# Legal AI for Research Teams

> GenieAI helps research teams draft, review, and negotiate funding, IP, and collaboration agreements with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions.

**Team:** Research

Accelerate research processes with AI-powered contract drafting, review, and legal assistance

Teams at hyperexponential, HoSt Group, Blockworks, Firefish and Cambridge United Football Club use Genie to draft, review and negotiate their contracts.

## Research contracts and IP, accelerated

GenieAI handles research-specific contracts - funding agreements, IP assignments, collaboration terms, data-sharing - so your research team focuses on the science.

- Auto-draft funding, collaboration, and IP agreements
- Standardise data-sharing and IP-ownership terms
- Cross-institutional contract compliance built in

## Where research teams use Genie

### Draft research agreements and data licences

Produce a first draft of a data licence from a plain-English brief, written to your own standards.

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

### Negotiate against your own playbook

Check a collaborator's markup against the positions your business accepts on IP, publication and data use.

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

### One standard across every collaboration

It remembers the positions taken on the last project, so the team stays consistent without legal reviewing every draft.

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

### Ask what a data licence commits you to

Get answers on IP ownership, publication rights and data use, 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 research agreements and data licences inside Word

Mark up a data licence in the document your collaborator actually sent, without breaking your review trail.

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

## Why research teams choose Genie

### Tech

- **Accelerate Research Agreements** — Draft and negotiate CDAs, MTAs and collaboration agreements faster to keep innovation projects moving.
- **Protect Intellectual Property** — Review IP clauses in vendor and partnership contracts to safeguard your research and proprietary data.
- **Streamline Compliance Checks** — Identify regulatory and data protection risks in research contracts before execution across jurisdictions.

### Energy

- **Accelerate Research Agreements** — Draft collaboration agreements, NDAs and data sharing contracts faster with energy sector templates.
- **Mitigate IP and Data Risks** — Identify ownership, confidentiality and liability issues in partnership agreements before execution.
- **Streamline Multi-Party Negotiations** — Review joint venture and consortium terms efficiently across academic and commercial stakeholders.

### Construction

- **Accelerate Research Agreements** — Draft NDAs, collaboration agreements and IP terms instantly using construction research templates.
- **Mitigate IP and Liability Risks** — Identify liability gaps and IP ownership issues in supplier and testing contracts before execution.
- **Streamline Multi-Party Negotiations** — Negotiate consortium agreements and funding terms efficiently with version control and clause tracking.

### Manufacturing

- **Accelerate Research Agreements** — Draft and negotiate CDAs, MTAs and collaboration agreements faster to keep innovation projects on track.
- **Protect Intellectual Property** — Review IP clauses in supplier and partner contracts to safeguard proprietary formulations and processes.
- **Manage Regulatory Compliance Risk** — Ensure research contracts meet industry standards and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

### Real Estate

- **Accelerate Due Diligence Reviews** — Rapidly analyse property agreements, leases and title documents to identify critical risks and obligations.
- **Standardise Development Contracts** — Create consistent, compliant construction and planning agreements using intelligent templates and clauses.
- **Streamline Multi-Party Negotiations** — Track changes across joint ventures and consortium agreements to keep stakeholders aligned efficiently.

## Research teams already working this way

> Inside Stadium MK Group: eight businesses, three venues, 23 club partners. A commercial team that ships contracts in minutes, not days.

— MK Dons, From sponsor deals to concert riders to indemnity wording, one commercial team handles every negotiation. Genie sits in the middle of the workflow, helping them draft contracts, weigh redlines, and get to a position the same afternoon.

- **Industry:** Sports. Events. Entertainment
- **Group:** Stadium MK Group
- **Businesses:** 8 entwined
- **Mode:** 24/7 always-on

[Read case study](https://www.genieai.co/case-studies/mk-dons)

## 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 research teams

### Can research teams get agreements in place without waiting for legal?

Yes. Legal records the positions the organization accepts once, and Genie reviews incoming [research agreements](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/research-agreement), data licences and [NDAs](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/non-disclosure-agreement) against them, so projects are not held by a review queue.

Departures from those positions are flagged for a decision rather than accepted.

### How does Genie handle data licences and collaboration agreements?

Genie checks incoming terms against your recorded positions on IP ownership, publication rights, data use and confidentiality, and marks where a counterparty has moved away from them.

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.

### Who decides which research terms we can accept?

Legal owns the playbook: what IP you must retain, what publication rights you require, and which data-use concessions always escalate.

Research teams then negotiate inside those boundaries without reopening settled questions.

### Does Genie 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.

### Can Genie draft research and data agreements from our own standards?

Yes. Genie drafts from your standards rather than a fixed form, so a [research agreement](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/research-agreement), data licence or NDA reflects your own positions on IP and confidentiality.

You describe the arrangement in plain English and Genie produces a first draft.

### 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.

### Does Genie integrate with research databases?

No. Genie works on the contracts and documents you bring to it, directly inside Microsoft Word, rather than connecting to external research sources.

You can ask plain-English questions of a document you are working on and get answers tied back to the exact clause.

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