2025 Visual Intelligence Report
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What is Visual Intelligence?
Uses for Virtual Intelligence
Measuring Impact
Adoption Trends
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For decades, corporate structures began as hand-drawn sketches, later recreated in static diagramming tools that were nothing more than digital drawings—slow to update, disconnected from data, and limited in function. These tools didn’t reflect how people naturally process information—visually, through patterns and relationships.
Visual intelligence closes this gap. It represents a fundamental shift in how legal and business professionals operate, enabling live, interactive models that connect to enterprise systems, support AI-driven queries, and reflect the logic and dependencies of complex transactions. As firms move toward connected data ecosystems, visual intelligence will become a core layer of understanding, replacing static documents with dynamic, interactive workspaces.
This inaugural report examines how professionals are using visual intelligence to model, manage, and communicate complex structures. Drawing on over 10,000 matters, hundreds of thousands of data points, and direct user input, it analyzes real-world applications, adoption trends, and measurable impacts on how legal work gets done.
“The biggest benefit is how visual intelligence has improved our discussions with clients. It makes us a better law firm.”
Nick Grandage
Partner, Banking & Finance
Norton Rose Fulbright
What is Visual Intelligence?
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Visual intelligence is a new way of understanding and working with complex legal, financial, and organizational information. Rather than relying on static diagrams or lengthy documents, it enables professionals to build interactive models that represent entities, relationships, assets, contracts, and other key components of a matter. Powered by AI, these models are dynamic and structured: they draw from source data, update automatically as information changes, and visually map how different parts of a transaction connect.
Visual intelligence software is more than a tool. It replaces static diagrams and dense explanations with immediate clarity, helping teams collaborate more effectively, reduce risk, and make decisions faster.
Uses for Visual Intelligence
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Entity and Structure Charts
What is Visual Intelligence?
Entity and Structure Charts
Displays ownership, jurisdiction, and tax implications through interactive diagrams linked to internal data systems.
Entity and Structure Charts
Complex M&A or Group Restructuring
Asset Finance
Fund Waterfall Models
Organization Charts
IP Licensing
Timelines
Asset Finance
Complex M&A or Group Restructuring
Maps out M&A or restructuring sequences with linked documents and assigned responsibilities.
Complex M&A or Group Restructuring
Asset Finance
Displays the financial relationships underpinning the matter.
Fund Waterfall Models
Shows how distributions to LPs and GPs shift based on deal performance metrics and runs different exit scenarios.
Fund Waterfall Models
Organization Charts
Outlines the reporting hierarchy from the CEO through each department, providing a clear view of roles and lines of accountability across the business.
Organization Charts
IP Licensing
Illustrates rights, royalties, and relationships in global licensing arrangements for clearer oversight and negotiation.
IP Licensing
Timelines
Charts critical phases of the matter—from pleadings and depositions to trial—providing a clear, time-based view of procedural strategy and deadlines.
Timelines
Measuring Impact
As visual intelligence gains traction across the professional landscape, its impact is becoming clear. Firms are seeing faster deal execution, greater efficiency, and stronger collaboration across teams and disciplines. These shifts aren’t just improving workflows—they’re redefining how, where, and by whom critical legal work happens.
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Efficiency Implications
Efficiency Implications
Efficiency gains driven by visual intelligence translate into measurable cost savings by minimizing time spent on routine, non-strategic legal tasks. By reducing reliance on manual work, visual intelligence frees up valuable billable hours that can be redirected toward higher-level initiatives.
Impact on Matter Velocity
Transaction Risk
Client Engagement
Business Development
“How are we going to make the lawyer more effective in their job? Let’s give them a diagram that allows them to explain what is happening in this transaction. The most important thing is that it changes the conversation with clients.”
Transaction Risk
100% of professionals said that by mapping transactions visually, they could identify risks across entities, assets, jurisdictions, and roles early--surfacing structural issues and gaps or misalignments long before documents are finalized. This proactive visibility reduces the likelihood of costly late-stage revisions or post-closing complications.
