Document Drafter vs. Gavel Workflows: Which Fits Your Document Automation?

Document Drafter builds Word templates with AI inside Microsoft 365. Compare it with Gavel Workflows’ client intake portal, published plans and free trial.

By Richard Poelderl · Last updated: November 14, 2026

Running a firm-wide automation program on Microsoft 365? Document Drafter keeps your templates in Word, connects them to SharePoint, Entra ID, Power Automate and Teams, and uses Agentic Templating: AI drafts the automated template and your expert reviews it once. Want to turn your own Word templates into client intake that you can price and start today? Gavel Workflows runs in the browser, delivers Word and PDF documents through a branded client portal and starts with a 7-day free trial, no credit card required.

Document Drafter is built in Copenhagen and published by Green Meadow ApS. This page compares its document automation with Gavel Workflows. For AI review of a counterparty’s contract in Word, Gavel’s product is Gavel Exec.

Document Drafter

Document Drafter, developed in Copenhagen since 2016 and published by Green Meadow ApS, is document automation for law firms and corporate legal teams. Lawyers keep templates in Word, questionnaires pull data from SharePoint, Entra ID and SQL databases, and Agentic Templating uses AI to draft the automated template, which an expert reviews once. Named customers include DLA Piper Denmark, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Gateley and adidas, and Document Drafter says it works with firms in 27 countries.

Gavel Workflows

Gavel Workflows is legal document automation software for law firms. It automates Word and PDF documents using client intake, questionnaires, and advanced workflow logic.

Firms can automate their own templates or start with Gavel's attorney-reviewed legal template library. Pricing starts at $83 per month with a free trial available.

Why law firms choose Gavel Workflows over Document Drafter

Price it and try it today: Gavel Workflows publishes its plans and offers a 7-day free trial without a credit card or a sales call. Document Drafter doesn’t publish prices; its next step is a 30-minute demo with one of its implementation experts.
Client intake that ends in a paid, signed document: Gavel Workflows is legal document automation software in which clients answer a questionnaire in your branded portal and get Word and PDF documents. Every plan connects to Clio Manage; the Pro plan adds Stripe payments, embedding on your website and Docusign. Document Drafter also offers branded client portals, built around Microsoft 365, Salesforce and its API; its pages don’t list payment collection or a Clio integration.
Start with one builder, not a rollout: the Lite plan includes one builder seat and 10 templates, a drag-and-drop builder, and free training and support by phone, screen share or email. Gavel Blueprint suggests the questions from a Word or PDF file you upload, for you to review. Document Drafter’s published customer stories are firm-wide programs, such as DLA Piper Denmark automating 1,500 documents across 16 practice areas in 12 months.

Can we use Document Drafter and Gavel Workflows side by side?

Yes, though most firms need one document automation platform. A firm could keep Document Drafter for its precedent bank in Word and Microsoft 365, and use Gavel Workflows for client-facing intake with payments. Both start from Word templates, but neither vendor documents a migration between the two, so you rebuild the questions and logic in the other product.

When evaluating the legal tech company Document Drafter,

Document Drafter is a Danish document automation platform for law firms and corporate legal teams. Its templates live in Word, AI helps experts build them (Agentic Templating), and it connects to SharePoint, Entra ID, Power Automate, Teams and, over MCP, to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Its prices are not published; it offers a 30-minute demo. Gavel Workflows turns a law firm’s Word templates into client questionnaires and a branded portal that produce Word and PDF documents, from $83 per month with a 7-day free trial and no credit card.

When to choose Document Drafter or Gavel Workflows

When to choose Document Drafter

Choose Document Drafter if your firm or legal department runs on Microsoft 365 and wants lawyers to automate templates in Word at scale: a Word add-in for Windows, Mac and the web, SharePoint, Entra ID, Power Automate and Teams integration, an MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, ISO 27001 and ISAE 3402 audits, unlimited free automation support and HotDocs migration. Not for you if you want a published price or a trial before a sales conversation: Document Drafter publishes no prices and offers a 30-minute demo.

When to choose Gavel Workflows

Choose Gavel Workflows if you’re a law firm that wants to turn its own Word templates into client questionnaires, deliver documents through a branded portal, take payment and start today. Gavel customer Litson PLLC cut its time from lead to client by 90%. Not for you if your automation has to live inside Microsoft 365, with Teams, Power Automate, SharePoint and Entra ID, or run from Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot over MCP: Gavel’s Workflows pages list Clio, Docusign, Zapier and an API instead. For AI review of counterparty contracts in Word, see Gavel Exec.

Document Drafter vs. Gavel Workflows: pricing, trial and features

Public terms checked November 14, 2026. Document Drafter doesn’t publish prices, so its cells show what its pages list. Sources: Document Drafter for law firms and Gavel Workflows pricing.

