RESEARCH STUDY · GENERAL COUNSEL AND MANAGING PARTNERS
Inefficiency in contract and review processes has a direct cost — in attorney time, in client experience, in risk exposure. We’re researching how legal leaders are thinking about process modernization in 2026: the pressures, the priorities, and the actual gaps. Where friction creates cost. Where it creates risk. How visible any of it is from the leadership view.
WHY WE’RE DOING THIS
Nutrient builds the document infrastructure that legal software runs on, which means we see what breaks at the technical layer but not how it’s experienced at the leadership layer.
We’re talking to associates, paralegals, and legal ops — and we need general counsels and managing partners to round out the picture.
The goal is an honest report on the friction in legal operations: where it creates cost, where it creates risk, and how leaders are prioritizing change.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Nineteen questions across one workflow you pick — mostly multiple choice, with a few short free text fields if you want to add context.
We ask for your name and work email so we can send you the report. Everything published is aggregated and de-identified.
Every participant gets the complete research — including data we don’t publish externally — before the report goes public.
WHAT WE’RE ASKING ABOUT
How visible inefficiency is from your seat.
Where it shows up in client experience and risk exposure.
Which modernization priorities you’re actually committing budget to in 2026 — and where the team below you would tell a different story.
Where you’d trust AI in legal work today, and where you wouldn’t.
Nutrient (formerly PSPDFKit) — the document SDK and API platform behind document workflows at thousands of companies. We build the document infrastructure legal software runs on, which is exactly why we want a clearer picture of how cost and risk are experienced at the leadership view. The findings will be published as a research report, not as marketing collateral for a specific product.
Anonymous in reporting, yes. The survey asks for your name and work email so we can send you the report. If you opt in to the follow-up call at the end, you’ll also share your LinkedIn URL. None of these are attributed to you in the published report. Results are aggregated and de-identified, and any quoted free text responses are stripped of identifying details and only used when the pattern shows up across multiple respondents. We don’t share your name, email, LinkedIn, or individual answers with anyone outside the research team.
Less than 10 minutes. There are 19 questions total — mostly multiple choice with a few short free text fields where you can add context if you want to.
Two things. First, early access to the complete research findings — including data points we don’t publish externally — before the report goes public. Second, the option to do a 30-minute follow-up interview at the end of the survey if you want to go deeper than the questions allow.
Only about the research. The final question of the survey asks if you’re open to a 30-minute follow-up call — if you say yes, we’ll reach out to schedule it. You won’t be added to a sales sequence or get a demo request off the back of this survey.
Yes, please. The more legal leaders we hear from, the more honest the picture. Forward the link to anyone whose perspective should be in the report.
Less than 10 minutes. Anonymous in reporting. Full report shared with every participant.
