Genie AI vs PwC

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Comprehensive professional services approach combining legal, tax, and business consulting with technology solutions; global reach with 4,000+ legal professionals in 100+ countries

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

❓ Uses various AI and ML technologies but primarily through partnerships and acquisitions rather than as an AI-native solution

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

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

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ ISO27001, SOC2, and other major security certifications

✅ 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 sovereignty controls with regional data centers and comprehensive privacy protocols

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

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✅ Multiple authentication options including SSO and multi-factor authentication

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

✅ Granular user permissions and sophisticated access controls

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other major privacy regulations

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

❓ Template-based contract automation through Contract Express and similar tools, with some AI functionality, but not built as an AI-first solution

✅ 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)

❓ Limited native real-time collaboration tools compared to newer platforms

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

✅ Advanced contract review capabilities through Kira Systems partnership and proprietary tools

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

✅ Comprehensive professional services approach combining legal, tax, and business consulting with technology solutions; global reach with 4,000+ legal professionals in 100+ countries

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

✅ Comprehensive workflow management through proprietary systems and third-party integrations

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

✅ Supports complex legal styling and formatting requirements

❓ 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 capabilities with enterprise systems including ERP and CRM platforms

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

✅ E-signature capabilities through integration with major providers

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

✅ Advanced analytics and reporting capabilities drawing on PwC's broader data expertise

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Document assembly capabilities through various platforms including Contract Express

✅ 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 native AI document editing capabilities compared to AI-first platforms

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

❓ Research capabilities through traditional legal resources rather than AI-native research tools

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

❓ Traditional professional services approach to negotiation support rather than AI-powered tools

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

✅ Strong data extraction capabilities through various technology partnerships and proprietary solutions

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

❓ Mobile accessibility varies by solution and implementation

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅ Enterprise-grade integrations with major document storage solutions

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community-driven clause library

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

✅ Custom private clause libraries for enterprise clients

✅ 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

✅ Extensive custom templates for clients based on industry and needs

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

✅ Strong Microsoft Word integration across solutions

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

❓ Some integration challenges between different platforms in the ecosystem

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ High cost, complex implementation, and occasionally siloed approach between different PwC service lines

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

✅ 24/7 support for enterprise clients through multiple channels

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Dedicated teams for enterprise clients

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

❓ Comprehensive but often requires months for full implementation of complex solutions

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 1849 (PwC), legal services formally established in most jurisdictions in the 1990s-2000s

✅ 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

❓ Mix of web-based platforms and plugins depending on the specific solution

✅ 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.

✅ Strong presence among Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises, particularly those already using other PwC services

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ Large corporations, multinational enterprises, and mid-market businesses

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

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✅ Cross-industry with particular strength in financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing

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

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✅ Present in 100+ countries with 4,000+ legal professionals

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

❓ Custom enterprise pricing typically starting at six figures annually for comprehensive solutions

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ Enterprise-grade SLAs with uptime guarantees for technology solutions

✅ 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 thought leadership publications, webinars, and global conferences; hosts industry-specific events and roundtablesTraining: ✅ Comprehensive training, documentation, and change management supportPrompt Training: ❓ Limited focus on prompt engineering compared to traditional system 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: ❌ No immediate self-serve option; requires formal engagement processSales: ❓ Typically 3-6 months from purchase to full implementation for complex solutions

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

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ❓ Formal proof of concept requiring significant commitment of time and resourcesImplementation Timeline: ❓ Typically 3-6 months from purchase to full implementation for complex engagements

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Traditional enterprise sales cycle with extensive scoping and proposal processes

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

✅ Notable case studies with large multinationals achieving regulatory compliance and efficiency gains

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

✅ Metrics focused on risk reduction, compliance improvements, and operational efficiency gains rather than pure time savings