For the legal team at Sage, annual report season means coordinating contributors across several departments.
Any solution needed to be intuitive enough for contributors across the business to participate with minimal onboarding. When those colleagues sit across several different departments, getting everyone up to speed is often the hardest part.
Supporting a complex verification process
Before Atticus, Sage’s legal team ran the verification process independently and manually. “This was time consuming and less efficient, with collaboration around evidence and review proving time-intensive” explains Hannah Garside, Legal Counsel at Sage.
Finding a tool designed for easy adoption
When Sage evaluated verification platforms, ease of adoption was a key deciding factor.
Any solution would need to work not just for the legal team, but for teams and contributors across the business who had no prior experience with verification and limited time to get up to speed.
“We opted for Atticus because it seemed like an intuitive, seamless tool. We knew this would be crucial when asking stakeholders across the business to use the software.”
Hannah Garside
Legal Counsel, Sage
Getting everyone up and running
The onboarding experience delivered on that promise. Collaborators were able to log in and begin uploading evidence with minimal training, a critical consideration when asking busy colleagues to engage with something new.
The features that supported their process:
Find Similar
With many statements to verify, the reports naturally contained repetitive language. The Atticus AI enhanced search allowed the team to reference a single source against multiple statements efficiently, without duplicating effort.
Tagging and discussions
The ability to tag users gave the legal team a clear way to review submissions from across the business, without lengthy email chains.
Version control
When new document versions arrived, Atticus automatically flagged verification statements that had changed, improving visibility into document changes and reducing manual review effort.
“The ability to track when verification statements have moved, and change and adapt evidence, was very helpful,” notes Garside. “This was a particular pain point for us during manual verification.”
From doing to overseeing
The results reflected a meaningful shift in how the legal team operates:
- Distributed ownership: Contributors across several departments were able to manage and review their own verification areas.
- Minimal onboarding: teams were able to adopt the platform quickly.
- Refocused expertise: the legal team was able to focus more on oversight, guidance, and review activities.
For Sage, the right tool didn’t just make verification more efficient. It made it straightforward enough that the wider business could be part of it.
