ContractKen vs Gavel

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.

Gavel offers two legal software products: Gavel Exec for AI contract review and drafting, and Gavel Workflows for automating legal documents. Exec works in Microsoft Word and online, where it can review, redline or draft contracts, apply playbooks, compare terms with market data and explain changes. Workflows converts client intake answers and templates into Word documents and PDFs using structured workflows. Listed integrations include Clio, Zapier, DocuSign and Stripe; API access is available on higher tiers. Gavel says its products are designed for transactional attorneys, law firms and legal teams. Exec is SOC 2 Type II certified. Gavel also says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, undergoes regular third-party security testing, and that Exec has zero-retention commitments with AI providers. Workflows plans have tier-specific workflow and usage limits. Lite costs $83 a month, while Scale costs $417 a year. Exec has a free trial with 25 queries per user; its paid plan costs $160 a month or $1740 per user billed annually.