Genie AI vs Clio

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅Practice management software with client intake, case management, document management, time tracking, billing and accounting, and client communication tools

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

❌No advanced AI or machine learning capabilities for contract drafting or analysis, unlike Genie

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅Uses industry-standard encryption for data in transit and at rest

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅Compliant with GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 standards

✅ 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.

✅Stores data in region-specific data centers (North America, Europe, Australia)

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

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✅Supports SSO and two-factor authentication

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

✅Offers user roles and permissions for access control

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅Compliant with major privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA

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

❌No AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities, unlike Genie

✅ 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)

✅Offers client portal for secure document sharing and communication

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

❌No AI-powered contract review or analysis features, unlike Genie

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

✅Practice management software with client intake, case management, document management, time tracking, billing and accounting, and client communication tools

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

✅Provides customizable task workflows and automation

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

❌Limited document styling and formatting options compared to Genie

❓ 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.

✅Integrates with various third-party apps and services

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

✅Offers built-in e-signature functionality

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

✅Provides reporting and analytics on firm performance and finances

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅Offers document assembly through integrations like Lawyaw

✅ 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.

❌No AI-powered document editing capabilities, unlike Genie

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

✅Integrates with legal research tools like Fastcase

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

❌No specific negotiation support features, unlike Genie

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

❌No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅Offers mobile apps for iOS and Android

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

✅Integrates with cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌No community clause library available

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

❌No private clause library functionality

✅ 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

✅Allows firms to create and manage their own document templates

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

✅Supports Microsoft Word document format

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

✅Generally consistent formatting, but may have some limitations compared to Genie

✅ Generally positive reviews

✅Mostly positive user reviews, with some reported issues around ease of use and learning curve

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

✅Offers phone, email, and live chat support, as well as a knowledge base and community forum

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅Provides dedicated account management for higher-tier plans

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

✅Offers guided onboarding and data migration assistance

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅Founded in 2008, focused on cloud-based legal practice management software

✅ 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

❌Established company, but lacks deep AI integration compared to Genie

✅ 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

❌No specific information on AI accuracy or transparency

✅ 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.

✅Claims to serve 150,000+ legal professionals globally

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅Uses proprietary software and integrations

✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

✅Cloud-based SaaS solution

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

✅Primarily targets small to mid-sized law firms and solo practitioners

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

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✅Serves various practice areas, with some specialized features for specific industries

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

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✅Operates in multiple countries, with data centers in North America, Europe, and Australia

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

✅Subscription-based pricing, starting at $39/user/month for the Starter plan, up to $115/user/month for the Elite plan

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅Offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee and SLA for higher-tier plans