Duracell cuts contracting time and cost 50% with governed…

Duracell cuts contracting time and cost 50% with governed Enterprise Brain

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50% reductionContracting Time & Cost

Vendor-reported figures — source: www.eudia.com

The Challenge

Expert legal judgment at Duracell was concentrated among top lawyers and not systematically available to the broader team. That left the legal function doing repetitive contracting work and dependent on a small set of subject-matter experts.

The Solution

Eudia built a custom ontology—the “Duracell Brain”—that encodes how Duracell’s best lawyers operate into a governed Expert Digital Twin. The Enterprise Brain makes that expert judgment available as self-service across the contracting workflow.

Results

Per Chief Legal & AI Officer Gary Hood, the team no longer spends time on repetitive contracting work. Duracell eliminated 50% of the time and cost associated with contracting.

Key Takeaways

- Encoding how top in-house lawyers actually decide—not generic AI—drives contracting efficiency
- A customer-specific ontology can turn scarce expert judgment into a shared enterprise asset
- Reducing repetitive contracting work can cut both cycle time and cost in parallel

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