Corteva is Transforming Legal Operations with Onit’s AI and Intelligent Automation

Corteva Agriscience, a global leader in agriculture, faced increasing pressure to remain state-of-the-art in managing complex global compliance demands while maximizing legal operations efficiency. With a vast footprint and growing volumes of contracts, supplier engagements, and internal requests, Corteva’s Legal team needed a scalable solution to drive automation and elevate their strategic value across the organization.

Legacy tools, manual processes, and fragmented data were slowing progress and introducing risk. The team needed more than incremental improvements—they set out to transform Legal into a proactive, data-driven partner for the enterprise.

Corteva launched a multi-year Global Legal Transformation & Automation initiative, with Onit’s AI-native workflow automation platform as a central enabler. The program focused on reimagining service delivery through intelligent automation and AI, tightly integrated across Corteva’s legal and procurement ecosystems.

To ensure long-term success, Corteva also engaged Onit’s Managed Services team as a strategic partner. This partnership includes regular touchpoints to review product performance, align on priorities, and guide adoption best practices, ensuring Corteva continues to extract maximum value from the platform.

“The proactive partnership we’ve built through Managed Services has delivered consistent value. We aligned on a roadmap of key value drivers across our Onit solutions, and the Managed Services team helped us execute it.”

Key components included:

• Managed Services: Established a proactive, ongoing partnership that ensures product health, adoption, and strategic alignment. The Managed Services team meets regularly with Corteva to review system performance, support broader product engagement, and ensure continuous value realization across Onit solutions.
• AI-Native Chatbots: Branded as LISA, EVA, RIVA, LEVI, and SIVA, these multilingual virtual assistants address global legal and procurement queries in real-time. Designed and deployed in collaboration with Corteva’s internal Enterprise AI Center of Excellence, external consulting partners, and powered by Onit-connected data – the chatbots leverage Onit’s AI to surface policy answers, contract metadata, and supplier insights to instantly removing bottlenecks and reducing manual triage.
• Automated Digital Workflows: High-volume, repetitive tasks like extracting entity data, processing invoices, and migrating supplier records are now managed by digital solutions that integrate seamlessly with Onit and Corteva’s broader technology stack. This orchestration layer ensures consistency, scalability, and auditability across global processes.
• Generative AI Capabilities: In 2024, Corteva advanced its AI footprint with a generative AI assistant capable of interpreting and translating complex legal and procurement questions across multiple languages driving inclusivity, responsiveness, and standardization worldwide.
• Six-Stage Automation Roadmap: Together Corteva, Onit, and Corteva’s external consulting partners co-developed a structured roadmap to prioritize automation opportunities aligned to business impact, enabling ongoing innovation and continuous improvement.