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RediDraft™ Classic
Arriving August 2026 For existing RediDraft firmsThe upgrade for firms running RediDraft 6 or earlier: the client-server platform you have relied on since 2010, rebuilt with a modernized interface and a dramatically improved user experience. Classic connects to the same RediDraft Cloud repositories you use today, or to a server you host yourself, and drafts are assembled entirely on your own machines. It is built around Microsoft Word on Windows: your Form Volumes are authored in Word, and finished drafts open in Word.
Classic is available exclusively to existing RediDraft customers. New clients start on RediDraft™ One.
- Nothing to migrate
- Classic connects to your existing RediDraft Cloud repositories. Your libraries, Form Volumes, and content work exactly as they do today.
- Nothing to relearn
- The workflow you know, from assembling drafts to managing your repository and adjusting settings, presented in a cleaner, modern interface.
- A dramatically better experience
- Rebuilt for today's Windows with improved usability throughout, so daily document assembly is faster and more pleasant.
- No one left behind
- Classic is our commitment to the firms who have trusted this platform for over a decade: your system isn't just supported, it's getting better, and it stays that way for as long as you're using it.
- Private by design
- Every draft is assembled on your own machine. No variable data is sent to the server and no drafts are stored there; only your libraries live in RediDraft Cloud, or on a server you host yourself. Fully self-hosted, with your own server, Classic keeps every byte inside your walls, just like Private Web.
- Proven where it counts
- This platform has assembled real documents at real firms every working day since 2010. Classic builds on that production hardening rather than replacing it.
- Nothing to remove
- Classic installs alongside RediDraft 6.x and earlier, so nothing has to come off a workstation first. Put it on one machine, work with it against the same repositories your firm uses every day, and roll it out to the rest of the office when you're satisfied. There is no cutover day.
- No administrator rights needed
- Installing Classic, and every update after it, runs without elevation. Your staff can install it themselves, and updates don't wait on an IT ticket or a visit to each desk.
Built around Microsoft Word
Classic and Word are joined at the hip, by design. Your attorneys author and maintain Form Volumes directly in Word, the editor they already master, so there's no new authoring tool to learn. And when an assembly finishes, the draft opens in Word, ready for review and final touches. If your firm lives in Word, nothing about Classic will feel unfamiliar.
Two requirements follow from that integration, and we want you to know them up front: the Classic desktop client requires Microsoft Word, and because of how it interacts with Word, it is available on Windows only. If your firm needs macOS, a different word processor, or access from the browser (and note that One gives you a desktop client on either platform and the browser, against the same shared libraries), RediDraft™ One is completely word processor agnostic, with its own built-in Form Volume editor.
Who it's for
Firms already running RediDraft 6 or earlier (the original Enterprise Client lineage) and no one else. Classic is not offered to new clients at any price; it exists so that the firms who built their practices on this platform get a better version of it, at the terms their firm already knows. The upgrade is about as low-risk as we can make it: Classic installs alongside the version you're running now and connects to the same repositories, so one person can work in it for a week while the rest of the firm carries on untouched. If your firm is new to RediDraft™, you're looking for RediDraft™ One.
Not a stop-gap. A destination.
"Supported indefinitely" is what a vendor says in the year before it announces a sunset date, so let's be more precise than that. We will maintain Classic for as long as firms are using it. Not for a stated number of years, not until enough customers have moved to One, not until it stops being convenient for us. There is no sunset date because we have never planned one, and there is no upgrade banner, no renewal call steering you elsewhere, and no pressure of any kind to leave.
The one thing that could end that isn't ours to decide. Classic is a Windows desktop application we hand you directly, and if Microsoft ever makes it impossible to install software that way, that would be the end of it, for us and for a great many small software companies besides. We don't expect that day, and if it ever came you would hear it from us well in advance. Short of it, Classic stays: a permanent, first-class member of the RediDraft™ family.
RediDraft™ One is an option, never a requirement
RediDraft™ One, arriving October 2026, is our next-generation platform, and its Private Web and SaaS Web editions need nothing installed on individual machines, which makes support and maintenance much easier. If that appeals to you, moving is as simple as it's been since the earliest days of FastDraft: export your library from Classic, import it into One, and you're done.
Two things to know. RediDraft One is built on an entirely new data model, so the move is one-way: libraries can't be converted back from One to Classic. And One will never be required. It's there if you want it; Classic is here if you don't.
About installing Classic
Two things worth knowing before you install, one easy and one that may need a conversation.
The easy one: Classic installs and updates without administrator rights, and it installs alongside RediDraft 6.x and earlier rather than replacing it. Your staff can install it themselves, updates don't queue behind an IT ticket, and the version your firm runs today stays right where it is, working against the same repositories, until you decide otherwise.
The other one: we don't code sign our Windows applications, so the first time you run the installer Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" panel. Click "More info," then "Run anyway," and it installs normally; you will see it once. We publish a SHA-256 checksum with every release so you can verify the file you downloaded is the file we built. Not needing administrator rights doesn't get you past a policy that forbids unsigned Windows executables, or past workstations running application allowlisting; in either case your administrator still has to approve Classic explicitly, and Classic has no browser edition to fall back on. Better to find that out now than during a rollout, and we will work with them directly. The full reasoning is on our security page .
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Your firm's own single-tenant server, on hardware you control or in a cloud account you own. Browser or desktop client, user by user.
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