Gavel Exec is an advanced AI legal assistant designed to streamline contract review and drafting directly within Microsoft Word. It empowers transactional attorneys and legal teams by automating the tedious and time-consuming tasks of redlining, drafting, and benchmarking legal agreements. By integrating seamlessly into the familiar Word environment, it acts as a reliable AI associate, enabling legal professionals to close deals faster with greater accuracy and consistency.
The platform's core value lies in its ability to adapt to your organization's specific needs. Gavel Exec follows your firm’s unique rules and negotiation positions through custom Playbooks and learns from your past documents without ever using customer data for model training, ensuring complete data privacy. This makes it a predictable, secure, and powerful tool for handling complex commercial, real estate, corporate, and procurement contracts.
Features
- Smarter Redlining: Instantly redline entire contracts based on your defined risk tolerance and negotiation style. The AI learns from your prior deals to apply precise and context-aware edits and comments.
- Precise Clause Rewriting: Rewrite any legal clause to fit the specifics of your deal. The AI uses its grounded legal knowledge and can be guided by your firm's style, rules, and preferred language.
- Instant Drafting: Generate new clauses or even entire agreements from scratch. Draw from a deep repository of transactional documents to quickly produce high-quality, deal-ready text.
- Custom Playbooks: Codify your firm's expertise by creating custom Playbooks from your own documents. These playbooks guide the AI to ensure every contract review aligns with your team's standards and fallback provisions.
- Market Benchmarking: Confidently get to "market" terms by benchmarking clauses against common standards and expert insights. This feature provides data-driven context for your negotiations.
- Document Alignment & Consistency Check: Ensure your deal documents are perfectly aligned. Upload a term sheet or LOI, and Exec will automatically flag inconsistencies or drafting errors in the corresponding main agreement.
- AI Associate Chat: Interact with the AI like a junior associate. Ask questions about the contract, request explanations, and get deal-ready comments to share with clients or opposing counsel.
How to Use
- Installation: Begin with a quick 2-minute setup to install the Gavel Exec add-in directly into your Microsoft Word application. No credit card is required to start.
- Set Up Your Playbook: Configure the AI by loading your firm’s rules and fallback positions into a custom Playbook. You can create one from your past successful deals or use the pre-built templates created by practicing lawyers.
- Open a Contract: Open any contract document in Word. The Gavel Exec panel will be available on the side.
- Run an Instant Redline: With one click, instruct Exec to review and redline the entire agreement according to your Playbook. The AI will add tracked changes and comments suggesting improvements.
- Draft and Rewrite Clauses: Select a specific clause you want to improve and use the "Rewrite" function. Alternatively, ask the AI to "Draft" a new clause from scratch based on your instructions.
- Review and Finalize: Review the AI's suggestions, accept or reject the changes, and leverage the generated comments to finalize the document for sharing with opposing counsel or clients.
Use Cases
- Accelerating Commercial Contract Negotiations: Procurement and sales teams can use Gavel Exec to rapidly review third-party paper, redlining it against internal policies defined in their Playbook to ensure compliance and speed up negotiation cycles.
- Streamlining M&A Due Diligence: Corporate lawyers can upload a signed LOI or term sheet and have the AI automatically check the definitive purchase agreement for any inconsistencies, saving hours of manual comparison.
- Efficient Real Estate Drafting: Real estate attorneys can instantly draft complex lease or sale agreements, pulling from a library of pre-approved clauses and using the benchmarking tool to ensure terms are competitive and aligned with market standards.
- Managing High-Volume Contracts: In-house legal teams can automate the initial review of high-volume, low-risk contracts like NDAs and MSAs. The AI handles the first pass, freeing up counsel to focus on more strategic, high-value work.
FAQ
How does Gavel Exec integrate with my workflow?
Gavel Exec is a Microsoft Word add-in, meaning it works directly within the application you already use for contract drafting and review. There is no need to switch between different platforms.
Is my confidential client data secure?
Yes. Gavel Exec is designed with data privacy as a priority. While it learns from your documents to adapt to your style, it does not use any customer data to train its core AI models, ensuring your information remains confidential.
What types of contracts can Gavel Exec handle?
It is optimized for a wide range of transactional agreements, including commercial contracts (e.g., MSAs, SaaS agreements), corporate documents (e.g., M&A agreements), real estate contracts, and procurement agreements.
How does the AI learn my firm's specific rules?
The AI learns your rules through "Custom Playbooks." You can create these playbooks by uploading your firm's model documents, past negotiated agreements, and drafting guidelines. The AI then uses this playbook to apply your specific standards during review.
Can I try Gavel Exec before committing?
Yes, Gavel Exec offers a free-to-start plan with a simple 2-minute setup. No credit card is required to begin using the tool and exploring its features.
How is Gavel Exec different from general-purpose AI like ChatGPT?
Gavel Exec is a specialized AI trained by practicing deal lawyers specifically for substantive legal work. It is grounded in legal knowledge, understands the context of a deal, and focuses on accuracy and predictability for redlining and drafting, unlike general models which are not optimized for legal precision.
What if I need a clause that isn't in my Playbook?
You can use the "Instant Drafting" feature. Simply describe the clause you need, and the AI will generate it for you by drawing from its extensive repository of transactional documents and legal clauses.
