Partnerships are becoming increasingly common in the legal technology space, as are outside investments. But rarely does the former lead to the latter, which makes today’s announcement from DocuSign and Seal Software unique.

Today, agreement and e-signature company DocuSign announced it has invested $15 million in Seal Software, an artificial intelligence-based contract analytics and discovery solution. The deal, the companies said, is part of a move to facilitate deeper intelligence and AI capabilities into DocuSign’s Agreement Cloud suite of digital agreement products, launched earlier in March.