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Our Story & Leadership

Commercial Intelligence.
Built from the Ground Up.

Leah unifies contract lifecycle management, legal operations, and source-to-pay automation into a single agentic system. We spent a decade inside the hardest commercial category. Then we built what comes next, not AI layered on software, but an AI-native system designed from scratch for autonomous execution.

Our Story

A Decade Inside the Category.
Then We Rewrote It.

Most companies saw AI arrive and bolted it onto the software they already had. We spent ten years inside the hardest commercial category β€” then built what only we could see was needed.

Founded2012

We Entered the Deep End

We did not start from the outside looking in. We founded ContractPodAi and went deep into enterprise legal, contracting, and procurement, serving Fortune 500 teams at scale from day one.

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Scale2015 to 2020

A Decade at the Forefront of CLM

We scaled contract lifecycle management across some of the world's most complex commercial operations. Legal, contracts, and procurement were not domains we studied. They were domains we operated inside, every day.

The Insight2021

We Saw the Ceiling from Inside

We watched AI get layered onto existing systems and fail at the same point every time: the human handoff. Every approval queue. Every step that required a person to move work forward. Adding AI on top does not remove those steps. It only makes them faster.

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The Decision2022 to 2023

We Started Over

We had the conviction and the domain knowledge to do things differently. Not AI layered on SaaS. Not a smarter CLM. A native agentic system with orchestration as the architecture, built from scratch for autonomous execution.

Today2024 onward

Leah: The Autonomous Enterprise

Legal. Contracting. Procurement. One connected commercial system, executing end to end without manual handoffs. Leah is AI-native by design, built on a decade of domain expertise that few competitors can match.

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We were the only company with the depth to see the problem and the conviction to rebuild from the ground up. That is our right to win.

Our Mission

We Are Powering the Autonomous Enterprise of the Future.

Leah's mission is to run entire commercial functions, not just assist them. The platform was designed from the start to scale agentic commercial intelligence to any function, any process, and any future need.

The Team

Leah's Leadership Team

Leah brings together founders with a track record of category creation and a leadership team with decades of experience in legal technology, AI, and commercial operations.

Sarvarth Misra
Sarvarth Misra
Co-Founder & CEO
Robert Glennie
Robert Glennie
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Viraj Chaudhary
Viraj Chaudhary
Co-Founder & COO
Anurag Malik
Anurag Malik
President & CTO
Umang Jain
Umang Jain
EVP, Technology & Product Management
Deirdre Leone
Deirdre Leone
Chief Customer Officer
Tanja Podinic
Tanja Podinic
Chief Innovation Officer
James Thomas
James Thomas
Chief AI Officer
Michael Thome
Michael Thome
EVP, Global Sales
Rokisha Lewis
Rokisha Lewis
Chief Human Resources Officer
Anna Burke
Anna Burke
Chief Marketing Officer
Our Right to Win

What Sets Leah Apart.

Leah delivers interconnected commercial intelligence across legal, contracts, procurement, finance and beyond. This is not AI on SaaS. Leah combines a decade domain depth and a native agentic architecture to deliver a single commercial system that spans the enterprise.

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Heritage

Domain Expertise Across Commercial Operations

We did not learn legal, contracting, and procurement from the outside. We operated at the forefront of enterprise CLM for more than a decade. That knowledge β€” what data flows, what context must be shared, what governance needs to be native β€” is foundational to every decision we made with Leah.

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Architecture

Native AI, Not AI Layered on Top of SaaS

Orchestration is not a feature. It is the architecture. You cannot retrofit it. Competitors that have tried to bolt orchestration onto existing systems have hit the same wall. Leah was designed with orchestration as the foundation, enabling true domain depth, agentic workflows, and specialized skills working together.

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Integration

One Commercial System, Not Three Products

Legal, contracts, and procurement have always operated in silos. Leah connects them as one agentic system with shared context and shared intelligence, acting across all three at the same time. This is the third era of enterprise software: not systems of record, not systems of workflow, but systems of execution.

Why It Matters

What Agentic Commercial Intelligence Actually Delivers.

Most platforms ship one or two of the capabilities below. Leah ships all three, because the architecture supports it and the domain heritage informed it.

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Agentic Apps With Real Execution

Not demos. Not copilots. Production applications where domain agentic execution is the engine, with legal, contracting, and procurement running as one connected system without manual steps in between.

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Specialized Domain Agents, Not Generalist AI

Horizontal AI makes individuals faster. Leah deploys specialized domain agents with legal, contracting, and procurement expertise embedded, working in parallel with shared context across every decision.

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Skills-Based Orchestration as the Architecture

The orchestration layer coordinates every agent, domain, and outcome, end to end. It adapts when processes change and stays governed, auditable, and traceable from trigger to outcome. Built this way from day one.

