Genie AI vs Lex Machina

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Comprehensive litigation analytics and court data; AI-powered case outcome predictions; attorney and judge analytics; customizable dashboards

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

✅ Advanced AI and natural language processing specifically tailored to litigation analytics; not focused on contract drafting or review

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

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

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ ISO27001 certified through LexisNexis

✅ 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 protection policies as part of LexisNexis RELX Group

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including SSO

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

✅ Role-based access controls and user permissions

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with major regulations including GDPR

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

❌ No contract drafting capabilities

✅ 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 sharing of analytics reports but no real-time collaboration features

✅ 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

✅ Comprehensive litigation analytics and court data; AI-powered case outcome predictions; attorney and judge analytics; customizable dashboards

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

❓ Basic case tracking but not designed for document workflow management

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

❌ Not applicable as not a document creation tool

❓ 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.

✅ Integrates with LexisNexis suite of products; API available for custom integrations

❓ 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)

✅ Industry-leading litigation analytics and custom reports; dashboards for visualizing litigation data

✅ 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.

❌ Not a document editing platform

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

✅ Integrates with LexisNexis research tools for comprehensive litigation research capabilities

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

❌ No negotiation support features

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

✅ Advanced data extraction from court documents and dockets

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-responsive interface for accessing analytics on the go

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

❓ Limited storage integrations primarily with LexisNexis ecosystem

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No clause library functionality

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

❌ No clause library 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

❌ No template library

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

❓ Reports can be exported to various formats but no direct Word integration

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

❌ Not applicable as not a document creation tool

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ High cost, learning curve for analytics features, limited state court coverage

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

✅ Phone, email, and chat support; dedicated customer success managers

✅ 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 with training sessions, typically takes 2-4 weeks

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ Founded in 2015, focused on AI-driven legal research

✅ 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

✅ 2010 - Pioneer in legal analytics for litigation

✅ 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

❓ Specific details on AI accuracy and transparency not highlighted

✅ 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 75% of AmLaw 100 firms and numerous Fortune 500 companies

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based platform with API access options

✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

❓ Deployment options (cloud-based or on-premises) not clarified

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

✅ Law firms (litigation practices), corporate legal departments, insurance companies

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

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✅ Litigation focused, with particular strength in intellectual property, antitrust, securities, employment, commercial, and product liability litigation

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

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✅ Federal courts (all district courts and circuits), expanding state court coverage (currently covers 27 state courts)

✅ 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 at approximately $25,000-$75,000 annually depending on modules, users, and data access

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee for all 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 webinars, CLE programs, annual user conference, and industry-specific training sessionsTraining: ✅ Comprehensive training materials, webinars, and personalized training sessionsPrompt Training: ❓ Training focused on platform usage rather than AI 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: ❌ No immediate self-serve option; requires account setup and trainingSales: ❓ Typically 3-4 weeks from purchase to initial implementation and training

✅ 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 available for larger organizationsImplementation Timeline: ❓ Typically 2-4 weeks from purchase to initial implementation and training

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Traditional enterprise sales approach with consultative process

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

✅ An AmLaw 100 firm used Lex Machina to identify favorable litigation trends for a major client, developing a strategy that led to early settlement saving $2M in litigation costs

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

✅ Metrics focused on litigation outcome improvements, strategic advantages, and more informed decision-making rather than document efficiency