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Genie AI vs Symfact
Let's compare Symfact 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
✅ Contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution with AI capabilities, unlike Genie's focus on AI-powered drafting and collaboration
✅ Lawyer-supported AI and ML at the core of the platform
✅ Uses AI and ML for contract analysis and risk assessment, but not as deeply integrated as Genie
✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place
✅ Offers encryption for data protection, specifics not publicly disclosed
✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2
✅ Compliant with ISO 27001, unlike Genie's additional SOC2 compliance
✅ 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.
❓ No clear information on data sovereignty practices
❓ Multiple authentication options (coming soon) (request this feature)
✅ Supports SSO and other authentication methods
✅ Granular user permissions and access control features (document level, project level, organization level, party level)
✅ Offers role-based access control and permissions management
✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations
✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations
✅ Industry-leading AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities (all expected provisions and sections over 20 pages)
❌ Limited contract drafting capabilities compared to Genie's AI-assisted drafting
✅ 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)
✅ Includes collaboration features for contract negotiation and approval
✅ Powerful AI-driven contract analysis, red/amber/green flag reviews every clause (industry-leading improvements coming in 2025)
✅ AI-powered contract review and risk assessment, but not as advanced as Genie's clause-level analysis
✅ Manage your projects and organise your own template and clause library
✅ Contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution with AI capabilities, unlike Genie's focus on AI-powered drafting and collaboration
❓ No 'dumb' automated workflows. Agentic workflows coming in 2025
✅ Supports customizable workflows and approval processes, unlike Genie
✅ Full numbering support + AI auto-styling and formatting (coming soon)
❌ Limited support for complex legal styling and formatting 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.
✅ Offers integration with various business systems (e.g., CRM, ERP)
❓ Just export to .docx and use your existing provider (request this feature)
✅ Integrated with e-signature providers for seamless signing
✅ Company and user level reporting and analytics (on request)
✅ Provides contract analytics and reporting features
✅ AI-powered document assembly
✅ Supports document assembly and clause libraries
✅ 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 advanced AI-powered document editing capabilities like Genie
❓ Top-level AI Legal Research available as AI chat within the legal document, some prompting required (request this feature)
❌ No built-in legal research integration, unlike Genie's AI legal research chat
✅ Negotiation tools for multi-party clause-by-clause agreements
✅ Offers negotiation tools and version tracking
❓ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities (request this feature)
✅ Supports data extraction from contracts using OCR
✅ Mobile-optimised Web App
✅ Provides mobile access to the platform
❓ Coming soon (request this feature)
✅ Integrates with popular file storage systems
✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts
❌ No community clause library, unlike Genie
Coming soon - ✅ A library of your private clauses usable only by your legal team
✅ Supports private clause libraries for organizations
✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts
❌ No community template library, unlike Genie
✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie
✅ Allows creation of private template libraries
✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word, full styling, tables, formatting compatibility
✅ Compatible with Microsoft Word documents
✅ No known issues (Pre-formatted templates, consistent formatting, tables, cross-version compatibility)
❓ Specific formatting pain points not widely reported
✅ Generally positive reviews
✅ Generally positive user reviews, with some reported issues around ease of use
✅ Multiple support channels available including phone, whatsapp, email and live chat
✅ Offers customer support via phone, email, and online resources
✅ Available with our custom plans
✅ Provides dedicated account managers for enterprise clients
✅ For our custom plans, get setup within 3 days with a guided onboarding plan
✅ Offers guided setup and onboarding services
✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company
✅ Established CLM provider with a focus on contract management
✅ 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
❌ Founded in 2008, AI capabilities not as deeply integrated as Genie since inception
✅ 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 public information on AI model accuracy and 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.
✅ Serves a global customer base, including large enterprises and Fortune 500 companies
✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models
✅ Uses proprietary AI models
✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)
✅ Offers both cloud-based and on-premises deployment
✅ Suitable for in-house legal, law firms, and SMEs
✅ Primarily targets in-house legal departments and large enterprises
✅ Built as a platform which is versatile across various industries. Focus areas are construction, manufacturing, consultancy and legal services.
✅ Serves various industries, including healthcare, financial services, and technology
✅ 120+ jurisdictions including the UK, California, Texas, India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, France, and Germany.
✅ Operates globally, with customers in multiple countries
✅ 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
✅ Offers SLAs and uptime guarantees for enterprise customers
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