Contract AI Is Hot — But Intelligent Agreements Are the Infrastructure for What’s Next

📰 This week, Business Insider profiled Legora, a UK-based legal AI startup founded by two former Allen & Overy associates. Backed by a fresh $21M Series A and Y Combinator, Legora is building tools to help in-house teams review contracts faster, using generative AI to bridge the gap between legal intent and business action. Link to article →

This is more than another legal tech funding round — it’s a signal that the category of Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) is here to stay.

So what is IAM — and why does it matter?

Intelligent Agreement Management is the evolution of contract management into a full-stack system that treats agreements not as one-off transactions but as living systems of record. It encompasses:

🔹 Creation – Dynamic templates, clause libraries, and AI-guided drafting

🔹 Negotiation – Workflow tools and collaboration layers that reduce friction

🔹 Execution – Secure, auditable, and integrated e-signature and authentication

🔹 Post-signature Intelligence – Searchable metadata, analytics, and obligation tracking

IAM transforms contracts from static PDFs into strategic data assets — powering business agility, compliance, and trust across functions.

And the momentum is building. Just this year:

💸 Harvey raised $300M Series D, reaching a $3B valuation, to continue scaling generative legal reasoning.

💸 Ivo secured $16M to expand its contract review AI platform already used by Fortune 500s.

💸 Jurimesh landed €1.6M pre-seed to power AI-based due diligence.

Each of these investments is exciting on its own — but together, they reflect a broader realization:

Agreements are infrastructure. And the systems we use to manage them need to be just as intelligent, scalable, and secure as the products we’re building.

We are watching the legal AI ecosystem grow in real-time — but the next frontier isn’t just about automation. It’s about transforming agreements into trusted, intelligent engines of business.

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