Capabilities in Workbench

Redline and compare documents in Irys Workbench

Comparing two documents is one of the things you ask Workbench to do. Point it at both, say what you want to know, and it works out what changed and how best to show you.

Starting a comparison

It picks the right output

There is no fixed view to land in. The shape of what comes back follows your question and the documents themselves.

• A redline. Two versions of the same document come back as a Word file with tracked changes, alongside a table in the chat summarising what moved.
• An annotated comparison. Two related but separate documents come back as a single annotated file with the differences marked and labelled on the page.
• A side-by-side view. Ask for one and you get a file with the original and the revised version in two panes that scroll independently, additions highlighted in green and deletions struck through in red.
• A written comparison. Ask what changed and you get it in prose or as a table, with the detail you asked for.

Say the output you want and you will get it. "Give me the redline", "mark up the differences in one file" and "show it side by side" lead to different artifacts. Ask for more than one in the same message and you get more than one.

The change summary

A comparison comes back with a summary of the differences in plain English: what was added, removed and modified, and anything worth a second look, such as an altered obligation, a shifted deadline, or a protection that is no longer there.

Ask for the numbers and you get those too: words added, removed and unchanged, each as a count and a percentage, with the totals for both versions.

The summary gives you context before the line-by-line detail. It is AI-generated: read the changes themselves before you rely on it.

What you do with the result

Generated files open in a viewer in the chat, where you can zoom, read and download them. From the file card you can add the result to the Matter you are working in, which keeps it with the rest of that matter's materials.

Finding one you ran before

Every comparison stays in the chat it was run in, so the fastest way back to one is to ask. "Show me the comparisons I have run before" returns the earlier chats by name, most recent first.

The other redlining route

There are two ways to redline in Irys, and both work.

• Here, in Workbench. You have two documents and you want to know what differs between them. The output is a comparison: a summary of what changed, and a marked-up file you can keep.
• In the Drafting Assistant. You are editing one document and the AI marks up its own edits as tracked changes you accept or reject one at a time.

Use the comparison when the question is "what changed", and AI redlining in the Drafting Assistant when the question is "change this".

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