Parachute vs Spellbook (2026)

From any chat, Parachute's AI works inside Clio Manage and Smokeball once a firm authorizes each connection.

It searches and creates matters, runs conflict checks across every matter a person or company appears on, creates and updates contacts, logs billable time, adds notes, tasks and calendar events, and saves finished documents to the linked matter, and a meeting's notes and attendance time can be filed the same way.

In InfoTrack, still in beta, it gathers the details for a title, company or insolvency search, asks the user to confirm and places the order on the firm's own account. NetDocuments and OneDrive feed matters, precedents and reviews and take finished work back.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/integrations/clio and help.goparachute.ai/integrations/infotrackread 2026-10-12

Spellbook works inside Microsoft Word and its Associate web application. Connections to iManage and OneDrive pull the customer's documents into a chat context or project, and Spellbook also connects to more than two hundred public legal databases. All of these read data in, under the customer's existing permissions. Spellbook names no action in a third party system and no framework for adding the customer's own tools.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/integrations/imanageread 2026-09-06

Deep analysis takes a contract through five stages in two to three minutes. It checks the document against standard requirements, extracts every party's obligations, tests it against the firm's knowledge base, rates each risk High, Medium or Low, and runs any custom stages the firm adds.

Tabular review runs each column's question across every document in parallel, the AI makes large edits across a document in one pass or produces several documents from one precedent in a single request, and in chat it chains steps such as finding a Clio matter, asking which one is right and linking it. A firm cannot build multistep workflows of its own.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/document-review and goparachute.ai/release-notes/smarter-document-editsread 2026-10-12

Associate takes a goal, breaks it into tasks and executes them across a document set. It updates terms and party details and fixes issues across documents, reviews datarooms and financing documents, disclosure schedules and employment packages, and revises multiple documents in one action. Associate Projects hold the files a workflow runs over.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/associateread 2026-09-06

Work reaches Parachute without anyone opening the app. A notetaker booked ahead of a Teams, Meet or Zoom call joins on schedule, and when the meeting ends Parachute writes the file note and transcript into a new thread.

An email forwarded from a firm address to a user's own Parachute inbox becomes a thread with up to 10 attachments, and the Today briefing, built when a lawyer first opens it each day, keeps adding new email that needs a reply. Lawyers also reach it from the web app, the Word add in, the desktop app and a Slack bot that answers when mentioned. Drafting and actions in practice systems still wait for a lawyer to ask.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/meeting-notetaker and help.goparachute.ai/features/email-to-threadread 2026-10-12

A lawyer starts Spellbook by invoking it in the Word add in or opening a project in the Associate web application. Spellbook names no event trigger, schedule, webhook or inbound channel.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/associate and spellbook.com/pricingread 2026-09-06

Every thread draws on two knowledge bases, the organization's own, with policies, playbooks, prior advice, contracts and structured company information uploaded as PDF, DOCX, TXT or URLs, and a global one of regulations and frameworks that Parachute curates, with the firm's content taking priority.

A structured library of Acts and Regulations across all nine Australian jurisdictions opens section by section, and admins choose which Acts the AI may cite and whether it searches the web, with overrides per thread. Answers carry clickable citations back to the document, the section of the Act or the web page, and conflict detection checks new drafts against the firm's existing policies.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/knowledge-base and help.goparachute.ai/features/legislation-search; help.goparachute.ai/features/search-configurationread 2026-10-12

Drafting and review draw on the customer's own material and on outside sources. The customer's own material covers saved libraries and precedents, playbooks that encode its standards for every later review, and document history connected from iManage and OneDrive, with citations back to the source. Outside the firm, Spellbook draws on more than two hundred public legal databases, and Compare benchmarks terms against industry standards. All of it stays available across sessions and can be queried.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/integrations/imanage and spellbook.com/pricingread 2026-09-06

Personal memory keeps each user's working preferences, such as a sign off, paragraph length or how advice is set apart, and applies them in chat, email drafting and documents.

Parachute saves a preference when a user states one in chat and shows a notice with a link, and users can add memories, rewrite them with AI, delete them, or switch saving and applying off. Tone of voice settings hold up to three email tones and a document voice, and each matter carries standing instructions for every draft on it. Memory never holds client or matter facts, and each chat starts fresh, so earlier conversations are not recalled.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/memory and help.goparachute.ai/features/tone-of-voiceread 2026-10-12

Associate Projects hold files and chat context for the duration of a project. Playbooks hold the customer's standards. Spellbook names no memory that keeps conversation state beyond a project.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/associate and spellbook.com/integrations/imanageread 2026-09-06

Any document can go to expert verification, legal or cybersecurity, priced per request. It routes to the business's connected law firm, whose lawyers claim it from a queue and review it in the editor with comments and suggestions the client sees live, or to a pool of verified professionals, and the client rates each review. AI suggestions in the editor land as tracked changes a person accepts or rejects one at a time, InfoTrack orders and Clio matter links wait for the user to confirm, and Today drafts replies that the lawyer sends from Outlook.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/expert-verification and help.goparachute.ai/for-law-firms/verification-workflowread 2026-10-12

Playbooks bound how Spellbook reviews a document against the customer's own standards. Associate works through matters spanning many documents with the lawyer's oversight. Its output lands as redlines and drafts the lawyer accepts or revises in Word. Spellbook names no approval step or escalation inside a run, and no review and approve surface of its own.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/pricing and spellbook.com/associateread 2026-09-06

Compass Assurance Services certifies Parachute to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 under certificate 8818-4353-01, covering the SaaS platform for legal research, drafting and review, and security practices follow SOC 2 controls with no SOC 2 report. Members see their own threads, Admins manage people, settings and billing and can open all work, and an Expert role handles verification at law firms.

