# Legal AI for startups

> GenieAI helps startups draft, review, and negotiate SAFEs, customer MSAs, and employment agreements with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions.

**Company type:** Startup

Move fast without breaking the legal stack

## Legal AI that scales with you

GenieAI is the AI legal assistant trusted by 200,000+ business teams. We draft, review, and negotiate every contract a startup needs - fundraising, customer MSAs, employment, IP assignments - with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions, with no per-seat tax.

- Auto-draft SAFEs, term sheets, MSAs, and employment agreements
- Negotiate within a playbook before you can afford a GC
- 500+ founder-ready templates across 150+ jurisdictions, free to use

## Use cases for Startup

### Word Add-in

GenieAI inside Microsoft Word - review, redline, and draft contracts without leaving the document.

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

### Ask your Document

Ask plain-English questions about any contract and get cite-grounded answers tied back to the exact clause.

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

### Review & Negotiate

Spot risk, understand obligations, and let Genie redline counterparty markup against your playbook.

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

### AI Contract Assistant

Your AI legal teammate - drafts, reviews, and remembers prior decisions across every contract your team touches.

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

### Create Contracts

Generate enforceable contracts from a plain-English brief - across 150+ jurisdictions, with pre-vetted clauses.

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

## 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 |

## Startup FAQs

### What contracts does a startup need before its first customer?

[Terms and conditions](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/terms-and-conditions) or a customer agreement, an [NDA](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/non-disclosure-agreement) for early conversations, [IP assignments](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/intellectual-property-assignment-agreement) from founders and contractors, and a [data processing agreement](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/data-processing-agreement) if you handle customer personal data.

The IP assignments matter most and are missed most often. Investors check them, and a missing founder assignment is expensive to fix once someone has left.

### We are raising a round. Which documents are involved?

Typically a term sheet, then a [subscription agreement](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/subscription-agreement) or investment agreement, a [shareholders agreement](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/shareholder-agreement), amended articles and a disclosure letter. Early rounds often use a convertible instrument instead of a priced round.

The term sheet is not usually binding on the commercial terms, but it sets the position everything else is drafted from, so it is worth more attention than its length suggests.

### Do we need IP assignments from founders and contractors?

Yes. Work created by a contractor belongs to the contractor unless it has been assigned in writing, and the same applies to anything a founder built before the company existed. An [IP assignment](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/intellectual-property-assignment-agreement) moves it to the company.

This is the first thing diligence checks and the hardest to fix retrospectively, because it depends on people who may no longer be involved.

### A customer sent their own MSA. What should we push back on?

Uncapped liability, broad indemnities, termination for convenience at short notice, IP grants wider than the service requires, and auto-renewal with unilateral price escalation.

A first enterprise customer often sends paper written for much larger suppliers. Accepting it whole can create obligations the business cannot meet at its current size.

### What should a founders agreement cover?

Equity split and vesting, roles and decision making, what happens when a founder leaves, and ownership of anything created before incorporation. A [founders agreement](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/founders-agreement) settles it while the relationship is good.

Vesting is the provision that matters most. Without it, a founder who leaves in year one keeps a stake the company then cannot offer to their replacement.

### Is GenieAI right for early-stage startups?

Yes. GenieAI scales with you from incorporation to Series E. Pre-seed and seed-stage startups use it for fundraising paperwork, customer contracts, and employment agreements without needing a full-time lawyer.

### How does GenieAI pricing work for startups?

GenieAI offers a free tier for early-stage teams and discounted seat pricing for venture-backed startups. Talk to us about credits for portfolio companies of major VCs.

### Can GenieAI help with fundraising?

Yes. SAFEs, convertible notes, subscription agreements, shareholder agreements, side letters - GenieAI generates the full fundraising stack to current market terms for your stage and jurisdiction.

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