Breaking Barriers: Bootcamps Build Hands-On Experience for Enterprises

Businesses know there’s a huge opportunity to leverage AI in the legal department. General Counsels and leadership teams recognize the opportunity, but security hurdles, procurement red tape, and skepticism slow the path to exploration and adoption.

AI has changed the way that businesses buy technology – there needs to be opportunities for businesses to try the technology to validate use case, not just sit through presentations and demos.

Recognizing these challenges, Robin AI developed a first-of-its-kind AI Bootcamp for senior in-house legal professionals. With a carefully curated agenda designed to maximize hands-on exploration of Legal AI in a risk-free environment, Robin AI's experts are laser-focused on setting teams up for success.

At Robin's AI Bootcamps, General Counsels and senior legal professionals are set up with laptops, test documents, full access to the technology and paired with AI and product experts from the Robin team.

Bringing together small groups of legal professionals to put Legal AI through its paces creates valuable opportunities for knowledge sharing, validating use cases, and developing a shared understanding of how to achieve the fastest time to value when deploying these tools in business.

Kicking off the year with two bootcamps hosted in London and New York set the scene for Robin AI’s 2025 agenda: demonstrating how Legal AI can be developed in businesses to build efficiency, automate manual tasks, and enhance employee experience.

Key Takeaways from our 2025 New Year Kick Off Bootcamps

Board approval to push forward with Legal AI is strong

General Counsels shared that they have strong backing from their boards and C-suite teams to invest in Legal AI this year to drive scalability in legal departments. At a time when headcount budgets remain tight, there is growing recognition of AI’s ability to create new opportunities for legal teams to better support the business. Effectively enabling business growth without continually increasing legal headcount remains a top priority.

AI presents opportunities to maximize ROI from other tech used in Legal

Many large enterprises have already invested in time-consuming, complex Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) implementations. The challenge is that these tools are ineffective without structured data, most of which remains trapped in unstructured legal documents and contracts. General Counsels saw an opportunity to leverage Robin AI’s Legal AI to extract and structure this data efficiently. With simple export formats like Excel, legal teams can seamlessly feed this data into CLMs, CRMs, or other systems. While some businesses without CLMs are considering bypassing them entirely in favor of AI-native tools like Robin AI, others are exploring how Robin’s platform can enhance their existing legal tech, eliminating manual data mapping and significantly reducing time investment.

M&A Due Diligence is a priority use case

As enterprises increasingly pursue acquisitions to expand product lines, enter new markets, and strengthen their competitive edge, M&A activity is on the rise. In-house legal teams, with their deep understanding of the business and its risks, are best positioned to lead due diligence efforts. However, they lack AI-powered technology to manage these processes at scale. M&A due diligence emerged as a common challenge among attendees, as it remains a costly task when relying solely on external counsel. There was broad agreement that tools like Robin AI can significantly reduce manual workloads, making it far more efficient to handle these exercises in-house.

Enabling the wider business to 'self-serve' legal data is powerful

Legal teams face increasing workloads with limited resources, often spending significant time responding to requests from other departments. AI presents two major opportunities to drive efficiency and deliver massive wins for legal teams. First, providing the legal department access to AI that can answer questions across contracts and documents in seconds, eliminating the need to manually soft through a ton of paperwork to get to an answer. Second, AI presents the opportunity for other business units like Finance, Sales, and Marketing to ‘self-serve,’ by that we mean getting those stakeholders access to the data so that they can answer their own questions.

AI also simplifies complex legal language in plain language, making information more accessible across teams. 'Self-serve' will be a powerful time unlock for the busy legal departments.

Change management requires clear vision

AI presents a wealth of opportunities for legal departments, but its vast potential can also feel overwhelming. With many ways Legal AI can enhance processes and workflows, getting teams on board requires careful planning, starting with the right first use cases. Unlike traditional projects with a clear beginning, middle, and end, AI adoption is an ongoing journey, with new use cases emerging over time. That’s why legal leadership must focus on use cases that deliver the fastest time to value, helping teams build confidence, adoption, and the skills needed to maximize AI’s impact.

“The deep dive into Robin AI’s capabilities was a great alternative to the usual product demo. Also appreciated the practical insights on how to deploy the LegalTech in a legal corporate, and a helpful overview of the state of AI for legal use cases more broadly. Great event!” – Kaj Rozga

Legal teams want AI, but they need to evaluate and validate its suitability for their specific use cases. Gaining wider team buy-in for AI investments and demonstrating quick returns to executives is crucial. AI must seamlessly integrate into existing workflows, enhance productivity, and deliver measurable results.

Robin AI is committed to meeting these needs by helping legal professionals explore, test, and identify the best opportunities for AI adoption. If you're interested in joining a future AI Bootcamp, get in touch at hello@robinai.com.

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