"Visual intelligence allows early identification of structural gaps.”
Impact on Matter Velocity
Visual intelligence drives faster execution by cutting down revision cycles, manual updates, and formatting tasks. Professionals report faster results and clearer client communication—especially in high pressure, time-sensitive matters.
100% of users
Client Engagement
Visual intelligence is transforming the quality of conversations professionals have with their clients. By visualizing deal structures, teams can clarify complexity, align strategy, and enhance decision-making, shifting the dynamic from transactional delivery to true collaboration.
Business Development
100% state that visual intelligence software has improved their ability to win new business.
Adoption Trends
Visual intelligence is gaining traction across the legal landscape. Usage data from 2023 to April 2025 reveals how adoption patterns vary by practice area, professional role, and firm-wide integration.
300%
Growth of users regularly creating visuals in the first four months of 2025—compared to 12% of users creating visuals in 2023-2024.
Roles
Visual intelligence is used across all professional levels. Junior lawyers and paralegals build detailed diagrams to support internal workflows, while partners use those visuals to guide strategy and client communication. Executives and senior leaders—including C-suite and practice heads—are also active users, reflecting the platform’s growing role in high-level decision-making.
Attorney
Assistant
Percentage of Total Projects
Executive Management/Partner
Paralegal
IT
Innovation & Knowledge Manager
Operations
Document Production
Business Development
Compliance
Top Roles by Visual Intelligence Software Usage
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Practice Areas
Roles
31.5%
Corporate, tax, and banking accounts for the largest share of use cases, with visual intelligence tools gaining traction in compliance, dispute resolution, IP, and business development teams.
52%
13%
11%
8%
5%
4%
4%
2%
1%
1%
Practice Areas
Visual intelligence has moved beyond niche use cases into firm-wide adoption. It now powers thousands of projects across corporate, tax, banking, and compliance teams—plus practice management groups, who now create as many diagrams as billable professionals. This shift marks visual intelligence as core infrastructure, not just a point solution.
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Practice Areas Creating Visual Intelligence Projects
% of total visual intelligence projects
Practice Management
Corporate
Tax
Banking
Finance & Securities
Dispute Resolution
Intellectual Property
Regulatory & Government
Competition
Real Estate
22%
22%
14%
13%
6%
5%
5%
5%
5%
4%
Conclusion
As legal work becomes more complex, the firms that thrive will evolve beyond static documentation and fragmented tools. Visual intelligence software represents a fundamental shift in how professionals engage with information, moving from reactive workflows to proactive, data-connected environments where clarity, speed, and insight are built in. Firms that embrace this shift today will not only improve how they deliver services but also redefine what excellence looks like in the next era of legal work.
About StructureFlow
StructureFlow redefines how professionals work with complex business information. Its visual intelligence platform turns static diagrams into dynamic, data-connected models that enable real-time collaboration, deeper insights, and faster execution. It transforms the way complex structures are understood and communicated, making it easier to deliver accurate advice, meet client expectations, and bring more strategic value to every deal. Built for how people fundamentally understand complex information, StructureFlow is advancing two-way data integrations, seamless communication between systems, and a more visual, intuitive way of working. It’s how to work faster, explain better, and lead with confidence in high-stakes environments. Learn more at www.structureflow.co.
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spent approximately five hours creating visualizations using traditional tools, while the same percentage indicated that they created visualizations at least
50% faster using visual intelligence software.
75% of users
Partner, Banking & Finance
Norton Rose Fulbright
Nick Grandage
Former Director of Innovation
Norton Rose Fulbright
Jeremy Coleman
Partner and Head of Professional Practices Group
Farrer & Co.
Jonathan Haley
"We use it across the board. Very literally, the last two pitch documents I sent out, I got emails back saying, we really love what you’ve done with this, with specific reference to the charts within it. And it made it clear that we understood the transaction from their perspective."
