May update: Negotiations, and more

Negotiation is the messiest part of contracting. Versions scatter across email, context gets lost between rounds, and most AI tools forget what happened two turns ago. This release is our answer to that, plus a batch of upgrades that touch almost every part of Bind: Word-native templates, multi-document chats, Excel and PowerPoint support, and a redesigned eSign.

Here's what shipped.

One place for the entire negotiation

Every round, every change, every comment now lives in Bind. Whether you and the other side go back and forth inside Bind or out over email, the full history is captured and timestamped. Open any past round to see exactly what changed and who said what, and compare turns side by side.

The agent has the same complete history, so it stays on your side as the negotiation evolves. It remembers the concession you made in round two when the counterparty pushes again in round five.

This is the foundation everything else in this release builds on.

Review plans: shape the round before redlining

When Bind analyzes a round, it presents its suggestions as a review plan you can walk through. Approve, tweak, or add your own context to any item before Bind drafts the next turn.

The shift here: Bind looks at the round as a whole, weighing how individual changes interact, instead of evaluating clauses in isolation. That's how an experienced lawyer reviews a redline, and now Bind does too.

Playbooks: any document, any structure

Upload any file as a playbook. Word documents, PDFs, Excel sheets, internal guidance notes, fallback positions, anything you already have. The agent uses them when reviewing and drafting. No need to restructure your knowledge to fit our format.

Templates that keep your Word formatting

The agent now drafts directly inside Word, with formatting, headings, and styling preserved. What you see in Bind is what you ship. We also added a dedicated template agent that helps you create new templates and modify existing ones, so building reusable structure is a conversation, not a manual setup.

Tabs: many documents, one chat

Tabs are here. Open several documents in a single conversation and switch between them. Compare drafts, pull text from one into another, work through a deal that spans multiple files without losing context. The agent sees every tab you have open and can edit them in parallel, so a single instruction can update all the related files at once.

Work with Excel and PowerPoint too

Open Excel sheets and PowerPoint decks straight in chat. Reference them in a conversation, ask questions, pull data into a draft. Most deals involve more than Word docs, and now Bind handles those too.

eSign: free-form placement and signing order

Two new things in eSign. You can now place the signature box anywhere on the page, instead of being stuck with fixed positions or awkward layouts. And you can set a signing order, so each party signs in turn instead of everyone signing at once.

Document bundles, shared views and assignees

• Document bundles. Group related documents together, like one transaction across several files, and move the whole bundle between spaces.
• Shared views. Build a filtered, sorted view of a space and share it with your team. Everyone works off the same slice.
• Assigned-to column. Assign documents to people directly inside a space.

Also shipped

Sharing now sends an email notification when you grant someone access. Tables got faster, more readable, and easier to scan. Mobile saw a round of polish, including consistent bottom-bar navigation across every page. And opening documents, reviews, and sign pages all feel noticeably smoother.

Thanks for using Bind.