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What's New with Gavel Exec?

Use Gavel Exec's legally-trained AI to draft and redline faster than ever — right in Microsoft Word.

By the team at Gavel
December 10, 2025
Cut drafting time by 90%

Easy intake and document automation to auto-populate your templates.

December 5, 2025:

Gavel Exec is more grounded in market data than ever, with additional context on deals across contract types. We've also introduced Quick Actions for Redlining and Commenting, so you can easily click a button and review the document for your party, negotiation style, and risk tolerance.

November 25th, 2025:

You can now directly copy text from suggestions in comments, insertions, and redlines. We've also enhanced playbook comments, resolving insertion problems and ensuring they only appear when specifically requested.

November 24th, 2025:

We've introduced Commenting, a way for you to ask Exec to insert comments into your working document directly from Chat.

November 19th, 2025:

We've introduced Drafting, a way for you to ask Exec to draft documents from scratch directly within Chat. Additionally, you can now create projects directly from our quick actions menu.

November 17th, 2025:

We've introduced a new quick action menu to quickly start chats, switch projects, and upload files, and we've also enhanced the speed and accuracy of responses to your questions about your working documents.

November 13th, 2025:

We've improved Playbook rules so they no longer get stuck when preparing information, and updated error messages now clearly guide users to reopen their document if an issue occurs.

November 7th, 2025:

We've added the capability to apply all suggested redlines simultaneously, allowing for easier review and subsequent acceptance or rejection within the document. Watch the video below:

November 6th, 2025:

We've launched a new feature - clickable paragraph hyperlinks. Paragraphs mentioned in Gavel Exec's responses are automatically converted into clickable links, allowing you to quickly navigate to the referenced section in your document.

November 4th, 2025:

We've improved Playbook rules so they no longer get stuck when preparing information, and updated error messages now clearly guide users to reopen their document if an issue occurs.

October 30th, 2025:

We have made drastic performance improvements for our Windows users, alongside making chat streams smoother and faster. Additionally, users can now seamlessly review and accept redlines even while other redlines are still streaming.

October 29th, 2025:

We've introduced a redline counter in chat to show the total number of changes, and we've enhanced chat reliability by improving scrolling smoothness in long conversations and addressing message failures related to understanding conversation context.

October 28th, 2025:

We've introduced a new onboarding experience that allows you to personalize the platform based on your legal areas and tasks, and we've improved support for working with documents whose titles contain Chinese characters.

October 24th, 2025:

We have enhanced the add-in's reliability by automatically retrying failed playbook rules, preventing errors caused by temporary network connection issues.

October 23rd, 2025:

New users can now quickly install our add-in directly after registering, and Gavel Exec can now respond to instructions to draft text and generate paragraphs.

October 22nd, 2025:

We've resolved reported issues to make Playbooks more stable and reliable. Additionally, the Gavel Exec Word Add-in now has enhanced self-awareness, offering clearer insights into what it can do and how it works. Lastly, we have modified Chat to no longer include a toggle for Deep Reasoning - instead, Exec now automatically selects the most suitable AI model depending on what task you’re working on, improving speed and accuracy.

October 21st, 2025:

We've introduced a new feature allowing users to join a waitlist for Exec on Web, alongside improvements to email verification and in-app error messages for a smoother experience.

October 15th, 2025:

Introducing a new self-service features that allow users to manage their subscription, including the ability to downgrade from a paid plan to the free tier directly within Gavel Exec.

October 7th, 2025:

We have resolved issues affecting Gavel Exec's document redlining, ensuring accuracy and preventing the insertion of random characters. Additionally, we fixed an issue preventing users from accepting workspace invitations.

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September 30th, 2025:

We have improved how our system handles manual line breaks in documents, resolving issues that previously interfered with insertions from redlines.

September 23rd, 2025:

We resolved an issue where the most recently added project attachment was not being taken into consideration in redline requests.

September 17th, 2025:

We have enhanced our system's ability to accurately recognize newly added or deleted paragraphs, ensuring that all redlines consistently reflect the most current document content.

September 12th, 2025:

We have fixed an issue where the upgrade button on the paywall page was unresponsive for users who had previously cancelled their subscription, ensuring a smoother process for re-subscribing to our services.

September 11th, 2025:

Gavel Exec now correctly responds to redline requests within chat.

We also resolved an issue where comments to documents were being inserted as redlines.

September 10th, 2025:

Introducing a new summarization feature for redlines.

We've also resolved issues with redlines:

  • In deep reasoning mode, Gavel Exec no longer responds with zero redlines.
  • For accepted redlines, the"Show" button now navigates you to the correct changes in the document.

September 8th, 2025:

Chat and redlining got a major upgrade! With this release, you'll see:

  • Quicker, more comprehensive redlines.
  • Recommended redlines each have a priority level to help guide your review.
  • In deep reasoning mode, the model's reasoning process is visible to users in real time.

See our latest updates to Gavel Exec in this video:

July 22th, 2025:

Collaborate with colleagues and clients with Workspaces in Gavel Exec. Invite users and share playbooks and projects to empower your whole firm.

July 8th, 2025:

Gavel Exec is faster, more accurate and responsive to your requests, and now includes 12 new Playbooks to help you draft and redline even more efficiently, right inside Microsoft Word. Here are the 12 new playbooks ready for you to use:

  • Data Protection Agreement – Vendor
  • Data Protection Agreement – Client
  • CIIA/PIIA Agreement – Vendor
  • CIIA/PIIA Agreement – Customer
  • Advisor Agreement – Company
  • Partnership Agreement – Market
  • MSA – Vendor
  • Independent Contractor – Company
  • Employee Handbook – California
  • Employee Handbook – New York
  • Employee Handbook – Florida
  • Employee Handbook – Texas
June 6th, 2025:

Gavel Exec releases Projects to allow you to customize your own AI. Projects in Gavel Exec let lawyers load multiple documents (called Project Files) along with Project Instructions that the AI will review before responding to any request.

May 22nd, 2025

Gavel Exec publicly launched in Microsoft Word, including:

  • AI legal assistant with chat functionality for document analysis, revisions, and drafting.
  • Playbooks, which allow you to define a set of negotiation rules and fallback provisions, allowing for automated contract review that non-compliant language and provides suggested redlines. Each rule is checked and marked as passed or failed.

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