Toronto-based legaltech Spellbook has launched its AI-powered contract drafting and review tools inside Google Docs, expanding beyond its established Microsoft Word experience.
The new integration allows legal professionals to analyze, revise, and negotiate agreements without moving documents between platforms or leaving the Google Docs workspace.
Spellbook said the launch responds to the growing number of legal teams using Google Docs for day-to-day contract work. More than one billion people use the cloud-based document platform globally.
With Spellbook for Google Docs, lawyers can review an agreement for potential risks based on their organization’s negotiating position and the relevant jurisdiction. The platform flags issues, suggests revisions directly within the document, and provides citations that allow users to trace recommendations back to their source.
Users can also adjust the depth of the review, choosing a lighter assessment for routine agreements or a more comprehensive examination for complex transactions.
The Google Docs integration includes Spellbook’s Playbooks feature, which converts a legal team’s contracting standards into reusable checklists. Primary and fallback positions, recurring questions, and risk ratings can then be automatically applied to agreements, helping organizations maintain consistency across lawyers and transactions.
Spellbook Ask is also available through the integration. The feature answers legal questions using citations drawn from more than 200 legal sources. Teams can begin with prompts supplied by Spellbook or save their own prompts for questions that regularly arise during contract review.
Embedding these capabilities inside Google Docs could make Spellbook more accessible to legal departments and law firms that have standardized their workflows around Google Workspace. It also reduces the need to export documents or switch between applications while reviewing an agreement.
Spellbook describes its platform as an AI contract review and drafting system for transactional lawyers. The company says its technology is now used by more than 4,500 law firms and in-house legal teams worldwide.
Spellbook for Google Docs is available through the company’s free trial and demonstration programs.