Clause Encounters: How AI Is Rewriting the Legal Playbook with Eleanor Lightbody and Graham Sills

MIT EmTechAI - Cambridge MA: I had the opportunity to catch-up with a pioneer in the legal AI Agentic space on how their platform works and what the future holds for AI with contract and litigation work across the legal practice.  This conversation is with Eleanor Lightbody, CEO and Dr. Graham Sills, Co-Founder and Director of AI at Luminance. 

AI adoption in legal teams has surged from 19% to 79% in just one year, fundamentally changing the way law practices operate. AI is now automating contract drafting, streamlining routine tasks, and setting the stage for broader transformations in legal work. This discussion explores how AI is reshaping legal operations, enhancing efficiency, and unlocking new possibilities for legal teams to focus on higher-value work.

About Luminance:

Luminance’s proprietary Legal-Grade™ AI uses a mixture of experts approach to automate and augment every touchpoint a business has with its contracts.

Deployed via the cloud, Luminance works out-of-the-box to read and form a conceptual understanding of documents, labelling a range of key information and highlighting areas of risk or opportunity. From gaining an instant understanding of how incoming contracts meet compliance thresholds, to rapid AI-driven ECA capabilities, Luminance helps businesses and law firms understand their documents quickly.

Eleanor Lightbody is Chief Executive Officer at Luminance. She is a former Director at world-leading cyber AI company, Darktrace, where she founded and grew the company’s operations in Africa before assuming her role as the Global Head of the Darktrace Industrial Division. With a wealth of experience in scaling fast-growing technology businesses, Eleanor now oversees Luminance’s continued global expansion, having led the company’s $40 million Series B funding round in 2024. She was named in Management Today’s ‘35 Women under 35’ and sits on the Board of Directors for Luminance.

Graham Sills is the Co-Founder and Director of AI at Luminance, where he runs the R&D team and develops the AI underlying Luminance’s capabilities, applying a Mixture of Experts approach to ensure the platform harnesses the optimal and latest models to cater for all product needs. With a PhD in Computational Number Theory from Trinity College, Cambridge, he previously worked in AI research for a global FTSE 100 company and built augmented reality apps to track and augment objects in the real world. Applying this deep level of expertise, Graham developed the core algorithms and much of the mathematics behind Luminance’s AI.

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