ClauseBuddy now also features the possibility to intelligently compare a document against another document.
Maarten Truyens
July 21, 2024
Full disclosure: This review is written by ClauseBase, a vendor of legal drafting & reviewing software. It is part of a series of reviews in which we unveil how certain (competing) software packages work from a technical perspective, particularly those that themselves remain fairly silent on this subject. It is our intention to be honest in unveiling how everything works, stating both what's good and bad about the technical choices that were made by the vendor. However, as the respective vendors remain silent on technical details, the reviews are based on a combination of discussions with users, lawyers who attented demos, limited interactions we had ourselves, as well as knowledge we have ourselves about the various tradeoffs associated with the technologies being used. If you're the vendor of the product that's being reviewed, and you would spot mistakes, please let us know.
In addition to the rule-based ("playbook") review function, ClauseBuddy now also features the possibility to intelligently compare a document against another document.
Deep Compare will intelligently line up your active document with some other document that you upload. You can then immediately see the legal differences between various clauses, and even create merged versions of each clause.
Typical use cases include:
Situations where you have to use the document of your counterparty, but you want to compare it against your own standard document to see what's missing.
Law firms that need to review their client's document, and want to compare it against one or more of their own "golden standard" templates.
Merging two different templates containing partially similar and partially different clauses.
