Transactional practice has a different center of gravity than litigation: the document is the work, most of it happens in Microsoft Word, and speed comes from clause libraries and disciplined redlining rather than research depth. Here's how a contracts attorney should evaluate the AI field.

What contracts work actually demands

Drafting from a term sheet. Turning a deal outline into a clean first-draft NDA, MSA, or services agreement.
Redlining against a playbook. Flagging off-market indemnity, IP, and limitation-of-liability terms, and suggesting fallback language you'd actually accept.
Living in Word. Transactional lawyers don't want to copy-paste between a chat window and the document.

The honest field

Spellbook is the purpose-built leader here — AI contract drafting and redlining inside Word, with playbooks, a 7-day trial, and a completed SOC 2 Type II report, at roughly $100–$300 per seat per month. If your entire practice is contracts and a finished SOC 2 report is a hard requirement today, it's a strong, focused choice. Where it stops is the moment your work also includes litigation, matters, or court deadlines — Spellbook doesn't cover those.

Where Draftiro fits

Draftiro is an AI-first workspace that also ships a Microsoft Word add-in, so you keep the in-Word drafting and redlining workflow — but you get litigation, matter management, conflict checks, and deadlines around it, plus case-citation validation against CourtListener for any court filings. It starts free with no card and paid tiers from $29/mo. For a contracts-and-litigation generalist, that breadth at a lower entry price is the trade. Be straight on one point: Draftiro's SOC 2 Type II is in progress, not complete — if you need a finished report now, that favors Spellbook today.

How to choose

Pure contracts desk, Word-only, SOC 2 required now? Spellbook.
Contracts plus litigation/matters, want a free start and a Word add-in? Draftiro — see the contracts workspace and the full Spellbook comparison.