Case Study
NRGI Powers Faster, Smarter Decision-Making with AWS Generative AI Solutions
Industries
About Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a global nonprofit that envisions natural resources fostering fair, prosperous, and sustainable societies. This organization collaboratively generates and translates knowledge into policy reform, particularly in resource-rich nations. NRGI shares insights with policy-makers, accountability actors, and the global campaign for better international norms. Additionally, they partner with government and civil society reformers to design and implement fair policies aligned with the priorities of citizens in developing nations. Learn more at https://resourcegovernance.org/.
Challenge
NRGI's Key Business Objectives
NRGI set out to modernize its contract management operations with the support of Cloudelligent and AWS. The organization focused on the following core business objectives:
Leverage Generative AI solutions to modernize contract management processes and reduce manual effort and review cycles.
Use Generative AI insights to improve compliance accuracy across multilingual legal documents and reduce regulatory risks.
Enable operational agility and scalability to support expanding global initiatives using intelligent automation.
Key Amazon Web Services Used
- Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon Comprehend
- Amazon Translate
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Amazon CloudWatch
Third-Party Tools
⦁ ABBYY
Solution
How Cloudelligent Solved NRGI’s Challenges
1
AI-Driven Document Automation
Cloudelligent developed an AI-powered Contract Management System (CMS) for NRGI, designed to automate the ingestion, validation, translation, and classification of multi-lingual legal documents. Leveraging Amazon Bedrock and ABBYY OCR, the system preserves layout fidelity, validates extracted data, and classifies legal terms with high accuracy. Amazon Comprehend detects language and uses Amazon Translate for English conversion which eliminates manual review. This end-to-end pipeline significantly accelerates contract processing, increases operational accuracy, and enables NRGI to manage global contracts efficiently across formats and languages.
2
Smart Clause Annotation and Compliance Alignment
The CMS intelligently identifies and validates legal clauses using Amazon Bedrock, which assigns confidence scores, flags inaccuracies, and pinpoints key terms such as obligations, penalties, and termination clauses. These are mapped to standardized legal ontologies to align with compliance requirements, including EITI and IMF frameworks. Bedrock also auto-generates compliance scores for each contract, enabling faster regulatory assessments. This clause-level intelligence ensures that every document is not only processed accurately but also evaluated for legal and compliance risks in real-time.
3
Resilient and Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
Built on a scalable, event-driven AWS architecture, the CMS uses AWS Lambda to orchestrate services such as Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Bedrock, enabling automated and parallel processing of contracts. Amazon S3 serves as the central storage for all original and processed documents, while Amazon RDS stores structured outputs, metadata, and compliance data with full ACID compliance. This architecture ensures high availability, data consistency, and future scalability, allowing NRGI to seamlessly handle increasing volumes of legal documents without impacting performance.
4
End-to-End Workflow Visibility
To ensure transparency and performance, Amazon CloudWatch continuously monitors system operations and tracks API response times, logging process stages, and identifying anomalies. This enables real-time visibility into every step of the contract lifecycle, from ingestion to compliance validation. Additionally, processed contract data is integrated into NRGI’s CRM, empowering teams to search, retrieve, and analyze contracts directly within their existing workflows. This centralized, insight-driven approach enhances collaboration, reduces time-to-access, and supports better decision-making across legal and operational teams.
Results & Benefits
Transforming contract complexity into clarity—NRGI’s leap toward smarter, faster governance.
Cloudelligent’s AWS-powered solution enabled NRGI to modernize contract operations, enhance compliance, and improve team productivity. Key outcomes include:
Intelligent Document Processing
Cloudelligent reduced contract review time from 6–8 hours to just 3–4 hours, and doubling monthly throughput to over 400 contracts. This allowed NRGI to move faster, support more regions, and improve the pace of policy rollout and resource governance.
Improved Compliance and Risk Reduction
Cloudelligent helped enhance OCR and clause annotation accuracy by up to 25% and up to 30% respectively. This gave NRGI stronger audit readiness and greater confidence when managing sensitive legal documents across its global operations.
Increased Operational Efficiency
Cloudelligent’s Generative AI solution cut operational costs by up to 28%, saved 2,000+ hours annually, increased release frequency 1 to 4 updates per year. This enabled legal teams to focus on strategic initiatives and boosted agility, scalability, and innovation across NRGI’s platform.
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