Docusign vs OpenAI

Docusign — Application · Public · $12.7B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  OpenAI — Foundation Models · Private · $852B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

Docusign AI-Assisted Review and ChatGPT Gov do comparable work on document extraction; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (private).

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

7 of 10 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scale

7 of 10 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, data analysis, data security and 4 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and application.

Ludbee product records

Larger scale — OpenAI: $852B valuation, against Docusign's $12.7B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldDocusignOpenAI
Size$12.7B mkt cap$852B valuation different basis
Employees7,0444,500 OpenAI has 36% fewer
Founded20032015 12 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerAI agent, Application, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Model API
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASan Francisco, USA match

Capability overlap

Shared · 7

Agent orchestrationData analysisData securityDocument extractionSummarizationText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for OpenAI · 3

Identity verificationLegal drafting and reviewKnowledge retrieval

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

Not verified for Docusign · 10

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewEvaluation and observabilityImage generationPresentation generationSpeech to textText to speechThreat detection and responseSearch answers

Recorded for OpenAI. 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.

OpenAI

Application

ChatGPTApplication

Assistant for chat, web search, file analysis and image generation, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps; developers can build custom in-chat apps for it via the Apps SDK, built on the Model Context Protocol.

ChatGPT AtlasApplication

OpenAI's agentic web browser. Deprecated on 9 August 2026, with its browser-based agentic capabilities moved into ChatGPT and Codex.

ChatGPT GovApplication

A version of ChatGPT that US government agencies deploy in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or Azure Government cloud, so the agency manages its own security, privacy and compliance.

ChatGPT for ExcelApplication

ChatGPT in the Excel ribbon: builds and edits spreadsheets, formulas and formatting from plain-language requests, answers questions about what is in the workbook, and asks permission before changing it. OpenAI's own page bundles this with a separate ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-in; this record covers the Excel add-in only.

ChatGPT for PowerPointApplication

ChatGPT in the PowerPoint ribbon: creates new slides, rewrites and restructures an existing deck, and turns notes, documents or spreadsheets into presentation-ready content while keeping the output editable in PowerPoint.

ChatGPT for WordApplication

ChatGPT in a Microsoft Word sidebar: drafts, revises and reorganizes the open document from notes or pasted source text, pulling in context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace and Dropbox.

SoraApplication

OpenAI's text-to-video product. The web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026; the API will be discontinued on 24 September 2026.

AI agent

CodexAI agent

Coding agent that reads, edits and runs a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and the ChatGPT web app.

No counterpart

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

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.

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

Agent platform

OpenAI DaybreakAgent platform

OpenAI's cybersecurity offering, bringing together frontier cyber models, Codex Security and partner workflows to find, validate and fix vulnerabilities, with an access-gated Daybreak Red tier for authorised vulnerability research and red teaming.

OpenAI FrontierAgent platform

Enterprise platform for connecting AI agents to systems of record and running them under enterprise identity, access and observability controls.

Model API

OpenAI APIModel API

Hosted API for OpenAI's text, image, audio and embedding models, billed per token.