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✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Specialized for German legal market with excellent compliance with local standards; strong document management and workflow features

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

❓ Limited AI features primarily focused on document classification and basic search functionality rather than generative drafting

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Strong encryption meeting German data protection standards

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ ISO27001 certified with additional German security certifications

✅ 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.

✅ Excellent data sovereignty controls with German data centers compliant with strict local regulations

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

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✅ Multiple authentication methods including smart card options

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

✅ Granular access control suitable for multi-department organizations

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Fully compliant with GDPR and German data protection regulations

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

❓ Template-based contract drafting with limited AI assistance

✅ 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)

❓ Basic collaboration features but lacks real-time co-editing functionality

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

❓ Basic compliance checking features but lacks advanced AI-powered analysis

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

✅ Specialized for German legal market with excellent compliance with local standards; strong document management and workflow features

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

✅ Strong workflow management tailored to German legal processes

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

✅ Strong support for German legal document formatting requirements

❓ 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 some German practice management systems but limited third-party integrations

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

✅ Integrated e-signature capabilities compliant with German legal requirements

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

✅ Good reporting functionality with customizable dashboards

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Strong document assembly features built around German legal requirements

✅ 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 significant AI-powered document editing capabilities

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

❓ Limited integration with German legal research databases

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

❓ Basic version control but limited AI-assisted negotiation tools

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

✅ Good OCR and data extraction capabilities for document digitization

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

❓ Limited mobile functionality compared to desktop experience

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

❓ Limited cloud storage integration, primarily focused on on-premise solutions

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community clause library

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

✅ Supports creation and management of private clause libraries

✅ 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

✅ Extensive template management for firm-specific document libraries

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

✅ Good Microsoft Word integration with custom toolbars

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

❓ Some users report difficulties with complex cross-references and document conversions

✅ Generally positive reviews

❓ Interface considered dated by some users; steep learning curve; complex implementation

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

✅ Support available via phone, email and in-person (primarily in German)

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Available for enterprise clients

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

❓ Thorough but time-consuming implementation process, typically several weeks

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ 1998 - Established provider in the German legal tech market

✅ 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

❓ Primarily a standalone platform with limited integration capabilities

✅ 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

✅ 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 presence in German mid-market law firms and legal departments

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

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

✅ German law firms, corporate legal departments, public sector

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

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✅ Strong focus on industries with heavy regulatory requirements in Germany

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

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❓ Primarily focused on German and some EU markets, limited international coverage

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

❓ Enterprise licensing model with base fee plus per-user costs, typically starting at €5,000-€10,000 annually for small deployments

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ 99.5% uptime guarantee for on-premise installations

✅ Fortnightly legal prompt training sessions from ex-Clifford Chance Legal Engineers;

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There's also an active Slack community ()

Community & events: ✅ Regular user conferences in Germany, regional training events, and webinars primarily in GermanTraining: ✅ Comprehensive training materials and onsite training options (primarily in German)Prompt Training: ❌ No specialized AI prompt training offered

Self-Serve: ✅ 1-click, no email address required, no card required
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Sales: ✅ 2-3 weeks from pilot to full team adoption

Self-serve: ❌ No immediate self-serve option; requires account setup and implementationSales: ❓ Typically 4-8 weeks from purchase to full implementation

✅ Simple 3-step process: try with your document, explore your scenarios, receive 360° assessment

✅ 1-2 weeks from agreement to full implementation

Pilot: ❓ Formal pilot process requiring significant IT involvement and configurationImplementation Timeline: ❓ Typically 1-3 months from purchase to full implementation

✅ Consultative, transparent pricing, no hard selling

❓ Traditional enterprise sales cycle with detailed requirements analysis

✅ Firefish reduced contract review time by 50%, from 2.5 hrs to 1.25 hrs per document, saving 15+ hrs weekly per person

✅ Medium-sized German law firm reduced document processing time by 40% and improved compliance tracking

✅ Average 60% time savings on contract drafting; 50% reduction in review cycles; ROI typically 3x cost

❓ Limited quantitative metrics, primarily focused on document management efficiency rather than drafting improvements