Genie AI vs Cetient

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Powerful contract analytics dashboard with comprehensive risk scoring, obligation tracking, and enterprise-wide visibility

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

✅ Purpose-built AI for contract analytics with sophisticated machine learning models for risk identification and obligation tracking

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

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

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, 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.

✅ Robust data sovereignty controls with regional data centers

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including SSO, SAML, and 2FA

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

✅ Granular role-based access controls and permission settings

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with major regulations including GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA

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

❌ Limited native contract drafting capabilities; primarily focused on analysis and management

✅ 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 lacks real-time collaborative editing

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

✅ Extensive AI-powered contract review with detailed risk scoring and clause-level analysis

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

✅ Powerful contract analytics dashboard with comprehensive risk scoring, obligation tracking, and enterprise-wide visibility

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

✅ Sophisticated workflow management with configurable approval chains and status tracking

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

❓ Limited support for complex legal styling within the platform

❓ 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.

✅ Extensive API capabilities and pre-built integrations with major ERP, CRM, and procurement systems

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

✅ Native integration with major e-signature providers

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

✅ Extensive analytics dashboard with customizable reporting and visualization options

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❌ No significant document assembly capabilities

✅ 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-assisted editing features but not a core strength

❓ 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

❓ Provides clause recommendations and risk assessment during negotiations but lacks comprehensive negotiation workflow

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

✅ Advanced OCR and data extraction capabilities for legacy contracts

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

❓ Mobile app available but with limited functionality compared to desktop version

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrates with major cloud storage solutions including SharePoint, Google Drive, and Dropbox

✅ 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

✅ Robust private clause library with AI-powered clause suggestions based on historical patterns

✅ 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

✅ Supports creation and management of private template libraries with version control

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

✅ Microsoft Word plugin for contract review and analysis

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

❓ Some users report formatting issues when moving between the platform and external word processors

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Complex implementation, steep learning curve, and high initial investment

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

✅ Multiple support channels including dedicated customer success managers for enterprise clients

✅ 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 lengthy implementation process, typically 4-8 weeks

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2018 - Early entrant in the AI contract analytics 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

❓ Cloud-based platform with Microsoft Word plugin for some functions

✅ 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 presence among Fortune 1000 companies, particularly in regulated industries

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

❓ Primarily focused on large enterprise legal departments and procurement teams

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

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✅ Strong in financial services, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing

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

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❓ Primarily focused on US markets with growing international capabilities

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

❓ Enterprise pricing based on contract volume and user seats, typically starting at $50,000+ annually

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee for all clients

✅ 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 user summits and webinars, but more limited community engagement compared to competitorsTraining: ✅ Extensive training materials including certification programs for power usersPrompt Training: ❓ Basic AI training provided but limited focus on 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 full sales and implementation processSales: ❓ 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 resource commitmentImplementation Timeline: ❓ 4-8 weeks typical implementation timeline for enterprise deployments

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Traditional enterprise sales cycle with multiple stakeholder engagements

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

✅ Global pharmaceutical company reduced contract review time by 65% and identified $3.2M in cost savings through obligation analysis

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

✅ Average 40% reduction in contract review time; 55% improvement in risk identification; 30% reduction in compliance issues