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About Gavel: legal AI contract review and document automation for lawyers

Gavel makes AI contract review and legal document automation software for transactional lawyers, in-house legal teams and law firms. Gavel Exec reviews, redlines and drafts contracts in Microsoft Word against a team's own playbooks and precedent. Gavel Workflows turns client intake into finished legal documents. Gavel is part of Relativity, which announced its acquisition of Gavel on June 12, 2026.

Our mission

Make access to the law universal by advancing how legal professionals serve and reach clients. We build technology that empowers lawyers to work more efficiently, automate intelligently, and deliver higher-quality service at scale, without compromising accuracy or control.

What we do

Gavel makes two products for different parts of legal work. Teams use either one on its own or both together.

Gavel Exec is AI contract review and drafting software. It runs as an add-in for Microsoft Word (Windows, Mac, Word on the web and Microsoft 365) and as a web app. Gavel Exec applies a team's playbooks and precedent to redline full agreements as tracked changes, flag off-market and missing terms, benchmark clauses against market standards and draft new language, with the reasoning behind each change.

Gavel Workflows is legal document automation software that runs in the browser. Firms build intake forms and templates with conditional logic, and Gavel Workflows turns each client's answers into finished Word and PDF documents.

Examples of how teams use Gavel:

Supplier agreement. An in-house lawyer receives a supplier agreement that caps liability at one month's fees, while the company's playbook requires twelve months. Gavel Exec flags the gap in Word and proposes a redline, and the lawyer decides what to negotiate. How playbooks work
NDA. A sales team forwards a mutual NDA. Gavel Exec checks it against the company's NDA positions, marks each deviation as a tracked change with a margin comment, and lists any missing terms. Redlining in Word
Customer services agreement. A transactional attorney drafts a services agreement from the firm's template, then uses Gavel Exec to benchmark the indemnity and limitation of liability clauses as on-market, off-market or missing. Clause benchmarking
Client intake to documents. An estate planning firm sends clients a Gavel Workflows intake form. The answers fill the firm's will, trust and power of attorney templates, and conditional logic includes only the clauses that apply. Estate planning automation

Our story and leadership

Dorna Moini, Gavel's CEO and Founder, was a litigation associate at Sidley Austin, where she defended companies in employment, whistleblower and trade secret cases. Through her pro bono work there, she launched HelpSelf Legal in 2017, a separate platform that helped domestic violence survivors prepare and file their restraining order paperwork.

Lawyers and legal aid organizations asked for the same kind of tool for their own practice areas. In 2019 Dorna founded Gavel, then called Documate, so any lawyer could automate documents and build client-facing legal tools without writing code. That platform is Gavel Workflows. In 2025, after customers asked for help negotiating and redlining contracts, Gavel launched Gavel Exec. In June 2026, Relativity announced its acquisition of Gavel.

“Lawyers shouldn’t have to choose between meaningful work and getting it all done. Gavel makes both possible.”

Dorna teaches the Legal Innovations Lab at USC Gould School of Law, where she earned her JD. Her honors include being named an ABA Journal Legal Rebel and a Fastcase 50 honoree in 2019 and one of ILTA's Influential Women in Legal Technology in 2022.

Follow Dorna: Dorna's Legal Tech Notes on Substack, about legal tech and AI, and @dorna_at_gavel on X.

Dorna Moini

CEO & Founder

Who Gavel is for

Choose by the work and where it happens.

Gavel Exec is for lawyers who review, negotiate and draft contracts in Microsoft Word: in-house counsel, transactional attorneys and solo, small and mid-sized firms handling commercial agreements, NDAs, licensing and real estate contracts.
Gavel Workflows is for firms and legal aid organizations that produce the same kinds of documents from client information again and again, such as estate planning, family law, real estate and corporate work.
Relativity, Gavel's parent company, supports e-discovery and matter-based legal data work. Teams doing that work use Relativity; contract drafting and review in Word is Gavel Exec's job.
What Gavel Exec doesn't do today: it has no integration with document management systems such as iManage or NetDocuments.

