Genie AI vs AbacusNext

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Integrated ecosystem combining practice management, document automation, and payment processing; cloud hosting options with strong security focus

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

❓ Limited native AI capabilities; primarily focused on traditional document automation rather than AI-powered drafting or analysis

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures with encryption

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type II compliant data centers

✅ 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 regional data centers

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including two-factor authentication

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

✅ Granular user permissions and access controls

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with major privacy regulations including GDPR

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

❓ Template-based document assembly through HotDocs, but lacking advanced AI-powered drafting features

✅ 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 within practice management, but limited real-time collaboration in document creation

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

❌ No significant AI-powered contract review capabilities

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

✅ Integrated ecosystem combining practice management, document automation, and payment processing; cloud hosting options with strong security focus

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

✅ Comprehensive workflow management within practice management solutions

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

✅ Supports complex legal styling and formatting through HotDocs

❓ 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 numerous legal and business tools, particularly strong within the AbacusNext ecosystem

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

✅ Integrated e-signature capabilities

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

✅ Extensive reporting and analytics for practice management, billing, and productivity

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Strong document assembly capabilities through HotDocs, with advanced template creation and complex conditional logic

✅ 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.

❌ No significant AI-powered document editing features

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

❌ No native legal research capabilities

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

❌ No specialized negotiation support tools

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

❓ Basic OCR capabilities but not specialized for legal document analysis

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile apps available for practice management solutions

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integration with common cloud storage providers

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community clause library

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

❓ Document templates can be stored but not specifically designed as a clause library

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No community template library

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

✅ Robust template creation and management through HotDocs

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

✅ Strong integration with Microsoft Word through HotDocs

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

❓ Some users report challenges with complex document formatting across different systems

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Users sometimes report steep learning curves, complex implementation, and challenges with integrating different modules

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

✅ Multiple support channels including phone, email, and online portal

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for enterprise clients

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

❓ Comprehensive but requires significant implementation time

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 1983 - Long-established legal technology provider with decades of industry experience

✅ 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

❓ Combination of cloud-based applications and desktop software with plugins for Microsoft Office

✅ 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.

✅ Thousands of law firms and professional services organizations, particularly strong in small to mid-sized firms

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Law firms (especially small to mid-sized), professional services firms, and financial services

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

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✅ Legal, accounting, and financial services

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

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✅ Primarily North America, with some international presence

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

❓ Subscription-based pricing with various tiers based on features and users; typically ranges from $50-150 per user per month for practice management, with additional costs for document automation

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee for cloud-hosted solutions

✅ 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 industry webinars, user conferences, and training eventsTraining: ✅ Comprehensive documentation, webinars, and training resourcesPrompt Training: ❌ No AI prompt training (not applicable to their current product offering)

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 1-3 months from purchase to full implementation

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ❓ Formal pilot process requiring significant commitment of time and resourcesImplementation Timeline: ❓ Typically 1-3 months from purchase to full implementation

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Traditional sales cycle with demos and needs assessment

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

✅ Cases of law firms reducing document creation time by 80% through HotDocs automation

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

❓ Metrics typically focus on overall practice efficiency rather than specifically document creation metrics