Genie AI vs Contractbook

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Full contract lifecycle management from creation to signing, storage, and renewal management; clean UI with comprehensive data insights

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

❓ Offers AI features for contract creation and analysis, but not built as an AI-first platform compared to newer entrants

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Enterprise-grade security with end-to-end encryption

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ ISO27001 certified and GDPR 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.

✅ Options for data residency and strong privacy controls

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including SSO and 2FA

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

✅ Granular role-based access control

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR, CCPA, and other major privacy regulations compliant

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

✅ Template-based contract creation with some AI-assisted capabilities for drafting and customization

✅ 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)

✅ Real-time collaboration, commenting, and approval features within the platform

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

✅ Basic AI-powered contract analysis and risk identification, though not as sophisticated as specialist review tools

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

✅ Full contract lifecycle management from creation to signing, storage, and renewal management; clean UI with comprehensive data insights

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

✅ Comprehensive workflow management with automated approval processes and task assignment

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

❓ Handles basic to moderate formatting needs, may struggle with highly complex legal documents

❓ 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.

✅ Wide range of integrations including Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and payment platforms

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

✅ Native e-signature capabilities fully integrated into the platform

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

✅ Advanced analytics dashboard providing insights on contract performance, obligations, and team efficiency

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Template-based document assembly with customizable fields and clauses

✅ 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.

❓ Basic AI assistance for editing, but focuses more on workflow than advanced AI editing capabilities

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

❌ No integrated legal research capabilities

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

✅ Redlining and version control features with collaboration tools for negotiation

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

✅ Data extraction capabilities to gather insights from contract repositories

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-responsive interface with dedicated mobile apps for iOS and Android

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrations with Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and other storage solutions

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❓ Limited community clause library compared to open-source alternatives

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

✅ Ability to create and maintain private clause libraries

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

✅ Growing library of standard templates for common contract types

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

✅ Strong capabilities for creating and maintaining private template libraries

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

✅ Integration with Microsoft Word, though primarily focused on its native editor

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

❓ Some users report limitations when importing complex documents with specialized formatting

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users mention limitations in customization and complex document handling

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

✅ Email, chat, and phone support with knowledge base

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for Enterprise plans

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

✅ Structured onboarding process with dedicated customer success team for larger customers

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2015 - Among the early entrants in the modern contract management space

✅ 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 Microsoft Word integration

✅ 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.

✅ Over 250,000 users across 2,000+ companies globally, including notable clients like Pleo, Atheneum, and Good Monday

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Businesses of all sizes, particularly SMEs, in-house legal teams, and sales teams

✅ 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 industries with particular strength in technology, professional services, and SaaS

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

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✅ Global with strong presence in Europe and North America

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

✅ Tiered subscription model starting at $39/month for basic features, with Professional ($139/month) and Enterprise (custom pricing) tiers available

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee for all plans

✅ 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, educational content, and community resources; active blog featuring contract management insightsTraining: ✅ Comprehensive documentation, webinars, and training sessionsPrompt Training: ❓ Basic training on platform functionality but limited AI prompt engineering training

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: ✅ Quick self-service setup available for small teams with template-based approachSales: ❓ Typically 2-4 weeks from purchase to implementation for enterprise clients

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ✅ Straightforward pilot process with guided implementationImplementation Timeline: ❓ 1-4 weeks depending on organization size and complexity

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

✅ Product-led growth with self-service options and consultative sales for enterprise

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

✅ Pleo reduced contract processing time by 75% and improved compliance tracking

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

✅ Reports average 80% reduction in admin time and 32% faster contract closing times