“I tried luminance and it was worse than useless. Could not even pick out an effective date in our demo.”
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- r/legaltech · May 23, 2025ValuesMoved from Spellbook to Gavel Exec after trying Ivo, finding it gives the best and most contextual redlines across corporate documents, and found Luminance too expensive. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Apr 10, 2025
Neutral“In today's demo with Spellbook, the representative specifically told us that due to the OpenAI/Claude limit, it translates (with the various embedded prompts that make their system what it is) to 150-200 pages (depending upon document density).”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 29, 2024
Mixed“I would choose Spellbook over Luminance. All of them seem to have both good and not so good elements, which is likely a function of a) the current state of Gen AI, b) not enough solid training data, and c) user expectations not aligning with the reality.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 19, 2024
LuminanceCriticizes“My comments about how Luminance didn't work at all for me have been downvoted multiple times and there's a four year old account with zero previous comments coming to life and saying Spellbook is great.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 18, 2024
Mixed“Spellbook, I like the way it looks and feels better, but you have to build your own playbooks and I don't have the time to do that and can't do it at the level that IVO did.”
open - r/legaltech · Dec 18, 2024MixedThe author finds the tool's interface poor and its quality below most alternatives, but it works better than Luminance and is nearly free. (summary, not a quote)open
- r/legaltech · Dec 17, 2024
LuminanceNeutralThe author heard a partner at a law firm uses Luminance and had high expectations, without giving an evaluation. (summary, not a quote)open - r/legaltech · Dec 17, 2024
Values“I am an attorney and think Spellbook is stellar.”
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