Intelligent Contract Management with Amazon Quick Suite and Bedrock AgentCore

Streamlining Contract Review Cycles with Advanced AI Solutions

Why Quick Suite Augmented with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore?

Solution Overview: Integrating AI for Contract Analysis

Architecture Components: Building Blocks of the Solution

Contract Management Workflow: Enhancing Efficiency and Accuracy

Prerequisites: Setting Up for Success

Setup Part 1: Configure Amazon Quick Suite

Setup Part 2: Deploying Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Setup Part 3: Integrating Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Quick Suite

Testing Your Contract Management Solution

Clean Up: Efficiently Managing Resources

Conclusion: Transforming Procurement Processes with AI

About the Authors: Meet the Experts Behind the Solution

Transforming Contract Management with Amazon Quick Suite and AgentCore

Organizations handling hundreds of contracts annually often struggle with inefficiencies due to fragmented systems and complex workflows. Contract review cycles can drag on for hours, leading to delays in decision-making and missed opportunities. However, leveraging advanced technologies can mitigate these challenges. This article explores how to build an intelligent contract management solution that uses Amazon Quick Suite combined with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for advanced multi-agent capabilities.

Why Choose Quick Suite and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore?

The Power of Quick Suite

Quick Suite provides a unified workspace, facilitating chat, research, business intelligence, and automation. It allows teams to move seamlessly from obtaining answers to taking actionable steps, streamlining routine activities and complex business processes like contract processing and analysis.

When augmented with AgentCore, Quick Suite enhances secure, scalable encapsulation of business logic within AI agents. AgentCore supports frameworks such as Strands Agents, broadening its applicability across various models, both within and outside Amazon Bedrock.

Solution Overview

This intelligent contract management system employs Quick Suite as both the user interface and knowledge base, while AgentCore orchestrates multi-agent collaboration. Specialized agents focus on different aspects of contract analysis—ranging from risk assessment to compliance evaluation—streamlining contract workflows as depicted in the architecture diagram.

Architecture Components

1. Quick Suite Components:

   • Spaces: Organize contract workflows.
   • Chat Agents: Enable conversational interactions regarding contracts.
   • Knowledge Bases: Integrate legal documents from Amazon S3.
   • Topics: Manage structured contract data.
   • Actions: Connect custom agents developed with AgentCore.
   • Flows and Automate: Handle recurring document review processes and routine automation tasks.

2. Multi-Agent System Powered by AgentCore:

   • Contract Collaboration Agent: Coordinates workflow management.
   • Legal Agent: Analyzes legal terms and extracts key obligations.
   • Risk Agent: Conducts financial and operational risk assessments.
   • Compliance Agent: Evaluates regulatory compliance.

3. Supporting Infrastructure: The underlying components necessary for deployment and communication among agents, ensuring a cohesive and efficient operation.

Streamlined Contract Management Workflow

This innovative solution significantly reduces contract processing time, transitioning from days of manual reviews to mere minutes. The workflow involves:

• Identifying the Document: The Contract Collaboration Agent determines the need for legal, risk, and compliance analysis.
• Analyzing Terms: The Legal Agent extracts key details like payment terms and obligations.
• Evaluating Risks: The Risk Agent identifies potential financial exposures.
• Compliance Evaluation: The Compliance Agent assesses regulatory implications.
• Consolidation: The collaboration agent compiles a comprehensive report of findings.

Example: Processing a Service Agreement

1. The Contract Collaboration Agent identifies the contract for analysis.
2. The Legal Agent extracts essential parties and obligations.
3. The Risk Agent assesses financial insights and leverage points.
4. The Compliance Agent flags regulatory concerns.
5. Finally, the collaboration agent compiles these insights into a structured report.

Prerequisites

Before implementing this solution, ensure you meet the following:

• An AWS account with administrative permissions.
• Access to supported AWS regions where Quick Suite is available.
• Proper AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies.

Setup Instructions

Part 1: Setting Up Quick Suite

Enable Quick Suite:

• Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
• Navigate to Quick Suite and subscribe.
• Configure IAM based on your requirements.

Create a Contract Management Space:
Establish a dedicated space within Quick Suite to organize contract workflows effectively.

Set Up Knowledge Bases:

• For Unstructured Data (Amazon S3):

  • Integrate Amazon S3 for storing contract documents.

• For Structured Data (Amazon Redshift):

  • Configure Amazon Redshift for your structured contract data.

Part 2: Deploy Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore provides the infrastructure needed to deploy AI agents securely. The deployment involves running a script to set up your environment automatically.

1. Clone the GitHub repository containing necessary scripts.
2. Install required Python packages:

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

3. Deploy agents using:

   python3 deploy_agents.py

The deployment process includes setting up the AWS infrastructure, configuring agent communications, and establishing security protocols.

Part 3: Integrate Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Quick Suite

1. Deploy API Gateway and Lambda to facilitate communication between Quick Suite and your agents.
2. Use a provided script for integration setup.

Set Up Actions Integration in Quick Suite:

• Define action points that link to your specialized AI agents.
• Create a chat agent for comprehensive contract analysis.

Testing Your Contract Management Solution

After deploying and configuring the solution, test your setup in the Contract Management space, interacting with the agent interface for document review and query.

Clean Up

Remember to clean up infrastructure when it’s no longer needed by running the following command:

python3 cleanup.py

Conclusion

Combining Amazon Quick Suite and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore empowers procurement and legal teams to streamline contract management effectively. This intelligent solution enhances operational efficiency and reduces contract cycle times, allowing organizations to concentrate on strategic decision-making. As the needs of your organization evolve, you can expand your use of this adaptable architecture, whether for routine reviews or comprehensive procurement transformations.

About the Authors

Oliver Steffmann, David Dai, Krishna Pramod, Malhar Mane, Praveen Panati, and Sesan Komaiya are experienced AWS Solutions Architects dedicated to aiding organizations in their digital transformation journeys through innovative cloud solutions and AI advancements.