Genie AI vs Spellbook

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Microsoft Word plugin that allows users to draft, edit, and analyze contracts with AI assistance while staying within familiar Word environment

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

✅ Purpose-built AI for legal contract drafting and analysis; trained on legal documents and continuously refined

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 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.

✅ Clear data privacy policies; doesn't train models on client data without permission

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

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✅ Integrates with Microsoft authentication and SSO options

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

✅ Leverages Microsoft 365's permission structure

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR compliant

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

✅ Strong AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities integrated with Microsoft Word

✅ 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)

❓ Relies on Microsoft Word's native collaboration features rather than offering its own

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

✅ AI-powered contract review with risk identification and clause suggestions

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

✅ Microsoft Word plugin that allows users to draft, edit, and analyze contracts with AI assistance while staying within familiar Word environment

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

❓ Basic workflow capabilities integrated with Microsoft 365

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

✅ Maintains Word's native formatting and styling capabilities

❓ 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 Microsoft 365 ecosystem but limited third-party integrations

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

❓ No native e-signature capabilities, but works with Word documents that can be sent to e-signature platforms

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

❓ Basic usage analytics but not comprehensive contract analytics

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ AI assistance for assembling contracts from clauses and 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.

✅ Robust AI-powered document editing within Microsoft Word environment

❓ 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

✅ Redlining and negotiation assistance tools within Word environment

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

❓ Basic data extraction capabilities, but not a primary focus

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

❓ Limited mobile functionality as primarily designed for desktop Word environment

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrates with Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❓ No extensive community clause library

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

✅ Ability to save and reuse clauses within the system

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❓ No extensive community template library

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

✅ Supports creation and management of private templates

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

✅ Excellent Microsoft Word integration as a native plugin

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

❓ Occasionally introduces formatting inconsistencies when generating new content

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users mention limitations when working outside Microsoft Word environment

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

✅ Email, chat, and phone support options

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for enterprise clients

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

❓ Requires Microsoft Word setup and training

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅Relatively new legal tech company focused on AI

✅ 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

✅ 2022 - Early mover in the Legal GenAI space

✅ 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

❌No clear information on AI model accuracy or research partnerships, unlike Genie's ties to top universities

✅ 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 customer base including AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 legal departments

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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❓ Microsoft Word plugin rather than a native platform

✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

✅Likely cloud-based, similar to Genie

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

✅ Law firms, corporate legal departments, and legal professionals

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

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✅ Versatile across various legal practice areas with focus on transactional law

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

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✅ Global coverage with focus on US market

✅ 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 $49-$69/month per user for basic plans, with enterprise pricing available

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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❓ Standard uptime commitment but not prominently advertised

✅ 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 legal AI implementation; active blog with case studies and best practicesTraining: ✅ Documentation, tutorials, and training sessions availablePrompt Training: ✅ Offers training on crafting effective prompts for legal drafting

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: ❓ Requires email signup and Microsoft Word plugin installationSales: ❓ Typically 1-2 weeks from purchase to implementation

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ✅ Straightforward trial process with guided setupImplementation Timeline: ✅ Quick implementation as a Word plugin, typically days rather than weeks

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

✅ Product-led sales approach with focus on user experience

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

✅ Case studies showing 40% reduction in contract drafting time at mid-sized law firms

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

✅ Metrics on time saved, reduced errors, and improved contract quality