Release Notes

New updates and improvements to SpotDraft

  1. Auto-Extract VerifAI Guides from Standard Contracts

    CLM
    VerifAI
    All Users
    End Users

    Product Area: VerifAI / DraftMate Word Plugin / OnlyOffice Editor

    Impact of the Change: New Functionality (Restored Capability)

    Roles Impacted: All VerifAI embedded (VerifAI in CLM)

    Description:

    The Problem

    Setting up VerifAI review guides has always required manual effort — users had to go clause by clause, filling in the guideline, title, typical wording, fallbacks, and approval settings from scratch. For teams with many relevant clauses, this could take hours of repetitive work, significant trial and error, and often resulted in inconsistent guide quality across the board.

    Now, just open your standard contract in Word or OnlyOffice and run DraftMate — guides are extracted automatically. VerifAI pulls the right context for each clause, producing well-structured guides that would previously have taken meaningful legal or ops time to configure.

    Teams get faster time-to-value with VerifAI, and the guides themselves are more consistent and grounded in actual contract language.

    Note: This feature is NOT AVAILABLE FOR VERIFAI STANDALONE plugin

  2. PDF Support for VerifAI & AI Revisions

    CLM
    VerifAI
    All Users
    End Users

    Product Area: AI Revisions AKA Summary of Changes, VerifAI in CLM Impact of the Change: Expanded Capability Roles Impacted: All users

    Description:Until now, both VerifAI and AI Revisions only worked on .DOCX contracts. If a contract came in as a PDF these capabilities simply weren't available.

    That gap is now closed!

    VerifAI guides and AI Revisions now fully support PDF contracts, making these capabilities available across every contract document type on SpotDraft.

    This means:

    • VerifAI guide runs can now be triggered on any contract version, regardless of whether it's a DOCX or PDF.
    • AI Revisions can now compare any version pair — even when one or both versions are PDFs.
  3. Access Control in VerifAI

    CLM
    VerifAI
    All Users

    Product Area: VerifAI in CLM, DraftMate Impact of the Change: Security & Complaince Enhancement Roles Impacted: All VerifAI Users

    Description:Until now, any user with editor access in DraftMate could create, update, or delete VerifAI guides. No guardrails.:grimacing: We've now added access control on managing VerifAI guides and guidelines.

    What's changed:

    Creating, updating, or deleting guides → restricted to users with Manage Clause Library & VerifAI Guides permission (team-level permission) Running guides → still available to all editors, as before :dart:

    Why it matters:Legal and compliance teams can now control who shapes review standards — without restricting day-to-day usage.

    Note: this is enabled for all workspaces

  4. Computation Builder

    Product Area: Workflow Manager

    Impact of Change: New Feature

    Roles Impacted: Administrators & Workflow Managers

    Description:

    We're excited to launch the Computation Builder, a new way to add powerful, automated logic to your workflow questionnaires (both template and upload workflows) without needing any technical expertise. You can now create formulas to automatically calculate values for fields like bonuses, totals, or other key metrics based on user inputs.

    Here’s what you can do with the Computation Builder:

    • Automate Calculations: Build formulas directly within a questionnaire question. For example, you can now automatically calculate a "Retention Bonus" as 20% of the "Annual Gross Salary" entered by the user.
    • Reduce Manual Errors: Fields with computations are automatically calculated and become non-editable for the person filling out the form. A (Σ) symbol will indicate that the value is computed, preventing accidental overrides and ensuring accuracy.
    • Centralized Management with Computation Library: All your formulas are stored in a central Computation Library on the workflow. From here, you can easily edit a formula in one place and see exactly which workflows and questions are using it, helping you understand the impact of any changes.
    • Intuitive Formula Writing: The builder provides helpful suggestions and an easy-to-use syntax. We also provide a comprehensive guide to help you get started with writing formulas.

    Please Note: Computations created with the new builder will override any older, code-based calculations associated with your templates or third- party workflows, creating a single, easy-to-manage source of truth.

    Resources:

    Help Center

    How to Enable:

    We will be gradually rolling this out to workspaces which have already transitioned to global metadata. Please reach out to your CSMs to get early access.

  5. Configurable Signature Reminders

    SpotDraft Sign
    CLM

    Product Area: Workflow manager, e-signature reminders

    Impact of the Change: Feature Enhancement

    Roles Impacted: Workspace admins, all signatories as well as business users of contract

    Problem Statement

    Chasing signatures is time-consuming work that pulls users away from strategic tasks. Different contracts need different approaches, like a routine vendor agreement doesn't require the same urgency as a time-sensitive sales deal.

    SpotDraft's signature reminders ran on a rigid system: once enabled, reminders were sent daily for 14 days until the contract was signed or declined. Users couldn't adjust the timing, extend the cycle, or tailor the approach to different contract types or stakeholder needs.

    What Will Happen

    Users will now have full control over signature reminders through the Workflow Manager.

    What You Can Control:

    1. First reminder timing: Set when the initial nudge goes out
    2. Follow-up frequency: Choose how often reminders repeat
    3. Business days only: Toggle on to skip weekends and respect signatories' time off
    4. Custom email templates: Personalise reminder messages using variables so they feel helpful, not automated
    5. Activity tracking: Every reminder is automatically logged in the Activity Log for complete visibility

    Where To Find It: Navigate to the 'Reminders' section under 'Additional Options' within Workflow Manager.

    Resources: Help Center Article

    How to Enable: Reach out to your CSM to enable for your workspace.

