ContractPodAi rebrands as Leah

Many people see a new year as an opportunity for change. But ContractPodAi is making a fresher start than most: from today it wants to be known as Leah.

If the name is a familiar one, that is because Leah is the legal tech firm’s agentic AI platform, launched in 2023. In effect, the product’s name has become the firm’s.

Leah says the move “signal[s] a broader AI vision”, with contracting support only part of a platform that “brings together legal, procurement, finance and other critical functions to help teams work faster”.

The rebrand follows a busy year for ContractPodAi – as it then was – with product launches including a marketplace for agentic AI applications, a tariff agent, and an operating system that integrates agentic AI across multiple corporate functions, and a spate of senior hires, including James Thomas from KPMG, Umang Jain from Gupshup, Kate Poppitt from Hogan Lovells and Jeremy Coleman from Norton Rose Fulbright.

Speaking to RSGI/LITI, founder and chief executive Sarvarth Misra says that, while the core contract management business has flourished since the firm’s founding in 2015, ContractPodAi has moved on from being a “single-product company”, with about 40 per cent of revenue now coming from non-CLM offerings. “Rather than finding a third name, it made sense to bring everything together within the Leah brand,” he says.

Asked about Leah’s place in the crowded legal tech market, Misra distinguishes between “product lines which are very good for productivity versus deep domain specialism”. “You see a lot of new, successful companies, but those operating models are still untested,” he says. “[But] we’ve had the grind of operationalising AI when AI wasn’t fashionable.

“When I started this 10 years back, [the question was], ‘I have all these records – can I centralise them and digitalise them?’ Today, everybody’s digitalised and it’s about, ‘how do I get better outcomes and how do I connect this to an intelligent team domain?’”

Agentic AI, he thinks, is the key to this, with the recent emergence of MCP – which connects AI systems with legacy software and databases – helping to accelerate the change. The company’s decision to develop Leah separately from its CLM platform has paid off, he says, by easing integration of other business functions, such as procurement, without the need for “more deployments”. “This is much more interesting to enterprises, right?” he says.

The fact that his company is more than a decade old is another positive, Misra suggests. “Some of our customers have been with us for 10 years,” he says. “We’ve seen market cycles.” For all the talk of an AI bubble, he is confident that companies which take a long-term view, with revenues underpinned by strong customer retention, will ultimately thrive. “You have to be a deep engineering company today,” he says, which means understanding the outcomes customers want to achieve and packaging AI that can deliver the necessary workflows.

For Misra, these are “exciting times”, with Leah well placed to serve businesses that are identifying new ways to connect with and extract value from their data.

“The addressable market for us is huge at the moment, as you see a lot of these systems of records in the enterprise space getting identified,” he says. “So the opportunity is immense, [and] I feel like legal has arrived at the centre of that.”