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What is Truffle Hunt?

Truffle Hunt is a search tool designed to help legal teams find valuable clauses hidden in their existing documents. It focuses on extracting drafting inspiration from their own set of precedent contracts, templates, and older documents that legal experts often rely on throughout their careers.

You can use Truffle Hunt in two main ways. First, it allows you to search through your own curated library, i.e. a hand-picked collection of high-quality documents that your team has developed over time. These documents are typically well known within your team and should include high-quality, standard clauses that can be confidently reused in future drafts. Second, Truffle Hunt also supports a broad, uncurated library, i.e. large-scale extraction of clauses from hundreds or even thousands of older documents. These approaches create a wide-reaching, clause-focused search that reveals numerous alternative wordings from a large pool of past work.

All extracted clauses can be previewed and copied straight into your current Word document, regardless of whether it originated from a DOCX or PDF file. This system is optimised for clause-level searching, which makes it much faster and more convenient than traditional document or case management tools. You can use keywords to explore your clause library, without having to open each document individually or sift through irrelevant content.

Please note that Truffle Hunt does not replace your Quality Library but works alongside it. While the Quality Library provides carefully selected and organised content, Truffle Hunt gives you access to a much broader and less curated source of inspiration. It is especially useful when the Quality Library does not yet contain what you are looking for, or when you want to compare different ways of phrasing a particular clause.

There is no single way to use Truffle Hunt. Legal teams often start with a mass-extraction of clauses from old documents, and then gradually move toward a more curated approach. Over time, Truffle Hunt can even serve as a stepping stone to building a stronger Quality Library.