Matters are private by default and shared per person as viewer or editor, removed members lose access at once, and the Enterprise plan adds SSO and SAML, while the Word add in signs in with Microsoft 365. Each organization's data is logically isolated and encrypted in transit and at rest.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/security and help.goparachute.ai/account/team-managementread 2026-10-12

SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA controls are in place, with BAAs, alongside compliance with GDPR, CCPA and PIPEDA and an independent classification opinion under the EU AI Act. The reports are in a trust portal. Identity runs through the customer's own provider. The Word add in signs in with Microsoft accounts, so a company enforces authentication controls, including MFA, inside its own Entra tenant. Spellbook names no role or permission model of its own. The iManage integration inherits iManage's own permissions and ethical walls.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/securityread 2026-09-06

Every change the AI makes to a document lands in a trace a user can scroll, and clicking an entry jumps to the block it changed. Each tabular review cell shows the reasoning behind its answer and a citation that opens the source with the quote highlighted, AI redlines carry Parachute's name as tracked changes, and documents keep every version. Admins can open every thread and document in the organization and see credit use broken down by mode. Firms get no workspace audit log of user and AI activity to review or export.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/release-notes/smarter-document-edits and help.goparachute.ai/features/tabular-reviewread 2026-10-12

Answers from Ask and Associate carry citations back to the source document, whether an uploaded file, an iManage or OneDrive document or a public legal database, so a conclusion can be traced to the passage it rests on. Spellbook names no run trace of Associate's steps, no audit log of user and agent actions and no export.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/integrations/imanage and spellbook.com/associateread 2026-09-06

Customer data is stored in Sydney, and storage in other regions is on the roadmap, so a firm in the UK, US or Canada keeps its data in Australia for now. AI inference runs in the United States by default. Firms that need inference to stay in Australia can have their instance switched to Australian region infrastructure on Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI in Sydney, at some cost in speed or model choice, and knowledge base embeddings already run in Sydney on Azure OpenAI. Parachute runs only as its own hosted service.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/privacy-policy and goparachute.ai/release-notes/onshore-airead 2026-10-12

Customer data is stored and processed in cloud data centers in Canada and the United States on Amazon Web Services. The subprocessor and location list is in the trust portal. A customer cannot choose between those locations, and there is no customer cloud or on premises option.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/securityread 2026-09-06

Drafting can start from more than 100 prebuilt templates whose conditional logic adapts the document to the organization's industry, size and jurisdictions, and a tabular review can start from a prebuilt column pack such as a standard contract review. Firms add their own Word templates and precedents beside them, keep saved prompts in a library that is private to one user or shared across the workspace, and choose built in or firm file note formats for meeting notes. Workstreams come preset as Business, Regulatory, HR and Corporate Affairs.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/platform and help.goparachute.ai/features/tabular-reviewread 2026-10-12

The Spellbook Suite is one Word add in with five modes, Review, Draft, Ask, Compare and Playbooks. Associate is a second product, for projects spanning many documents. Playbooks are standards the customer writes. The clause library among Spellbook's resources is public reference content outside the product. Autonomous Contract Management is in early access.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/pricing and spellbook.com/associateread 2026-09-06

Parachute runs on large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and decides which model handles each request. Users choose a depth instead, Paralegal at 1 credit for quick questions and light drafting, Lawyer at 3 for detailed review and research, or Senior Associate at 15 for complex analysis, or let Auto pick the mode, and the Enterprise plan adds priority model access at busy times. Users and admins choose depth, never the model, and cannot bring their own provider account.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/privacy-policy and help.goparachute.ai/features/ai-modesread 2026-10-12

OpenAI and Anthropic are the large language model providers behind the product, each under a negotiated zero data retention agreement. Spellbook uses more than one provider on its own side, and no customer or admin can select the model.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/securityread 2026-09-06

Parachute is used through its web app, the Word add in on Windows, Mac and the web, which admins can roll out across a Microsoft 365 tenant, the Windows and macOS desktop app, a Slack bot and a per user email inbox. Every connection comes from Parachute's own integration catalog, which grows on customer request, and developers have no public API, SDK or MCP server for building on Parachute or calling it from other tools.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai and goparachute.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-12

No API, SDK or MCP server is published for an outside caller to drive Spellbook, and the product, resources and support menus carry no developer link. The integrations are file syncing and cloud storage sources that Spellbook reads. The help center runs on Intercom.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/integrations/imanage and spellbook.com/pricingread 2026-09-06

Expert verification and deep analysis check the documents Parachute produces, a tabular review cell or a whole column can be run again when an answer looks wrong, and clients rate each expert review so the network keeps its quality. Firms cannot run their own test questions against the AI before changing a template, the knowledge base or a mode.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/document-review and help.goparachute.ai/features/expert-verificationread 2026-10-12

Associate checks its own work on each output as a project runs. Spellbook names no test harness, scored test cases, quality gate or optimization loop for Associate or for a customer's playbooks.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/associateread 2026-09-06

The notetaker joins Teams, Meet and Zoom calls as a bot under the firm's own name and logo, or records on the lawyer's computer without joining, and the Windows and macOS desktop app also captures in person meetings through the microphone with a live transcript. For a jurisdiction outside the five it supports, Parachute can search the web. The AI does not operate websites or other applications for the user.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/notetaker and help.goparachute.ai/features/meeting-notetakerread 2026-10-12

Spellbook runs as a Microsoft Word add in and an Associate web application, working over uploaded and connected documents. It names no browser, desktop or computer control.

SourceSpellbook, spellbook.com/associateread 2026-09-06