Genie AI vs Otter.ai

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Real-time transcription with speaker identification, automated meeting summaries, action item extraction, and integration with major video conferencing platforms

✅ Lawyer-supported AI and ML at the core of the platform

✅ Advanced speech recognition AI using deep learning, natural language processing, and speaker diarization technology

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security with end-to-end encryption

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type II compliant

✅ You own the IP of your data. We don't train our models on your data. None of our partners train their models on your data.

✅ GDPR compliant with options for data retention controls

❓ Multiple authentication options (coming soon) (request this feature)

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✅ SSO, two-factor authentication, and other enterprise security options

✅ Granular user permissions and access control features (document level, project level, organization level, party level)

✅ Granular access controls for shared content and team management

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA compliant

✅ Industry-leading AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities (all expected provisions and sections over 20 pages)

❌ No contract drafting capabilities as the platform focuses on meeting transcription rather than document creation

✅ Built-in real-time collaboration features just like Office365 or Google Docs (No need to download your red-lined version, and make it editable, then send it on - it's all doable within Genie)

✅ Robust collaboration features including shared workspaces, collaborative editing, commenting, and highlighting of transcripts

✅ Powerful AI-driven contract analysis, red/amber/green flag reviews every clause (industry-leading improvements coming in 2025)

❌ No contract review functionality

✅ Manage your projects and organise your own template and clause library

✅ Real-time transcription with speaker identification, automated meeting summaries, action item extraction, and integration with major video conferencing platforms

❓ No 'dumb' automated workflows. Agentic workflows coming in 2025

❓ Basic workflow capabilities through action item tracking but lacks formal approval processes

✅ Full numbering support + AI auto-styling and formatting (coming soon)

❌ No specialized legal formatting capabilities

❓ Not integrated with legal and business tools beyond full .docx compatibility. If you can use a word doc with it, you can use Genie with it.

✅ Extensive integrations with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, and various calendar applications

❓ Just export to .docx and use your existing provider (request this feature)

❌ No e-signature capabilities

✅ Company and user level reporting and analytics (on request)

✅ Provides meeting analytics, word clouds, and engagement metrics

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❌ No document assembly features

✅ Market-leading AI-powered document editing: Ask Genie to edit your styling, reformat a table, or suggestion new clause text. As tracked changes, and private per party. Genie assists with and automates entire workflows, it doesn't just produce text responses.

❓ Limited to editing and annotating transcriptions rather than legal documents

❓ Top-level AI Legal Research available as AI chat within the legal document, some prompting required (request this feature)

❌ No legal research capabilities or integrations

✅ Negotiation tools for multi-party clause-by-clause agreements

❌ No negotiation tools or features

❓ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities (request this feature)

✅ Strong audio-to-text conversion but limited document OCR capabilities

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Comprehensive mobile apps for iOS and Android with full functionality

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox, and other cloud storage solutions

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No clause library as not focused on legal documentation

Coming soon - ✅ A library of your private clauses usable only by your legal team

❌ Not applicable to platform functionality

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No template library

✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie

❌ Not applicable to platform functionality

✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word, full styling, tables, formatting compatibility

❓ Can export transcripts to Word format but no deep integration with Word

✅ No known issues (Pre-formatted templates, consistent formatting, tables, cross-version compatibility)

❓ Some users report issues with formatting when exporting to different document types

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Occasional accuracy issues with heavy accents or background noise; limited offline capabilities

✅ Multiple support channels available including phone, whatsapp, email and live chat

✅ Email support for all users; priority support and dedicated success managers for Business and Enterprise plans

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for Enterprise customers

✅ For our custom plans, get setup within 3 days with a guided onboarding plan

✅ Self-serve onboarding for basic plans; guided implementation for Enterprise

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2016 - Early innovator in AI-powered speech recognition and transcription

✅ Founded in 2017, deep AI integration from inception. A thick layer built with AI specialists and senior lawyers to ensure the models produce high quality legally customised outputs

✅ Native web and mobile applications with extension capabilities for various platforms

✅ Our AI models are built using proprietary intelligence and research supported by UCL, Imperial College London and Oxford University. Rigorous testing process to ensure the outputs are accurate

✅ Over 110,000 companies have registered to use the Genie platform in total, including 11 FTSE100 firms, 20 Global200 firms, a number of top US banks, and two of the ‘big four’ UK supermarket chains.

✅ Over 10 million users worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Dropbox, and Zoom

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

✅ Suitable for in-house legal, law firms, and SMEs

✅ Businesses of all sizes, educational institutions, journalists, researchers, and individuals who regularly participate in meetings

✅ Built as a platform which is versatile across various industries. Focus areas are construction, manufacturing, consultancy and legal services.

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✅ Cross-industry application with particular adoption in business, education, media, and technology sectors

✅ 120+ jurisdictions including the UK, California, Texas, India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, France, and Germany.

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✅ Global service with support for multiple languages including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese

✅ Generous free plan. Transparent subscription plans to suit different needs. Custom plans for orgs handling more than 10 documents per month.

✅ Free plan with limited features. Pro plan: $16.99/month. Business plan: $30/user/month. Enterprise: Custom pricing.

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime for Business and Enterprise plans

✅ Fortnightly legal prompt training sessions from ex-Clifford Chance Legal Engineers;

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There's also an active Slack community (join now)

Community & events: ✅ Regular webinars, user meetups, and educational content on maximizing productivity with transcription toolsTraining: ✅ Comprehensive help center, tutorials, webinars, and knowledge basePrompt Training: ❓ Basic training on using voice commands but not focused on complex prompt engineering

Self-Serve: ✅ 1-click, no email address required, no card required
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Sales: ✅ 2-3 weeks from pilot to full team adoption

Self-serve: ✅ Immediate value with simple sign-up process and intuitive interfaceSales: ✅ Quick enterprise deployment typically within 1-2 weeks

✅ Simple 3-step process: try with your document, explore your scenarios, receive 360° assessment

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ✅ Streamlined pilot process for Enterprise prospects with custom success metricsImplementation Timeline: ✅ Immediate for individuals; 1-2 weeks for enterprise deployment

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

✅ Primarily self-serve with sales team support for larger organizations

✅ Firefish reduced contract review time by 50%, from 2.5 hrs to 1.25 hrs per document, saving 15+ hrs weekly per person

✅ UCLA saved 40+ hours per month on lecture transcription and note-taking across departments

✅ Average 60% time savings on contract drafting; 50% reduction in review cycles; ROI typically 3x cost

✅ Average 30-40% time savings on meeting documentation and follow-up; ROI typically 2-3x cost for business users