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Legal and contracts

These tools draft, review and manage contracts and do legal research, but a qualified lawyer should still check anything you sign, file or rely on. The ones that lead it as of 29 October 2026.

  1. Harvey New since July

    Harvey

    Legal AI for law firms and in-house teams: research, drafting, document review in Vault, and agents for whole legal tasks.

    Pick it You are a law firm or a large legal team that wants the most widely used enterprise legal AI.

    Source: harvey.ai

  2. Legora New since July

    Legora

    A collaborative legal AI platform for lawyers, with research, review and agents, and an Intake front door for in-house teams in Slack.

    Pick it You are an in-house team or firm that wants legal requests from the business handled and tracked in one place.

    Source: legora.com

  3. Spellbook

    Spellbook

    AI contract drafting and review inside Microsoft Word, plus a multi-document agent called Associate.

    Pick it You or your lawyer draft contracts in Word and want AI review and drafting there, starting with a free trial.

    Price 7-day free trial; plans priced per team.

    Source: spellbook.legal

  4. SpotDraft

    SpotDraft

    Contract lifecycle management: templates, AI review in Word (VerifAI), e-signatures, a repository and legal intake.

    Pick it A growing company needs one system to create, sign and track all its contracts.

    Price Quote only.

    In India Has offices in New York and Bengaluru.

    Source: spotdraft.com

What changed

  1. 13 Oct 2026 Legora launched Intake, which turns employees' legal requests in Slack into tracked work that its agent drafts for a lawyer to review. legora.com
  2. 14 Sep 2026 Legora rebuilt its legal research on a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator. legora.com
  3. 20 Aug 2026 Harvey shared a research preview of Harvey Tenet, its first post-trained open-weight model, built on Kimi K3 for long legal tasks. harvey.ai

Questions people ask about it

Legal & Contracts

  1. Why review contracts with AI before paying a lawyer?
  2. How do founders handle NDAs, ESOPs, term sheets, and compliance questions with AI?
  3. Where is AI legal help dangerous, what still needs a human lawyer?
  4. Which AI legal tools actually work for startups, and how do you choose?
  5. What prompts get reliable contract review out of ChatGPT or Claude?
  6. Is it safe to paste confidential contracts into ChatGPT?

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Checked 29 October 2026. Prices and rankings move every few months; each tool links the page its claims were read from.

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