BlackBoiler vs ContractKen

BlackBoiler reviews contracts in Microsoft Word by applying an organization’s playbook, previous redlines, approved wording, and examples. It creates first-pass tracked changes and comments; reviewers then accept, modify, reject, escalate, or negotiate each suggestion. Veris provides conversational access to playbooks and contract language within Word. The service covers recurring agreements such as NDAs, service agreements, and subcontracts, plus construction prime contracts, subcontracts, and professional services agreements using AIA, ConsensusDocs, and EJCDC forms. BlackBoiler is aimed at in-house legal teams, law firms, contract managers, and construction legal, commercial, procurement, and project teams. It concentrates on pre-execution review and redlining, while an existing CLM can handle intake, approvals, signatures, and the broader lifecycle. Platforms are web and API. Starter costs $1,250/user/year, Pro costs $3,000/user/year, Enterprise pricing is custom, and a seven-day trial requires a credit card.

ContractKen is contract review software delivered as a web product and extension, operating as an AI sidekick inside Microsoft Word. It supports drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, then turning agreements into operational business intelligence. During review, it identifies and explains problematic language against customer playbooks and can redline the wording. Drafting can use a customer’s precedents, termsheets and clause library, which contains more than 700 commercial clauses and accepts customer-owned clauses. The Word add-in also provides formatting and proofreading. Listed capabilities include clause extraction, risk identification, term comparison and OCR. Custom workflow integrations can include iManage, while enterprise single sign-on supports Azure AD, Okta and Google Workspace. ContractKen says customer documents, prompts and outputs are not used to train public or shared models. It states TLS 1.2-or-higher protection in transit and AES-256 at rest. Private deployment can place inference inside a customer Azure tenant or VPC. Pricing starts at 119 /user/mo billed annually.