DocIQ Sphere.
AI that actually edits your Word documents.
Sphere edits your actual DOCX. Tracked changes, six legal databases, clause negotiation, playbooks, and secure data rooms, all inside the document. Every AI interaction auditable. Every edit traceable to the prompt that produced it. Model-agnostic: Claude, GPT, or Gemini, routed per task for optimal cost and quality.
- Released
- Feb 2026
- Hosted
- Switzerland
- Compliance
- GDPR + FADP
01 / Problem
AI that destroys your documents.
Legal teams lose hours a week to repetitive document work. Generic AI tools add a formatting cleanup on top of it.
- 01
Broken formatting
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot destroy numbering, styles, tables, tracked changes.
- 02
No data sovereignty
US-hosted tools fail Swiss + EU requirements. Where is your data going?
- 03
No audit trail
No record of what the AI did and why. Regulators want evidence; you can’t provide it.
- 04
Generic AI
No legal domain expertise, no firm knowledge, no database access.
02 / Capabilities
Core capabilities.
Eight systems, one workspace.
- 01
Word-native tracked changes
Atomic OOXML operations preserve numbering, styles, tables, cross-references, even in 200-page contracts. AI edits land as tracked changes to accept or reject.
- 02
Legal research (6 databases)
Fedlex, Entscheidsuche (BGE), EUR-Lex, CJEU, HUDOC, and Swiss commentary. Natural language or exact citations via official government APIs.
- 03
AI playbooks
Reusable workflows encoding institutional expertise. Auto-trigger on upload. Prompts protected; team runs them without seeing analysis logic.
- 04
Clause bank + negotiation
Reusable clauses tagged by type + jurisdiction. Hybrid semantic + keyword search. Generate 2 to 4 variants at protective / balanced / concessive levels.
- 05
Secure data rooms
M&A, regulatory, client collaboration. Role-based access (Viewer, Collaborator, Editor, Admin). Immutable audit trail with IP and user agent.
- 06
Complete audit trail
Every AI run, tool call, reasoning chain, token count logged. Data room actions tracked. Version history with full rollback.
- 07
Web intelligence
Real-time company, legal, and market searches. Deep Research synthesises multi-source reports.
- 08
Privacy-first
Swiss-hosted infrastructure. Multi-tenant isolation. GDPR + FADP compliant. On-premises for full data sovereignty.
03 / Interface
Inside Sphere.
Matter workspace and data room. AI with live document preview; cross-org collaboration with immutable audit.
04 / Tracked changes
Word-native fidelity.
Generic AI tools round-trip through plaintext and shred your formatting. Sphere edits the OOXML directly.
- 01
OOXML deltas, not plaintext
AI edits map to Word’s own change-tracking XML. Numbering, styles, tables, footnotes, cross-references all survive round-trips.
- 02
Conflict-safe
AI edits overlap user edits cleanly; both show up as separate tracked changes with attribution. No silent overwrites.
- 03
Measured fidelity
Zero data-loss round-trip on 200-page contracts with footnotes, equations, and embedded objects. Tested on real DOCX.
05 / Playbooks
Reusable legal workflows.
Institutional expertise, encoded once and run by the whole team. Version-controlled, protected, and auditable.
- 01
Natural-language authoring
Describe the workflow in plain English; Sphere compiles it into a structured, versioned prompt tree.
- 02
Version history + rollback
Every revision saved. Roll back to v1.3 when v1.7 hallucinates. Diff between versions to audit change rationale.
- 03
Prompt protection
The team runs a playbook by name; the prompt itself stays encrypted at rest. Firm IP doesn’t leak to users.
- 04
Auto-trigger rules
Upload a DOCX tagged “NDA” → NDA Risk Assessment runs automatically. Condition-based routing on type + jurisdiction + client.
Ships with eight ready-made playbooks
- 01
GDPR Compliance Check
Sub-processor lists, audit rights, cross-border transfers.
- 02
NDA Risk Assessment
Non-standard and one-sided clauses.
- 03
IP Ownership Review
Assignment, licensing, background IP.
- 04
SLA Analysis
Uptime, penalties, exclusions.
- 05
Key Terms Extraction
Parties, dates, obligations, termination.
- 06
Risk Red Flag Analysis
Liability, indemnity, limitation gaps.
- 07
Financial Data Extraction
Payment terms, caps, escalation.
- 08
Document Classifier
Auto-categorise type and jurisdiction.
06 / Models
Model-agnostic routing.
Enterprises fear vendor lock-in. Sphere routes each task to the model that wins on that task, and lets you override anywhere.
- Research + synthesis
- Claude Opus 4 (long context, reasoning)
- Bulk extraction
- GPT-5 (structured outputs, throughput)
- Clause generation
- Gemini 2.5 Pro (style control)
- Fast classification
- Claude Haiku 4.5 (cost + latency)
- Override
- User-pinned per matter or playbook
When a primary model is unavailable, Sphere falls back to the next best for that task class. Routing decisions land in the audit log alongside the prompt and reasoning chain.
07 / Audit
Audit schema.
Every AI run and every data-room event captured in a structured log. Exportable as compliance evidence for GDPR Art. 30, FINMA, or internal IT-risk review.
- Prompt (text + template id)
- string · versioned
- Reasoning chain
- sequence · ordered
- Tool calls (db, search, OOXML)
- array · with args + result
- Token count (in / out)
- integer · per model
- Model id + version
- string
- Actor (user id)
- uuid
- Matter / data-room id
- uuid
- Timestamp (UTC)
- iso8601
- IP + user agent (data room)
- string
- Export format
- JSON, CSV, PDF report
08 / Deployment
Where it runs.
Same product, three trust boundaries. Pick the one your regulator lives with.
- 01
Swiss managed cloud
Swiss datacenters (Zürich + Geneva regions). 99.9% SLA. DR across two regions. GDPR + FADP DPA available.
- 02
On-premises
Docker / Kubernetes install. Customer-supplied GPU for local models. Air-gap ready with pre-cached Fedlex snapshots.
- 03
Air-gapped
Zero outbound network. Local model weights. Legal research served from snapshotted corpora refreshed on a customer schedule.
09 / Audience
Who it’s for.
- 01
Corporate Legal + RegTech
Review vendor agreements, extract at scale, manage compliance. Auto-playbooks on every upload; REST + MCP for workflow integration.
- 02
Law Firms + Notaries
Cross-border M&A, commercial contracts, regulatory filings. Playbooks encode firm expertise without exposing prompt logic.
- 03
Private Equity
Due diligence data rooms with granular access and audit trails. Bulk extraction across deal libraries.
- 04
Compliance + Risk
GDPR gap analysis, policy review, regulatory tracking. Defensible processes with full audit.
10 / Spec
Operational details.
- Languages
- DE (CH/DE/AT), FR, IT, EN
- Data residency
- Switzerland (managed) or your infrastructure
- Document formats
- DOCX in + out with tracked changes, PDF export
- Legal sources
- Fedlex, EUR-Lex, BGE, CJEU, HUDOC, Commentary
- Compliance
- GDPR, FADP
- Deployment
- Swiss managed cloud, on-prem, air-gapped
- Integrations
- REST API, MCP server, webhooks
- Audit export
- JSON, CSV, PDF
- Support
- Zürich business hours
Security + auditability
- Every AI run logged: prompts, reasoning, tool calls, tokens.
- Data room immutable log: access, downloads, views, IP + user agent.
- Document + playbook version history with full rollback.
- JSON audit exports for compliance evidence.
- Multi-tenant isolation, encryption at rest + in transit.
- On-premises for full data sovereignty.
- AI
- Legal Tech
- Enterprise