Docusign vs Microsoft

Docusign — Application · Public · $12.7B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Microsoft — Application · Public · $3.7T mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Docusign Identify and Microsoft Security Copilot do comparable work on data security; both also serve buyers who need to detect and respond to security threats; larger scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

8 of 10 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

8 of 10 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, data analysis, data security and 5 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent, application and platform.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — Microsoft: $3.7T market cap, against Docusign's $12.7B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldDocusignMicrosoft
Market cap$12.7B$3.7T Microsoft has 292× more
Employees7,044223,000 Microsoft has 32× more
Founded20031975 28 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Application, PlatformAI agent, API service, Agent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USARedmond, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 8

Agent orchestrationData analysisData securityDocument extractionKnowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Microsoft · 2

Identity verificationLegal drafting and review

Recorded for Docusign. Microsoft’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Docusign · 20

Agentic codingClinical documentationCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportEmail assistanceEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyMeeting notesModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingPresentation generationSpeech to textText to speechThreat detection and responseTranslationVector searchVideo analyticsSearch answers

Recorded for Microsoft. Docusign’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Docusign

Application

Docusign AI-Assisted ReviewApplication

An AI contract-review tool embedded in Microsoft Word that redlines agreements against playbooks, drafts clause language from plain-language instructions, and answers questions about a contract.

Docusign Agreement ManagerApplication

An intelligent agreement repository that uses Docusign Iris to automatically extract key terms, obligations and deadlines from stored contracts and make the portfolio searchable and reportable.

Docusign CLMApplication

Contract lifecycle management application filed under Docusign IAM: it generates contracts from dynamic templates and uses AI to flag non-compliant clauses, suggest approved language and draft new clauses, runs AI-assisted review, negotiation and summarisation, extracts key terms automatically and answers questions over the repository, all driven by Docusign's Iris AI engine. Sold through sales only.

Docusign IdentifyApplication

Family of AI-powered identity-verification and authentication products, using AI-enabled document and biometric liveness checks to validate signer identity, with certified-agent review for inconclusive cases.

Docusign Workflow BuilderApplication

No-code builder for agreement workflows that connects intake, document generation, conditional routing and signature steps and syncs data with CRM, procurement, storage and HR systems; Docusign's AI enters through agents that can be dropped into a workflow 'to handle dynamic, judgement-based tasks'. Included in every Docusign IAM plan, with a per-plan cap on the number of workflows.

AI agent

Docusign Iris AI AgentsAI agent

Ready-to-deploy and custom AI agents that act on a company's agreement context to triage intake, redline contracts against standards, and assemble relationship briefs.

Platform

Docusign IAMPlatform

Intelligent Agreement Management platform built around Iris, Docusign's AI that reads a customer's contracts and surfaces obligations, risks and renewal dates, plus an Agreement Manager and Workflow Builder for acting on what it finds.

Docusign IrisPlatform

Docusign's agreement-AI layer that extracts data from contracts, surfaces risk and renewal insights, and powers the assistant and agents across the IAM platform.

Microsoft

Application

Azure AI Bot ServiceApplication

Integrated development environment for building conversational bots, integrating with Microsoft Copilot Studio for low-code bot building.

Microsoft 365 CopilotApplication

AI assistant embedded in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams that grounds its answers in a customer's own business data and ships with pre-built agents.

Microsoft CopilotApplication

Microsoft's assistant for chat, search and work inside Windows and the Microsoft 365 apps.

Microsoft Security CopilotApplication

Security-operations assistant that summarises threat signals and helps analysts detect, investigate and respond to incidents in natural language.

AI agent

Copilot CoworkAI agent

Agentic feature of Microsoft 365 Copilot that plans and executes multi-step, multi-app tasks end-to-end and returns a finished deliverable rather than a draft.

Platform

Microsoft FoundryPlatform

Azure's platform for building, evaluating and deploying model-based applications and agents.

No counterpart

Microsoft sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Docusign yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Azure AI Custom VisionAPI service

Image-recognition service for building custom image classification and object-detection models; distinct from the general-purpose Azure AI Vision service.

Azure AI Immersive ReaderAPI service

Embeddable reading-comprehension tool that improves text readability for users of all ages and abilities.

Azure AI Video IndexerAPI service

Extracts insights from video and audio — transcription, face/object detection, sentiment, topics — via API.

Azure Content UnderstandingAPI service

Multimodal Azure AI service that extracts structured insights from unstructured content (documents, images, audio, video) into custom-defined schemas.

Azure Document IntelligenceAPI service

Extracts text, structure and key-value pairs from documents (invoices, receipts, forms, ID cards) via prebuilt and custom models.

Azure Language in Foundry ToolsAPI service

NLP service for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, summarization, question answering and conversational language understanding.

Azure Machine LearningAPI service

End-to-end platform for building, training, deploying and managing machine-learning models at enterprise scale.

Azure OpenAI in Foundry ModelsAPI service

Hosted access to OpenAI's GPT, embedding and image models with Azure enterprise security, networking and compliance, under Microsoft Foundry's current branding.

Azure Speech in Foundry ToolsAPI service

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as an Azure API service.

Azure Translator in Foundry ToolsAPI service

Real-time and batch text translation API supporting 100+ languages.

Azure Vision in Foundry ToolsAPI service

Image analysis, OCR, spatial analysis and face detection as an Azure API service.

Content Safety in Foundry Control PlaneAPI service

Detects harmful text/image content (hate, violence, sexual, self-harm) for generative-AI applications, billed per text/image record analyzed.

Foundry Agent ServiceAPI service

Managed service for building, deploying and orchestrating enterprise AI agents with tool calling, state management and multi-turn conversations.

Foundry IQAPI service

Context-engineering platform giving AI agents agentic retrieval across enterprise data sources (SharePoint, Blob Storage, the web) with permission-aware security.

Foundry ModelsAPI service

Model catalog (11,000+ models from Azure, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Hugging Face and others) with managed-compute and serverless per-token deployment.

Microsoft Dragon CopilotAPI service

AI assistant for clinicians that combines ambient conversation capture, clinical documentation and voice-driven EHR/order workflows into one product.

Observability in Foundry Control PlaneAPI service

Evaluation, production monitoring and distributed tracing for generative-AI applications, billed by consumption per the Foundry observability pricing page.

Agent platform

Microsoft Copilot StudioAgent platform

Low-code platform for building, connecting and publishing custom conversational and autonomous AI agents across Microsoft 365, the web and business channels.

Developer tool

GitHub CopilotDeveloper tool

Coding assistant and agent inside the editor, the CLI and GitHub itself.

Data service

Azure AI SearchData service

Enterprise retrieval service providing hybrid keyword and vector search plus RAG grounding over an organisation's own data, also surfaced inside Microsoft Foundry as Foundry IQ.