How to Use Ivo in 2026: Step-by-Step Guide
AI contract review and intelligence platform for in-house legal teams, automating redlining against internal playbooks and surfacing insights across entire contract portfolios.
Ivo was founded by a contract attorney to compress the hours in-house legal teams spend reviewing and redlining routine contracts. Since its 2023 commercial launch it has signed 150+ customers including Canva, Eventbrite, and Fonterra.
Core Capabilities
Ivo Review Automated redlining directly inside Microsoft Word or Google Docs, benchmarking incoming contract language against a company's own playbooks and previously negotiated deals.
Ivo Intelligence Analyzes an organization's full contract library at scale, automatically detecting relationships between documents (amendments, restatements, renewals) and unifying them for search.
Ivo Assistant An agentic AI assistant that drafts, redlines, and explains contract language from plain-language prompts, and answers complex questions across a company's entire contract portfolio with source-grounded citations.
Enterprise-Grade Security SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified, GDPR/CCPA compliant, with an explicit commitment not to train models on customer data.
Positioning
Competes with tools like CoCounsel and Robin AI (both in this catalog) in AI contract review, but focuses specifically on in-house legal teams rather than law firms, emphasizing speed-to-close on routine commercial contracts over litigation or research. Compared to Spellbook (also in this catalog), which is built primarily as a Word add-in for drafting, Ivo leans further into portfolio-wide "contract intelligence."
Pricing
No public pricing — requires a demo before onboarding, no self-serve trial. Industry reporting places enterprise pricing around $6,000 per user per year, with volume discounts for larger teams.
What You'll Need
- A Ivo account (starting from $6,000/user/yr (custom, demo required))
- A modern web browser or the Ivo app
- Payment method for paid features
Getting Started
Create Your Account
Visit https://www.ivo.ai and sign up for a paid account. You'll need an email address to register.
Start Your First Conversation
Once logged in, you'll see the main chat interface. Type a question or task in the input box and press Enter. Ivo supports ai-contract-redlining, contract-portfolio-intelligence, playbook-benchmarking, ai-legal-assistant — start with a simple text prompt to get familiar.
Pro Tips
- Be specific: The more context you provide, the better the response. Instead of "write an email," try "write a professional follow-up email to a client who hasn't responded in two weeks."
- Iterate: If you don't get what you need, ask for clarification or refinement: "Make it shorter" or "Use a more formal tone."
- Use examples: Show Ivo what format you want by including an example in your prompt.
- Save useful conversations: Most platforms let you name and revisit conversations — organize by project or topic.
Common Use Cases
Legal
AI assistants providing legal information, document drafting, and regulatory guidance.
Browse Legal chatbots →Troubleshooting
- Responses seem generic or unhelpful
- Add more context to your prompt. Specify the audience, tone, length, and format you need. Try starting over with a clearer description of your goal.
- The tool isn't responding or is slow
- AI chatbots can experience high traffic. Refresh the page and try again. Check the service's status page if issues persist.
- Output is too long or too short
- Explicitly specify the length: "in 100 words," "as a brief summary," or "in detail with examples."
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Ivo free to use?
- Ivo requires a paid subscription, starting from $6,000/user/yr (custom, demo required).
- Do I need an account to use Ivo?
- Yes, you need to create an account to use Ivo.
- What can I use Ivo for?
- AI contract review and intelligence platform for in-house legal teams, automating redlining against internal playbooks and surfacing insights across entire contract portfolios.
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