A New Era of Legal Drafting and Review: Introducing the AI Associate from DraftWise

Today, we’re introducing the DraftWise AI Associate, a drafting agent that, from a simple request, can draft, review, and markup contracts using precedent-based insights and firm-endorsed language to deliver higher-quality contracts more efficiently than ever before. 

With the AI Associate, you can use DraftWise in new and transformative ways, democratizing access to all of the firm's expertise and accelerating the learning curve for users. Every lawyer and deal team can now have an AI Associate available 24/7 to search across millions of documents in seconds, surface positions you accepted before, and find that crucial insight necessary for a negotiation. These powerful capabilities will change how lawyers approach every deal and negotiation.

Before DraftWise, even the most skilled lawyers faced a fundamental inefficiency: their best work was scattered across systems, buried in deal files, and required time they didn’t have to review. The lawyer was left to use whatever language was at hand to keep deals moving, or waste billable hours wrestling with inadequate tools instead of advising clients. Our team has been committed to using AI to instantly surface your best work, ensuring no hard-won advantage ever goes unused.

Today marks a step change in how legal work is completed. It opens up a future where nearly all of a lawyer’s time is spent on what truly matters—high-impact decisions and exceptional client counsel.

Not because you’re working harder, but because you’re supported by an AI Associate you trust—one that instantly researches, redlines, analyzes, and answers questions using the full depth of your firm’s knowledge and deal history.

The DraftWise AI Associate is unique because it can access your firm’s entire precedent library. It can search through millions of documents to find the right examples for your particular deal. DraftWise suggests solutions grounded in your firm's best language, not hallucinating black-box knowledge from the internet, or based on just a small selection of documents.

You just need to describe the problem, and the AI Associate will provide the solution. It can do multiple tasks simultaneously, performing five searches or 50, giving you instant access to your firm’s full experience. It can markup contracts and suggest revisions throughout the document, based on past deals or specific instructions, while you control every change and can check every citation.

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Lawyers from top firms using DraftWise accept 95% of its suggestions, and over half of those changes are accepted without any edits. With citations available for every recommendation, you always know where the language is pulled from, right down to the deal, the clause, and the partner who approved it.

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The future of law isn’t just about moving faster; it’s about excelling at what only you can do, armed with the right knowledge at the right time. Firms that embrace AI collaboration will define the next era of legal practice. 

How does the DraftWise AI Associate work? 

From the prompt, the AI Associate analyzes the lawyer's legal intent alongside the contract, past precedent, and market data, intelligently pulling from the most relevant sources and applying revisions directly into the document. Lawyers remain entirely in control, with clear visibility into the process and the ability to guide and refine the outcome. The result is automated contract markups at the direction of a practicing lawyer that reflect deep legal expertise, informed by millions of documents and multiple layers of context and best practice.

Early users are collaborating with the AI Associate for some exciting outcomes like:

• Paste client notes or opposing counsel comments straight into the AI Associate in Word and get all requested revisions tailored to your precedent applied directly to the contract.
  
  
• Make a provision more buyer or seller friendly by having the AI Associate compare against how you negotiated it in 10 similar recent deals and suggest changes
  
  
• Ask it to draft a new clause or definition and have that written in your style
  
  
• Provide advice and guidance to your clients by instantly answering questions such as representations you’re missing from your draft, but have given in prior deals, or what mandatory payment events have been defined in similar deals in this industry 

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This is legal work powered by context, precision, and speed.

It is now available to select DraftWise customers, and we’re already seeing incredible results by lawyers using it to superpower drafting and review. We invite you to experience this next generation of DraftWise for yourself. Contact our team to learn how DraftWise can change how you draft and negotiate.

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