Gavel
Gavel is an AI contract review and legal document automation platform for law firms and in-house teams. Its Gavel Exec product redlines and drafts contracts inside Microsoft Word using firm playbooks and precedent, with a dedicated real estate practice covering leases, purchase agreements, and financing documents.
Best for: Real estate and transactional attorneys and in-house legal teams who need fast, playbook-driven review and drafting of leases, purchase agreements, and financing documents
Last reviewed 6/2/26
- Pricing
- Gavel Workflows from $83/mo (Lite), $165/mo (Standard), $290/mo (Pro), and $417/mo (Scale, annual). Gavel Exec starts with 25 free queries per user, then unlimited usage from $160/mo per user. 7-day free trial, no credit card required.
- Integrations
- Microsoft Word, Clio, DocuSign, Stripe, Zapier
- Property types
- Commercial, Residential
- Geography served
- United States and worldwide
How Gavel uses AI[1][2]
Gavel Exec reads an entire real estate agreement and produces first-pass redlines in Microsoft Word, flagging terms that fall outside a firm's playbooks and precedent. It covers commercial leases, purchase and sale agreements, loan and financing documents, development agreements, and easements, with sourced explanations for each markup.
- • Generates negotiation-ready redlines in Word against firm-specific playbooks and precedent
- • Reviews leases, purchase and sale agreements, financing documents, development agreements, and easements
- • Flags non-standard provisions, unfavorable termination clauses, and missing indemnification protections
- • Gavel Workflows turns intake and templates into automated document generation up to 90 percent faster than manual drafting
- • Enforces zero data retention as standard across all plans for client-confidentiality compliance
AI type: Domain-specific large language model for legal contract review, combined with rules-based document automation
API: yes
Key numbers[3][6]
- • Used by nearly 2,000 legal organizations across 23 countries
- • Launched a web-based version of Gavel Exec in 2026, expanding beyond the Word add-in
- • Maintains SOC 2 and HIPAA-compliant infrastructure with contractually enforced zero data retention
Credibility[4][8]
- Founders
- Founded by Dorna Moini (Founder & CEO), a former litigator; Pierre Martin serves as CTO
- Customers
- Used by nearly 2,000 legal organizations across 23 countries; originally launched as Documate before rebranding to Gavel
- Investors
- Raised approximately $8.44M; investors include Esalen Ventures, Neo, P93 Ventures, Clio, and Founders First
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California, USA
Stage
Venture-backed
Sources
- Gavel Exec for Real Estate Law (solutions page)
- Gavel real estate practice area and document automation
- Gavel homepage
- Gavel About page (founder, leadership, HQ)
- Gavel Plans & Pricing
- LawSites: Gavel Launches Web-Based AI Contract Platform (Apr 2026)
- Documate is now Gavel (rebrand)
- Crunchbase: Gavel company profile and funding
- Gavel LinkedIn company page
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