What Drives Us

Conviction. Depth. Execution.

Three things drive how we build. Conviction that native AI is the only architecture that enables true autonomous execution. Depth that can only come from a decade inside the most complex commercial domains. Execution measured not by features shipped, but by functions run.

We are building the third era of enterprise software. Not a better CLM. Not a smarter copilot. The system that actually does the commercial work, end to end, at scale, without humans in every loop.

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Heritage Is the Moat

Our ten years in enterprise CLM is not a footnote. It is the reason Leah exists and the reason our architectural choices make sense.

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Architecture Is the Bet

Native agentic, not AI on SaaS. Orchestration built in from day one. There is no retrofit path for systems that were not.

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Scale Is the Ambition

Any commercial function. Any process. Any future need. The platform was designed for this from the start.

Our Partners

Leah works with global professional services firms, international law firms, and technology partners to deploy agentic commercial intelligence at enterprise scale.

KPMG
PwC
Morae
Pinsent Masons
Epiq
QuisLex
Integreon
LegalEase
Bowmans
Cloud Business
Execo
Vyapi
Industry Recognition

Leah has been recognized by independent analysts, industry bodies, and customer review platforms for its agentic solutions.

Gartner CLM Visionary
Stevie Awards Gold Winner 2025
Globee Awards Gold Technology 2025
LegalTech Breakthrough Award 2025
SpendMatters Validated 2025
G2 Leader Winter 2026
G2 Americas Leader
G2 Mid-Market Americas Leader
G2 Easiest To Use
G2 Easiest To Do Business With
G2 Best Support
G2 Most Likely To Recommend
G2 Most Likely To Recommend Mid-Market
G2 High Performer
Gartner CLM Visionary
Stevie Awards Gold Winner 2025
Globee Awards Gold Technology 2025
LegalTech Breakthrough Award 2025
SpendMatters Validated 2025
G2 Leader Winter 2026
G2 Americas Leader
G2 Mid-Market Americas Leader
G2 Easiest To Use
G2 Easiest To Do Business With
G2 Best Support
G2 Most Likely To Recommend
G2 Most Likely To Recommend Mid-Market
G2 High Performer
Gartner CLM Visionary
Stevie Awards Gold Winner 2025
Globee Awards Gold Technology 2025
LegalTech Breakthrough Award 2025
SpendMatters Validated 2025
G2 Leader Winter 2026
G2 Americas Leader
G2 Mid-Market Americas Leader
G2 Easiest To Use
G2 Easiest To Do Business With
G2 Best Support
G2 Most Likely To Recommend
G2 Most Likely To Recommend Mid-Market
G2 High Performer
At a Glance

Leah, at a Glance

Company
Leah (formerly ContractPodAi)
Category
Agentic AI for commercial intelligence
Founded
2012
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Reach
Enterprise customers in 40+ countries
Built for
Legal, contracting, procurement, finance and other commercial teams
Team
Led by co-founders Sarvarth Misra, Robert Glennie, and Viraj Chaudhary
Platform
Leah Agentic OS

Got Questions? Get Answers.

Who is Leah?
Leah is an agentic legal operations and contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that automates contract review, approvals, and renewals for enterprise legal, contracting, and procurement teams. Leah was formerly known as ContractPodAi and is a product of ContractPod Technologies Limited.
When was Leah founded?
Leah was founded in 2012 as ContractPodAi. The company rebranded to Leah in 2026 to reflect its shift from a CLM platform to a native agentic system for commercial operations across legal, contracting, and procurement.
Is Leah the same company as ContractPodAi?
Yes. Leah is the rebranded name for ContractPodAi. The company, team, product lineage, and customers are the same. The new name reflects the platform’s evolution from contract lifecycle management to agentic commercial intelligence.
Where is Leah headquartered?
Leah is headquartered at 2 Kingdom Street, 2nd Floor, London W2 6BD, United Kingdom. The company operates globally, with customers across more than 40 countries.
Who leads Leah?
Leah is led by co-founders Sarvarth Misra (CEO), Robert Glennie (Executive Director), and Viraj Chaudhary (COO), alongside Anurag Malik (President and CTO) and a leadership team spanning product, AI, customer, marketing, sales, and people functions.
Who does Leah serve?
Leah serves enterprise legal, contracting, and procurement teams, with customers across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, pharma, and energy. The platform is used by Fortune 500 legal operations teams.
How is Leah different from traditional CLM software?
Traditional CLM software is built around workflow and requires a human at every decision point. Leah is built around orchestration and domain agents, which means it can execute multi-step commercial work (legal review, approvals, procurement tasks) without a person moving each step forward.
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