Ep 39: Legal Process Orchestration: Sagi Eliyahu, CEO & Co-founder, Tonkean (w/ cohost Akshay Verma)

What is the role of tech in making legal and business teams work better together? How can process orchestration improve your intake process and seamlessly connect silos in your organization? And what is it like to build a tech company that serves legal professionals?  

Sagi Eliyahu, CEO and co-founder of Tonkean, didn’t set out to make a platform that automates and streamlines processes for lawyers. But focusing his startup’s point of view on elevating people over data allowed him to identify the issues that legal teams—some of the most people-centric and complex teams in an organization—need to resolve to do their work better, faster, and with more time to focus on solving problems.  

Hear Sagi discuss the meaning of process orchestration, his experience immigrating to the US and starting a tech-company, and where he thinks AI and machine learning are headed. And for the first time ever, Spotdraft COO Akshay Verma joins Tyler as co-host and draws upon his background in legal ops at Coinbase and Meta to contribute keen
insights into the conversation.  

Read detailed summary: https://www.spotdraft.com/podcast/episode-39   

Topics:
Introduction: 0:00
Understanding how the immigrant experience shapes your business acumen: 6:16
Founding Tonkean and focusing your sales efforts on legal: 15:13
Defining process orchestration and contrasting it with automation: 21:13
Working with customers to orchestrate processes: 26:26
Taking a pragmatic approach to using AI and machine learning: 36:44
Contemplating when data sets will be strong enough to give AI reliable judgment: 45:15
Book recommendations: 58:12
What you wish you had known as a young founder: 1:00:55

Connect with us:
Sagi Eliyahu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliyahusagi/  
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn
Akshay Verma - https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshay-verma-esq/  SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft  

SpotDraft is a leading CLM platform that solves your end-to-end contract management issues.
Visit https://www.spotdraft.com to learn more.