Move your team from DraftWise to Spellbook.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Spellbook — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in DraftWise is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both tools draft contracts and clauses inside Microsoft Word using the firm's precedent library, so the core workflow is identical: open Word, invoke the add-in, and prompt for a first draft. When migrating from DraftWise to Spellbook, export any approved clause language from DraftWise (copy from Word documents stored in your DMS) and upload representative precedent documents into Spellbook's precedent library so the AI can learn the firm's preferred positions. When moving in the other direction, DraftWise reads precedents automatically from the connected DMS (NetDocuments, iManage, or Egnyte) rather than a manually uploaded library, so ensure your DMS integration is configured before retiring Spellbook. In both cases, the Word Add-In is the entry point — install the replacement add-in, authenticate, and run a pilot draft on a known matter to validate quality before full rollout.
- Warning: DraftWise connects directly to enterprise DMS platforms (NetDocuments, iManage, Egnyte) and searches millions of stored documents in real-time with no manual uploads; Spellbook relies on a manually curated precedent library, so a migration from DraftWise to Spellbook requires a one-time precedent upload effort.
- Warning: DraftWise pricing is enterprise-only via direct sales with no published tiers; Spellbook also requires a sales demo but offers a 7-day free trial for evaluation — factor this into pilot planning.
- Warning: DraftWise supports private cloud or on-premise deployment; Spellbook runs on AWS (ca-central-1), which may affect data-residency requirements for non-Canadian or non-US firms.
Both tools are SOC 2 certified and commit to not training AI models on client data, which is the baseline security requirement most law firms will verify before switching. When evaluating a move from DraftWise to Spellbook: confirm Spellbook's Zero Data Retention agreements with its LLM providers (OpenAI and Anthropic) satisfy the firm's AI-training prohibition policy, and review Spellbook's Trust Center (spellbook.com/security) for GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA documentation. When evaluating a move from Spellbook to DraftWise: review DraftWise's deployment options (private cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP with firm-controlled keys, or on-premise) and request the SOC 2 report and Cyber Essentials Plus certificate for UK-based teams. In both directions, verify audit log availability and retention periods satisfy firm policy before signing off on the migration.
- Warning: DraftWise supports private cloud (firm-controlled encryption keys) or on-premise deployment, giving firms direct control over data residency; Spellbook runs on shared AWS infrastructure in ca-central-1 with no published self-hosted option — firms with strict data-residency or jurisdiction requirements must verify this before migrating to Spellbook.
- Warning: Spellbook is HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act, CCPA, and PIPEDA compliant with documented certification; DraftWise advertises SOC 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus (UK) — HIPAA BAA availability from DraftWise is not confirmed in public documentation.
- Warning: DraftWise audit logs are stored in AWS CloudWatch with up to two-year retention; Spellbook's audit log retention period is not specified in public documentation — request this during contract negotiation.
Both tools let lawyers benchmark contract terms against external data to validate whether a position is market-standard. DraftWise Deal Table benchmarks current terms against public EDGAR filings from within the Word add-in or the Deal Table platform view. Spellbook's Compare (Market) feature benchmarks a selected clause or section against a large corpus of comparable contracts, also from within the Word Add-In. When moving from DraftWise to Spellbook: select the clause to benchmark, switch to the Spellbook Add-In, highlight the clause, and run Compare (Market) — results indicate above/at/below market norms. When moving from Spellbook to DraftWise: open the document in Word with the DraftWise add-in active, navigate to Deal Table, and run the benchmarking view against EDGAR. No data export is required in either direction since benchmarking is an on-demand lookup against external corpora, not stored firm data.
- Warning: DraftWise Deal Table benchmarks against public EDGAR filings specifically; Spellbook's Compare (Market) benchmarks against a proprietary corpus of comparable contracts — the underlying data sources differ and results may diverge for the same clause.
- Warning: DraftWise Deal Table also provides cross-deal visibility into the firm's own historical positions (internal precedent search); Spellbook's market benchmarking is market-facing only and does not replicate the internal deal intelligence function — a separate Spellbook playbook or precedent library review is needed to fill that gap.
- Warning: DraftWise Deal Table access is part of the enterprise platform; Spellbook's Compare (Market) feature is available on all plan tiers, which may make evaluation simpler during a migration pilot.
Both products center their review workflow on firm-maintained playbooks that define preferred positions per contract type. DraftWise's Playbook Studio auto-generates playbook entries from the firm's historical deal documents and uploaded guidance — admins do not need to author positions from scratch. Spellbook's playbooks are configured per matter type by an admin inside the Word Add-In and are applied during the Review feature. When moving from DraftWise to Spellbook: export DraftWise playbook guidance documents (PDFs or Word files used to seed Playbook Studio) and use them as reference material to manually populate Spellbook playbook positions for each matter type. When moving from Spellbook to DraftWise: connect the DMS and upload any written playbook guidance to Playbook Studio; DraftWise will auto-draft entries and admins can refine them. In both directions, validate the playbook on 3-5 historical deals before go-live to confirm clause-level coverage.
- Warning: DraftWise Playbook Studio auto-generates playbook entries from historical deal documents; Spellbook playbooks require manual position entry by an admin — expect significant configuration effort when migrating a large playbook from DraftWise to Spellbook.
- Warning: DraftWise supports playbook customization per client, matter type, or counterparty category; Spellbook documents per-matter-type configuration but does not explicitly advertise per-client or per-counterparty granularity.
- Warning: Spellbook's Playbook Build Service is included on the In-House Teams plan tier, which may accelerate initial setup when migrating from DraftWise — confirm plan tier before assuming self-service authoring.
Both tools perform AI-assisted contract review inside Microsoft Word and output inline redline suggestions, making the surface workflow similar. To migrate from DraftWise to Spellbook: open the counterparty redline in Word, switch to the Spellbook Word Add-In (Review feature), and run the playbook-based review — Spellbook returns clause-by-clause redline suggestions and a risk summary. To migrate from Spellbook to DraftWise: open the redlined document in Word, activate the DraftWise add-in, and the system will cross-reference tracked changes against your DMS-stored precedent to propose accept/reject/counter language. In both cases, configure the firm playbook before the first live review: DraftWise playbooks are set up in Playbook Studio by an admin; Spellbook playbooks are configured per matter type by an admin in the Add-In settings.
- Warning: DraftWise explicitly reads counterparty tracked changes and inline comments to interpret negotiation context before proposing responses; Spellbook's Review feature compares against the playbook but does not surface a specific cross-reference of version history — counterparty intent is inferred from clause text alone.
- Warning: DraftWise claims to process and propose redlines for an entire document within minutes; Spellbook review speed is not benchmarked publicly and may vary by document length.
- Warning: Playbook migration is manual: DraftWise playbooks (Playbook Studio) and Spellbook playbooks use different configuration interfaces and file formats — expect to re-enter positions rather than import them directly.