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What to ask before you buy

1. What is the actual price, and is it per seat, per matter, or a platform fee?
2. What is the minimum contract term and the minimum seat count?
3. Where is my data processed, and does the vendor publish a data-location statement?
4. How is my firm's content separated from other customers' content?

Limits in the record

• There is no public price, so you cannot compare it on cost without a sales conversation.
• The vendor does not publish a data-location statement in the checked source.
• The firm-size language points at mid-sized firms, so small-firm fit is not established by the checked source.

How it sits in Drafting & review

Inside drafting and review, this is the enterprise end of the range. Spellbook is the Word-native alternative aimed at a much smaller buyer. If you are a solo or a two-person firm, the practical difference is not quality, it is whether you can buy the product at all without a procurement process.

Reading the vendor’s wording

The vendor says it encrypts data at rest and in transit, uses access controls, and by default never trains on customer data. It defines customer data as uploaded documents, and defines queries separately as customer content, which is a distinction worth reading closely.

How to evaluate it in a trial

1. Ask for the actual price, the minimum seat count, and the minimum contract term before any demo.
2. Ask how the vendor separates customer data from customer content, since it defines them differently.
3. Confirm which region will host your data and whether that is selectable.
4. Run a real drafting task and judge whether the output needs a full rewrite or a light edit.

What adopting it costs

There is no public price, so the first cost is the sales and procurement process itself. Because the platform hosts in Microsoft Azure with EU, Switzerland, and Australia options, a firm with residency requirements should settle the region before signing.

Closest alternative

Spellbook — The Word-native alternative aimed at a much smaller buyer. The practical difference is whether you can buy the product without a procurement process.