Feature	Document Drafter	Gavel Workflows
Price	Not published; quote-based. Demo on request.	From $83/month (Lite); Scale from $417/month billed annually.
Billing	Not published. Confirm term and seat model with Document Drafter.	Monthly or annual; annual plans billed upfront get 2 months free.
Free Trial	No free trial listed; 30-minute live demo with an implementation expert.	7-day free trial; no credit card required.
Features	Agentic Templating: AI drafts the automated template, an expert reviews it once. MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot fill a questionnaire.	Optional AI (Gavel Blueprint) suggests questions from uploaded Word and PDF files. For AI contract review in Word, see Gavel Exec.
Templates	Word templates with questionnaires; lookups from Azure SQL, SharePoint Lists and Entra ID; HotDocs migration (Legacy Leap).	Your Word and PDF templates with conditional logic and calculations; legal template library on Pro.
Output	Word add-in (AppSource lists Windows, Mac, web and Microsoft 365): generate documents, update answers, see manual changes as tracked changes. Teams app.	Runs in the browser; Word add-in to tag template fields; output as Word documents and PDFs.
Support	Unlimited free training and support for automating documents; outsourced automation; fixed-cost integration work.	Free training and support by phone, screen share and email; Gavel Experts for hire.

Document Drafter ratings and a Gavel Workflows demo

Ratings. We found no Document Drafter listing on G2 or Capterra (November 14, 2026), and Microsoft AppSource shows no ratings yet for its Word add-in or its Teams app. The proof Document Drafter publishes is customer statements: DLA Piper Denmark automated 1,500 documents across 16 practice areas in 12 months, and Gateley automated more than 30 templates in four weeks. These are vendor-published figures, not independent tests. Gavel Workflows is rated 4.7 on Lawyerist and #1 on Capterra.

Gavel Workflows client intake (30 seconds, silent). Gavel’s client intake clip shows a client filling in an intake questionnaire. Document Drafter’s site embeds a video, “Agentic Templating | Schönherr × Document Drafter”, presenting Agentic Templating with Schönherr. Vendor videos show how a product works, not how well it works compared with another.

Scene description: Gavel Workflows client intake (30 seconds, no audio)

[0:00] The questionnaire opens on “Client Information”, with steps in a side menu: General Information, Matter Details, Document Preview, Signatures. The client types a full legal name and picks a date of birth.

[0:08] The client picks a marital status and enters an address in Los Angeles, then contact details.

[0:16] Under “Matter Information”, the client ticks Business Law, chooses the relationship to the firm and the engagement terms.

[0:22] On the next step the client chooses a new business, “Limited Liability Company (LLC)”, enters a company name and picks California.

[0:28] The clip ends on “Ready to automate your documents?”

Document Drafter, Green Meadow and Agentic Templating: what’s what

Document Drafter is the product and the brand. Its Word add-in and its Microsoft Teams app are published on Microsoft AppSource by Green Meadow ApS, and its privacy policy names Green Meadow Sales Nordic ApS in Copenhagen. Agentic Templating is Document Drafter’s AI approach to building templates, not a separate product. This page compares Document Drafter’s document automation with Gavel Workflows.

Is Document Drafter legit, and who owns it?

Yes. Document Drafter has been developed since 2016 and describes itself as a profitable, founder-led company with offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark. It lists ISO 27001 certification and an ISAE 3402 audit, and names customers such as DLA Piper Denmark and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Gavel, which publishes this page, has been part of Relativity since June 2026.

How Document Drafter and Gavel Workflows build a template

Document Drafter puts template building in the lawyer’s hands. With Agentic Templating, AI drafts the automated template rather than each document; your expert reviews the template once, and every document it produces carries that review. Gateley says its professional support lawyers automated more than 30 templates in a four-week sprint this way. For firms leaving HotDocs, Document Drafter offers Legacy Leap, which it says has migrated more than 15,000 documents, and its team can automate complex documents for you.

Gavel Workflows starts from the Word and PDF templates your firm already uses. You tag the fields with Gavel’s Word add-in, add question logic, branching and calculations in a drag-and-drop builder, and Gavel generates Word documents and PDFs from the answers. Gavel Experts, vetted automators from $35 per hour, can build a workflow for you.

Can Gavel Workflows build a template from my existing documents?

Yes. Upload a Word document or fillable PDF and Gavel Blueprint suggests the questions and structures a draft workflow for you to review and approve. Gavel’s AI features are optional, and Gavel doesn’t use customer data to train AI models.

Illustration: a two-member LLC formation pack

You represent two founders forming a California LLC with a 60/40 split. Your firm’s rule: when an LLC has more than one member, the operating agreement includes the deadlock and buy-sell clauses and a signature block for each member. The questionnaire asks for the members, their percentages and the state; the template applies the rule and produces the operating agreement and your engagement letter. In Document Drafter, a lawyer answers the questionnaire in Word or the founders answer the questions you share in a branded portal, and later manual edits show as tracked changes. In Gavel Workflows, the founders answer in your branded portal and the documents generate as Word and PDF files. Either way, you review the draft and decide on the points no template settles, such as vesting or a casting vote. Done by hand, this means copying the last matter’s agreement, replacing names and deleting clauses from memory. This is an evaluation scenario, not a test we ran on either product.

