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Looking Ahead to 2026: Building the Future of AI-assisted Deal Execution

Written by DealCloser | Jan 20, 2026 8:21:45 PM

 

As the legal industry continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, DealCloser is entering 2026 with clarity, confidence, and incredible momentum. The foundation laid in 2025—through growth, global expansion, and platform innovation—has positioned DealCloser to help lead the next era of intelligent, connected deal execution.

What began as a year of deal acceleration has become a launchpad. In 2026, DealCloser is focused not just on keeping up with change, but on shaping what comes next for transaction management.

A Strong Foundation for What’s Next

The progress achieved in 2025 created a durable foundation for the future of dealmaking on a global scale.

DealCloser expanded its international footprint, strengthened product adoption across firm types, and delivered meaningful platform advancements—all while supporting an increasing volume of complex, cross-border transactions. Today, DealCloser customers operate across eight countries, including:

  • United States

  • United Kingdom

  • Germany

  • Netherlands

  • Sweden

  • Switzerland

  • Canada

  • Singapore

This international presence reflects the realities of modern dealmaking and sets the stage for deeper collaboration, scalability, and innovation in the year ahead.

Advancing the Role of AI in Deal Execution

As firms prepare for the next phase of legal technology adoption, AI is moving from experimentation to expectation.

While many tools in the market apply AI narrowly—often limited to pre-closing activities like target screening or diligence review—DealCloser is focused on a broader vision: embedding AI directly into the heart of transaction execution. Our approach is designed to enhance visibility, reduce friction, and support lawyers throughout the entire closing process, without compromising control or confidentiality.

According to Bain & Company, 80% of M&A professionals expect to use generative AI within the next three years. DealCloser enters 2026 with a mature AI framework already in place, powering a new generation of AI-driven workflow capabilities launching this quarter.

Scaling Across Firm Types and Deal Complexity

Momentum across the legal market continues to build as DealCloser moves into 2026.

The trust earned in 2025 is reflected in strong adoption across firm sizes and practice areas:

  • 46.5% overall customer base growth

  • 2.5× customer growth in Europe

  • 35% of customers now in large law firms and enterprise corporate accounts 

Trusted by Large Law and Enterprise Teams

Large law firms and enterprise legal departments manage some of the most complex, high-stakes transactions in the market. As DealCloser looks ahead to 2026, continued adoption within these organizations reinforces a critical signal: DealCloser is trusted to operate at scale.

Firms rely on DealCloser to bring structure, transparency, and control to multi-party, multi-jurisdictional transactions, while integrating seamlessly with enterprise-grade systems, security requirements, and established workflows.

Expanding Opportunity Across the Market

In parallel, DealCloser continues to invest in segments where speed and efficiency are paramount:

  • Mid-law firms, supported through our partnership with Meritas, co-developing an AI-focused legal technology curriculum to accelerate adoption

  • Venture capital and emerging-company teams, enabled by platform capabilities designed for high-volume deal environments that often involve hundreds to thousands of signers per transaction

Platform Momentum Heading Into 2026

DealCloser enters 2026 with a platform built to scale and evolve.

Recent momentum includes:

  • 9 major product releases

  • 17 net new features launched

  • 1,000+ new deals created every month

  • 605,000+ signatures collected

  • 1.32 million documents managed

  • 93% of customers rate our support at the highest level

This operational strength allows DealCloser to stay focused on the future—building capabilities that deliver compounding value over time.

Product Innovation Highlights

2025 brought some of the most impactful platform innovation in DealCloser’s history—designed to enhance user experiences and unlock intelligence and insights across every stage of a transaction.

AI-Powered Transaction Intelligence
DealCloser is expanding its AI capabilities to surface critical insights earlier, reduce manual effort, and help deal teams move faster with confidence. Features like AI Document Summary automatically classify and summarize transaction documents, extract key data points and clauses with source citations, and generate shareable transaction summaries tailored to each firm’s workflow.

Smarter Project Intelligence
Enhanced Project Forms allow teams to capture and analyze deal data—such as value, jurisdiction, and office—directly within the platform and through exports that can be pushed to PowerBI for deeper analysis. These insights support better reporting, trend analysis, and smarter resource allocation.

Deeper Workflow Integration
With the Microsoft Word Add-In, deal teams can draft in familiar tools while keeping documents fully connected to their DealCloser checklists. Collaboration features like Comments and Mentions, along with granular Role-Based Access Control, ensure the right people have the right visibility at every stage of a transaction.

Greater Control at Closing
Capabilities such as Escrow, bulk Signer Imports, and iManage Signature Page Import give firms tighter control over closing mechanics and post-signing workflows—reducing risk and improving consistency.

Looking Forward

The future of transaction management is intelligent, connected, and global.

As DealCloser moves into 2026, our focus remains clear: empowering legal teams with technology that scales with deal complexity, integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, and unlocks the full potential of AI—without sacrificing trust or control.

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Ready to see what’s next? Get in touch with our team or request a demo to experience how DealCloser is building the future of transaction management.