A journey in legal tech product management, with Andy Wishart of Agiloft

In this episode, I talk to Andy Wishart, Chief Product Officer at Agiloft. We discuss his journey from studying AI and Psychology at University, co-founding ContractExpress and becoming an accidental product manager, to cracking the US market, selling the business to Thomson Reuters and starting the next chapter of his career with Agiloft in January 2021.

Topics of discussion

• AI in the late nineties
• The inception of ContractExpress / Business Integrity
• The importance of early development customers
• Cracking the US market and working in Silicon Valley
• The rise of legal operations
• Selling ContractExpress to Thomson Reuters in 2015
• Moving from a small company to a large corporate
• Hopes for the future of ContractExpress
• The accidental product leader
• Tips for budding product managers
• Why Agiloft is an exciting challenge
• The future of CLM with Agiloft