Genie AI vs Lawcus

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Visual workflow automation, customizable pipelines, client portal, and robust matter management capabilities

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

❓ Limited native AI capabilities; focuses more on workflow automation than AI-powered drafting or analysis

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Bank-level encryption for data security

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ SOC 2 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.

✅ Strong data privacy controls and compliant with major regulations

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

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✅ Two-factor authentication and SSO options

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

✅ Granular role-based permissions and 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)

❓ Basic document assembly and automation but lacks sophisticated AI drafting capabilities

✅ 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)

✅ Strong collaboration features including client portal, team messaging, and shared workspaces

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

❓ No specialized AI-powered contract review tools

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

✅ Visual workflow automation, customizable pipelines, client portal, and robust matter management capabilities

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

✅ Excellent visual workflow automation and approval processes with Kanban boards

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

❓ Basic document formatting capabilities but not specialized for complex legal styling

❓ 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 integration ecosystem including QuickBooks, Zapier, LawPay, and calendar applications

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

✅ Native e-signature capabilities and third-party integrations

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

✅ Comprehensive reporting and analytics dashboard with customizable reports

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Document automation through templates and merge fields, but without AI assistance

✅ 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-powered document editing features

❓ 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

❌ No specialized negotiation tools or features

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

❓ Basic document upload but limited automated data extraction capabilities

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-responsive web application and dedicated mobile apps

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Integrates with 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

❓ Can store document templates but not specifically designed for clause management

✅ 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

✅ Robust template management for firm-specific document templates

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

❓ Can work with Word documents but not deeply integrated with Microsoft Word

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

❓ Some users report limitations with complex document templates and formatting

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Some users mention learning curve for full feature utilization and occasional performance issues with large data sets

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

✅ Email, chat, and phone support

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for larger firms and enterprise plans

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

✅ Structured onboarding process with training and data migration assistance

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 2016 - Modern legal practice management software

✅ 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 native platform

✅ 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 among small to mid-sized firms, but not as widespread as larger, established players

✅ 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 law firms and legal practices

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

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✅ Adaptable to various practice areas; particularly strong for litigation, family law, and immigration practices

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

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✅ Primarily US and Canada, with growing international presence

✅ 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 $39/user/month for standard features. Premium features start at $59/user/month. Enterprise pricing available.

✅ 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 dedicated customer success programTraining: ✅ Comprehensive knowledge base, video tutorials, and webinarsPrompt Training: ❌ No AI prompt training (not applicable to their solution)

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: ❓ Free trial available but requires account setup and configurationSales: ❓ Typically 2-4 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: ✅ Easy trial process with optional data migration assistanceImplementation Timeline: ❓ 2-4 weeks typical implementation including training and setup

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

✅ Consultative approach with personalized demos and needs assessment

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

✅ Immigration law firm reduced case processing time by 40% and doubled client intake capacity

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

✅ Average 30% reduction in administrative time; 25% increase in billable hours; improved client satisfaction scores