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Genie AI vs Contract Express
Let's compare Contract Express and Genie AI on features, pricing, reviews and market focus. Let's test the accuracy, security and compliance of their Legal AI too.
What is Genie AI?
Genie AI is a secure intelligent platform that streamlines contract drafting, reviewing, and editing with cutting-edge, AI-powered tools.
✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review
✅ Automated document assembly and contract creation
✅ Lawyer-supported AI and ML at the core of the platform
❌ Limited AI capabilities compared to Genie AI
✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place
✅ Likely offers encryption, but specifics not confirmed
✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2
✅ Compliant with major security 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.
✅ Offers data sovereignty options
❓ Multiple authentication options (coming soon) (request this feature)
✅ Supports multiple authentication methods
✅ Granular user permissions and access control features (document level, project level, organization level, party level)
✅ Granular access control features
✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations
✅ Compliant with data privacy regulations
✅ Industry-leading AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities (all expected provisions and sections over 20 pages)
✅ Automated contract drafting capabilities
✅ 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)
❌ Limited collaboration features compared to Genie AI
✅ Powerful AI-driven contract analysis, red/amber/green flag reviews every clause (industry-leading improvements coming in 2025)
❌ No AI-driven contract review capabilities unlike Genie AI
✅ Manage your projects and organise your own template and clause library
✅ Automated document assembly and contract creation
❓ No 'dumb' automated workflows. Agentic workflows coming in 2025
✅ Workflow automation capabilities
✅ Full numbering support + AI auto-styling and formatting (coming soon)
✅ Supports complex legal styling and formatting
❓ 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 Thomson Reuters tools
❓ Just export to .docx and use your existing provider (request this feature)
✅ E-signature capabilities available
✅ Company and user level reporting and analytics (on request)
✅ Reporting and analytics features
✅ AI-powered document assembly
✅ Robust document assembly capabilities
✅ 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 unlike Genie AI
❓ Top-level AI Legal Research available as AI chat within the legal document, some prompting required (request this feature)
✅ Integrates with Thomson Reuters legal research tools
✅ Negotiation tools for multi-party clause-by-clause agreements
❌ Limited negotiation support features compared to Genie AI
❓ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities (request this feature)
❌ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities
✅ Mobile-optimised Web App
✅ Mobile-friendly interface
❓ Coming soon (request this feature)
❌ Limited integration with third-party file storage unlike Genie AI
✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts
❌ No community clause library unlike Genie AI
Coming soon - ✅ A library of your private clauses usable only by your legal team
✅ Supports private clause libraries
✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts
❌ No community template library unlike Genie AI
✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie
✅ Supports private template libraries
✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word, full styling, tables, formatting compatibility
✅ Compatible with Microsoft Word
✅ No known issues (Pre-formatted templates, consistent formatting, tables, cross-version compatibility)
✅ Generally consistent formatting, but some user reports of formatting issues
✅ Generally positive reviews
✅ Mostly positive reviews, with some reported usability issues
✅ Multiple support channels available including phone, whatsapp, email and live chat
✅ Multiple support channels available
✅ Available with our custom plans
✅ Dedicated account managers available for enterprise clients
✅ For our custom plans, get setup within 3 days with a guided onboarding plan
✅ Guided onboarding and setup process
✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company
✅ Established legal tech company backed by Thomson Reuters
✅ 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
❌ Older company, but limited AI integration compared to Genie AI
✅ 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
❌ Limited information on AI accuracy and transparency unlike Genie AI
✅ 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.
✅ Significant market presence, with many large enterprise clients
✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models
✅ Proprietary models
✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)
✅ Cloud-based and on-premises deployment options
✅ Suitable for in-house legal, law firms, and SMEs
✅ Primarily targets large law firms and enterprises
✅ Built as a platform which is versatile across various industries. Focus areas are construction, manufacturing, consultancy and legal services.
✅ Focuses on legal industry
✅ 120+ jurisdictions including the UK, California, Texas, India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, France, and Germany.
✅ Global coverage
✅ Generous free plan. Transparent subscription plans to suit different needs. Custom plans for orgs handling more than 10 documents per month.
❌ Pricing not publicly available, estimated at $10,000+ per annual company license, following a multi-week discussion with their sales team
✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public
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