The next generation of contract review is here: Meet Markup

Today marks an important milestone for DraftWise as we unveil the latest iteration of Markup, the most advanced Legal AI for contract review. Leading firms, including Vault 10, Am Law 200, and Magic Circle, have integrated Markup into their contract workflows with remarkable results.

What is Markup?

Markup is a Legal AI Assistant that automatically analyzes and marks up contracts based on your organization's guidelines, playbooks, and prior work. Unlike generic AI solutions, Markup is purpose-built to meet the nuanced demands of legal contract review. 

Powered by advanced generative AI technology, Markup identifies potential issues, suggests appropriate language, and provides context-aware guidance that reflects your firm's negotiation strategies and client preferences. Our partnership with Cohere has enabled us to build a secure, specialized large language model that understands the intricacies of legal language and contract structures and respects the legal industry's exceptionally high data security standards. 

A lawyer reviewing a stock purchase agreement on behalf of the seller can spot potential issues and generate initial markup revisions that align with their client’s preferences, with suggested revisions based on the firm's preferred language. Similarly, when reviewing a licensing agreement, Markup can identify missing provisions that are standard in your practice group’s contracts, saving hours of manual comparison and research.

Why Markup Matters

The traditional contract review process remains stubbornly inefficient, with associates or in-house lawyers spending countless hours manually searching through precedent and playbooks. Markup transforms this paradigm by automatically applying institutional knowledge at the point of drafting.

Our early adopters report that they are up and running on the platform in less than 30 minutes and spotting contract issues in minutes – no prompt engineering required. These efficiency gains translate directly to improved realization rates, as firms can deliver higher-quality work without writing off billable hours, and in-house teams can be more responsive to their business needs.  

Markup's ability to learn and adapt to your organization's unique practices truly sets it apart, as it continues to incorporate your firm's evolving expertise and client preferences.

Real-World Impact

Our customers are already seeing transformative results:

• A top VC law firm uses Markup to negotiate NDAs at scale, accelerating business without sacrificing quality.
• A Big Four accounting firm implemented customized checklists that have dramatically reduced review cycles and eliminated common drafting errors.
• An Am Law 100 firm is winning new clients by offering faster, higher-quality agreement reviews.

As one Knowledge Management leader at a Big Six firm told us: "We don't usually have this amount of enthusiasm about a new drafting and review tool, especially from folks who rarely raise their hands for tech pilots or projects."

Built on Real Lawyer Feedback

In the year since we first launched Markup, we've conducted thousands of hours of user research, collecting feedback directly from practicing attorneys at firms and in-house teams worldwide.

Our talented implementation teams have worked closely with customers, observing how users interact with our platform and identifying opportunities for improvement, enabling us to uncover new and valuable insights.

While others rush to implement the latest AI trends, we've refined our platform based on direct user feedback, creating a solution that genuinely addresses the challenges of transactional lawyers.

The Future of Legal Work

Since founding DraftWise in 2020, our mission has remained constant: harness the power of precedent with AI to elevate transactional lawyers to work more strategically.

Markup represents the culmination of that promise—not by replacing lawyers, but by empowering them to work at their highest level. We're making your organization's collective knowledge instantly accessible, allowing lawyers to spend less time searching and more time thinking, less time on routine tasks, and more time on strategic counsel.

With Markup, DraftWise is proud to be at the forefront of this transformation, providing tools that combine the best human expertise with the power of advanced AI.