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SimpleDocs combines contract drafting, approvals and archive into one AI platform

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simpledocs.com, marketplace.microsoft.com, harvey.ai, lawnext.com · 7 sources · Sources published: 6 November 2026 · Some source publication dates are unknown

SimpleDocs says its new SimpleDocs 360 brings contract requests, AI review in Word and tracking of signed contracts into one platform. Pricing is agreed with each customer, and early access is through a waiting list.

SimpleDocs announced the new suite on its blog on 5 November. The next day, the company’s release appeared in the press release section of the LawSites blog. The company calls the platform CLM software. CLM stands for contract lifecycle management: the software tracks a contract from request to signature and beyond.

CEO Preston Clark said traditional platforms were built around rigid workflows and manual work. ‘Most CLM platforms were built before the emergence of generative AI,’ Clark said in the release.

Three products, one workflow

With Workflow, sales or procurement can request a contract through Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams or a form. The program routes the request to the right team, drafts the contract from an approved template and circulates it to approvers according to, for example, contract type or value. Signature is handled in DocuSign or Adobe Sign, the blog says. The product page also lists Dropbox Sign.

SimpleAI works in Microsoft Word. It compares a contract with the organisation’s playbook: its written guidance on acceptable terms, fallback wording and negotiation approaches. The tool suggests changes, and a lawyer reviews and approves them. The product also has an agent mode in which an AI assistant analyses contracts. The product page says the review can be run as early as the Workflow request, with the aim of spotting risks before the contract reaches the legal department.

Repository is an archive of signed contracts. It extracts key terms from contracts and lets users search them in plain language. It also flags upcoming renewals and termination deadlines.

The claims are the company’s own

SimpleDocs owns Law Insider, a database of contracts and clauses. The product page says the platform’s comparisons draw on more than 20 million real-world clauses and contracts. The platform comes with 50 prebuilt playbooks and 10 contract templates. Customers’ documents are not used to train AI and are discarded after analysis, the company said.

All the information comes from SimpleDocs. The LawSites post is the company’s press release, not an independent review. The claim of ‘hundreds’ of business customers is also the company’s. Customers it names include Herbalife, Ferrovial and Solventum.

The release says the platform is available from November 2026. However, both the release and the blog direct users to early access via a waiting list, so it is unclear whether the platform is already available to everyone. The products can also be adopted separately. Pricing depends on team size, contract volume and the products used. The SimpleAI Word add-in is free on Microsoft Marketplace, but some of its features require a subscription.

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