What's New with Gavel Exec?

Use Gavel Exec's legally-trained AI to draft and redline faster than ever — right in Microsoft Word.

By the team at Gavel

Published:

Jun 11, 2025

| Last updated: Jun 11, 2026

Cut drafting time by 90%

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July 24, 2026:

• When editing a redline suggestion, you can now clearly distinguish the original language from the proposed changes.
• Accepting suggestions in table cells now preserves table layout, so redlines apply cleanly inside tables.

July 22, 2026:

• Added a "Run with comments" option to Playbooks, allowing you to automatically generate accompanying comments - selectable from a set of comment categories - alongside redlines for failing playbook rules.
• Fixed an issue where text matching could fail against content inside tables.

July 20, 2026:

• Upgraded the AI models that power Exec’s core workflows—including redlining, drafting, commenting, and Playbooks—improving redlining precision by 3%.
• Improved redline and comment reliability with updates to how Exec interprets your current document.

July 9, 2026:

• Playbook rules that pass now include an explanation of why they passed.
• Playbook results can now include links that navigate directly to the supporting language in your document.
• Updated chat and playbook styling for a cleaner, more consistent experience.
• Improved personalized suggestions for longer conversations.
• Clearer error messages now appear when a usage limit is reached.

June 26, 2026:

• A prompt library has been introduced. Common prompts can now be saved and reused later.
• Playbook rules now automatically collapse the rule description after running.
• Updated several prompts in Gavel playbooks.

June 23, 2026:

• Adds personalized suggestions that adapt to each user's redlining style over time.

June 18, 2026:

• Adds counterparty-facing comment type option to comment quick action.
• Fully rewrote how redlines are matched against the existing document text and inserted:
  • This should be far more reliable than previously and result in fewer situations where navigating to or attempting to apply a redline fails.
  • Formatting should be preserved when editing existing portions of the document, and copied from nearby sections when adding new text.
  • Redlines over redlines should retain full authorship of all inserted and deleted text.
  • Existing comments should be retained when applying a redline.
  • This will be rolling out to all users over the coming week.

June 11, 2026:

• Introducing Fill Template, a Quick Action that populates template placeholders in your document from uploaded source documents or matter details, with suggested fills you can accept or reject before applying.

June 5, 2026:

• Exec can now perform multiple tasks with a single prompt.
• Exec displays reasoning/rationale prior to performing a task.
• Redlines, comments, and drafts now display in collapsible groups.
• We no longer automatically scroll during streaming.
• Added a copy button to Exec's responses.
• Improved handling of large documents.

June 1, 2026:

• Resolved an issue where users could get into a bad state if they started and subsequently abandoned the upgrade flow in Stripe.

May 28, 2026:

• Include open source disclosures.
• Change the dataset that the jurisdiction picker uses.
• Exec’s file upload dropzone now has clearer copy and supported-file badges.
• Redline priority filters now stay available even when a selected priority has zero visible suggestions.

May 19, 2026:

• Exec can now access all of the content in the working document for tasks that require the entire document's context.
• Exec now loads when opened in a protected document.
• "Apply All" no longer shows when there is nothing to apply.
• Exec now correctly cites any references to chat attachments or projects files in its suggestions.

May 15, 2026:

• Users can now:
  • Merge playbooks
  • Export playbooks
  • Import playbooks (that were exported from Exec)

May 14, 2026:

• You can now preview references to chat attachments and project files in the chat by hovering your cursor over the reference.
• We now correctly specify the document name (minus the extension) when referencing a chat attachment or project file.

May 13, 2026:

• Adds support for .doc chat attachments and project files.

May 8, 2026:

• Bug fix for tracked changes author attribution.
• Enhanced citation guard rails for agents.

May 6, 2026:

• Upgraded core AI models to improve redlining precision and quality by 7%, while delivering faster response times across drafting, commenting, and summarization.
• Significantly improves performance when reloading the add-in for a document that has been heavily used in Exec.

April 22, 2026:

• Existing users can now access Web Exec more smoothly, including a direct Web Exec entry point from the add-in.
• Improved chat responses so Exec is less likely to reference internal tools or system behavior in its answers.
• Fixed a document-processing issue that could cause context creation to fail on deeply nested Word files.
• Reduced PII in logs across the API, worker, and add-in to improve privacy and operational hygiene.

April 21, 2026:

• Chat sessions and conversation history are now tracked for Web Exec users.
• Logging out of Web Exec now redirects to the correct web destination.
• Seat details are now available in Web Exec when upgrading your plan.

April 17, 2026:

• Redlines applied in the middle of a paragraph should no longer remove surrounding whitespace.
• Fixes a bug that prevents users from signing using the add-in on older versions of Safari.
• Allows existing users to sign into Web Exec when accessing Exec from a browser.

April 15, 2026:

• The priority filter can now be applied to individual groups of redlines instead of being a global filter.
• Improved text formatting of responses while chatting with Exec.
• More accurate use of project files in AI responses, redlining, commenting, and drafting, especially in larger, document-heavy matters.
• Project files now process automatically in the background after upload.
• Files become available in chat as soon as processing is complete.
• Clearer status indicators show when a file is still processing, ready, or failed.

April 9, 2026:

• Read-only users now get a consistent, clear experience across projects and playbooks — write actions are disabled with tooltips explaining why, so there's no more confusion about what you can and can't do. Project instructions and attachments are now more reliably synced into your AI sessions, so the context you set up actually shows up when it matters.

April 7, 2026:

• Quick Actions now live as a toolbar above the chat input, putting your most-used actions right where you need them.

April 3, 2026:

• Redline suggestions now include the reasoning behind each proposed change, so you can understand why a change is being recommended without having to dig for it.

April 1, 2026:

• Navigating between projects is smoother and more intuitive — projects are sorted alphabetically and your active project is clearly marked.

March 31, 2026:

• We've introduced AI Playbooks, powered by your own documents—including internal guidelines and template contracts—so new rule sets align with how your team actually drafts and negotiates. Review and edit the automatically generated rules, then run them like any other playbook.

March 26, 2026:

• Project navigation from the chat bar is now more reliable, with your selected project persisting between sessions and history properly scoped to the project.

March 24, 2026:

• This release smooths out a few rough edges in Gavel Exec. Redlines now better tolerate spacing inconsistencies, Apply All won't reapply suggestions you've already accepted, and read-only Playbook users are no longer taken into edit actions that would fail.

March 19, 2026:

‍ Scope your work to specific jurisdictions! This release adds a Jurisdiction Picker in Quick Actions so requests can be tailored most precisely. It also adds a new Wishlist link in Settings and the ability to reorder your playbook rules via drag and drop. We love the feedback and move fast to create a delightful experience, if you'd like to see a feature added to Gavel Exec, add it to the wishlist!

March 18, 2026:

• Refine your redlines before you apply them with new editing controls available in both Chat and Playbooks. We've also fixed the Stop button so you can reliably halt a generation without disrupting the chat experience, and delivered a smoother Playbooks interface with cleaner inline editing, clearer filtering and progress states, collapsible rule details, and improved empty-state feedback.