20-40
Average number of entities in a typical project.
Director of Knowledge & Innovation
Freeths LLP
Nick Pryor
"There’s never been more of a focus and an interest in the art of the possible, and the value of bringing alternative disciplines and skill sets in to help build law firms for the future.”
say deals are executed 25% faster when using visual intelligence.
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Entity and Structure Charts
Complex M&A or Group Restructuring
Asset Finance
Fund Waterfall Models
Organization Charts
IP Licensing
Timelines
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2025 Visual Intellegence Report
First-of-Its-Kind Report by StructureFlow Reveals Visual Intelligence Drives 25% Faster Deal Execution
Report highlights shift to proactive, data-driven workflows in legal and finance with 300% surge in adoption, among other key findings
LONDON, August 20, 2025—Legal and financial professionals are rapidly moving beyond static diagrams and dense text documents in favor of dynamic, data-driven visual models, according to the Visual Intelligence Trends Report 2025 released today by StructureFlow. The first-of-its-kind report examines the rise of visual intelligence software—a new category of technology that is fundamentally changing how professionals structure, understand, and execute complex transactions.
Visual intelligence software is transforming how professionals work, shifting from reactive static models to proactive, data-driven workflows. Powered by AI, it automatically captures and connects critical information from enterprise systems, like entities, relationships, assets, and contracts, into living, interactive visual models. These models are fully data-driven and bidirectional, updating seamlessly with changes to source documents or visuals.
Based on surveys and interviews with more than 50 transactional professionals, as well as platform usage analysis across over 60,000 data points from 2023 through April 2025, the report documents a measurable shift in legal, tax, and financial workflows. Among key findings:
Deals are executed 25% faster when using visual intelligence.
Adoption increased 300% in the first four months of 2025 alone.
Corporate, tax, and banking practices led in adoption, with noticeable traction in compliance, dispute resolution, intellectual property, and business development teams.
Attorneys are the primary project creators, responsible for nearly 60% of all projects created from January 2023 to April 2025.
Transaction risks are identified earlier in the process.
In addition to these and other insights, the report’s findings are accompanied by perspectives from industry leaders on how the use of visual intelligence impacts transaction efficiency and velocity, client engagement, and the ability to win new business and differentiate from competitors.
“We use [visual intelligence] as a communication tool, a collaboration tool, with the third parties we work with, clients, accountants, and private equity,” said Nick Pryor, director of knowledge & innovation at Freeths LLP. “There is so much room to grow and put [visual intelligence] in the center of that. The real opportunity is representing and translating data and structure...to be more data-oriented and to find new ways of visualizing and interrogating and working with data. [Visual intelligence] provides more richness in the way in which we solve problems for our clients.”
Once viewed as a niche tool, the report shows that visual intelligence software is used across more than a dozen practice areas and every level of seniority—from paralegals to partners and C-suite leaders. Practice management teams now create as many diagrams as billable professionals, signaling that visual intelligence software is becoming operational infrastructure rather than a point solution.
“Visual intelligence isn’t just better output, it’s a better thinking process,” said Tim Follett, founder and CEO of StructureFlow. “The human brain is wired to make sense of the world through visual information, synthesizing that information into meaning faster and more intuitively than any written explanation—essential for complex, high-stakes environments. Looking ahead, it will underpin the connected firm, acting as the interface between siloed systems, live data, and strategic decision-making.”
About StructureFlow
StructureFlow redefines how professionals work with complex business information. Its visual intelligence platform turns static diagrams into dynamic, data-connected models that enable real-time collaboration, deeper insights, and faster execution. It transforms the way complex structures are understood and communicated, making it easier to deliver accurate advice, meet client expectations, and bring more strategic value to every deal. Built for how people fundamentally understand complex information, StructureFlow is advancing two-way data integrations, seamless communication between systems, and a more visual, intuitive way of working. It’s how to work faster, explain better, and lead with confidence in high-stakes environments. Learn more at www.structureflow.co.
