Coherent and Eudia Partner to Power Fully AI-Native Legal Function

A first-of-its-kind partnership with Eudia powers Coherent's AI-native legal brain—uniting human judgment and machine intelligence to transform how legal work gets done.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Eudia, the AI platform purpose-built for leading in-house legal teams, and Coherent Corp., a global leader in materials, optics, and photonics technology, today announced a landmark multi-year partnership to create a fully AI-native legal function. With this agreement, Coherent becomes the first company to unify its entire legal function through Eudia's recent release of Sigma, a suite of augmented AI agents, enabling Coherent's in-house and external teams to work on Eudia's unified platform.

As Coherent leverages AI to create, edit and review documents, build workflows, unite previously disparate systems and develop company-wide systems and practices, Coherent will build a legal "brain", which Coherent's legal team will leverage to create efficiency and gain insights to power the company's growth. Through the deployment of the Coherent Brain, powered by Eudia, Coherent will augment key legal domains including commercial operations, IP, litigation, trade compliance, and regulatory enablement—marking a fundamental shift in how in-house legal operates at scale.

"At Coherent, we don't see legal AI as a future trend—we see it as a present strategic imperative," said Rob Beard, Chief Legal Officer of Coherent. "Our partnership with Eudia represents the next phase in how legal services are delivered: smarter, faster, and deeply embedded in the business itself. Eudia's exclusive focus on in-house teams—and its ability to integrate company knowledge into a unified platform—made it the clear choice to help us move from reactive support to proactive leadership."

Unlike law firm–oriented AI tools focused on individual legal tasks, Eudia delivers a single, AI-native system that captures institutional knowledge, streamlines workflows, and activates legal insight across the entire enterprise. Rather than handing expertise and knowledge over to outside counsel, Eudia enables in-house teams to own their strategic knowledge, apply it consistently, and amplify their value company-wide.

"Coherent is showing the entire industry what a legal function can become when it's built on one unified platform," said Omar Haroun, CEO of Eudia. "They're not plugging in another tool—they're building a Company Brain: an always-on intelligence layer that turns company knowledge into competitive advantage. That's not just innovation—that's leadership."
With full access to Sigma—Eudia's secure, AI-powered productivity engine—Coherent's legal team will be able to:

• Search contracts, precedent, and past deals instantly with natural language, shrinking research time from hours to seconds
• Auto-generate summaries, extract key terms, and accelerate executive and board-level reporting and decision-making
• Draft, redline, and negotiate documents with AI-enhanced suggestions grounded in the company's preferred positions
• Enable smooth cross-border collaboration with embedded translation that preserves legal nuance
• Complete due diligence review in hours, not weeks

This deployment will also include Cortex, Eudia's customizable enterprise AI framework. Through joint design sprints, Cortex will be trained and tuned to match Coherent's specific voice, policies, and legal processes—creating a legal knowledge environment that improves over time and scales with business priorities.

In the months ahead, new capabilities such as agent-based risk triage, real-time clause comparison, and live co-authoring will be released as part of Coherent's continued transformation into a fully AI-augmented legal organization.

A New Standard for Legal Transformation
This partnership builds on Eudia's recent expansion of its AI-Augmented Contracting group and onboarding of 300+ embedded legal professionals, all in support of in-house legal modernization. Together, these moves reinforce Eudia's core vision: that human expertise and machine learning, when integrated through a single in-house system, far outperform the traditional patchwork of external tools and fragmented workflows.

"This is what Eudia was built for," added Haroun. "High-stakes environments. End-to-end transformation. And legal leaders who aren't content with marginal gains—they want exponential ones. Coherent understands that driving legal innovation isn't about automating faster—it's about thinking smarter."

What's Next

As the partnership progresses, Eudia and Coherent will continue to co-develop next-generation capabilities—from intelligence unlocks and automated strategy mapping to legal ops integration with adjacent functions like procurement, compliance, and finance.

This isn't the future of legal—it's the now. Together, Eudia and Coherent are proving that with the right foundation, AI can do more than support legal teams—it can elevate them into critical centers of business intelligence, insight, and impact.

About Eudia
Eudia provides in-house legal teams with a unified AI platform and access to Eudia Counsel, an AI-native law firm purpose-built to support corporate legal transformation. Together, Eudia's platform and Eudia Counsel deliver scalable legal expertise, operationalize institutional knowledge, and reduce reliance on outside counsel. At the core is the Company Brain: a continuously learning intelligence system tailored to each customer, enabling faster decisions, greater consistency, and increased strategic impact. From contract acceleration and M&A to compliance, litigation, and regulatory insight, Eudia helps legal functions evolve from cost center to value driver. Platform solutions include AI-Augmented Contracting, M&A, Cortex, Sigma, and Insights. Eudia has raised over $100M from leading investors including General Catalyst, Sierra Ventures, and Floodgate. Its customers include DHL, Duracell, Cargill, Intuit, Citibank, Stripe, the U.S. Government, and many more. To learn more, visit www.eudia.com

About Coherent Corp.
Coherent is a global leader in materials, photonics, and optics technologies. Its commitment to innovation spans semiconductors, communications, sensing, and industrial applications—driving discovery and transformation at scale.

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