Today we're releasing one of the most requested features from the in-house lawyers who use GC AI: Easy Edit.
Open a Word document right beside your chat, ask GC AI to revise a clause, and watch the tracked change land in the document. Easy Edit is a built-in document editor in GC AI's web app, so you can revise, redline, and comment on a contract in the same place you research it. It is generally available to every customer, included at no additional cost.
Edit and redline Word documents beside your chat
The document opens beside the chat with Word-like formatting and pagination: chat on the left, document on the right.
Four things GC AI can do while the document is open:
Revise existing language: ask for "narrow the non-compete to 12 months," and the proposed redline appears as a card in chat showing the original and the suggested text. Apply it, dismiss it, or edit the wording yourself before it goes in.
Draft new language: "add a data processing addendum as a new schedule." GC AI inserts it at the location you name, as a tracked insertion that inherits the formatting and numbering around it.
Add comments: "flag the IP assignment provision with a note for outside counsel." The comment appears inline, and the same works for explaining your rationale or leaving an internal note.
Answer questions about the document: "what does section 7 say about termination for convenience?" GC AI reads the file live, so the answer reflects the edits you made two minutes ago.
Your Playbooks, skills, prior chats, and projects are all available while the editor is open, so a revision can run against your standard positions instead of generic ones.
When GC AI proposes several revisions at once, you apply or reject them together. A formatting toolbar handles manual edits: bold, italic, underline, lists, indentation, page breaks, section breaks, and page numbers.
Suggesting mode records every edit as a redline and is on by default. Editing mode makes clean changes. Viewing mode shows the document as though every tracked change were accepted.
Generated documents open in the editor automatically
Ask GC AI to draft a contract, memo, or policy, and the finished document opens in Easy Edit, ready to refine. Drafting a new agreement and revising one that arrived from the other side now happen in the same place, with the same controls.
Do you need Easy Edit if your team already uses GC AI for Word?
Both run on the same GC AI, so the revisions and drafts are identical. The difference is where you sit. Easy Edit is for the lawyer already working in GC AI's web app who wants to edit without opening anything else. GC AI for Word is for the lawyer already in Word. The add-in stays exactly as it is, and your team picks per document.
Example use cases
Here are a few ways in-house teams put Easy Edit to work.
Negotiation prep: A commercial contracts attorney uploads a vendor's SaaS agreement and asks GC AI to "run our SaaS agreement review skill on this agreement and make edits to conform to our practice standards." The markup lands in the document, and she adds comments before sending the redline back.
Policy drafting: An employment counsel uploads an outline and asks GC AI to "draft the section on remote work eligibility that I can review and edit," then iterates section by section until the policy reads right.
Revision from prior research: A privacy in-house lawyer who has been researching new requirements in GC AI uploads the agreement that needs updating and asks GC AI to "revise section 4 to reflect the data privacy requirements we researched and discussed." Because the research lives in the same workspace, the revision draws on that earlier analysis.
What the in-house lawyer controls
Nothing enters the document without your approval, and you can accept or reject the whole set from the editor header when you want to move faster. Tracked changes are on from the start, so your edits and GC AI's both carry real Word author attribution that survives the download. The redline you send opens correctly for the other side, and comments export as native Word comments.
Your work saves back into your GC AI workspace as you go, where the document stays searchable and grounded for chat across sessions. Download a copy any time and finish in Word if you would rather.
Easy Edit runs on the same infrastructure as the rest of GC AI: SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 certified, GDPR compliant, with AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS in transit. Every AI provider in the stack, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google among them, processes your content on a zero data retention basis, and each one is named on GC AI's subprocessor list.
Redline your next contract in Easy Edit
Nothing to install, nothing to turn on. Upload a Word document to any chat, click the file, and select Easy Edit.
Take the contract your team marked up by hand last week and run it through. Compare the two redlines and you will see where the pass matches your judgment and where you would push further.
More from GC AI Launch Week
Easy Edit is the third of five releases in GC AI Launch Week.
This past week, we also launched GC AI's Legal AI API. It connects the same company-aware legal AI to the systems your company already runs: Salesforce, Ironclad, Jira, Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own applications.
And GC AI Academy, which brings every class and recording inside the app. Browse sessions in one place, play any recording on its class page, and assign a class to your whole team if you are an admin.
Keep an eye out for the rest of the releases.
FAQ
Can You Redline a Contract in Your Browser Without Microsoft Word?
Yes. A browser-based legal AI editor opens the .docx file, records edits as tracked changes, and returns a file Word can read, with no local installation required. What matters for legal work is whether those redlines are real Word tracked changes rather than a visual imitation, because the other side has to accept or reject them in Word. In GC AI's Easy Edit, asking to cap limitation of liability at the fees paid in the prior 12 months returns a card showing the original clause next to the replacement, and applying it writes the deletion and the insertion into the file as tracked changes that survive the download.
Can a Browser-Based AI Editor Replace Microsoft Word for Legal Work?
For reviewing, revising, and drafting contract language it can. For advanced document production it does not. Easy Edit covers tracked-change redlining, inline comments, and a formatting toolbar for manual edits. Template management, complex page layout, and mail merge still belong in Microsoft Word, and one click downloads the file with redlines intact so you can finish there. Teams that would rather stay in Word for the whole job use GC AI for Word instead, which runs the same AI inside the application.
Which Legal AI Tools Allow Real-Time Editing and Suggestions in a Word Document?
Two delivery routes exist, and GC AI offers both. An add-in puts suggestions inside Microsoft Word while you work there, which is what GC AI for Word does. A browser editor opens the document beside your chat with nothing to install, which is what Easy Edit does. The question worth putting to any vendor is whether its suggestions land as native Word tracked changes, since a redline that is not a real Word change has to be rebuilt before it reaches the other side.
Can AI Redline a Contract That Only Exists as a PDF?
Not directly, because redlining depends on tracked changes and comments, which are features of the Word format, and a PDF carries no equivalent revision layer to mark up in place. A scanned agreement is still worth uploading: GC AI reads and analyzes it in chat, so you can ask what a clause says or how it compares to your position. Producing the redline itself means opening the Word version in Easy Edit.
Can Two People Edit the Same Contract at the Same Time in an AI Editor?
It depends on the editor. Some contract platforms support real-time co-editing, where several people revise a document at once and the changes merge live. Easy Edit takes the single-editor approach, which keeps tracked-change authorship unambiguous as a document moves between reviewers. Handoff works through the workspace rather than the cursor: edits autosave to the project the document lives in, so the next reviewer who opens that chat gets the current version with every change still attributed to whoever made it.
Should You Redline a Contract in AI Chat or in a Document Editor?
Use chat for questions, comparisons, and a first pass at language. Use a document editor when the output has to be a redline, because a chat reply gives you text to paste, which means rebuilding formatting and losing the tracked-change record the other side needs to review your position. The two work best together. Point a Playbook at a contract open in Easy Edit and the standard positions your team already encoded arrive as tracked changes in the agreement rather than as suggestions in a chat window.