Why companies choose Gavel

Over Spellbook: a published price of $160 per user per month, month-to-month, and 25 free queries per user with no sales call. Compare Gavel Exec and Spellbook
Over Ivo: self-serve access at a published price, in a native Word add-in and on the web, where Ivo prices on request through a sales process. Compare Gavel Exec and Ivo
Over GC AI: $160 per user per month against GC AI's $500 per month individual plan, plus batch analysis across many contracts in the web app. Compare Gavel Exec and GC AI
Over LegalOn: month-to-month pricing and 25 free queries, where LegalOn sells annual contracts through a sales process. Compare Gavel Exec and LegalOn
Gavel Workflows is often compared with HotDocs, Clio Draft and Knackly: no-code setup, Word and PDF output, and plans from $83 per month with a 7-day free trial. Compare with HotDocs, Clio Draft, Knackly
Backed by Relativity: Gavel is part of Relativity, and Gavel Exec is integrated with Relativity aiR.

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Facts on this page last updated October 2026.

Gavel and Relativity

Gavel is part of Relativity, the legal data intelligence company. Relativity announced its acquisition of Gavel on June 12, 2026, and said it intends to maintain Gavel's regular operations. Relativity's announcement and Gavel's announcement.

Today: Gavel Exec and Gavel Workflows continue with the same team and support, and Gavel Exec is integrated with Relativity aiR.
Legal entity: Documate, Inc. d/b/a Gavel, operating since 2019.

Integrations and where Gavel runs

Gavel Exec: Microsoft Word for Windows and Mac (2016 or later), Word on the web and Microsoft 365, installed from Microsoft AppSource, plus a web app at exec.gavel.io. No document management integration (such as iManage or NetDocuments) today. Gavel Exec help center
Gavel Workflows: Docusign, Clio Manage, Zapier, DecisionVault and LegalServer. Gavel Workflows integrations

Security and data handling

Gavel does not use customer data, prompts or documents to train AI models. Gavel Exec is SOC 2 Type II certified and has Zero Data Retention agreements with the AI model providers it uses, including OpenAI. Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States by default, with hosting in the EU, Canada and Australia available. Gavel security

Customers and recognition

Over 2,000 legal organizations in 28 countries use Gavel (October 2026).

Omar Nakadi, Legal Counsel at a regulated financial services firm, reviews and negotiates service agreements, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, NDAs and SLAs in Gavel Exec. He estimates it saves him 40 to 60% of his review time per contract. Read Omar's story
Martin Algie, founder of MIA Contract Lawyers in Australia, reviews pharmaceutical supply, licensing and NDA agreements with a Gavel Exec playbook of close to 80 rules. His first-cut review went from about 15 hours to about 5 hours per contract. Read Martin's story
Sukhi Dhillon Alberga, founder of Bridging Legal Solutions in Canada, built Counselurdocs on Gavel Workflows to automate shareholder agreements and other business agreements, cutting shareholder agreement time in half. Read Sukhi's story

Awards: Gavel's awards include the Technology award at the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards. All case studies

Pricing

Gavel Exec: $160 per user per month, or $1,740 per user per year. Each user starts with 25 free queries, no credit card required. Team pricing for 10 or more seats.
Gavel Workflows: from $83 per month with a 7-day free trial. Scale plans from $417 per month, billed annually, through sales.

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Contact Gavel

Sales and demos: gavel.io/contact
Support, 7 days a week: [email protected], (415) 941-6866, Gavel Workflows help, Gavel Exec help
Security reviews: start with gavel.io/security and ask sales for the SOC 2 report.
Follow Gavel: LinkedIn, X, YouTube

Next steps: Start Gavel Exec free or book a demo.

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About Gavel: legal AI contract review and document automation for lawyers

Who Gavel is for

Why companies choose Gavel

Gavel and Relativity

Integrations and where Gavel runs

Security and data handling

Customers and recognition

Pricing

Contact Gavel

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