# What is GenieAI? > GenieAI makes Genie, a team of agentic legal specialists for in-house legal and commercial teams. What Genie does today, and how it has changed since 2017. About GenieAI GenieAI is a London legal AI company, founded in 2017. It makes Genie, a team of agentic legal specialists that drafts, reviews, redlines, researches and negotiates in your own Word documents, to your organisation’s standards. [See how Genie works](https://www.genieai.co/how-it-works) Updated 6 November 2026 ## At a glance **Company** GenieAI (Genie AI Limited), London **Founded** 2017, by Rafie Faruq and Nitish Mutha **Product** Genie **Latest generation** [Agentic Legal Specialists, launched 5 November 2026](https://www.genieai.co/blog/genieai-launches-agentic-legal-specialists) **Built for** In-house legal and commercial teams **Backed by** [GV and Khosla Ventures](https://www.genieai.co/our-backers) **Users** More than 280,000 Genie today ## A team of legal specialists, formed for each task. Agentic Legal Specialists is the latest generation of Genie, launched on 5 November 2026. Bring Genie a piece of legal work and a lead agent plans it: which specialists the job needs, in what order, and which checks the work must pass before anything reaches you. Each task gets its own team, because the work sets the shape of the team, not a fixed workflow. Each specialist has a legal role, from drafting and negotiation to risk analysis, research and proofreading. They write the tools a task needs as they go, check each other’s work and apply your playbooks, policies and templates. Routine steps run inside your rules. The decisions that need judgement go to a named person. Genie works in your original Word file and keeps its formatting, numbering and cross-references, and every edit is saved as a version. It is used by more than 280,000 users, from in-house legal teams to the founders, sales, procurement, HR and finance teams that work with contracts every day. ## What Genie does. Each part of the work has its own page. ### Legal work, end to end Genie plans each task, chooses the specialists and runs the work in one project, from the first draft to signature. [Legal Workflows](https://www.genieai.co/product/legal-workflows) ### Your own Word documents The Agentic Editor changes only the words that need changing and keeps numbering, styles and cross-references. [Agentic Editor](https://www.genieai.co/product/agentic-editor) ### Checked at each stage Every stage passes an independent reviewer before it moves on. After three failed checks, Genie stops and asks you. [Verification](https://www.genieai.co/how-it-works/verification) ### Your standards, applied The playbooks, policies and templates you approve drive every review and every draft. [Playbooks](https://www.genieai.co/product/playbooks) ### Research with its sources Answers are read from legislation, regulators and courts, never the open web, with the source and the date. [Legal research](https://www.genieai.co/product/legal-research) ### Knowledge, organised Spaces, Libraries and Insights keep every contract, template and term where your team can find it. [Libraries](https://www.genieai.co/product/libraries) Our history ## How Genie has changed since 2017. Each generation grew out of the one before. Agentic Legal Specialists is the generation in use today, and the risk operating system for business is where GenieAI is heading next. 2017 ### GenieAI is founded in London - Rafie Faruq and Nitish Mutha start GenieAI to apply generative AI to legal documents, and join the Entrepreneur First programme. 2018 to 2019 ### SuperDrafter, AI drafting for law firms - Machine learning recommends clauses from a firm’s own precedents while its lawyers draft, and an Anonymiser redacts client data first. Clifford Chance, Pinsent Masons and Withers run pilots. 2019 ### Seed funding and published research - A £1.2m seed round with Connect Ventures, announced in July 2019, and a research paper at EMNLP, the natural language processing conference, with Oxford University. 2020 to 2021 ### Genie Docs and the Genie Community - A free, shared place where in-house lawyers and law firms draft and review documents, with a clause library built from the community’s knowledge. 2021 to 2023 ### Open-source legal templates for business - GenieAI turns to business teams with a free library of open-source legal templates, written with guidance from law firms. 2023 to 2025 ### The AI Legal Assistant - A generative AI assistant drafts, reviews and negotiates business legal documents and answers legal questions, on top of the template library. October 2024 ### A $17.8M Series A - Led by GV (Google Ventures), with Khosla Ventures, to build agentic legal AI. By then Genie had more than 100,000 users. January 2026 ### The global legal brain - Genie learns a company’s standards, such as its fallbacks, risk tolerance and house style, and applies them to every agreement. February 2026 ### Eidetic Intelligence - GenieAI’s patent-pending architecture maps the documents in a project into a knowledge graph, so terms and dependencies are read together, and checks each step before the next one starts. May 2026 ### Genie 3.0 and Legal Workflows - Multi-agent Legal Workflows run a piece of legal work in one project, organised around the company’s own knowledge. They are what grew into Agentic Legal Specialists. 