Genie AI vs SafeSign

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Simple, secure electronic signature solution with workflow automation and audit trails; mobile-friendly signing experience

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

❌ Limited AI capabilities, primarily focused on workflow automation rather than document intelligence

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Document encryption in transit and at rest

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type II compliant, working toward ISO27001

✅ 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.

✅ Regional data centers available for GDPR compliance and data sovereignty requirements

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including SSO, 2FA, and biometric verification

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

✅ Role-based permissions system with detailed access controls

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA compliant, and meets eIDAS and UETA/ESIGN requirements for electronic signatures

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

❌ Basic template-based document creation without AI assistance for drafting

✅ 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 document sharing and commenting features, but lacking real-time collaboration

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

❌ No AI-powered contract analysis or review capabilities

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

✅ Simple, secure electronic signature solution with workflow automation and audit trails; mobile-friendly signing experience

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

✅ Strong workflow automation for approval routing and signature collection

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

❌ Limited support for complex legal document 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.

✅ Integrations with CRM systems, payment processors, and popular business tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and major accounting platforms

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

✅ Core product offering with legally binding electronic signatures, audit trails, and multiple authentication methods

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

✅ Comprehensive reporting on signature status, contract metrics, and user activity

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❓ Template-based document assembly with limited customization options

✅ 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 AI document editing capabilities; standard text editor only

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

❌ No legal research capabilities or integrations

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

❓ Basic version control and comment features, but no AI-powered negotiation support

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

✅ OCR capabilities for document scanning and data extraction from forms

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Excellent mobile experience with responsive design and dedicated mobile apps

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrates with major cloud storage providers including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive

✅ 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

❓ Basic template storage but not a true 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

✅ Ability to create and store document templates for reuse

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

❓ Can import/export Word documents but lacks deep integration with Word's editing features

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

❓ Some users report formatting issues when converting between file types

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users mention limitations in template customization and advanced document features

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

✅ Email, chat, and phone support available depending on plan level

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available with Enterprise plans

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

✅ Guided onboarding with dedicated specialist for Enterprise clients; self-service for smaller plans

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2016 - Established player in the electronic signature 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 some integrations for popular business tools

✅ 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.

❓ Growing user base of over 100,000 users, primarily in SMB market with some enterprise adoption

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Small to mid-sized businesses, professional services firms, and departments within larger enterprises

✅ 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 most industries, with particular strength in professional services, real estate, and financial services

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

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✅ Compliant with electronic signature regulations in North America, Europe, and parts of Asia-Pacific

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

❓ Tiered subscription model: Basic ($15/month per user), Business ($30/month per user), Enterprise (custom pricing)

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee on all paid 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: ❓ Quarterly webinars on contract management best practices; limited community engagementTraining: ✅ Knowledge base, video tutorials, and regular webinarsPrompt Training: ❌ No AI prompt training offered

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 signup process with immediate access to core functionalitySales: ❓ 1-2 weeks from purchase to implementation for standard deployments

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ❓ Limited pilot options available for enterprise clientsImplementation Timeline: ✅ 1-7 days from purchase to full implementation for most clients

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Mix of self-service for smaller clients and traditional sales process for enterprise deals

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

✅ Regional law firm reduced contract signing time by 75%, from 5 days to less than 24 hours

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

✅ Average 60% reduction in time-to-signature; 40% decrease in administrative overhead; 30% reduction in paper costs