Genie AI vs Smokeball

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Automatic time tracking that captures all billable activities; comprehensive matter management; Microsoft Office integration with document automation

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

❓ Limited AI capabilities compared to AI-native platforms; focuses more on automation than true AI

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ AES-256 encryption for data at rest and in transit

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type II 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.

✅ Regional data centers with strong privacy controls

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

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✅ Multi-factor authentication, SSO options

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

✅ Granular user permissions and role-based access controls

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ GDPR and CCPA compliant

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

✅ Document automation with templates and form-filling capabilities, but limited AI-powered 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)

✅ Built-in client portal and team collaboration features, but not real-time collaborative editing

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

❓ Basic document management but limited AI-powered contract analysis

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

✅ Automatic time tracking that captures all billable activities; comprehensive matter management; Microsoft Office integration with document automation

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

✅ Strong workflow management with task assignment, deadlines, and notifications

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

✅ Supports complex legal styling and formatting through Microsoft Word integration

❓ 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 Office, QuickBooks, LawPay, and several other legal tech tools

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

✅ Native e-signature capabilities included

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

✅ Robust reporting on productivity, profitability, and matter status

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Solid document assembly features with Microsoft Word and Outlook integration

✅ 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.

❓ Limited AI-powered editing capabilities; relies more on templates and manual editing

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

❓ No native legal research capabilities; requires integration with other tools

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

❓ Limited negotiation tools compared to specialized contract platforms

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

❓ Basic OCR capabilities but not advanced data extraction

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Dedicated mobile apps for iOS and Android with core functionality

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

❓ Limited cloud storage integrations; primarily uses its own document management system

✅ 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

✅ Ability to create and store firm-specific clauses and templates

✅ 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

✅ Comprehensive private template management with version control

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

✅ Deep integration with Microsoft Word, including document automation

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

❓ Some users report occasional issues with complex document formatting

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users note steep learning curve and occasional performance issues

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

✅ Phone, email, and chat support; dedicated support team

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for all clients as part of standard service

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

✅ Comprehensive onboarding with dedicated implementation specialist; typically 2-4 weeks

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2010 - Established player in legal practice management

✅ 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

✅ Desktop-native application with cloud synchronization

✅ 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 small to mid-size law firms, particularly strong in US and Australia

✅ 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-size law firms (typically 2-30 attorneys)

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

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✅ Strong focus on family law, personal injury, estate planning, real estate, and business law

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

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✅ US, Australia, focused primarily on common law jurisdictions

✅ 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 at approximately $199 per user per month; requires annual commitment

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee

✅ 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, training sessions, and regional user conferences; active user communityTraining: ✅ Extensive training resources, including live training sessions, video tutorials, and knowledge basePrompt Training: ❓ Traditional software training but not AI prompt engineering

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 self-serve option; requires guided implementationSales: ❓ Typically 3-6 weeks 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 implementation process rather than simple pilotImplementation Timeline: ❓ 2-4 weeks from agreement to full implementation

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Traditional sales cycle with demos and consultative approach

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

✅ Reported cases of firms increasing revenue by 30%+ through better time tracking and billing

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

✅ Metrics focus on practice efficiency and revenue growth rather than document-specific time savings