5 November 2026 ### Agentic Legal Specialists - The current generation, evolved from Legal Workflows. Genie forms a team of legal specialists for each task, writes the tools the work needs and checks every stage before the work reaches you. Next ### The risk operating system for business - Where GenieAI is heading after Agentic Legal Specialists. It is not available yet. Names ## Every name for Genie, and what it means now. Articles, reviews and AI answers use these names. This is how each one maps to Genie today. | Name | Used | What it means today | | --- | --- | --- | | SuperDrafter | 2018 to 2019 | Retired. Drafting is now one part of Genie’s work, from your own templates and in your house style. | | Genie Docs and the Genie Community | 2020 to 2021 | Retired. GenieAI’s free legal template library grew out of it. | | AI Legal Assistant | 2023 to early 2026 | Replaced. Genie no longer only assists: its specialists do the legal work end to end and check it. The Word add-in still brings Genie’s document assistant into Word. | | The Global Legal Brain | 2026 | Now Playbooks, Libraries and Insights, the standards and knowledge the specialists apply. | | Genie Agents | 2026 | Now the legal specialists, formed for each task. | | Legal Workflows | May to November 2026 | Evolved into Agentic Legal Specialists, which run each piece of legal work in a project, from the first draft to signature. | | Genie AI | Until 2026 | The same company and product, now written GenieAI. | | Risk operating system | Next | Where GenieAI is heading after Agentic Legal Specialists. It is not available yet. | ## Questions about GenieAI ### What is GenieAI? GenieAI is a London legal AI company, founded in 2017 by Rafie Faruq (CEO) and Nitish Mutha (CTO) and backed by GV and Khosla Ventures. It makes Genie, a team of agentic legal specialists for in-house legal and commercial teams. ### What is the latest version of Genie? Agentic Legal Specialists, launched on 5 November 2026. For each piece of legal work, Genie forms a team of specialist agents, writes the tools the task needs, works in your own Word documents and checks every stage before the work reaches you. It is the evolution of Legal Workflows, which launched with Genie 3.0 in May 2026. Read the [launch announcement](https://www.genieai.co/blog/genieai-launches-agentic-legal-specialists). ### Is Genie still an AI legal assistant? No. From 2023 to early 2026, GenieAI described Genie as an AI legal assistant that drafted, reviewed and answered legal questions. Genie now does the legal work end to end with a team of specialists, and checks it. The [Word add-in](https://www.genieai.co/integrations/word) still brings Genie’s document assistant into Word. ### What can Genie do? Genie drafts, reviews, redlines, researches and negotiates contracts and other legal documents. It works in your original Word files, applies your playbooks and policies, traces every figure and quote to its source, and sends a finished document for signature through DocuSign or Adobe Acrobat Sign. See [how it works](https://www.genieai.co/how-it-works). ### Who uses Genie? More than 280,000 users. In-house legal teams use Genie, and so do the business teams that work with contracts every day: founders, sales, procurement, HR, finance and operations. Read their [customer stories](https://www.genieai.co/case-studies). ### Does Genie replace lawyers? No. Genie takes the routine legal work and sends the decisions that need judgement to a person, so your lawyers and reviewers stay in control of every outcome. ### Is GenieAI the same company as Genie AI? Yes. GenieAI used to be written Genie AI. The company (Genie AI Limited), the product and the website, www.genieai.co, are the same. ### Is Genie related to Google DeepMind’s Genie? No. Genie is GenieAI’s legal product, and Genie 3.0 was one of its releases. Google DeepMind’s Genie models are a separate technology. GV, Google’s venture capital arm, is one of GenieAI’s investors. ### How has Genie changed since 2017? Genie started as SuperDrafter, a drafting tool for law firms. From 2020 it was a free community and an open-source template library, and from 2023 an AI legal assistant for business teams. In 2026 it became a legal brain that applies a company’s own standards, then Legal Workflows, which evolved into a team of agentic legal specialists on 5 November 2026. ### Where is GenieAI heading next? Towards the risk operating system for business, the step after Agentic Legal Specialists. It is GenieAI’s direction, not a product you can use yet. Today, Genie is a team of agentic legal specialists. ## Describe the task. Watch the team work. 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