Genie AI vs LegalOn

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Industry-leading contract review capabilities with clause-by-clause analysis and real-time risk assessment. Strong focus on identifying critical issues and suggesting alternative language.

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

✅ Proprietary NLP and ML technologies specifically trained on legal documents and contracts

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security with encryption in transit and at rest

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type II compliant, ISO 27001 certified

✅ 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.

✅ Regional data centers and strong data sovereignty controls

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

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✅ SSO, multi-factor authentication, and other enterprise security features

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

✅ Granular role-based access controls

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR, CCPA compliant with regular security audits

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

❓ AI-assisted drafting capabilities through LegalOn Draft, though not as central to the platform as review functionality

✅ 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)

✅ Team collaboration features including comments, shared reviews, and approval workflows

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

✅ Market-leading AI-powered contract review with detailed risk assessment, clause detection, and alternative language suggestions

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

✅ Industry-leading contract review capabilities with clause-by-clause analysis and real-time risk assessment. Strong focus on identifying critical issues and suggesting alternative language.

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

✅ Structured workflow capabilities for contract routing, reviews, and approvals

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

❓ Handles standard legal formatting, but primary focus is on content rather than complex styling

❓ 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.

✅ Integration with CLM systems, CRM platforms, and enterprise software

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

✅ Integration with major e-signature platforms including DocuSign

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

✅ Comprehensive reporting on contract review metrics, risk profiles, and team performance

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❓ Basic document assembly capabilities available but not as fully featured as specialized document assembly tools

✅ 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.

✅ AI-powered suggestions for improving contract language and fixing issues identified during review

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

❓ Limited legal research capabilities compared to dedicated research platforms

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

✅ Strong support for contract negotiation with suggested language alternatives and issue tracking

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

✅ Advanced data extraction for key provisions, obligations, and contract metadata

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

❓ Web-based platform accessible on mobile devices but with limited dedicated mobile functionality

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrations with major cloud storage platforms

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community-driven clause library

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

✅ Capability to build and maintain private clause libraries with preferred language

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No community template library

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

✅ Support for creating and maintaining private template libraries

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

✅ Microsoft Word integration for reviewing and editing contracts

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

❓ Some users report challenges with very complex document formatting and tables

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users note steep learning curve and relatively high cost for smaller organizations

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

✅ Email, chat, and phone support with dedicated customer success managers for enterprise clients

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for enterprise clients

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

❓ Structured onboarding process that typically takes 2-4 weeks for full implementation

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2017 - Originally founded in Japan as LegalForce, expanded globally as LegalOn

✅ 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-based platform with Microsoft Word integration

✅ 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 3,000 corporate customers including Fortune 500 companies like Panasonic and Suntory

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Mid-market and enterprise-level legal departments, law firms, and compliance-focused industries

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

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✅ Strong focus on technology, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare industries

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

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✅ Originally focused on Japanese market, now expanded to US and other international markets with multi-language support

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

❓ Subscription-based pricing based on user count and document volume, typically starting at $10,000+ annually for teams

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee for paid 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, thought leadership content, and regional user conferencesTraining: ✅ Comprehensive training materials, webinars, and dedicated customer success supportPrompt Training: ❓ Basic AI training provided but not specialized prompt engineering for legal professionals

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: ❌ No immediate self-serve option; requires account setup and configurationSales: ❓ Typically 3-6 weeks from purchase to full implementation

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ❓ Formal pilot process typically requiring 2-4 weeksImplementation Timeline: ❓ 3-6 weeks from agreement to full implementation

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Enterprise sales approach with demonstrations and custom pricing

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

✅ Claims customers like Fujitsu reduced contract review time by 70% and negotiation cycles by 30%

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

✅ Published case studies citing 70-90% reduction in review time, 30% faster deal closures, and improved risk management