A customer asked us if it was possible to create a Weagree add-in for Word. They had seen such plugin at Spellbook and Document Drafter, but also in Legora and Harvey. How much would it take us to develop this? The short answer: 10.5 hours only.
Here is a 34-seconds video of our Word add-in our developers recorded:
Features of our Word-plugin
Weagree (and Word) will soon be equipped with a panel alongside the Word-document. Imagine your Word add-in that enables:
- Searching the document for red flags.
- Chatting with your contract.
- Summarising incomprehensible clauses.
- Translating a clause into any language.
- Creating a markup (with or without track-changes) with playbook options.
- Aligning a proposal with own model contracts.
- …
Of course, the above listing of features is only a starter.
Indeed, it took us only 10.5 hours
Customer questions like this make my heart tick. Few things are more satisfying than developing something powerful together and making a customer happy. We have done such customer-partnership creations many times before.
For all Weagree customers, the upswing is that Weagree will quickly get shoulder-to-shoulder with Harvey and Legora (and we even overtake them thanks to countless existing contracting functionalities).
Our AI competitors
Upcoming legal AI vendors find their biggest challenges in developing foundational functionalities (e.g. tasks Kanbans, approval workflows, DMS-integrations, user management, access rights controls, data retention, role-based UX-simplifications, notifications management, API-options, IT security, etc.). Most of what Harvey, Legora, Spellbook, Document Drafter and the likes offer, is largely a matter of leveraging existing LLMs like OpenAI, ChatGPT or Claude.
That it took us only 10.5 hours to develop the Weagree AI Word-plugin is thanks to Weagree being enterprise-grade (the advantage of 20 years development). Weagree has its tech-foundations well-established, including a mature in-app ‘infrastructure’ to continue adding AI-features across our platform.
Ten days ago, we provided our programmers with a few screenshot-designs and functional descriptions. They delivered our Word plugin yesterday morning. How? Microsoft offers the technology enabling the functionalities needed for such Word plugin.
Such open-source technologies accelerate. For example, a few years ago, we saw Henchman rocketing with an open-source module developed by Google and Amazon. It took us a few weeks to implement the same open-source module in Weagree: full-text search, OCR, fuzzy search, mass-file indexing, etc.
We will implement various other (AI) open-source technologies and AI-protocols that will further accelerate Weagree’s contracting capabilities. (Think of AI-access to preconfigured online sources for case law, legislation, public registers; or think of processing AI-generated documents smoothly into your CLM.)
It will take us little efforts to add more AI contracting features in our Word-panel, so that end-users experience contracting power no matter where they are.
A Word add-in does not fix problems with data or processes
It is well known that Word is too rigid to support anything other than Word-documents. And indeed, Word surely is completely unfit for data management, process monitoring, process debottlenecking, transaction management or matter management. If you need to fix digital readiness gaps in data, processes or organisational alignment, MS Word is your enemy. But for lawyers, Word is a heaven, the perfect excuse not to change their way of working.
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