Genie AI vs BlackBoiler

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ AI-powered contract markup and negotiation

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

✅ Utilizes AI and ML for contract review and analysis

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

❓ Specific encryption details not publicly available

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

❓ Compliance with specific standards not confirmed

✅ 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.

❓ Data sovereignty measures not explicitly stated

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

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❓ Authentication options not specified

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

❓ Granular access control features not highlighted

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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❓ Compliance with specific privacy standards not confirmed

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

❌ No comprehensive 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)

❌ Limited collaboration features compared to Genie's real-time collaboration

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

✅ AI-assisted contract review and markup

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

✅ AI-powered contract markup and negotiation

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

✅ Automated contract markup and negotiation workflows

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

❌ Limited support for complex legal styling and formatting, unlike 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.

❓ Integration capabilities with other tools not extensively highlighted

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

❓ Built-in e-signature functionality not confirmed

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

❓ Reporting and analytics features not prominently mentioned

✅ AI-powered document assembly

❌ No AI-powered document assembly capabilities, unlike Genie

✅ 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.

❌ Limited AI-powered document editing features compared to 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

✅ AI-assisted contract negotiation support

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

❓ Advanced data extraction and OCR capabilities not confirmed

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

❓ Mobile accessibility and optimization not specified

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

❓ Integration with popular file storage services not highlighted

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community clause library for modular contract creation, unlike Genie

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

❓ Availability of a private clause library not confirmed

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No community template library for modular contracts, unlike Genie

✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie

❓ Private template library feature not explicitly mentioned

✅ 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 and issues not widely reported

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Limited public user reviews and known issues

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

❓ Details on customer support options and responsiveness not extensively shared

✅ Available with our custom plans

❓ Availability of a dedicated account manager not confirmed

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

❓ Specifics on setup and onboarding process not widely available

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ Founded in 2017, focused on AI-powered contract review and negotiation

✅ 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 in 2017, AI integration core to the platform

✅ 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

❓ Specific details on AI accuracy and transparency not extensively shared

✅ 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.

❓ Exact market penetration and customer base size not publicly disclosed

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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❓ Use of open-source or proprietary AI models not specified

✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

✅ Cloud-based solution

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

✅ Primarily targets in-house legal teams and law firms

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

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❓ Specific industry specialization not extensively highlighted

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

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❓ Exact jurisdictional coverage and countries of operation not widely publicized

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

❓ Pricing details not publicly available, estimated at $10,000+ per annual company license after multi-week sales discussions

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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❓ Specifics on uptime guarantees and SLAs not confirmed