Customer Story

How Sage onboarded multiple teams with minimal training

How the legal team at the UK’s largest technology company involved contributors across the business without slowing anyone down.

Who

Sage is a FTSE 100 company and the largest software business in the UK.

Verification

Annual Report and Sustainability Report.

Insights

Colleagues across several departments were able to get started quickly with minimal training.

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,” says Garside. “We knew this would be crucial when asking stakeholders across the business to use the software.”

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.