What Gavel Exec Is Doing to Win the Legal AI Race – Artificial Lawyer

By Dorna Moini, CEO, Gavel.

The proof is in the pudding. Most customers subscribe to Gavel Exec within 20 minutes of using it. This is because we built domain-specific AI for more than just surface-level edits.

Long before legal AI became a buzzword, Gavel was already building real AI into the daily workflows of lawyers. Since 2020, Gavel has helped tens of thousands of lawyer customers automate their legal work through its powerful document automation suite, including AI onboarding that helps legal professionals automate their firm’s expertise. This early and sustained investment in legal AI positioned Gavel as one of the field’s pioneers, and was used by the academic community in the AI gold rush as one of three primary products (alongside OpenAI and Thomson Reuters’ Casetext). 

And this year, as Artificial Lawyer reported, Gavel launched its most ambitious AI yet: Gavel Exec. Gavel Exec operates at a senior level directly in Microsoft Word. It’s an AI assistant that helps lawyers and legal professionals draft, revise, redline, and analyze transactional documents.

Gavel Exec: Evolving to Meet Lawyers in Word

Gavel has been an end-to-end automation suite for lawyers for years, and Gavel Exec represents the next chapter in that journey. It’s a context-aware, senior-level AI assistant embedded directly inside Microsoft Word, designed to help lawyers negotiate contracts and conduct legal work without leaving the environment where they already work.

Unlike many ‘AI in Word’ tools that are merely ChatGPT wrappers, Gavel Exec does not rely on surface-level prompts or boilerplate edits. It’s powered by proprietary agents that evaluate the entire document in context, including reference files, past changes, and firm-specific guidance, before making any suggestions. The company prides itself on its high acceptance rates, particularly for redlines to transactional legal documents.

So what does it do?

Smart Redlining: Instantly spot risks and revise contract language based on your benchmarks or reference materials, or based on built-in market benchmarks. The redlines are surprisingly accurate and well-informed, understanding defined terms and lengthy document sets. 

Context-Aware Drafting: Rewrite provisions or generate entire clauses. With domain-specific knowledge, particularly in corporate and real estate transactional areas, Gavel Exec drafts quality language.

Interactive Assistant: Ask questions and get answers grounded in the document’s full context and the context of your own firm’s documents.

Playbook Automation: Use Gavel Exec’s playbooks or create playbooks with rule sets that you can apply automatically to any negotiation using a structured model.

Projects & Training Your Own AI: Train Gavel Exec to understand your style, using unlimited documents and instructions.

To understand more about Gavel Exec’s technology and features, you can see our launch webinar below, where our CTO (a prior engineering leader at Amazon and Microsoft) and I demonstrate the product and technical approach in detail:

Gavel Exec Gives Firms of All Sizes Access to the Most Powerful AI Training

One of Gavel Exec’s most powerful differentiators is its Projects feature. This enables lawyers to connect and upload as many documents as needed, like contracts, playbooks, deal history, and more. From these documents and additional instructions, law firms can create AI that learns from the firm’s own knowledge base. Instead of relying solely on pre-trained models or one-size-fits-all solutions, Gavel Exec adapts to your actual body of work. It delivers custom-tailored insights that reflect the nuances of your firm’s standards, tone, and precedent.

Most importantly, Gavel Exec never trains on customer data for its models (meaning your work only benefits your firm). 

This is what makes Gavel Exec unique: lawyers get the power of out-of-the-box AI, with the added control of training it to their own law firm’s DNA.

Accessible AI, Without the Gatekeeping

Finally, one of Gavel Exec’s biggest advantages is its accessibility. Unlike many enterprise-focused legal AI platforms, Gavel Exec doesn’t require a demo, onboarding call, or credit card to try. Anyone can get started instantly.

This approach isn’t just a marketing tactic. It’s a philosophy. Gavel Exec is commoditizing access to high-quality legal AI, and proving that you don’t need to gate powerful tools behind high-touch sales processes or six-figure retainers. You can get enterprise-grade accuracy, refined by real legal use cases, at $160/mo.

Try Gavel Exec for yourself here, free for 15 runs.

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[ This is a sponsored product highlight article by Gavel for Artificial Lawyer. ]