LEGAL-1 — Contract lifecycle & regulatory compliance agent.

Help pick templates, review contracts, track obligations and scan new laws for compliance gaps. Today: • High volume of repetitive contract work. The team spends significant time reviewing routine contracts, coordinating approvals, answering recurring questions and tracking documents manually. This can delay transactions and reduce the time available for complex or strategic matters. The contract lifecycle is fragmented across multiple tools, emails and manual processes. Business users may find it hard to locate the right template, while drafting, internal review, negotiation, approval, signing and filing run through separate channels. After signing there is limited end-to-end visibility of executed contracts, key obligations and upcoming expiry/renewal dates – causing repeated follow-ups, version-control issues, admin work and missed contractual deadlines that need earlier visibility. • Keeping the business updated on regulatory changes. New regulations must be identified, interpreted, assessed for business impact and communicated to the right stakeholders. Today, this involves considerable manual review and follow-up, so important changes need reliable identification and consistent communication. • Fragmented compliance information and follow-up. Compliance evidence, assessments and action plans are held across different teams and locations. This makes it difficult to obtain a consolidated view, retrieve supporting records quickly and consistently track remediation actions. • AI reviews laws, regulations and internal policies to identify potential compliance gaps and recommend required actions.

• Legal and business teams have a streamlined end-to-end contract lifecycle – from selecting the correct template, drafting and negotiating changes, through approval and wet-ink or e-contract signing, to central filing and post-signature management. Contract owners can track status, access the latest and signed version, and receive timely reminders of expiry, renewal and other key dates – enabling faster contracting, clearer ownership and better contract governance. • Shortens contract turnaround, reduces repetitive admin and follow-ups, improves visibility and control, and reduces wrong templates, lost final versions or missed contractual deadlines. • More time to do more valuable tasks. • Proactive compliance management with early gap detection and action recommendations. • Reduce potential compliance issues and review effort while enabling faster, more confident business decisions.

• Legal & Compliance; Legal and business teams • Factory / Technical teams (cross-functional)

Note: Synthetic data could be potentially provided during the process, upon approval of the Nestlé team and in compliance with data law.

• To be determined Note: Nestlé's current environment includes Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Copilot. Solutions that can work with this environment are welcome, and final integration and deployment requirements will be confirmed with the Nestlé team.