Draftwise · Jul 2026
Draftwise promoted Josh Sandman from Head of Sales to Chief Sales Officer and said he will lead expansion across North America and EMEA.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Draftwise is a legal AI / contract intelligence company that helps law firms and in-house legal teams draft, review, redline, and negotiate contracts using their own precedent, deal history, and playbooks, directly inside Microsoft Word.
Primary product
AI contract intelligence platform for drafting, review, negotiation, and playbook enforcement in Microsoft Word
Founded
2020
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
40-50
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Legal AI / Software Development
Sub-industry
Contract drafting, review, negotiation, and contract intelligence software
Offices
Albany, NY
Brooklyn, NY
London, United Kingdom
San Francisco, CA
Business model
B2B SaaS
Enterprise software
Sales-led, demo-driven subscriptions
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$25.7M
Latest round
Series A · Mar 2024
Latest amount
$20M
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Co-Founder
Chief Sales Officer
Director of Engineering
Work & culture
Fast-growing, high-ownership, global, remote-first/flexible company with a strong focus on lawyer workflows, customer feedback, and shipping useful product quickly.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show pay bands such as $130K-$160K for Legal Product Specialist (US), $140K-$190K for Senior Back End Software Engineer (US), $145K-$185K for Senior Enterprise Solutions Engineer, and $225K-$275K OTE for Account Executive. UK/London roles also publish salary ranges, while several roles specify US citizen/visa-only or relocation/remote constraints.
Benefits
Meaningful equity plan
Competitive salary
Private medical care
New laptop
Work-from-home stipend
Generous PTO / sick leave
Opportunity to work on high-impact legal AI products
Product & market
Pricing
Demo-led, quote-based enterprise SaaS
Differentiators
- —Uses a firm’s own precedent, negotiated language, and deal history rather than generic public data
- —Deep Microsoft Word-native drafting/review workflow
- —Playbook Studio and playbook enforcement grounded in the customer’s own contracts
- —DMS-connected knowledge layer with permission mirroring and governance controls
- —Security posture includes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance
- —Supports market comparison and clause/term benchmarking from internal and public sources
- —Built for transactional legal teams handling complex contracts and institutional knowledge
Technology
Microsoft Word add-in
Microsoft Outlook integration
iManage
NetDocuments
Google Drive
SharePoint
Egnyte
Okta SSO
DocuSign
Postgres
Elasticsearch
Java 21
jOOQ
Dropwizard
Dagger
AWS
Docker
TensorFlow
Keras
LLM workflows
Customers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Mayne Wetherell
Gunderson Dettmer
Mishcon de Reya
Goodwin
Vault 10 firms (over half)
Am Law 100 firms (dozens)
Fortune 500 organizations
Financial services firms
In-house legal teams
Competitors
Spellbook
Harvey
Ironclad
LegalOn
Ivo
ClauseBase
Legartis
Henchman
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
US$1M-$10M (≈$2.1M estimated ARR)
Estimated monthly visits
12.8K
Latest news
Draftwise · Jun 2026
Draftwise announced an integration with Egnyte to bring contract intelligence directly into secure document workflows and surface the contracts already living in Egnyte.
Draftwise · Apr 2026
Draftwise announced a firmwide rollout with Goodwin, with the law firm deploying Draftwise’s contract intelligence across its transactional teams.
Law.com · Jun 2025
Law.com reported Draftwise launched an AI drafting agent inside Microsoft Word to handle drafting, search, redlining, and markup workflows.
Reuters · Mar 2024
Reuters reported Draftwise closed a $20 million Series A led by Index Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Earlybird Digital East Ventures.
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