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Spellbook Put Contract AI Where Lawyers Actually Work
Spellbook began as a useful little side panel in Word. Now it wants the whole contract journey, from the first nervous redline to the renewal nobody remembered.
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.
James Ding
James Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Draftwise, a New York-based legal AI company building contract drafting, review, and negotiation software for elite law firms. A former engineering lead at Palantir with a computer science degree from Emory University, Ding started Draftwise in 2020 after interviewing about 100 lawyers and concluding that repetitive contract work was ripe for automation. The company went through Y Combinator, raised a $5M seed in 2023 and a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures in 2024, and now serves clients among the world's top-tier law firms from offices in New York and London.