Docusign releases AI-Powered reviewer in Word

Reviewing documents and contracts can be time consuming, with Docusign's new release, you could save time.

February 9, 2025

This Docusign feature could save companies hours

The task, generally preformed by an organizations legal team, of reviewing documents is tedious.
Many hours can go into skimming through documents which can be spent being more productive.
AI Contract Review is a common term, and we’ve explored it in depth.

The need for review varies across organizations, whether for a special-term Purchase Order when selling SaaS solution or a lease plan when renting out office buildings.

Legal tech is evolving, and Docusign is keeping up.

The rise of legal tech

There are many up and coming players in the legal tech.
On the other hand there are also many contract management software providers that are building out their offerings offerings with legal technology. As AI and LLMs spread across SaaS, contract platforms quickly adopted them for document analysis and generation.

Docusigns AI Contract Review now integrates with Word

In december 2024 Docusign made improvements to their Word integration, more specifically for clients using their Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) offerings.

Key features

The plugin introduced is called “Docusign AI-Assisted Review” and can help its users by allowing them to:

Easily review agreements against your pre-approved playbooks and get markup suggestions to align language with your requirements
Get quick answers to agreement-related questions and links to relevant source text in seconds with a Q&A experience powered by generative AI
Generate new clauses or markup from scratch simply by describing in plain English the language you’d like to insert and let AI generate it for you

A graphic design of a document with marked text and docusigns plugin saying it needs review

This is a big step for Docusign in their IAM offering to really provide additional value to clients who have using their CLM suite.
On the topic of Word integrations this is now Docusigns Second Plugin directly to word. In addition they also provide a plug and play integration to SharePoint.

Conclusion

Ultimately Docusign is clearly following the market trends and needs.
Organizations are trying to leverage AI more in their daily work, and added functionality like this can really help streamline legal operations.
AI contract review is on its forefront and this release by Docusign will only up theirs and competitors game.