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Genie AI vs Lex Machina
Let's compare Lex Machina 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
✅ AI-powered legal analytics and insights for litigation strategy and business development, unlike Genie
✅ Lawyer-supported AI and ML at the core of the platform
✅ Utilizes AI and machine learning for
✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place
❓ Compliance with some security standards likely, but not confirmed
✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2
❓ Compliance with some security standards likely, but 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 mentioned
❓ Multiple authentication options (coming soon) (request this feature)
❓ Authentication methods not specified
✅ Granular user permissions and access control features (document level, project level, organization level, party level)
❓ Access control features likely present, but details not provided
✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations
❓ Compliance with data privacy standards probable, but not verified
✅ Industry-leading AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities (all expected provisions and sections over 20 pages)
❌ No dedicated 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)
❌ No built-in collaboration features mentioned, unlike Genie
✅ Powerful AI-driven contract analysis, red/amber/green flag reviews every clause (industry-leading improvements coming in 2025)
❌ No specific contract review functionality highlighted
✅ Manage your projects and organise your own template and clause library
✅ AI-powered legal analytics and insights for litigation strategy and business development, unlike Genie
❓ No 'dumb' automated workflows. Agentic workflows coming in 2025
❌ No evidence of workflow automation capabilities
✅ Full numbering support + AI auto-styling and formatting (coming soon)
❌ Advanced legal styling and formatting options not emphasized
❓ 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 specified
❓ Just export to .docx and use your existing provider (request this feature)
❌ E-signature functionality not mentioned as a feature
✅ Company and user level reporting and analytics (on request)
❓ Some analytics likely available, but reporting capabilities unclear
✅ AI-powered document assembly
❌ No indication of document assembly features, 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.
❌ AI-assisted document editing not a core feature, unlike Genie
❓ Top-level AI Legal Research available as AI chat within the legal document, some prompting required (request this feature)
✅ Focuses primarily on AI-driven legal research capabilities
✅ Negotiation tools for multi-party clause-by-clause agreements
❌ No specific negotiation support tools mentioned
❓ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities (request this feature)
❓ Data extraction and OCR capabilities not highlighted
✅ Mobile-optimised Web App
❓ Mobile accessibility details not provided
❓ Coming soon (request this feature)
❓ File storage integration not specified
✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts
❌ No community clause library mentioned, unlike Genie
Coming soon - ✅ A library of your private clauses usable only by your legal team
❌ Private clause library feature not evident
✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts
❌ No community template library highlighted, unlike Genie
✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie
❌ Firm-specific private template library not a focus
✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word, full styling, tables, formatting compatibility
❓ Compatibility with Microsoft Word not explicitly stated
✅ No known issues (Pre-formatted templates, consistent formatting, tables, cross-version compatibility)
❓ Specific formatting pain points not addressed
✅ Generally positive reviews
❓ User reviews and known issues not readily available
✅ Multiple support channels available including phone, whatsapp, email and live chat
❓ Details on customer support options and responsiveness limited
✅ Available with our custom plans
❓ Availability of dedicated account managers not confirmed
✅ For our custom plans, get setup within 3 days with a guided onboarding plan
❓ Specifics on setup and onboarding process not provided
✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company
✅ Founded in 2015, focused on AI-driven legal research
✅ 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 2015, AI integration central to its offerings
✅ 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 highlighted
✅ 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.
❓ Market penetration and customer base size not publicly disclosed
✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models
❓ Use of open-source or proprietary models not specified
✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)
❓ Deployment options (cloud-based or on-premises) not clarified
✅ Suitable for in-house legal, law firms, and SMEs
✅ Primarily targets law firms and legal professionals
✅ Built as a platform which is versatile across various industries. Focus areas are construction, manufacturing, consultancy and legal services.
✅ Specializes in legal research and analysis for the legal industry
✅ 120+ jurisdictions including the UK, California, Texas, India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, France, and Germany.
❓ Specific jurisdictional coverage and countries of operation not detailed
✅ 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, likely requires contacting sales. 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
❓ Uptime guarantees and SLAs not openly communicated
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