Nomura Research Institute

NRI halves Japanese document review time with Claude

In plain words

Nomura Research Institute uses Claude on Amazon Bedrock to review Japanese business documents.

What happened: Document review time cut by 50%.

Source: claude.com ↗

⏱ About 1-2 hours to try; a few days to make it routine to set up🎓 No-code beginner

How to do it yourself

Our suggested steps. The company didn't publish theirs.

1
Write your review checklist (required clauses, numbers to check, style rules).
2
Upload the checklist to a Claude Project.
3
Paste or upload each document and run the prompt below.
4
A human reviews only the flagged items.
5
Update the checklist with recurring issues.

The instructions to give the AI

Paste this into Claude (the free plan is fine), swap the [brackets] for your details, and test it on a few real examples.

Agent instructions (prompt)

Review this document against the checklist. Output a table: checklist item | pass/fail | quote from document | suggested fix. Then list any other risks or inconsistencies (numbers, dates, names). Keep the original language of quotes.
Checklist:
[paste]
Document:
[paste]

[Highlighted] = replace with your own details before you run it.

What you should get back: A checklist table: item | pass/fail | quote | fix — plus other risks spotted.

Written by Quickly and Good, inspired by this case.

More detail: tools, prices and what you'll need

The company used: Claude via Amazon Bedrock

You could use: Claude (Projects) with your checklist

Claude
AI assistant for writing, analysis and long documents; can connect to your tools.
Free plan; Pro $20/mo (monthly) · Official site ↗
Amazon Bedrock
AWS service for building AI apps and agents on top models.
See pricing · Official site ↗

Prices from each tool's own pricing page, checked Oct 2026.