DocIQ Sphere vs Luminance
Luminance is a leading contract intelligence platform used by 700+ organizations across 70 countries. It excels at contract review, anomaly detection, and autonomous negotiation with its Autopilot feature. DocIQ Sphere is a broader document intelligence platform that includes contract editing, legal research, clause banks, data rooms, and document creation. Luminance is deeper in contract review. Sphere is wider in document workflow.
What Luminance does well
- Purpose-built for contract review with auto-classification of 1,000+ legal concepts
- Autopilot: autonomous NDA negotiation end-to-end, including responding to counterparty redlines
- Trained on 150M+ legal documents for anomaly detection
- On-premise, private cloud, and single-tenant deployment options
- Traffic-light analysis for quick risk assessment
- Strong template-based contract generation with configurable fields
Where DocIQ Sphere differs
Full document editing with tracked changes
Luminance reviews contracts and highlights issues. Sphere reviews and edits: natural language instructions produce Word-native tracked changes. Insert clauses, replace terms, restructure paragraphs. The output is a standard .docx your counterparty opens in Word.
- Native OOXML tracked changes (Accept/Reject in Word)
- Paragraph-level precision with stable IDs
- Batch staging: review all changes before committing
Legal research integrated into the workflow
Luminance focuses on contracts and does not include legal research. Sphere's 6 legal databases (Fedlex, BGE, EUR-Lex, CJEU, ECHR, Commentary) are available within the editing workflow. Research findings can be inserted directly into documents or encoded into playbooks.
- 6 legal databases: Swiss federal law, case law, EU regulations, human rights
- Deep Research: multi-step synthesis with full citations
- Research results flow into edits, comments, and playbooks
Document creation from natural language
Luminance generates contracts from pre-existing templates with configurable fields. Sphere creates documents from natural language prompts without requiring a template: describe what you need, and the agent generates a structured .docx with professional formatting, automatic numbering, and jurisdiction-appropriate language.
- Any document type: contracts, memos, filings, policies
- Draws on 6 legal databases + clause bank + document library
- Professional formatting with automatic numbering
Broader document intelligence
Luminance is contract-focused. Sphere works with any document type: policies, reports, correspondence, regulations, filings. The knowledge base indexes 15+ formats (DOCX, PDF, XLSX, PPTX, and more) for RAG-powered search across your entire document library.
- 15+ document formats indexed automatically
- Knowledge base search across all uploaded documents
- Not limited to contracts: any document type
Feature comparison
| Capability | DocIQ Sphere | Luminance |
|---|---|---|
| Word-native tracked changes | Yes | Partial |
| OOXML-level editing | Yes | - |
| Agentic chat-driven editing | Yes | Partial |
| Legal research with verified sources | Yes | - |
| Clause bank with jurisdiction tags | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-Playbooks on upload | Yes | Partial |
| Bulk extraction across libraries | Yes | Yes |
| Data rooms with AI extraction | Yes | Partial |
| Document creation from prompt | Yes | Partial |
| Autonomous negotiation | - | Yes |
| Anomaly detection (1,000+ concepts) | Partial | Yes |
| On-premise deployment | Yes | Yes |
| CH/EU data sovereignty | Yes | Partial |
| Multi-format indexing (15+ types) | Yes | Yes |
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