Who fills in the questionnaire: lawyers in Word, clients in a portal or an AI agent?

Document Drafter is built around Word and Microsoft 365. Lawyers generate documents from the Word add-in, update the answers there and see the effect as tracked changes; a reviewer checks the questionnaire and the highlighted manual edits instead of rereading the whole draft. Firms can deliver templates to clients through a branded portal with Single Sign-On, and the Teams app saves finished documents into a channel. Its MCP connector lets an AI assistant find a template and fill in the questionnaire from a letter of intent or an email thread, then generate the documents with the template’s wording and logic.

Gavel Workflows is built around the client. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, clients answer an intake questionnaire in your branded portal, and the answers become Word and PDF documents. On the Pro plan you can collect payment through Stripe, use your own domain, embed the questionnaire on your website and send documents for signature through Docusign.

Does Document Drafter work in Microsoft Word?

Yes. Document Drafter’s Word add-in, listed on Microsoft AppSource, works in Word for Windows, Word for Mac, Word on the web and Microsoft 365. It generates documents from questionnaire answers, lets you update those answers in Word and shows manual changes as tracked changes.

Does Document Drafter work with Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot?

Yes. Document Drafter offers an MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and other compatible AI agents. A portal administrator has to enable it once, the agent can only reach the templates you’re allowed to use, and it can’t change templates or delete saved documents.

Integrations: Microsoft 365 or practice-management tools?

Document Drafter integrates deeply with Microsoft: data lookups from Azure SQL, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint Lists and Entra ID, a Power Automate connector for approval and signing workflows, Power BI reporting and a Teams app. It also offers a Salesforce app, webhooks, a documented API that covers almost every feature, and standard integrations to document management and e-signature providers, which its pages don’t name.

Gavel Workflows connects to the practice tools law firms already use: Clio Manage on every plan, Zapier from Standard, Docusign from Pro, plus DecisionVault and LegalServer for legal aid organizations. Its document generation API and Single Sign-On come with the Scale plan.

How much does Document Drafter cost vs. Gavel Workflows?

Gavel Workflows starts at $83 per month on the Lite plan, with one builder seat, 10 templates and the Clio integration. Standard and Pro add seats, templates, Zapier, payments and Docusign, and Scale starts at $417 per month, billed annually, with the API, SSO and white-glove onboarding. Annual plans billed upfront get two months free.

How much does Document Drafter cost?

Document Drafter’s price is not published; it is quote-based. You book a 30-minute demo and discuss your use case with an implementation expert. Document Drafter says training and support for automating documents are unlimited and free of charge.

Does Document Drafter have a free trial?

Document Drafter doesn’t list a free trial on the pages we checked; it offers a live demo. Gavel Workflows offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required.

Security and hosting: Document Drafter vs. Gavel Workflows

Document Drafter holds an ISO 27001 certification with Bureau Veritas, has its security controls audited under ISAE 3402 by PwC, runs third-party penetration tests and lists Azure, encryption and GDPR compliance. Its MCP page says documents are generated in your organization’s regional environment. Gavel sets up each customer on its own subdomain and isolated database, encrypts data at rest with AES-256 on AWS, and hosts in the US by default, with EU, Canada and Australia hosting available. Neither statement replaces your own review of each vendor’s terms. Document Drafter security · Gavel security

Is Document Drafter SOC 2 certified?

Document Drafter’s security page lists ISO 27001 and an ISAE 3402 audit by PwC; it doesn’t list SOC 2. Gavel states SOC 2 Type II certification for Gavel Exec.

Can Gavel Workflows host our data in the EU?

Yes. Gavel stores data in the United States by default and offers hosting in the European Union, Canada, Australia or another AWS region.

Method: Checked against Document Drafter’s and Gavel’s public pages on November 14, 2026. Written by Richard Poelderl for Gavel, which is part of Relativity and sells Gavel Workflows. No hands-on comparative test of the two products was run.

Gavel gave us the ability to quickly automate processes and document sets, saving our users and attorneys significant time and making our documents consistent and easy to prepare.
Timothy Fox, Director of Practice Intelligence Analytics

How to test Gavel Workflows next to Document Drafter

Pick the template you produce most often, such as an engagement letter or an LLC formation pack. Upload it to Gavel Workflows, let Blueprint suggest the questions or write them yourself, and send the questionnaire to a colleague playing the client. If you are also evaluating Document Drafter, bring the same template to its 30-minute demo and compare who builds it, who fills it in and where the finished document lands.

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