Fuxia vs. Gavel Exec: Which AI Contract Reviewer Fits Your Team?

What is Fuxia, and who makes it?

Fuxia reviews contracts against company playbooks. In the Fuxia Word Add-in you select a playbook and start a review. Fuxia flags misaligned and missing terms, suggests rewrites as markup in your Word document, and adds review comments that explain each change. It names sales agreements, service agreements, NDAs and DPAs as typical contracts, and was built for in-house legal teams and for sales and sourcing teams doing first-line review.

Fuxia’s homepage now goes further. It analyses contracts and annexes as one connected bundle from legal, commercial, technical and compliance perspectives. It looks for conflicts between master terms and schedules and for commercial expectations with no enforceable term behind them, and it ends with a Sign, Negotiate or Stop recommendation. Ask Fuxia in the demo which of these capabilities run in the Word add-in and which run in the browser.

Who makes Fuxia?

Fuxia is made by Fuxia Oy, a Finnish company (Business ID 3349563-6) led by CEO Robin Eklund. Its contact page lists an office at Otakaari 5 in Espoo, and its terms give a registered address in care of the Helsinki law firm Lexia. Fuxia does not publish its investors or named customers.

Contract bundles: where Fuxia goes further

Fuxia is built for deals where the risk sits between documents: an MSA whose liability cap doesn’t cover the service credits in an SLA annex, or a sales promise in a proposal that no schedule commits to. Its decision summaries are written for general counsel, CFOs, sales and technical leads, not only for the lawyer marking up the draft. It also uses past agreements and negotiation outcomes to show what is normal, risky or off-market for your company.

Gavel Exec redlines one contract at a time in Word and lets you attach .docx, .doc and PDF files as context, so you can review an MSA with its annexes open beside it. Batch analysis across many documents runs in the web app. Gavel Exec writes for the lawyer doing the markup: priority-ranked tracked changes with the reasoning for each, margin comments and a list of missing terms. If that executive view of a whole bundle is what you are buying, Fuxia is built for it.

How do Fuxia and Gavel Exec apply your playbook?

Both start with built-in playbooks you can edit. Fuxia’s playbooks cover sales contracts, NDAs and IT sourcing. Rules are written in natural language, can include model clauses, and can be private or shared across your organisation. Fuxia also offers to refine its ready-made guidelines with you.

Gavel Exec includes built-in playbooks for NDAs, MSAs, DPAs and contractor and vendor agreements, and generates rules from your checklists, playbooks and signed agreements. Each rule passes or fails with proposed changes. You apply suggestions as tracked changes and accept or reject each one in Word. Exec also benchmarks each provision as on-market, off-market or missing for your jurisdiction, industry and company size.

Illustration: reviewing a SaaS vendor’s MSA and DPA for the customer

You represent the customer. The vendor’s MSA caps its liability at twelve months of fees, and its DPA annex says data-protection claims are “subject to the limitations in the Agreement”. Your playbook calls for a separate cap of twice annual fees for data-protection breaches. The expected redline adds that carve-out to the MSA’s limitation clause and aligns the DPA cross-reference with it. You decide whether to accept, edit or reject it before the draft goes back. By hand, this means reading the MSA and the annex side by side against your checklist. Both products document a playbook-to-redline workflow; this is an evaluation scenario, not a test we ran.

What you need first: Word, Google Docs and setup

Gavel Exec needs a free account at exec.gavel.io. Benchmarking and batch analysis run in the web app. To redline a specific document or create playbooks, add the Gavel Exec add-in from Microsoft AppSource. If your organization manages Microsoft 365 centrally, an admin may need to enable it.

Fuxia says it is available in the browser and compatible with Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Access starts with a demo booking; Fuxia does not publish a self-serve sign-up.

Does Fuxia work in Word for Mac or Word on the web?

Fuxia offers a Word add-in but does not list which Word versions it supports, so ask before a Mac or browser rollout. Gavel Exec runs in Word for Windows, Word for Mac (2016 or later), Word on the web and Microsoft 365.

Does Fuxia work with Google Docs?

Fuxia says it is compatible with Microsoft Word and Google Docs, and does not publish how the Google Docs workflow works. Gavel Exec works in Microsoft Word on Windows, Mac and the web, and in its own web app at exec.gavel.io, where benchmarking and batch analysis run.

Security and data: Fuxia vs. Gavel Exec

Fuxia hosts its servers and data in the European Union, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and keeps customer content only as long as needed to provide the service. Its privacy policy says Fuxia does not use customer content to train general AI models and that its AI providers are contractually prohibited from doing so. It does not name its current AI provider; a 2024 Fuxia post said the product used GPT-4-turbo. Fuxia contracts under Finnish law, with arbitration in Helsinki.

Gavel Exec keeps each customer’s data in an isolated database on AWS, in the US by default, with EU, Canada and Australia hosting available. Gavel has Zero Data Retention agreements with its AI providers. Gavel security

Is Fuxia SOC 2 certified?

Fuxia does not list a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification on its site. It says data is hosted in the EU and encrypted in transit and at rest, so ask for its security documentation during procurement. Gavel Exec is SOC 2 Type II certified, independently verified by a third-party auditor.

Does Gavel Exec train AI models on my contracts?

No. Gavel says your documents are not used to train AI models and that it has Zero Data Retention agreements with its AI providers. Fuxia also says customer content is not used to train general AI models.

How much does Fuxia cost vs. Gavel Exec?

Gavel Exec costs $160 per user per month or $1,740 per user per year, with 1,000 queries per user per month, after 25 free queries per user and no credit card. Teams of 10 or more seats get discounted pricing.

Fuxia does not publish prices. Its terms say fees are set in each customer’s service agreement, the agreement runs until either party ends it with 30 days’ written notice, and Fuxia can change prices with 60 days’ notice. Extra expert and customer-service work is billed by the hour.

How much does Fuxia cost?

Fuxia’s price is not published; it is quote-based and set in a service agreement after a demo. Ask whether pricing is per user, per contract or per organisation, and what the hourly rates for extra work cover.

Is there a Fuxia free trial?

Fuxia does not publish trial terms. A 2024 blog title invites readers to try it for free, but the site’s only sign-up path is a demo request. Gavel Exec gives each user 25 free queries with no credit card.

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Checked against Fuxia’s and Gavel’s public pages on November 14, 2026. Method: editorial review by Richard Poelderl of Fuxia’s homepage, How Fuxia works page, blog, contact page, terms of service and privacy policy, and Gavel’s Exec, pricing and security pages. Gavel publishes this comparison and sells Exec; Gavel has been part of Relativity since June 12, 2026. No hands-on comparative test was conducted. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.