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Document automation company Gavel today released Gavel Exec, an AI assistant embedded in Microsoft Word that it says can perform at a senior-level capacity for small law firms.
Lawyers can use the AI assistant to perform a range of activities, including contract analysis and redlining, negotiation based on firm precedents, and running playbooks with pre-defined rules.
Gavel says it has tested Gavel Exec for several months with a cohort of its law firm customers to ensure the accuracy and quality of its results.
Gavel Exec suggesting edits on a commercial lease agreement based on the context of prior versions of documents.
The firms also helped develop market benchmarks and playbooks for Gavel Exec, starting with corporate and real estate law.
“At Gavel, we have always tackled the most complex legal work and valued the highest-quality document drafting,” said Dorna Moini, Gavel’s founder and CEO. “This is why we were ambitious in building such a robust AI agent – to be the first tool for more than surface-level edits.”
Gavel Exec comes with pre-configured templates for several document types, including real estate, with detailed explanations on the rule and suggested language.
As an extension of Gavel’s document automation platform, Gavel Exec’s generative AI-powered product can be used by lawyers to:
- Redline a document against Gavel’s benchmarks or your firm’s uploaded reference files to ensure consistency and alignment with your preferred rules and style.
- Draft and revise clauses or entire documents with domain-specific expertise.
- Chat with a document to ask sophisticated questions and get answers based on the full document context.
- Create playbooks or reusable rule sets for specific types of documents, for greater consistency in negotiations.
- Create projects to load custom data and instructions for the AI.
Pierre Martin, Gavel’s chief technology officer, said that Gavel Exec differs from legal assistants that rely only on pre-trained or out-of-the-box large language models to review documents.
Documents can be cross-referenced to ensure consistency.
Rather, Gavel Exec uses proprietary AI agents that model the entire context of a firm’s document, reference files, guidelines, and prior behavior before taking any action.
“It’s like an associate reviewing the whole case file before making any decisions,” Martin said. “This is not just another ‘ChatGPT in Word’ product – our approach yields truly outstanding, context-aware, and intelligent edits to elevate the way lawyers work.”
Gavel is offering a free trial of its new AI assistant with no upfront commitment, credit card or sales call required.
“Gavel Exec isn’t just a tool,” Moini said. “It’s an interactive, strategic partner that can elevate the quality and accuracy of legal work at every level.