Genie AI vs Sonix

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Automated transcription with 90%+ accuracy; automated translation in 40+ languages; speaker identification; integrations with conferencing platforms; collaborative editing features

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

✅ AI-powered automatic speech recognition technology, natural language processing for speaker identification, and machine learning for continuous accuracy improvements

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Data encrypted in transit and at rest

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type 2 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 deletion

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

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✅ SSO, 2FA, and standard login options

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

✅ Team-level access controls and permission settings

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR, CCPA compliant

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

❌ No contract drafting capabilities (focus is on transcription only)

✅ 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)

✅ Collaborative transcript editing features with commenting, highlighting, and team workspace

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

❌ No contract review capabilities

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

✅ Automated transcription with 90%+ accuracy; automated translation in 40+ languages; speaker identification; integrations with conferencing platforms; collaborative editing features

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

✅ Basic workflow for transcript review and approval

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

❓ Basic text formatting but not specialized for legal documents

❓ 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.

✅ Zapier integration, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, REV, and many video editing platforms

❓ 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)

✅ Usage statistics, transcription metrics, and team activity reports

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❌ No document assembly functions

✅ 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.

✅ Collaborative text editor for transcript refinement with AI assistance

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

❌ No legal research capabilities

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

❌ Not applicable to transcription services

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

✅ Excellent automatic data extraction from audio and video files, converts speech to searchable text

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-optimized interface and iOS/Android applications

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Box

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ Not applicable to this service

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

❌ Not applicable to this service

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ Not applicable to this service

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

❌ Not applicable to this service

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

✅ Export to .docx format

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

❓ May require manual formatting for specialized legal document structures

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Occasional issues with heavy accents or poor audio quality; some specialized terminology requiring manual corrections

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

✅ Email support, chat support, knowledge base, and phone support for enterprise clients

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for Enterprise plans

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

✅ Self-serve onboarding with optional guided setup for enterprise clients

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2017 - Early AI-powered transcription solution

✅ 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 API options for 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.

✅ Used by thousands of businesses worldwide including Fortune 500 companies, universities, and media organizations

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Content creators, media companies, researchers, educational institutions, legal professionals, and businesses of all sizes

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

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✅ Media, education, legal, market research, podcasting

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

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✅ Global service with support for 40+ languages

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

✅ Pay-as-you-go starting at $8/hour of audio; Monthly plans from $10/month (5 hours) to $70/month (50 hours); Enterprise plans for high-volume users

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee

✅ 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 on transcription best practices and product updates; blog content with use cases; user community forumTraining: ✅ Comprehensive tutorials, guides, and knowledge base articlesPrompt Training: ❓ Basic usage training but not specialized for legal or 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 access with credit card sign-up, free trial availableSales: ✅ 1-2 days for enterprise setup

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ✅ Simple trial process with option to test with your own audio/video filesImplementation Timeline: ✅ Immediate for self-serve; 1-3 days for enterprise setup

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

✅ Self-serve for individuals and small teams; consultative approach for enterprise needs

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

✅ Universities reducing transcription time for lectures by 90%; Podcast networks streamlining production workflows; Law firms cutting deposition processing time by 75%

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

✅ Average 80% time savings on transcription; 50-75% cost reduction compared to human transcription services