Comparisons

Wordsmith vs. Spellbook

Spellbook is a Word plug-in for drafting and redlining. Wordsmith is the platform for running contract work across the business: drafting, review, workflows, approvals, reporting, and integrations your company actually uses.

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Wordsmith

Spellbook

Contract Review

In-depth reviews and AI-generated reports

AI-powered review and analysis in Word

Redlining

Track-changes, fallbacks, customisable playbooks

Track-changes and AI redlines

Contract Drafting

Intelligent AI drafting via Blueprints

Clause suggestions and manual drafting

Word Add-in

Review, redline, and draft with AI inside Word

Core Word plug-in with AI suggestions

Playbooks

Reusable playbooks for consistent, scalable reviews

Clause library for individual lawyers

Slack Integration

Native Slack integration for cross-team workflows

No Slack integration

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Wordsmith vs. Spellbook

The problems we solve

Spellbook is a Word-optimised tool for individual lawyers — clause suggestions, AI redlines, and precedent search. It is excellent at what it does inside Microsoft Word. But it stops at the lawyer's desk and doesn't extend to the rest of the business.

Wordsmith unlocks the rest of the business. With native Slack, Gmail, and Teams integrations, legal reviews happen where work starts — speeding up sales cycles and accelerating revenue across the company without the legal team becoming a bottleneck.

Jobs to be done	In-house legal	Law Firms
Contract Review	In-depth, playbook-driven reviews that apply your firm's positions automatically	AI-powered clause analysis and redline suggestions in Word
Contract Drafting	Blueprints turn your templates into intelligent drafting engines anyone can use	Manual drafting with AI clause assistance and library lookup
Business Integrations	Native Slack, Gmail, Teams and SharePoint integrations for the whole business	Word-only integration — no cross-team collaboration outside the document
Redlining	Automatic tracked changes based on your negotiation positions and playbooks	AI redlines and suggestions directly inside Word
Team Enablement	Legal enables sales, HR, finance to self-serve through the tools they already use	Focused on improving individual lawyer efficiency in Word
Reporting	Contract-level insights and analytics across your entire estate	Clause-level library and suggestions — no aggregate reporting

What Spellbook offers

Spellbook is a Word-optimised tool for lawyers: clause suggestions, AI redlines, and precedent search.

Where Wordsmith pulls ahead

Spellbook optimizes the lawyer's workflow. Wordsmith optimizes the business's access to legal.

Wordsmith goes beyond Word

Run contract reviews in Slack, Gmail, Teams, and SharePoint. Sales can request reviews without leaving their inbox. HR can generate NDAs from Slack. Legal enables the business without manually handling every request.

Draft from zero

Blueprints turn your existing templates into intelligent drafting engines. Give Wordsmith context from anywhere — emails, forms, questionnaires — and get a lawyer-grade draft in minutes, perfectly formatted and legally consistent.

Enabling the business

Wordsmith's approval workflows and self-serve capabilities let business teams move faster while legal keeps full control. Fewer bottlenecks. Faster decisions. More strategic time for your legal team.

A different philosophy

	Wordsmith	Spellbook
Primary User	Legal team & business stakeholders	Lawyers and legal professionals
Core workflow	Cross-functional collaboration	Contracts filled by manual templates
Integration focus	Slack, email, Zapier, web, Word	Word only
Drafting Model	Blueprints anyone can run	Clause library for legal experts
Value metric	Faster business and smarter legal operations	Lawyer efficiency

The bottom line

Spellbook does a great job at improving lawyers' productivity. Wordsmith goes a step further by driving efficiency beyond legal, turning legal into a team that the company can rely on to get business critical answers and insights.

FAQ SECTION

Frequently asked questions

We've compiled the most important information to help you get the most out of your experience. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us.

Does Wordsmith train on the context we input?

No. Wordsmith never trains on the data you provide. Your documents remain private and secure.

Can I draft multiple documents at once?

Yes it is possible to set up a workspace which can draft multiple related Blueprints from the same source documentation, for example rolling out new share options documentation from one excel of share details.

How do I find a Blueprint?

You can access Blueprints in two ways. Login to Wordsmith AI and navigate to the command centre, in here click on Blueprints and select the drop down between your existing selection or our pre-made bundles. Alternatively you can navigate to the Blueprint library on the main navigation.

What type of Blueprints are supported?

Our team of legal experts have been hard at work preparing ready to use Blueprints across Employment, Data Protection and CoSec. Across these three bundles are 20 different Blueprints covering Companies House forms, employment tribunal documents and data risk assessments.

How do I create my own Blueprint?

Upload one of your team’ regular documents (like a contract) with placeholders in square brackets. Wordsmith automatically detects variables and drafts prompts for each one. You can then refine these by adding logic or dropdown options, for example setting ‘Governing Law’ to change wording based on office location. Once saved, your Blueprint lets the team generate complete, reliable documents from just a few inputs (like name, role, and location), with Wordsmith handling the rest automatically.

Are Blueprints the same as templates?

Not exactly. While templates rely on basic find and replace, Blueprints go further. Wordsmith applies legal reasoning to handle the rest of the document, automatically adapting clauses, language, logic and format.

Can anyone in my business access Blueprints?

Blueprints have been built stored in a central registry where administrators can set granular permissions and ensure the right Blueprints reach the right users while maintaining security and compliance standards. Your team can browse, search, and access Blueprints from a unified location.

How do I populate a Blueprint?

If you are in Wordsmith on web, navigate to Blueprints on the side panel, select a Blueprint from either one of your own or one of our pre-made Blueprints. Start prompting by using either voice command, or by uploading documents from your files. You can also draft a document via email, simply email assistant@wordsmith.ai and ask it to select your chosen Blueprint, this is an important step. Add in the information in the email such as a chain or relevant documents and Wordsmith Blueprints will return the drafted document back to you via email. Diversity & Inclusion