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DraftWise Review: Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers

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What is DraftWise?

DraftWise is a legal AI contract drafting, review, and negotiation platform. It works directly in Microsoft Word and uses a firm’s own precedents, guidance, playbooks, and contract history to support drafting and review. For small-firm attorneys with a strong document library, DraftWise may help find better starting language, compare deal terms, mark up contracts, and standardize drafting positions. It is not a case law research tool or a general practice management system.

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Pros
  • Contract Review and Compliance
  • Legal Specific
  • On-Premises Option
Cons
  • No Published Pricing
  • Add-on Product
  • Not for Caselaw Research
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Security

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Innovation & Future-Proofing

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Product Details

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  • Web
  • MacOS
  • Windows
Website
https://draftwise.com

Core Features

For Artificial Intelligence, the following are essential features, and you should therefore expect to see a check in every box in this section.

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Product Security

Most AI products are built in such a way that they are inherently insecure. If this box is checked, the product or application claims to keep data secure and away from the prying eyes of the public. Although users should not put client information into these platforms, typically sensitive company information is safe.

Client Confidentiality

While some products are secure enough for your own data, others go the extra step of making sure no third party (even themselves) have access to any of the data in your AI product. In these cases, the provider claims that your data is secure enough to maintain your client's Attorney/Client privilege.

Marketing Tasks

Can this product be used for basic marketing tasks like blog creation, social media videos, or website images?

Documentation Assistance

Can this product be used to help document how to do something, whether internal or external facing?

Non-legal Research

Is this product helpful with basic, non-legal research?

Legal Research

Although answers from any large language model tool should be double checked by an appropriate expert, some products claim to be trained on legal specific information. In these cases, it may be reasonable to trust them with legal specific questions or research. Keep in mind, however, that your professional rules likely require you to check their work.

Basic Drafting

Will this product assist in basic drafting of non-legal specific documents (e.g. email, invoices, job descriptions)?

Legal Specific Drafting

Can this product be useful in handling legal specific drafting?

Contract Management

Can this product be used to create and manage contracts?

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I use DraftWise?

DraftWise is an add-in for Microsoft Word.

What is the price of DraftWise?

Contract DraftWise for information on pricing.

Does DraftWise integrate with my Law Practice Management Software?

DraftWise integrates with DMS providers, but not LPMS products.

Where does DraftWise get its information?

DraftWise is based on your documents. It uses that information to help you compare new contracts to precedent documents and to suggest changes. DMS integrations include iManage, NetDocuments, Opentext, and SharePoint. It can also compare contract language against public deal data such as EDGAR for market context.

Does DraftWise search caselaw?

DraftWise searches your documents. To extent your DMS or document repositories hold cases, PDFs for example, they'd be included. DraftWise does not have its own library of case law.

What secondary sources does DraftWise have?

DraftWise searches your documents. To extent your DMS or document repositories hold articles or other secondary sources, PDFs for example, they'd be included. DraftWise does not have its own library of material.

Is DraftWise reliable?

DraftWise can be useful for contract drafting and review because it grounds suggestions in firm precedent and preferred positions. Attorneys should still review every proposed clause, redline, compliance finding, and negotiation recommendation before using it.
DraftWise gets high marks for reliability. Early adopters reportedly accept 95% of its suggestions, with over half being used as-is.

Is DraftWise difficult to use?

For end-users, it's pretty simple. DraftWise appears as a side panel offering suggestions, precedent comparisons, and clause rewrites, without forcing users into a new app or tab. On the technical side, implementation involves IT/security setup (especially for cloud or on-prem options) and a few hours of configuration to define clause libraries.

What type of practice uses DraftWise?

Practice areas benefiting from DraftWise include corprorate, commercial contracts, banking or financial services, real estate, and employment law.

Does DraftWise have reminders and alerts?

DraftWise does not offer built-in reminders or alert functionality.

Additional Details about DraftWise

Precedent-based contract drafting

DraftWise helps attorneys draft contracts using the firm’s own precedent and preferred language. Users can turn legal direction and deal terms into draft contract language while drawing from similar prior agreements. This may be especially useful for small firms that have repeat deal types, clause libraries, or trusted forms but need faster ways to find and reuse them. Attorneys should still confirm that any precedent fits the current client, facts, jurisdiction, and deal structure.

Microsoft Word integration

DraftWise works directly inside Microsoft Word, so attorneys can review, draft, redline, and search for contract language without leaving the drafting environment. The Microsoft Marketplace listing describes DraftWise as executing drafting, review, and search workflows directly within Word. This may reduce context switching for attorneys and staff who already spend most of their drafting time in Word. It also means firms should review Microsoft 365 permissions and Word add-in deployment settings before rollout.

Playbooks, checklists, and preferred positions

DraftWise can compare contract language against firm guidance, playbooks, checklists, and preferred positions. It can identify language that appears out of compliance with firm standards and suggest redlines based on preferred language. This may help small firms make drafting more consistent across attorneys and matters. The quality of these recommendations will depend on the quality and organization of the firm’s internal guidance and prior documents.

Negotiation and deal intelligence

DraftWise can help attorneys compare contract language against prior negotiations, firm deal history, and market data. It can surface similar terms from past deals, organize them by client, counterparty, or industry, and help attorneys understand how issues were negotiated before. DraftWise also describes the ability to compare revisions against EDGAR for market-tested context. This may be useful in negotiations where attorneys want support for a proposed position or want to see how similar language has been handled.

Who DraftWise is for

DraftWise is for Microsoft Word-using attorneys who frequently draft or review contracts. It helps to have a substantial “back catalog” of documents to power DraftWise’s suggestions and analysis.

Best fit

  • Small firms with a strong contract library, templates, or repeat transaction types.
  • Transactional attorneys who draft, review, redline, and negotiate contracts in Microsoft Word.
  • Firms that want AI to apply firm playbooks, preferred positions, and prior deal language.

Not ideal for

  • Firms looking for case law research, litigation research, or legal secondary sources.
  • Firms that need published pricing before evaluating a product.
  • Firms without organized precedent, templates, or contract history to power the system.

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