Today we’re announcing the general availability of the Acrebase add-in for Microsoft Word. After a closed beta with legal teams who spend their days reviewing agreements in Word, the add-in is now live on Microsoft AppSource and available to any Word user with a Microsoft 365 account.
If you redline contracts, abstract leases, or turn comments on drafts for a living, this is the fastest way to get Acrebase into the workflow you already have.
Why a Word Add-in#
The honest answer is: because that’s where the work happens.
Contract work doesn’t live in a browser tab. It lives in a Word document — often several open at once, with tracked changes on, pinned next to a PDF and an email chain three weeks deep. Any tool that asks a reviewer to leave that environment, upload a document somewhere else, review output in a different interface, and then bring the insights back into the draft is a tool that gets opened once and forgotten.
Good AI that lives outside the drafting surface loses to mediocre AI that lives inside it. The Word add-in is our answer to that: Acrebase, where you already are.
What You Can Do With It#
Open the Acrebase panel from the Word ribbon and the add-in reads your document. The task pane is organized around four tabs:
- Chat. Ask questions about the contract in plain language — “what happens if the tenant assigns the lease?”, “summarize the indemnity”, “when does the exclusivity expire?” — and get context-aware answers drawn from the document you have open.
- Proofreading. Flags potential issues, inconsistencies, and risks across the draft — the kind of thing that’s easy to miss on a tight deadline and expensive to miss afterwards.
- Clause library. Compares what’s in the draft against what you’d normally expect to see and surfaces standard clauses that appear to be missing, ready to drop in.
- Redlining. Suggests revisions directly against the text you’re reviewing, so you can accept, reject, or adapt them without retyping.
The goal across all four tabs is the same: review contracts faster and with more confidence, without leaving Word.
Who It’s For#
The add-in is built for the people who already spend their day in Word on agreements:
- Legal professionals at law firms handling transactional work.
- In-house counsel reviewing contracts across a company’s operations.
- Contract managers running high-volume review and abstraction.
If you fit any of these descriptions, the add-in is designed to fit into your existing review process rather than replace it.
Getting Started#
- Open Word, go to Home → Add-ins → Get Add-ins, and search for Acrebase. Or install it directly from Microsoft AppSource.
- Pin the task pane, open a document, and sign in with your Acrebase account.
- Try Proofreading or Chat on a live draft to see how it reads your document, then jump to Clause library and Redlining once you have the shape of the contract.
The add-in is free to try for 15 days. After the trial, a subscription is required to keep using it. Visit acrebase.com/#contact to get started or ask about pricing.
A few requirements worth flagging: the add-in needs an internet connection and an Acrebase account, and document content is sent to AI services for processing as part of the analysis.
What’s Next#
GA is a milestone, not a finish line. We have a long list of things coming — deeper redlining, richer Q&A across multiple documents, and tighter integration with the document management systems our customers actually use.
If you’ve been watching Acrebase from the sidelines, the Word add-in is the easiest way in. Install it, point it at something you’re working on this week, and tell us what breaks. We read every piece of feedback.
Acrebase is an AI contract review add-in for Microsoft Word — chat, proofreading, clause library, and redlining in one task pane. Install it on Microsoft AppSource or learn more at acrebase.com.