  6. Manual Full-Document Sync for DraftMate

    VerifAI

    Product Area: DraftMate Plugin (Verifai)

    Impact of the Change: Quality of Life Improvement

    Roles Impacted: All DraftMate users

    Problem Statement

    When users make rapid edits in Word - like hitting Ctrl+Z multiple times or deleting large chunks of text - Microsoft Word's API doesn't always broadcast every change to DraftMate. This causes sync issues, meaning DraftMate's AI works with an outdated version of your document, leading to suggestions that don't match your current draft.

    Previously, the only workaround was to close and reopen the plugin - a clunky solution when you're in the middle of contract review.

    Solution

    We've added a "Sync Changes" button in the DraftMate plugin. Click it to perform a complete document sync. This ensures DraftMate's AI has the latest version of your document before you re-run your guide.

    Important Callouts:

    • Manual Re-run Required: After syncing, you'll need to manually re-run your guide. Previous guide results will disappear during the reload.
    • When to Use: Use the Sync button after making rapid or bulk changes (especially multiple undos or large deletions) to ensure DraftMate is fully synced before running a guide.

    How to Enable: Enabled for all customers on AI module

  7. Compare Any Two Versions with AI Revisions

    CLM
    All Users
    VerifAI

    Product Area: Version History, AI Review, Summary of Changes

    Impact of the Change: New Functionality

    Roles Impacted: All users with AI module enabled (Embedded Verifier/Verify in CLM)

    Problem Addressed:

    When contracts go through multiple rounds of negotiation, tracking changes across non-consecutive versions has been a manual slog. Users often needed to compare, say, Version 1 (original draft) with Version 7 (final version) to understand the full arc of changes - or compare Version 3 (pre-legal review) with Version 5 (post-finance review) to isolate specific feedback rounds.

    Previously, SpotDraft only auto-generated AI revisions for the latest uploaded versions with previous version. If you wanted to compare any 2 versions, you had to use the manual in-app comparison feature - which meant reading through redlines yourself and piecing together what actually changed. Time-consuming!

    Solution Overview:

    You can now select any two DOCX versions from your version history and generate an AI-powered summary of changes between them!

    Here's how it works:

    • Head to the version history panel on any contract;
    • Toggle on the compare mode
    • Select any two DOCX versions you want to compare
    • Click "View AI revisions"—and boom! AI generates a clear summary of what changed between those specific versions

    Important Callouts:

    DOCX Only (For Now): This feature currently works only for DOCX versions. PDF support is coming soon!

    Resources:

    Help center article

    How to Enable: This is now available to all customers

  8. Viewing Template Documents in Workflow Manager

    Feature Name: Viewing Template Documents in Workflow Manager

    Product Area: Workflow Manager

    Impact of Change: New Functionality

    Roles Impacted: Legal Ops, Workflow Admins

    Problem:

    Until now, reviewing a template in a workflow meant downloading the document and opening it locally or in Google Docs just to check its contents or verify recent changes.

    What's New?

    With in-workflow document preview, you can now view the document directly inside the Workflow Manager. This lets you quickly confirm that the right template is in place, review recent edits, and catch any mistakes, all without leaving SpotDraft.

    How to Enable:

    This feature is has been rolled out to all the workspace.

  9. Condition Library for Questionnaires & Intake Forms

    CLM

    Feature: Condition Library for Questionnaires & Intake Forms

    Product Area: Workflow Configuration – Questionnaires & Intake Forms

    Impact of the Change: Simplifies condition management and reduces repetitive setup

    Roles Impacted: Legal Ops, Workflow Admins, Implementers

    Description:

    Until now, questionnaire and intake form conditions in workflows were created inline, which meant users often had to recreate the same logic multiple times across different workflows.

    With this release, we’re extending the Condition Library to support Questionnaires and Intake Forms. In addition to approval and signatories, users can now create a condition once and reuse it across:

    • Questionnaires
    • Intake Forms

    This provides a single, centralized place to manage all workflow-related conditions, making setups more consistent and easier to maintain.

    This will be rolled out to you in phases:

    Phase 1 – December 18, 2025

    As part of this rollout, all existing questionnaire conditions will be automatically migrated to the Condition Library for customers whose workspaces do not have any draft or unpublished workflow changes. These conditions will continue to function exactly as they do today, but will now be supported by the shared Condition Library instead of the older inline setup.

    Phase 2 – Coming soon

    This phase will cover existing customers whose workspaces have draft or unpublished workflow changes.

    Screenshot 2025-12-19 at 12.30.10 PM

  10. Slack Signing Notifications for Aadhaar based contracts

    Feature: Slack Signing Notifications for Docusign & Aadhaar

    Product Area: Slack Integration

    Impact of the Change: Reduces friction and speeds up contract signing

    Roles Impacted: Signatories signing the contract

    Description:

    Until now, Slack signing notifications were only supported for contracts sent via SpotDraft's native signing flow. We’ve extended this capability to our existing e-sign integrations—Aadhaar.

    With this enhancement, whenever a contract is sent for signing through DocuSign or Aadhaar on SpotDraft, creator-party signatories who have the SpotDraft Slack app installed will receive signing notifications directly in Slack.

    This allows them to sign seamlessly without switching to email, significantly improving the overall signing experience.

    How to Enable: Automatically enabled for all workspaces that use multiple signing solutions and where signatories have the SpotDraft Slack app installed.