Legal Drafting
Spellbook
Editor rating4.4
AI contract drafting and review assistant that works inside Microsoft Word.
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Quick facts
- Pricing
- From $99/month per user (annual billing)
- Free tier
- Free trial; no permanent free tier
- Best for
- Transactional lawyers drafting contracts dailyIn-house counsel reviewing vendor and customer agreementsLegal ops teams standardizing contract language
Key features
- Draft contract clauses directly in Microsoft Word
- Review uploaded contracts and flag risky language
- Suggest fallback clauses and negotiating positions
- Generate redlines from your playbook preferences
- Work with a library of common contract templates
Pros
- Works in Word — zero change to your workflow
- Drafting suggestions are genuinely clause-level useful
- Trains on your own playbook language
- Faster first drafts for routine contracts
Cons
- No free tier — trial only
- Output quality depends on clear instructions
- Not a substitute for legal judgment
- Best results need time to configure playbook
The dealbreaker
If you rarely draft contracts from scratch, Spellbook's monthly fee buys a tool you'll touch a few times a month — consider a pay-per-use assistant instead.
Our review
Spellbook is the rare AI tool that fits inside an existing workflow instead of demanding a new one. Drafting a first-pass NDA went from 40 minutes to about 8, and the clause suggestions were good enough that our associates actually use them.