Genie AI vs iFlytek Law (科大讯飞律师助手)

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Market-leading Mandarin speech recognition and NLP capabilities; specialized court transcription; integration with Chinese legal databases and court systems

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

✅ Advanced AI capabilities specifically optimized for Chinese language legal content; proprietary large language models for legal applications

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures compliant with Chinese cybersecurity regulations

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ Chinese security certifications including information security level protection certification

✅ 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 for Chinese data but subject to Chinese data security laws

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including biometric verification

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

✅ Hierarchical access control aligned with Chinese organizational structures

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with Chinese data protection regulations and industry standards

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

✅ AI-assisted contract drafting with Chinese legal templates and clause suggestions based on local regulations

✅ 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)

❓ Basic collaboration features but lacks the intuitive, real-time collaboration of Western cloud-based solutions

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

✅ Powerful contract analysis tools with risk identification capabilities tailored to Chinese legal framework

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

✅ Market-leading Mandarin speech recognition and NLP capabilities; specialized court transcription; integration with Chinese legal databases and court systems

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

✅ Comprehensive workflow management designed for Chinese legal processes and approval hierarchies

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

✅ Excellent handling of Chinese legal document formatting and structure

❓ 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.

✅ Strong integration with Chinese legal and court systems but limited international integrations

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

✅ E-signature capabilities compliant with Chinese digital signature regulations

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

✅ Detailed analytics focused on legal workflow efficiency and compliance metrics

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ AI-powered document assembly with standardized Chinese legal templates

✅ 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 document editing with strong local language understanding and terminology suggestions

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

✅ Extensive integration with Chinese legal databases, case law, and regulatory information

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

❓ Basic negotiation support tools but less developed than drafting capabilities

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

✅ Advanced OCR capabilities specifically optimized for Chinese characters and legal documents

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Fully featured mobile application with voice command functionality

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

❓ Integration with Chinese cloud storage solutions but limited international options

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community-driven clause library due to focus on standardized Chinese legal templates

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

✅ Ability to create private clause libraries tailored to firm-specific needs

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No community template library, relies on professionally curated templates

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

✅ Comprehensive private template management for organizational use

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

❓ Compatible with Microsoft Word but integration can be complex

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

❓ Occasional formatting issues when converting between Chinese and Western document standards

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Steep learning curve and complex implementation process; limited international capabilities

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

✅ Comprehensive support with phone, chat, and in-person options

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for enterprise clients, particularly government and large law firms

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

❓ Comprehensive but often requires significant time for implementation and training

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2010 - Pioneer in Chinese AI and speech recognition technology

✅ 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 platform with desktop and mobile applications

✅ 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.

✅ Dominant position in Chinese legal AI market with adoption by numerous Chinese courts, law firms, and government legal departments

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

❓ Primarily focused on the Chinese legal market including law firms, courts, and government legal departments

✅ 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 litigation support, court proceedings, and Chinese regulatory compliance

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

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❓ Comprehensive coverage of Chinese law but limited international coverage

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

❓ Subscription-based model with pricing tiers based on feature access and user numbers

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee for enterprise clients

✅ 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 conferences and training events throughout China; active development community for legal AI applicationsTraining: ✅ Extensive training materials, videos, and in-person workshops throughout ChinaPrompt Training: ✅ Regular training sessions on optimizing AI prompts for Chinese 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: ❌ Limited self-serve options; typically requires formal onboardingSales: ❓ 1-2 months typical implementation timeline for full deployment

✅ 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 programs requiring significant organizational commitmentImplementation Timeline: ❓ Typically 1-3 months from purchase to full implementation

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Formal enterprise sales process often involving government relations

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

✅ Helped Beijing courts reduce document processing time by 60% and increase accuracy of legal document classification by 40%

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

✅ Focus on litigation preparation efficiency, transcription accuracy, and document processing time reduction