GenieAI vs Clearbrief

These two tools solve different shapes of contract problem. The questions below tell you which one you have.

Questions worth asking before you choose

• Is your team's core problem verifying citations and strengthening arguments inside litigation briefs and court filings? Clearbrief is built for that. It was created by a litigator specifically for citation accuracy in legal briefs, so choose Clearbrief for litigation writing.
• Do you need to draft, review, negotiate and manage commercial contracts across your business? Choose GenieAI. It drafts and reviews contracts with clause-specific risk assessments, supports negotiation and manages your template and clause library, none of which Clearbrief is designed to do.
• Do you want one platform that takes a contract from first draft through redlines, real-time collaboration and approval workflow? Choose GenieAI. It automates entire contract workflows end to end, whereas Clearbrief focuses on improving individual litigation documents rather than running contract processes.

Choose GenieAI if

• Review needs to be actionable by the business, not just accurate. GenieAI rates clauses red, amber or green against your own positions, so a commercial lead can see what to challenge without waiting for a lawyer to interpret it.
• You want the whole contract in one place, whether or not you draft today. GenieAI covers review and negotiation and drafting. Many teams start with review alone and add drafting later.
• Your team works in Word. The Word add-in puts review and drafting where the documents already live, with styling and numbering intact.
• A commercial, procurement or operations lead is doing the work, not a lawyer.
• You run project-based work where value concentrates in a few large agreements, as in construction, energy, mining, technology and real estate. A single missed indemnity or variation clause costs more than the whole review process.
• Where contract data sits matters. GenieAI is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, set out on our security page.

Consider Clearbrief if

• Clearbrief is genuinely built for litigators who need to verify citations and pressure-test arguments in briefs and court filings, a courtroom writing problem rather than a commercial contracting one.

Where GenieAI is not the answer

• You are a law firm delivering billable client matters. GenieAI is built for the legal work a business does on its own contracts, including a firm's own commercial paperwork. It is not a matter-management or client-delivery tool.
• If your team's work is purely litigation, drafting briefs and checking citations for court, rather than handling commercial contracts, GenieAI is not the right fit and a litigation writing tool suits that shape of need better.

Which alternative fits depends less on the feature list than on who is blocked.

Best for commercial and sales teams

The bottleneck is legal review time on standard sales agreements. GenieAI lets the commercial team draft and send inside guardrails legal sets, so legal sees the exceptions rather than everything.

Best for in-house legal

The bottleneck is routine volume reaching a small team. Teams at this stage typically compare GenieAI, Clearbrief, Spellbook, Luminance. The deciding question is usually whether review output can be acted on by the business itself, or whether every flagged clause still routes back to legal.

Best for procurement and supplier contracts

Paper arrives on the counterparty's terms and has to be reviewed and negotiated against your standard positions. The question is whether the tool knows what your positions are, not just what the document says.

You do not need to arrive with anything prepared. We do the work with you.

What we handle

• Bringing your agreements across. You do not need to sort, clean or categorise anything first. We take what you have in whatever state it is in.
• Turning your positions into a playbook. Most teams have never written these down, and that is completely normal. We draw them out in a working session and turn them into something the system enforces.
• Your templates, formatting intact. They come over in Word with complex legal styling, numbering and clause formatting preserved, so nothing needs rebuilding.

What changes in week one

Review output comes back rated against your positions rather than a generic standard, so a commercial colleague can act on it directly instead of forwarding it to legal. Review, negotiation and drafting sit in one place, so the same tool covers the contract for as long as you need it.