Contract Express vs ContractAI

Contract Express is Thomson Reuters software for assembling standardized legal documents from templates. Its web-based service guides users through questionnaires, document previews, workflows and task management, with pre-automated precedents. It can generate questionnaire forms from information in a template, while AI-assisted authoring uses natural-language processing to answer questions and offer drafting guidance. Small corporate legal departments can use it to create contracts, route approvals and collect e-signatures. Contract Express Author, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2013 and later, turns Word documents into templates; integrations also include Microsoft Excel and iSheets. The product runs on the web, Windows and macOS, and exports DOCX and PDF. A subscription includes pre-automated and best-practice templates from Practical Law. Chat is available to cloud customers on version 9.15 and above, but not in on-premises production environments. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is listed.

ContractAI brings contract drafting, review, negotiation, signing, and management into one workspace. Users describe an agreement in plain language and receive a structured draft; the service says generation takes under 30 seconds. Its AI reviews clauses, assigns severity levels, and suggests fixes in plain English. For negotiation, users can paste a contract and request tracked counter-proposals from buyer, seller, or employee perspectives. Built-in signatures include audit trails, IP logging, and timestamps, and signers do not need accounts. ContractAI lists 185 templates and generation in eight languages. Documents can be exported to DOCX, PDF, or HTML. The service runs on the web, through an API, or as a self-hosted deployment; Pro and Enterprise include REST API access and seven webhook events. The Free plan allows three contracts and ten AI generations per month. Pro costs $39 a month when billed annually, or $49 per month when billed monthly. The site says contract data is not used to train AI models and is removed when an account is deleted.