By Matt Perez | 2025-09-18 15:38:33 -0400 · 

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Coherent Corp., a Pennsylvania-based tech company that specializes in manufacturing materials, networking components and lasers, announced Thursdaya new partnership with California-based legal artificial intelligence startup Eudia.

Through the new partnership, Coherent will unify its entire in-house legal function through Eudia's product Sigma, a suite that augments artificialintelligence agents, according to the announcement. Eudia's platform, launched in 2023, is designed to help in-house legal teams leverage their institutionalknowledge and AI to help them get work done faster and remove repetitive tasks.

"Our partnership with Eudia represents the next phase in how legal services are delivered," Rob Beard, Coherent's chief legal officer, said in a statementThursday. "Eudia's exclusive focus on in-house teams — and its ability to integrate company knowledge into a unified platform — made it the clear choiceto help us move from reactive support to proactive leadership."

Through the new partnership, Coherent legal staff will be able to search contracts, precedent, and past deals with natural language; accelerate executive andboard-level reporting and decision-making; draft, redline, and negotiate documents; and provide translation services for cross-border collaboration,according to the release. 

The partnership will include deployment of Cortex, Eudia's customizable enterprise AI framework, which will be trained to match Coherent's specificvoice, policies, and legal processes. Coherent will soon be able to access agent-based risk triage, real-time clause comparison, and live co-authoring,according to Thursday's release.

"Coherent is showing the entire industry what a legal function can become when it's built on one unified platform," said Eudia chief executive OmarHaroun. "Coherent understands that driving legal innovation isn't about automating faster — it's about thinking smarter."

Eudia exited stealth in February and subsequently announced a raise of up to $105 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm GeneralCatalyst. The startup also launched a law firm in Arizona earlier this year purpose-built to support corporate legal transformation.

--Additional reporting by Sarah Martinson. Editing by Linda Voorhis.