Genie AI vs Bayan AI

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Arabic-English bilingual capabilities; MENA region legal compliance expertise; specialized for Middle Eastern legal systems

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

✅ AI models specifically trained on Arabic and English legal documents with MENA regional legal expertise

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security with regional data compliance

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ ISO27001 compliant with additional regional security certifications

✅ 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.

✅ Strong data sovereignty controls with data centers in the MENA region

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including regional identity verification

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

✅ Granular access control features suited to regional organizational hierarchies

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with regional data protection regulations and international standards

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

❓ Basic contract drafting capabilities with focus on Arabic-English bilingual 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)

❓ Standard collaboration features but not as advanced as platforms built around real-time collaboration

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

✅ Strong AI-powered contract review focused on bilingual (Arabic-English) documents with regional compliance checks

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

✅ Arabic-English bilingual capabilities; MENA region legal compliance expertise; specialized for Middle Eastern legal systems

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

✅ Workflow management designed for MENA region approval processes

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

✅ Supports complex legal styling including bilingual formatting and right-to-left text

❓ 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.

❓ Limited integrations with primarily regional legal and business tools

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

✅ Integrated e-signature capabilities compliant with regional regulations

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

✅ Analytics dashboard with insights on contract risks and compliance issues in MENA context

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❓ Basic document assembly features with templates specialized for MENA region legal requirements

✅ 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-assisted document editing with bilingual capabilities but less advanced than pure AI-native platforms

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

✅ Specialized legal research capabilities for MENA region legal frameworks including Sharia law considerations

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

❓ Basic negotiation support tools with bilingual capabilities

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

✅ Advanced OCR capabilities for Arabic text and legal documents

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-optimized interface supporting both Arabic and English

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integration with common cloud storage platforms and regional alternatives

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❓ Limited community clause library focused on MENA-specific legal clauses

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

✅ Private clause library with bilingual capabilities for organization-specific content

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❓ Small but growing template library for MENA-specific documents

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

✅ Private template library supporting both Arabic and English documents

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

✅ Microsoft Word integration supporting right-to-left Arabic text and bilingual documents

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

❓ Some challenges with mixed Arabic-English formatting in complex documents

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users note limitation in handling complex multilingual documents beyond Arabic-English

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

✅ Support in both Arabic and English through email, chat, and phone

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for enterprise clients

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

❓ Guided onboarding with bilingual support, typically taking 1-2 weeks

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2022 - Early AI legal solution focused on MENA region

✅ 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

✅ Web-based platform with Microsoft Word plugin capabilities

✅ 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.

✅ Growing presence in MENA region with clients across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and other Gulf countries

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Law firms and corporate legal departments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

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

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✅ Focus on industries prevalent in the MENA region including oil & gas, construction, financial services, and government

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

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✅ Specialized in Middle Eastern jurisdictions (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc.) with Islamic law considerations

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

❓ Subscription-based pricing starting around $2,000-5,000 annually per user, with enterprise options available

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.5% 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: ✅ Regional legal tech events in major MENA cities; webinars on legal AI in Arabic and EnglishTraining: ✅ Bilingual training materials and personalized sessionsPrompt Training: ✅ Training on prompting in both Arabic and English for legal contexts

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: ❓ Basic self-serve options but full value requires onboardingSales: ❓ 2-4 weeks from purchase to implementation with regional customizations

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ❓ Structured pilot process with focus on regional use casesImplementation Timeline: ❓ Typically 2-4 weeks from purchase to full implementation

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Relationship-focused sales process common in MENA business culture

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

✅ Major Saudi law firm reduced bilingual contract review time by 45%, saving approximately 12 hours weekly

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

✅ Average 45% time savings on bilingual contract review; particular strength in region-specific compliance checks