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Omar Nakadi, legal counsel at a regulated financial services firm, uses Gavel Exec to review counterparty redlines, negotiate contracts inside Microsoft Word, and cut contract review time by up to 60%. After trying multiple AI contract platforms, he chose Gavel Exec for its analysis quality, Word-based workflow, and advanced risk-tiered issue spotting.
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Omar Nakadi, Legal Counsel
Gavel Exec is AI contract review software for legal teams that review, redline, and negotiate contracts directly inside Microsoft Word, with web-based access for additional contract workflows. For Omar Nakadi, legal counsel at a regulated financial services firm, it became the tool he returned to when counterparty drafts came in, redlines needed review, and negotiation responses had to go out quickly.
Customer: Omar Nakadi, Legal Counsel at a regulated financial services firm
Industry: Financial Services / Regulated Legal
Use Case: AI contract review, redlining, and negotiation for service agreements, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, NDAs, and SLAs
Product: Gavel Exec
Omar’s work covers the full range of commercial contracts: service agreements, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, NDAs, and service-level agreements. In his in-house role, the work is more focused and routine. In his private practice, the deals are more varied and often more complex.
After trying several major AI contract platforms, he chose Gavel Exec because of the quality of its analysis and how well it fit his contract review workflow. It has become an integral part of his day to day.
If you ask Omar to walk through what contract work looked like before Gavel Exec, he’ll take you through nearly a decade of incremental frustration.
In the early days, coherent documents were built clause by clause, copying from various sources, pasting, checking for contradictions, and fixing the flow. Legal repositories like Law Insider improved things somewhat by providing templates, but the copy-paste problem never really went away.
Then came the general-purpose AI tools, which introduced a different kind of problem: the output arrived fast but landed as unformatted walls of text with no structure, and anything he’d established in a previous session vanished the moment he started a new one.
The issue wasn’t just formatting. It was how much work it took just to get these tools oriented before he could use them productively.
“The answers were very limited, or it took time for the AI platform to understand what I need, what I’m asking, who I’m representing. If you didn’t feed the platform at the beginning, you’d have to restart the process from scratch. On all levels, it was time-consuming.”
For Omar, setup time mattered because every new tool had to be taught the document, the client context, and the negotiation position before it became useful.
Before landing on Gavel Exec, Omar evaluated most of the major options, including one that cost him $500 a month for a trial that lasted all of two weeks.
Three things ultimately made the difference.
The first was price. Compared to what else was available, Gavel Exec’s pricing was “very, very reasonable,” and the reviews he found matched that assessment.
The second was the quality of the reasoning itself. Where other platforms required 12 rounds of back-and-forth prompting before producing anything usable, burning through token budgets in the process, Gavel Exec understood what he needed quickly and got there without the runaround.
“With Gavel, there was no talking around.”
The third was something less tangible but just as important. At one point, the Word add-in stopped opening entirely Instead of getting routed through a support queue, Omar was connected directly with the engineers who fixed it.
“You’re not a number. You’re a customer.”
He’d tried enough platforms at that point to understand what that kind of responsiveness was worth.
“You click, you subscribe, they give you a trial period. You don’t meet someone. There’s something not right happening, and you will suffer to get someone to assist you.”
For Omar, the primary use case isn’t drafting from a blank page. It’s what happens when the other side sends something over.
A contract comes in. He loads it into Gavel Exec, specifies who he represents and how aggressive the negotiation posture should be, and lets the tool run a full review.
Critically, Gavel Exec reads the redlines already sitting in the document rather than just the clean underlying text. That means it is working with the actual negotiating reality rather than a stripped-down version of it.
“I use Gavel more when some document comes to me and I want to negotiate it, I want to reply to the counterparty. I use it more than drafting from scratch.”
Once the back-and-forth is done, he uses the summarize redlines feature to pull together a cover email that recaps all his changes, copied straight from the chat window and sent.
“Boom. Done. What’s amazing about your platform is it can read other counterparty redlines. That’s extremely helpful.”
That distinction mattered to Omar because he was reviewing the document that actually came back from the counterparty, not a cleaned-up version of it.
For any of this to actually save time, it has to happen inside the document Omar is already working in.
That was one of the recurring problems with the tools he tried before Gavel Exec: they existed somewhere else. That meant copying sections out, waiting for output, cleaning up the formatting, and pasting everything back: a workflow that added steps rather than eliminating them.
