoSec team. Before migrating from Luminance to Kira: collect Kira's SOC 2 Type II / SOC 3 certificates and confirm the required data residency region (US, Canada, Europe, or Asia Pacific). In both directions: ensure any data processing agreements are countersigned by the incoming vendor before uploading live client documents; also confirm GenAI data-use terms if generative features will be enabled.
- Warning: Kira holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 certifications; Luminance holds ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2. Neither certification set is a strict superset of the other — firms with ISO 27001 supply-chain requirements should note Kira does not advertise ISO 27001.
- Warning: Luminance uses a dedicated single-tenant AWS instance per customer (no data co-mingling); Kira documents multi-region data residency options but does not specify single-tenant isolation. Clients with strict isolation requirements should request architectural confirmation from Litera.
- Warning: Kira allows GenAI to be toggled off per project by an admin, preserving availability of traditional AI features without GenAI. Luminance does not document an equivalent per-project GenAI disable switch in published materials.
- Warning: Kira explicitly states it never trains AI models on client contract data; Luminance's published materials do not include an equivalent public commitment — verify via DPA before migrating.
Both tools let legal teams encode institutional knowledge — preferred clause positions, fallback language, and extraction targets — so that AI-assisted review adheres to firm standards. To migrate from Kira Generative Smart Fields to Luminance playbooks: export your current Smart Field definitions (question text, field labels, expected output) as reference documentation, then rebuild equivalent positions in Luminance's Negotiate module under Admin > Playbook configuration. Luminance operates at the conceptual position level rather than per clause, so map each Kira Smart Field to a negotiation position (preferred + fallback language). To migrate from Luminance playbooks to Kira: export playbook positions as a Word or PDF reference, then configure matching Generative Smart Fields in Kira by entering each position question in natural-language form; no prior model training is required.
- Warning: Kira Generative Smart Fields require the GenAI toggle to be enabled per project by an admin; firms with policies restricting generative AI must fall back to traditional Smart Fields, which do require prior configuration or training data.
- Warning: Luminance checklists appear inside the Negotiate module (web app and Word plugin); Kira Smart Fields live in the Analysis Grid. The workflow home for these features differs — Luminance is negotiation-centric, Kira is review/extraction-centric.
- Warning: Luminance playbook positions and fallback language are stored institutionally at the admin level; Kira Smart Fields are configured per matter type. Firms with many matter-type-specific field sets may find Kira's per-matter scoping easier to manage.