What it is and who it's for
Spellbook is AI for contract review and drafting right inside Microsoft Word: it suggests redlines and fallback language, flags risks and works from your playbooks. For transactional lawyers and small-to-mid teams who want AI where they already work — in Word, without a separate platform. It stands out for a seamless Word integration and a tight focus on contracts.
Key features
- A Word add-in: review and draft in place.
- Auto-redlines and suggested fallback language.
- Finds risks, missing provisions and deviations from the playbook.
- Firm playbooks and standards for consistent edits.
- Drafts individual clauses or whole documents on request.
- Works with your own context and precedents.
Get started in 5 minutes
- Get access at spellbook.legal and install the Microsoft Word add-in.
- Open a contract in Word and launch Spellbook from the panel — you get a review plus suggestions.
- Apply redlines and fallback language, and draft the missing provisions from your playbook.
When to pick it, when not to
- ✅ Pick it if you work on contracts in Word and want AI review and drafting right there.
- ✅ Pick it if you need playbooks and fallback language for consistency.
- ❌ Skip it → go with "Harvey" if you need a large enterprise platform with due diligence and agents.
- ❌ Skip it → go with "DraftWise" if the core need is drafting from your firm's past deals and searching precedent clauses.
The honest price
Paid subscription (usually per user, via demo/sales); there's no free self-serve tier. Exact numbers are on the vendor's site and do change.
Gotchas
- It's tied to Microsoft Word — outside that ecosystem there's much less value.
- AI suggestions need a lawyer's review — it's an assistant, not a replacement.
- Playbooks have to be configured, otherwise the edits come out generic.
- Test how well it fits your jurisdiction (Russia included) on your own contracts.
🤖 Prompt accelerator
"I'm rolling out Spellbook for contract review in Word on a
team. Help me formalize our playbook (standard positions, fallback language, red flags by clause type: liability, confidentiality, termination) and build a contract review checklist. How do I set up an 'AI draft → lawyer review' process without losing quality?"