How to choose between GenieAI and Relativity
These two are not substitutes, and anyone telling you to compare them feature by feature is wasting your time. Relativity is an e-discovery platform. It exists to collect, process and review enormous document sets for litigation, investigations and regulatory matters. GenieAI is a contract platform for drafting, reviewing and negotiating the agreements your business signs.
Start with what you are actually trying to do
If you are a commercial team asking which tool should handle your contracts, e-discovery is not the category. Relativity reviews documents that already exist as evidence of what happened. A contract platform works on documents you are still writing and negotiating, where the point is to shape the terms before anyone signs.
When Relativity is the right call
If you are in litigation, an investigation or a regulatory request and need to review hundreds of thousands of documents for relevance and privilege, Relativity is an industry standard and GenieAI is not remotely the right tool. That is specialist work with specialist requirements and it deserves a specialist platform.
When GenieAI is the right call
If your business drafts, reviews and negotiates its own commercial agreements, MSAs, NDAs, DPAs, supplier and customer contracts, then you need a contract platform. GenieAI covers drafting, review and negotiation, rating clauses red, amber or green against your own standard positions so the business can move without waiting on legal for every routine case.
Choosing between GenieAI and Relativity
Choose GenieAI if
- You are a business handling your own commercial contracts
- You want commercial teams self-serving standard agreements while legal keeps control of the positions
- You want clause-level red, amber and green risk flagging against your own playbook
- Your measure of success is contract turnaround time
Consider Relativity if
- If you are in litigation, an investigation or a regulatory request and need to review hundreds of thousands of documents for relevance and privilege, Relativity is an industry standard and GenieAI is not remotely the right tool. That is specialist work with specialist requirements and it deserves a specialist platform.
Where GenieAI is not the answer
GenieAI is a contract platform. If you are a commercial team asking which tool should handle your contracts, e-discovery is not the category. Relativity reviews documents that already exist as evidence of what happened. A contract platform works on documents you are still writing and negotiating, where the point is to shape the terms before anyone signs. We are also not a matter management or client delivery tool for law firms. If the job above is genuinely what you need, buy the tool built for it, not ours.
Relativity alternatives by team type
Who is asking matters more than the feature list. Relativity lands differently for each of the three teams that touch a commercial contract.
Commercial and sales teams
A commercial team comparing Relativity against a contract platform is usually two different problems wearing one budget line. Separate them before you buy.
In-house legal teams
In-house teams should be clear which job is on the table. Relativity does not address commercial contract throughput, so if that is the pain, it is not the purchase that fixes it.
Procurement teams
Procurement teams reviewing supplier paper need standard positions applied consistently and departures flagged. That is a contract review job, and it is worth judging any tool against it directly.
Moving from Relativity to GenieAI
What a move to GenieAI actually involves. We describe only our own side of it: how Relativity handles an export is a question for Relativity.
What GenieAI takes on
- Your templates and clause library, organised so the business can self-serve the standard cases
- Your standard positions, encoded so review flags a clause red, amber or green against what you actually accept
- Drafting, review and negotiation in one place, with tracked changes and real-time collaboration
- Word import and export, with full numbering support and AI auto-styling
Timeline
For our custom plans, setup takes about three days with a guided onboarding plan, and one to two weeks from agreement to full implementation. Many teams keep both, because they were never solving the same problem.
If you want to test it against a live contract before committing, you can start free.
