Patent Acquired for Case Management Feature. Hubble Implements 'Legal Request Triage' Function, Enhancing Business Decision Speed and Reducing Legal Workload
Hubble Inc. has updated its AI agent 'Contract Flow Agent' with features including automated triage for legal requests. The underlying technology for this case management system has also been patented.
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Hubble Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Shimpei Hayakawa, CTO: Katsuya Fujii, CLO: Tomoya Sakai), provider of the contract operation and management cloud service "Hubble," announces a major update to its case management functions within the contract AI agent "Contract Flow Agent (CFA)." The update introduces a series of new features that seamlessly support the entire process from the occurrence of a case (request) to its approval. Furthermore, the company announces that it acquired a patent for the underlying technology of this feature on March 30, 2026.
With this update, Hubble has newly implemented a "Legal Request Triage Feature," where AI analyzes the content of applications to determine "whether a request to the legal department is necessary." This allows legal personnel to concentrate on high-risk cases that truly require their attention. Additionally, the update enriches the case management process on Hubble by introducing a "History Summary Feature" that organizes the background and context of each case for a bird's-eye view of progress, a "Next Step Proposal Feature" that suggests specific tasks to be performed next in the case progression, and an "Approval Feature" that establishes routing in accordance with internal approval regulations to track approval status. The core technology of the case management feature, which assists in requesting reviews of draft contracts, is a proprietary technology that has been patented (Patent No. 7837463), providing a mechanism where AI seamlessly supports everything from request content analysis to decision-making.
## Feature Overview
This update initiates the provision of various features aimed at accelerating decision-making speed in business departments and reducing the operational workload on legal departments during case management.
### Legal Request Triage Feature: Automating the Case Creation and Request Phase
This feature allows AI to analyze case contents based on internal standards and automatically sort whether a request to the legal department is required. With this function, AI separates cases that do not require review based on company-specific criteria, enabling business departments to immediately advance cases without involving legal assignments. This accelerates business by allowing business departments to autonomously handle low-risk cases, while creating an environment where the legal department can focus its resources on high-risk cases requiring specialized attention.
### "Case History/Summary" and "Next Step Proposal" Features: Streamlining the Case Progression Phase
To provide an overview of case summaries and progress and to support case advancement, Hubble has incorporated AI-driven summarization and guidance features for case information. This includes the "History Summary Feature," where AI summarizes and displays various information related to the case, and the "Next Step Proposal," which derives concrete actions necessary for case progression—such as "The legal representative should send the revised version to the other party"—based on accumulated data. By significantly reducing the cognitive cost required to understand each case and make progression judgments, these features prevent case stagnation and improve operational speed.
### Approval Feature: Integrating the Decision-Making Phase
The approval phase, where final decisions are made, is now completed within Hubble, eliminating fragmented information and workflows. This feature enables approval, send-back, or rejection decisions to be made in accordance with internal approval routes while referencing a series of contexts, such as the results of the AI's legal request triage, summaries of the review process, and suggested next actions. Approvers can make swift, hesitation-free decisions based on accurate foundations from the case's entry to the present. Centralizing the evidence of contract reviews and approval decisions contributes to improved governance.
*This feature is a paid option for customers using the case management function.
With this update, Hubble has newly implemented a "Legal Request Triage Feature," where AI analyzes the content of applications to determine "whether a request to the legal department is necessary." This allows legal personnel to concentrate on high-risk cases that truly require their attention. Additionally, the update enriches the case management process on Hubble by introducing a "History Summary Feature" that organizes the background and context of each case for a bird's-eye view of progress, a "Next Step Proposal Feature" that suggests specific tasks to be performed next in the case progression, and an "Approval Feature" that establishes routing in accordance with internal approval regulations to track approval status. The core technology of the case management feature, which assists in requesting reviews of draft contracts, is a proprietary technology that has been patented (Patent No. 7837463), providing a mechanism where AI seamlessly supports everything from request content analysis to decision-making.
## Feature Overview
This update initiates the provision of various features aimed at accelerating decision-making speed in business departments and reducing the operational workload on legal departments during case management.
### Legal Request Triage Feature: Automating the Case Creation and Request Phase
This feature allows AI to analyze case contents based on internal standards and automatically sort whether a request to the legal department is required. With this function, AI separates cases that do not require review based on company-specific criteria, enabling business departments to immediately advance cases without involving legal assignments. This accelerates business by allowing business departments to autonomously handle low-risk cases, while creating an environment where the legal department can focus its resources on high-risk cases requiring specialized attention.
### "Case History/Summary" and "Next Step Proposal" Features: Streamlining the Case Progression Phase
To provide an overview of case summaries and progress and to support case advancement, Hubble has incorporated AI-driven summarization and guidance features for case information. This includes the "History Summary Feature," where AI summarizes and displays various information related to the case, and the "Next Step Proposal," which derives concrete actions necessary for case progression—such as "The legal representative should send the revised version to the other party"—based on accumulated data. By significantly reducing the cognitive cost required to understand each case and make progression judgments, these features prevent case stagnation and improve operational speed.
### Approval Feature: Integrating the Decision-Making Phase
The approval phase, where final decisions are made, is now completed within Hubble, eliminating fragmented information and workflows. This feature enables approval, send-back, or rejection decisions to be made in accordance with internal approval routes while referencing a series of contexts, such as the results of the AI's legal request triage, summaries of the review process, and suggested next actions. Approvers can make swift, hesitation-free decisions based on accurate foundations from the case's entry to the present. Centralizing the evidence of contract reviews and approval decisions contributes to improved governance.
*This feature is a paid option for customers using the case management function.