Icertis has acquired Dioptra in a move designed to accelerate an AI-first future for enterprise contracting and legal operations. The deal, announced on November 19, 2025, strengthens Icertis’ position in the contract lifecycle management market following the rollout of its Vera AI suite. By bringing Dioptra’s legal-centric capabilities into its platform, Icertis aims to turn every contract interaction into an intelligent, automated experience for corporate legal and business teams.
Advancing AI-First Contracting
The acquisition comes as more than 80 percent of C-suite leaders signal they are ready for AI agents to support contract negotiations, creating strong demand for trustworthy, domain-specific tools. Icertis is positioning its Contract Intelligence platform as the core system where contract data, AI models, and legal workflows converge to deliver that vision. Dioptra’s precision redlining and automated playbook creation technology plugs directly into this strategy, promising faster, more accurate contract operations at scale.
From Fragmented Data to Unified Contract Intelligence
Historically, enterprise contract data was scattered across an average of 24 systems, according to World Commerce & Contracting, making it difficult for legal and commercial teams to extract value from their agreements. Icertis has focused on consolidating this data into a single AI-powered platform that supports contract creation, negotiation, performance tracking, and risk management. With Dioptra integrated and powered by Vera, pre-signature agents can now automatically generate playbooks from existing contracts and conduct first-line reviews on new agreements, pushing enterprises closer to autonomous contracting.
Elevating Legal Team Productivity and Accuracy
Dioptra Co-founder Farah Gasmi noted that legal teams expect not only accuracy but also deep business context from their contract AI tools. Over the past two years, Dioptra has driven month-over-month adoption growth of about 40 percent by emphasizing reliability and legal-grade precision. By combining that track record with what Icertis CEO Anand Subbaraman describes as the “deepest contract context in the industry,” the merged offering is designed to give legal departments intuitive, context-rich AI they can trust.
Integrated Capabilities and Strategic Synergies
Founded by Pierre Arnoux, Farah Gasmi and Jacques Arnoux, Dioptra brings experience from organizations such as Spotify, IBM Watson and Yahoo, as well as academic roles at Columbia University. Its platform delivers AI-assisted playbook creation, agent-powered risk review, interactive “surgical” redlines aligned with bespoke playbooks, and one-click clause insertion from an integrated clause library in tools like Microsoft Word. These capabilities will sit within Icertis’ product and engineering organization, enriching the Vera roadmap and helping customers reduce legal workload, accelerate negotiations and minimize governance and compliance risk.
Icertis already partners with major technology providers such as SAP and Microsoft, leveraging its large contract data repository to build specialized AI agents that understand the intent and financial implications of agreements. Today, more than one third of Fortune 100 companies rely on Icertis to manage millions of customer, supplier and partner relationships across over 90 countries, using contract intelligence to grow revenue, control costs and mitigate risk. With Dioptra’s contract AI layer now part of its arsenal, Icertis is sharpening its pitch to legal departments as the vendor that can bridge innovation and governance, making contract AI both powerful and defensible while pushing the market toward truly AI-first, autonomous contracting.