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 systems
Nicole 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 LinkedIn
Books, 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”)
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