Genie AI vs Sudowrite

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Advanced AI-powered creative writing assistance with specialized tools for character development, plot structures, and descriptive enhancements

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

✅ Sophisticated AI models specifically trained on creative writing and storytelling techniques

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Standard encryption for data in transit and at rest

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

❓ Limited information on formal 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.

✅ Privacy policies in place but not specifically tailored for legal document handling

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

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✅ Standard login authentication

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

❓ Basic access controls but not enterprise-grade

✅ 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)

❌ No contract drafting capabilities or legal document creation functionality

✅ 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 limited compared to document-specific collaboration platforms

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

❌ No contract review or analysis features

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

✅ Advanced AI-powered creative writing assistance with specialized tools for character development, plot structures, and descriptive enhancements

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

❌ No workflow management or approval processes for business documents

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

❌ No support for complex legal styling or formatting

❓ 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 beyond storage solutions

❓ 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)

❓ Basic writing statistics but no business-focused analytics

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❓ Basic document creation but not specialized for legal or business documents

✅ 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.

✅ Advanced AI-powered editing focused on narrative flow, language enhancement, and creative expression

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

❌ No legal research capabilities or integration with legal databases

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

❌ No negotiation tools or collaborative features for contract discussions

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

❌ No data extraction or OCR capabilities

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-optimized web interface

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integration with Google Docs and Dropbox

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No clause library or legal templates

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

❌ No private clause library functionality

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No business or legal template library

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

❌ No private template functionality

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

❓ Export to Word but limited integration with Microsoft Office

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

❓ Focus on plain text content with limited formatting options

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Occasional comments about word limits and subscription costs

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

✅ Email support and help documentation

✅ Available with our custom plans

❌ No dedicated account managers

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

✅ Self-guided onboarding with tutorials

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2020 - Founded by former Lyft executives Amit Gupta and James Yu

✅ 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 web-based platform with a clean, intuitive interface

✅ 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.

✅ Popular among creative writers with tens of thousands of users

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Creative writers, novelists, screenwriters, and content creators

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

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✅ Creative writing, fiction, narrative content

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

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❌ No legal jurisdictional coverage; not designed for legal documentation

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

✅ Subscription plans: Hobby ($10/month), Professional ($19/month), and Max ($29/month) with different word limits and feature sets

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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❓ No published uptime guarantee information

✅ 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: ✅ Online writing community, webinars, and educational content focused on creative writing techniquesTraining: ✅ Comprehensive guides, tutorials, and examples focused on creative writingPrompt Training: ✅ Tips and guidance for effective prompt engineering for creative content

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: ✅ Immediate access with free trial, no credit card requiredSales: ✅ Immediate access to full functionality after subscription

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ✅ Free trial serves as self-guided pilotImplementation Timeline: ✅ Immediate implementation with no setup required

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

✅ Self-service subscription model with transparent pricing

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

✅ Multiple published authors cite Sudowrite as integral to their creative process and productivity

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

✅ Users report 40-50% faster first drafts and reduced writer's block incidents