# Legal AI for consultancies

> GenieAI helps consulting teams draft, review, and negotiate engagement letters, MSAs, and SOWs with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions.

**Industry:** Consultancy

Client engagements, statements of work, and the contracts that protect professional services

Consultancy teams at Bonham and Brook, Torpedo Factory Group, ARK Group and Instant Impact use Genie to draft and review MSAs, statements of work and data processing agreements.

## Consultancy contracts, every engagement

GenieAI is the AI legal assistant trusted by 200,000+ business teams. We draft, review, and negotiate every consultancy contract - engagement letters, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, sub-contractor agreements - with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions.

- Auto-draft engagement letters, MSAs, and SOWs
- Standardise IP, deliverables, and liability terms across clients
- 500+ consulting-ready templates across 150+ jurisdictions, free to use

## Where consultancies use Genie

### Draft MSAs, SOWs and DPAs

Produce a first draft of a master services agreement, statement of work or data processing agreement from a plain-English brief.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/create-contracts](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/create-contracts)

### Negotiate against your own engagement playbook

Check a client's amendments against the positions your firm accepts on scope, liability and payment.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/review-negotiate](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/review-negotiate)

### Consistent terms across every engagement

It remembers what you conceded on the last MSA, so engagement leads stop giving ground legal already ruled out.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ai-contract-assistant](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ai-contract-assistant)

### Ask what a client MSA actually commits you to

Get answers on liability, IP ownership and termination, each tied back to the exact clause.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ask-your-document](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ask-your-document)

### Redline client MSAs inside Word

Mark up a client's master services agreement in the document they sent, without breaking your review trail.

[https://www.genieai.co/use-case/word-add-in](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/word-add-in)

## How teams use Genie in Consultancy

### Sales

- **Close client engagements faster** — Auto-draft engagement letters, MSAs, and SOWs in seconds, with your standard positions applied.
- **Negotiate within playbooks** — Surface pre-approved fallback terms so partners and BD move without paging legal for every redline.
- **Track deal-stage risk** — See where every client engagement sits versus your liability and IP positions.

### Procurement

- **Vendor onboarding in minutes** — Review subcontractor, tool, and SaaS agreements in one pass, with risk areas flagged automatically.
- **Standardise across suppliers** — Enforce your confidentiality, SLA, and audit-rights positions across the entire supplier base.
- **Spend-control insights** — Surface auto-renewal and price-hike clauses across the supplier base before they trigger.

### Leadership

- **See practice-wide exposure** — Surface enterprise-wide risk across client, subcontractor, and partnership contracts in a single dashboard.
- **Move faster on growth and partnerships** — Spin up due diligence packs, partnership agreements, and joint-venture terms without delaying the deal.
- **Empower every team within guardrails** — Set commercial and IP positions once; let partners, BD, and ops teams draft within them.

### In-house Legal

- **Outsource the routine work** — Auto-handle NDAs, engagement letters, SOWs, and standard subcontracts so you focus on novel issues.
- **One source of truth for clauses** — Maintain a living consultancy-specific playbook your partners and BD teams can draft from directly.
- **Move quicker on negotiations** — Suggest pre-approved fallbacks for liability, IP-ownership, and termination clauses instantly.

### Operations

- **Streamline contract intake** — Triage incoming subcontractor, client, and SaaS agreements automatically against your playbook.
- **Standardise across the supplier base** — Enforce a uniform position on confidentiality, SLAs, and audit rights across every vendor.
- **Cut cycle time** — Reduce review backlog from weeks to days with AI-first triage on every incoming agreement.

## Real Consultancy teams using Genie

> “As a really simple metric we are ticking that box of getting through the same level of contracting negotiation as we always did on about a third the less time. That’s been a clear win for us.‍“We can punch above our weight without an army of lawyers.”

— Firefish, Market research agency Firefish cut contract review time by over 50% - handling the same volume with half the legal availability.

**50%+ faster legal review**

- **Industry:** Market research
- **Team size:** 50–100 employees
- **Use case:** Customer MSAs + DPAs
- **Result:** 50%+ faster legal review

[Read case study](https://www.genieai.co/case-studies/how-firefish-uses-genie-ai-to-cut-legal-review-time)

## How does GenieAI compare to ChatGPT?

| Capability | GenieAI | Claude | ChatGPT |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Conversational interface | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Can upload docs & PDFs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Review against your playbook rules | Yes | Yes | No |
| Edit and negotiate in tracked changes | Yes | No | No |
| Collaborative legal editor for teams | Yes | No | No |
| Compare against a proprietary legal dataset | Yes | No | No |
| Manage complex deals with Eidetic Intelligence | Yes | No | No |
| Develop an org-wide legal brain | Yes | No | No |
| Save templates, playbooks, insights | Yes | No | No |

## Questions from consultancy teams

### Which consultancy documents does GenieAI generate?

[Master service agreements](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/master-service-agreement), [statements of work](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/statement-of-work), engagement letters, NDAs, subcontractor agreements, and the documents consultancies negotiate with every client.

### Can consultancy teams review contracts without waiting for legal?

Yes. Legal sets the positions your business accepts once, as a playbook, and Genie reviews incoming MSAs, [statements of work](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/statement-of-work) and [DPAs](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/data-processing-agreement) against it, so routine work moves without joining a legal queue.

Anything outside those positions is flagged rather than waved through, so legal keeps the standard and the business keeps the timeline.

### Who decides which contract positions we can accept?

Legal does. The playbook is authored and owned by your legal function: preferred positions, acceptable fallbacks, and the points you will not concede. Genie applies it rather than substituting a standard of its own.

That division is the point. The business gets speed without reopening settled questions, and legal gets consistency without reviewing every draft.

### How long does a client MSA review take with Genie?

It depends on length and how much the counterparty has changed, so we publish customer outcomes rather than a single headline figure. Firefish, a market research agency of 50 to 100 people with its own in-house legal function, cut contract review time by more than 50% and now handles the same volume with half the legal availability.

HoSt Group, a 700-person energy company, gives 25 commercial seats to its sales and commercial teams and reports 80% faster reviews. The saving comes from Genie reviewing against your playbook first, so whoever opens the contract starts from a marked-up draft rather than a blank page.

### Does GenieAI work inside Microsoft Word?

Yes. Genie works directly in Microsoft Word, so you review and redline in the document your counterparty actually sent, rather than moving it into another system and breaking your review trail.

DocuSign and Adobe Sign integrations are in development.

### What happens when a counterparty's redline falls outside our playbook?

Genie flags the deviation instead of accepting it. The change is identified against the specific position it breaches, so whoever reads it can see what was altered, why it matters, and whether it needs a decision from legal.

Escalation is the feature rather than the failure. It is how legal stays in control of the standard while everything inside the standard keeps moving.

### Is our contract data used to train AI models?

No. Documents you generate or upload stay in your tenant, are not used to train models, and confidential material is not shared with third-party LLMs.

GenieAI is ISO 27001 certified and operates under GDPR.

### What happens when a statement of work contradicts the master agreement?

Genie reads the [statement of work](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/statement-of-work) against the [master service agreement](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/master-service-agreement) it sits under and flags where the two disagree, on scope, payment terms, liability caps, IP ownership or termination rights.

That conflict is where consultancy margin leaks. A signed SOW that quietly overrides a negotiated cap costs more than most redlines, and it is the thing a busy delivery lead is least likely to spot.

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