# DraftWise

> DraftWise is a New York-based legal AI company that helps lawyers draft, review, and negotiate contracts faster by turning a firm's own precedent, playbooks, and deal history into searchable, actionable intelligence. Working inside Microsoft Word, its platform generates lawyer-quality drafts and redlines grounded in institutional knowledge rather than generic AI output. Founded in 2020 by former Palantir engineers and a practicing corporate lawyer, DraftWise serves top law firms and legal departments across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** James Ding (Co-founder & CEO (former Palantir engineering leader)), Emre Ozen (Co-founder (former Palantir engineering leader)), Ozan Yalti (Co-founder & CTO (Stanford Law graduate, ex-Clifford Chance))
- **Team size:** ~47 employees
- **Products:** DraftWise Core Platform, Smart Draft, Markup, AI Associate, Deal Table
- **Notable:** Raised $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (March 2024), bringing total funding to roughly $25M., Adopted by over half the Vault 10 and dozens of Am Law 100 firms., Achieved SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and GDPR compliance.

## Products & services

- **DraftWise Core Platform** — AI-driven contract drafting, review, redlining, and negotiation assistance that runs inside Microsoft Word, drawing on a firm's precedent, guidance, and contract history.
- **Smart Draft** — Surfaces and applies firm-specific precedent and client preferences directly in Word to keep drafts consistent with established standards.
- **Markup** — Generative-AI redlining tool that automatically marks up contracts based on a firm's guidelines and negotiation history, flagging issues and suggesting language.
- **AI Associate** — Agentic assistant that drafts, reviews, and marks up a contract end-to-end, searching across millions of documents in parallel and pasting revisions into the active file.
- **Deal Table** — Contract-intelligence product that turns a firm's historical deals into live, actionable market intelligence for transactional lawyers.
- **Playbook Studio** — Automates the creation and activation of institutional playbooks and firm standards.
- **Knowledge Console** — Manages the curated knowledge, permissions, and data that power DraftWise workflows, mirroring existing DMS permissions.

## Achievements

- Raised $20M Series A led by Index Ventures (March 2024), bringing total funding to roughly $25M.
- Adopted by over half the Vault 10 and dozens of Am Law 100 firms.
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and GDPR compliance.
- Launched Markup (2024), AI Associate (2025), and Deal Table (2025), defining a contract-intelligence category for transactional law.
- Expanded operations across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
- Alumnus of Y Combinator and the MDR Lab legaltech accelerator.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Launched Deal Table, turning a firm's historical deals into real-time market intelligence and defining a new category of contract intelligence for transactional law.
- **2025-08** — Announced the next phase of its agentic AI and expansion of global operations ahead of ILTACON.
- **2025-06** — Launched AI Associate, an agentic assistant that drafts, reviews, and marks up contracts end-to-end.
- **2024-06** — Launched Markup, a generative-AI-powered contract drafting, review, and redlining tool.
- **2024-03** — Closed a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures.

## Links

- Website: https://draftwise.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftwise-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/draftwiselegal
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/draftwise/

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Last updated: 2026-07-21