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Episode Synopsis
Today’s guests are Nicole Altman, Senior Counsel, and Kelly Noguchi, Senior Legal Technology and Operations Manager, at Instacart. They are helping shape how a public company’s legal team experiments with, adopts, and scales AI. Together, they show what innovation looks like when it is encouraged and operationalized.You’ll hear:– How Instacart Legal made AI exploration part of team and company-wide goals– Why curiosity and a learning mindset are the foundation for adoption– Real examples of tools like Contract Compass and Legal@ triage in action– How leadership and culture drive not only productivity but creativity– Why legal ops is critical for moving from early experiments to enterprise systemsNicole and Kelly reveal the human side of scaling legal with AI: the joy, the overwhelm, and the opportunities to lead change across the business.Follow Nicole & Kelly:@Nicole Altman on LinkedIn@Kelly Noguchi on LinkedInBooks, Authors & Thinkers Mentioned:– The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li– Radiolab podcast– More Perfect (Radiolab’s legal spinoff)Other References:– MIT study on AI adoption and productivity– Instacart’s “AI First” company initiative– Bolt hackathon (Contract Compass project)– Enterprise AI tools and internal chatbot (“Ava”)Follow us on all social platforms to get each new episode when it drops. @Cecilia Ziniti on LinkedIn @CeciliaZin on Twitter/X @GC AI on LinkedIn gc.ai website
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