CLM company Icertis has partnered with genAI contract review startup Dioptra, its third such hook-up since 2024. Last year it partnered with Evisort (now part of Workday), and more recently did a deal with Harvey to leverage its AI capabilities.
The move comes at an important time for the CLM market, as a wave of narrower, genAI-first pioneers seek to take market share, and while some rivals are investing heavily in multiple new AI capabilities, such as ContractPodAi and Agiloft.
Dioptra, which is also working with law firms Nelson Mullins and Wilson Sonsini among others, will connect with the Icertis Contract Intelligence platform. Dioptra uses an ‘agentic framework’ to ‘distil fully custom playbooks, auto-generate redlines in Microsoft Word, and enables chat assisted reviews with and without playbooks’, they said.
Pierre Arnoux, co-founder and CEO at Dioptra, told Artificial Lawyer: ‘This partnership is an incredible opportunity to work with leaders in the space and get accelerated access to the enterprise. It solidifies our strategy to natively embed our AI agent within our user’s workflow and deliver value where they already are.’
Sudarshan Chitre, Senior Vice President of AI, Icertis, commented: ‘Partnering with Dioptra strengthens the Icertis commitment to provide best-of-breed AI capabilities to customers. Our end-to-end platform drives value across the full contract lifecycle, and this collaboration is an opportunity for the enterprises we support to further enhance their pre-signature operations.’
While Farah Gasmi, also a co-founder of Dioptra, added: ‘Dioptra’s partnership with Icertis is about unlocking precision at scale. Our AI agent enables commercial teams to autonomously handle low-risk, playbook-compliant contracts, while bootstrapping legal reviews from a rock-solid baseline for more complex agreements – driving speed, consistency, and reduced risk. Dioptra doesn’t rip and replace existing contracting workflows — it amplifies them with AI while delivering unmatched accuracy.’
Of course, the question is: does Icertis still work with Evisort (Workday) and also Harvey? Artificial Lawyer reached out to Harvey’s CEO Winston Weinberg who confirmed that they are indeed still working with Icertis. With regard to Workday, this site hasn’t had a confirmation yet.
Is it unusual for a CLM to have multiple deals like this? No, in fact, many CLMs partner with multiple organisations for a range of reasons; see for example the multiple deals some CLMs have with the Big Four, other legal consulting groups, and ALSPs all at the same time. So, it’s not that unusual.
Meanwhile, for Dioptra it’s also a very useful way to meet new clients – Icertis has a coach-load of Fortune 500 customers – and it should generate some welcome extra revenue.
You can find more about Dioptra here.
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