# How Bayer uses Harvey

**three hours**: “giving each member of the team back on average about three hours every week”

As published on [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/customers/bayer), November 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-01.

- Company: [Bayer](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/bayer.md)
- Tool: [Harvey](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/harvey.md)
- Industry: [Biotech & Pharma](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/biotech-pharma.md)
- Teams: Legal, Corporate, IP, Regulatory, Compliance, Contract Center

## What the story says

Bayer's global legal department uses Harvey for contract review and risk analysis, summarizing and translating long documents, patent drafting and portfolio review, bulk document and case analysis, and supporting its Contract Center in creating and maintaining harmonized contracts.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Harvey and Bayer, not ours.

> Its capabilities accelerate expertise development, improve efficiency, and deliver measurable time savings in all sorts of activities that arise in a legal department — giving each member of the team back on average about three hours every week.

> With Harvey, we’ve accelerated expertise development, enabling lawyers to manage increasingly complex work with confidence.
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> Thomas Laubert, General Counsel

> Our ambition at Bayer — in science, business, and law — is to operate with precision, agility, and shared purpose. :Harvey: helps us deliver on that ambition in Legal by enhancing how we analyze, decide, and deliver at scale.
>
> Thomas Laubert, General Counsel

> Our teams were spending too much time on repetitive work — reviewing, comparing, translating,
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> Melanie Künzel-Wieczorek, Head of Legal Chief Digital Office & Contract Center

> At first, people were curious but hesitant,
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> Melanie Künzel-Wieczorek, Head of Legal Chief Digital Office & Contract Center

> Generative AI is changing how knowledge is created, shared, and applied,
>
> Thomas Laubert, General Counsel

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-03.

- Checked: the figure three hours is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Bayer.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Bayer.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Bayer uses Harvey. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-08.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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