Cargill turns contract data into institutional intelligence with Eudia’s Contract Insights

Clause-level answers across all contracts in ~5 minutes and a steady drumbeat of insights help elevate legal as a strategic function

23K

Documents Ingested

Across SharePoint, email, and disparate repositories

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10+

Insights per Week

Shared to teams that need them

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~5

Minutes to surface insights across 230+ contracts

Deforestation clause request that was previously impossible

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The Old Rule

“Modernizing legal" meant strapping on tools: implement a CLM that lawyers refuse to use, add point solutions that don't talk to each other, automate what you can while the real knowledge rots in SharePoint, and wrap million-dollar software around processes that aren't working. Adoption lagged, and the work rarely compounded; a typical contract still required someone to dig through folders and past deals for judgment. Legal stayed buried under requests and still looked slow, even after the “modernization.”

The prevailing belief: more features equals more transformation. Cargill challenged that premise when it saw that most of its institutional knowledge wasn’t living in any single system—and therefore wasn’t working for the business.

The Ah-ha Moment

Cargill reframed the target from “manage contracts” to own institutional intelligence. Instead of another CLM push, the team stood up a company brain that is unique to Cargill and powers Contract Insights—a search layer for judgment that structures contract history, clause language, decisions, and risk posture across repositories. Our team ingested and normalized historical contracts, benchmarked clauses, captured playbooks, and tagged issues so knowledge could be retrieved in natural language—with full clause and context in seconds, not days. The value snapped into focus during a real fire drill: an urgent ESG request (“Where do we have deforestation clauses across all of our contracts today?”) that would normally trigger a firm handoff or calendar-breaking scramble was answered in under 10 minutes with jurisdiction-level clause results—no disruption, no guesswork.

“We’re actually solving for problems… the insights generate real value for the business.”

Rishi Varma

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

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The New Belief

Legal's job isn't to collect tools that lawyers won't use or perpetually rent their own knowledge back from law firms; it's to compound knowledge internally and answer the business at speed. With Eudia Insights and the company brain in place, response time drops while confidence rises: attorneys reuse positions and clause context instead of re-researching them, and stakeholders get decision-ready outputs instead of document dumps. The operating model keeps humans where judgment matters and automates the repetitive retrieval and comparison work. Because matter intelligence is captured once and reused everywhere, Cargill saw research time fall by ~50% and a steady drumbeat of 10+ topic-driven insights per week (e.g., tariffs, price escalation) elevating Legal from reactive service to an enterprise signal generator for Finance, Operations, and Risk.

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The Future

Cargill is expanding the brain across high-value workflows—commercial, compliance, and regulatory—so repeat questions become repeatable capabilities instead of repeatable billables. CLM remains a system of record where marginally useful, but the brain becomes the system of understanding: cross-repository search, clause-level context, and issue tagging that travel with each matter. As coverage grows, fire drills become routine wins, insights become predictable, and leadership treats Legal as the operating blueprint for how to scale institutional judgment across the enterprise (Finance, Ops, HR). The budget story improves too: by funding Eudia from services spend and avoiding heavy new software rollouts, Cargill gains speed and leverage without the typical “pilot → rebuild → reintegrate” detours.