Keep Every Policy Version Under Control — Without the Manual Work

Policy Documents Change Quietly

Policy work has an unusual risk profile: the documents change rarely, but when they do the consequences are collective. An employee handbook amended for a new overtime rule, a code of conduct harmonised after an acquisition, a leave policy updated for a jurisdiction you have three employees in — each is a document that hundreds of people rely on and that almost nobody reads twice.

The practical problem is version confusion. The current handbook lives in SharePoint, last year's is in someone's downloads folder, and the amended draft came back from counsel as a clean PDF. LineDiff compares the final documents directly regardless of format, extracting text from DOCX and PDF so the comparison is about content rather than formatting.

For M&A harmonisation, the same workflow applies to two entirely different handbooks: upload both and the diff shows where policies genuinely conflict rather than where wording merely differs. The AI Legal domain then separates substantive obligation changes from editorial cleanup, which is what makes an annual review finishable in an afternoon instead of a week.

Common Questions from HR Teams

Can I compare a Word draft against a PDF of the current policy?

Yes. LineDiff extracts text from both formats before comparing, so mixed-format comparisons work normally.

Does this help with post-merger policy harmonisation?

Yes. Comparing two different handbooks surfaces where policies genuinely conflict, which is the input to a harmonisation decision rather than a formatting exercise.

Is employee data safe?

Comparison happens in your browser. Cloud history and sharing are end-to-end encrypted, so policy drafts containing sensitive details are never readable server-side.