With the Gavel Exec Word add-in, the AI reasoning, the track changes, and the side comments all live inside the same document. The changes show up under his name, not as AI-generated edits. Nothing needs to be exported, cleaned up, or reformatted.
“When you have everything in one place, it’s easier. Copy-pasting parts of the whole agreement into another tool, then it’s a mess.”
For Omar, working inside Microsoft Word is what made the workflow practical.
One recent matter put the tool through a proper test.
Omar was working on a multi-party shareholder agreement involving two classes of shares, voting and non-voting, each carrying different economic rights. The negotiation stretched over several months.
Partway through, one party withdrew, which triggered a second wave of work: preparing termination documents for the term sheet and reworking the shareholder agreement for the remaining parties.
Throughout all of it, Gavel Exec was the tool Omar kept returning to.
“The shareholding was complex: two classes of shares, voting and non-voting, with different economic rights. It was very easy for the tool to give the whole picture, to draft the clauses, the shareholding structure.”
This was not a simple NDA review or a one-off drafting request. It was a complex negotiation with shifting parties, different rights, and a changing deal structure, and Omar needed more than a generic AI answer.
Across his contracts, Omar estimates he’s reclaiming somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of the time he used to spend.
But when he talks about what actually keeps him using Gavel Exec, he returns to the quality of the analysis rather than the speed.
Gavel Exec’s risk-tiered issue spotting assigns every flagged item a color-coded severity level: green for low, orange for medium, red for high, but what matters is what those flags are actually catching, not the system itself.
“With other tools, they give you the very minimum: the ABC of an agreement. What they flag, anyone without a legal background would have spotted. But Gavel? What it flags is beyond the basic. That’s why we’re subscribing.”
For lawyers reviewing commercial contracts, that distinction matters. Speed is useful, but speed alone is not enough. What kept Omar using Gavel Exec was that the flagged issues went beyond obvious contract points.
Working inside a regulated financial services firm, Omar is not cavalier about what goes into an AI tool.
Client data is sensitive, and he acknowledges the real caution that’s warranted there. But his broader position is that attorneys treating non-adoption as the safe choice are misreading the risk.
“When it comes to client data, I agree it’s a bit tricky. But when you look at the privacy policy and understand where your data is stored, you do your assessment. If you say, ‘No, I don’t want to use AI,’ you’re missing the train.”
For anyone still waiting for a more settled moment to engage with these tools:
“They’re missing the trip of their life. It’s like going to the trip of your life and you missed your flight, and they will always stay behind.”
For regulated legal teams, the takeaway is not to use AI without review. It is to evaluate the tool, understand the privacy policy and data storage approach, and decide whether the software fits the organization’s legal and governance requirements.
“Every legal counsel, every attorney, every legal practitioner should use Gavel Exec. It’s a must. It’s like having another assistant with you who hears your voice, understands what you want, and gives you whatever you need in seconds.”
After trying multiple AI contract platforms, Omar chose Gavel Exec for the quality of the analysis, the Word-based workflow, the ability to review counterparty redlines, and the time it gives him back.
For him, Gavel Exec is not just an AI drafting assistant. It is part of how he reviews contracts, negotiates redlines, spots risk, and manages legal work across both his in-house role and private practice.
Gavel Exec is AI contract review software that helps legal teams review, redline, draft, and negotiate contracts directly inside Microsoft Word.
This case study features Omar Nakadi, legal counsel at a regulated financial services firm. Omar also runs a private legal practice on the side.
Omar primarily uses Gavel Exec when a counterparty sends over a contract. He loads the document into Gavel Exec, specifies who he represents, chooses the negotiation posture, and uses the tool to review the document, assess redlines, identify issues, and prepare responses.
Yes. Omar uses the Gavel Exec Word add-in so the AI reasoning, track changes, and comments live inside the same document workflow.
Yes. Omar specifically highlighted that Gavel Exec can read counterparty redlines directly inside the document, which he described as “extremely helpful.”
Omar estimates that Gavel Exec helps him reclaim between 40% and 60% of the time he previously spent per contract. For headline purposes, this can be framed as cutting contract review time by up to 60%.
The case study mentions service agreements, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, NDAs, service-level agreements, and a complex multi-party shareholder agreement.
Review, redline, and draft contracts directly in Microsoft Word.
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