Draftwise Defines New Era of Contract Intelligence

Draftwise, an AI contract and negotiation platform for lawyers, has announced the expansion of its platform into Contract Intelligence with the launch of Deal Table, turning firms’ historical deals into live, actionable market intelligence.

Traditional legal technology primarily focuses on managing stored documents and automating tasks. Contract intelligence goes further, extracting, structuring, and analysing a firm’s precedents, enabling lawyers to make faster, data-backed decisions—from drafting and review to negotiation strategy and client advisory services.

“We’re witnessing a massive transformation in the legal profession,” said James Ding, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Draftwise. “The firms that will win in the next decade will be the ones that activate their precedent, making it searchable, analysable, and actionable with AI. Draftwise is the intelligence layer on top of your deal history, turning legal data into a strategic advantage.”

The Evolution from Contract Drafting to Contract Intelligence

Draftwise has developed a comprehensive solution for contract drafting and review, enabling lawyers to transition from manual searching to automated, data-driven workflows using their firm’s precedents. As lawyers have integrated the platform into their practice, they’ve increasingly turned to it for deeper strategic insights.

“We’ve successfully deployed contract-specific workflows using firm precedent,” said Will Seaton, Draftwise Chief Customer Officer, “but lawyers told us they wanted more. They want to understand ‘what’s market’ across thousands of deals to guide negotiations. They want to identify patterns, risks, and trends to anticipate client needs and proactively provide advice and guidance. They not only want to access institutional knowledge quickly, but also to build on their data foundation continually, with greater knowledge as a firm or a legal team.”

Legal teams can now use Draftwise to understand market standards across thousands of deals, identify emerging risks and negotiation patterns, and access their firm’s collective wisdom instantly — whether they’re actively working in a contract or advising a client on deal strategy.

Introducing Deal Table: Turning Contracts into Strategic Intelligence

Deal Table represents the next evolution of contract intelligence, enabling lawyers to visualise patterns across hundreds of thousands of transactions, anticipate client needs, and deliver data-backed guidance that differentiates their counsel.

Key capabilities:

• Holistic deal comparisons: Analyse and compare thousands of agreements at once; extract key terms, obligations, and clauses into a live, dynamic table.
• Answer “what’s market” instantly: Ask questions like “what’s market for indemnification caps?” and get firm-specific, data-backed answers drawn from your full deal history.
• Unified connection to all your sources: Seamlessly connect to iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, Google Drive, and more to bring together documents across multiple systems. Deal Table automatically refreshes as contracts change, ensuring one consistent view of your market data.
• Operational insights: Accelerate due diligence, sharpen negotiation playbooks, and track obligations across your deals.
  Market Validation and Adoption

Leading law firms have embraced Draftwise’s contract intelligence approach, with the platform demonstrating exceptional user retention and accuracy:

• 95% acceptance of AI-suggested redlines drawn from firms’ trusted deal data
• 3x increase in platform activity following the introduction of agentic AI capabilities
• 3.5x weekly active user growth as lawyers organically adopt and champion the technology within their firms

“Draftwise elevates lawyers at every level, from document reviewers to strategic advisors,” Ding emphasised. “We’re enabling them to spend less time in the weeds and more time delivering the insights that make them irreplaceable to their clients.”

About Draftwise

Founded in 2021, Draftwise is contract drafting, review, and negotiation AI powered by your legal knowledge. It executes complex drafting, review, and search workflows directly within Microsoft Word, drawing from your organisation’s best guidance, precedent, and language.