Docusign Launches Agreement AI App for ChatGPT, Taps Ex-UiPath CPO

How Docusign Iris Powers the Experience

Behind the new app is Docusign Iris, the company's purpose-built AI engine for the agreement lifecycle . Iris is trained on over 20 years of anonymized, real-world agreement data and powers capabilities ranging from AI-assisted review and redlining to obligation management and agentic automation .

In the ChatGPT and Codex integration, Iris enables the app to understand the nuances of contract language, enforce company standards, and deliver AI-driven insights at each step—from drafting to execution .

Use Cases Across Departments

With the Docusign app for OpenAI, teams in legal, sales, HR, procurement, and beyond can perform a wide range of agreement-related tasks using conversational prompts :

• Draft and generate contracts, purchase orders, and leases from standard templates
• Analyze and review agreement content for risks, obligations, and compliance issues
• Manage workflows by triggering contract renewals, reviews, and approvals
• Uncover insights from agreement portfolios and surface key terms and deadlines

For example, a user could ask ChatGPT to "Draft a residential lease for a one-year house rental in Dallas using our standard template" or "Create a purchase order for ten 50-pound bags of flour from our supplier and send it for signature" .

Docusign's Broader AI-First Strategy

The ChatGPT and Codex app is the latest step in a sustained AI-first push from Docusign. In February 2026, the company partnered with Anthropic to bring IAM capabilities into Claude Cowork, enabling contract creation and management through natural language in Anthropic's collaborative AI workspace . At its Discover 2025 developer event, Docusign rolled out a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in beta, connecting IAM to tools like GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio .

Docusign has also introduced its own AI assistant and purpose-built AI contract agents designed to accelerate contract review, automate follow-ups, and manage agreements across departments . The company says these agentic tools help teams close deals faster, hire more efficiently, and reduce risk by connecting contract workflows across the business .

Graham Sheldon Joins as Chief Product Officer

On the same day as the OpenAI app launch, Docusign appointed Graham Sheldon as Chief Product Officer, with a start date of July 6, 2026 .

Sheldon brings two decades of product leadership experience from both Microsoft and UiPath. At UiPath, he led the company's agentic transformation, evolving its platform from rule-based robotic process automation toward goal-directed, AI-powered automation . Docusign explicitly framed the hire as a move to accelerate its Intelligent Agreement Management vision and strengthen execution around its AI-focused product strategy .

In his new role, Sheldon will oversee product development, design, and user research, reporting structures that signal Docusign is placing its AI ambitions directly at the center of its product organization .

What the Combined Announcements Mean

The dual announcements illustrate that Docusign sees the future of agreements as agentic, multi-platform, and embedded directly into the places people already work. By launching an app for ChatGPT and Codex while simultaneously bringing in a CPO with deep agentic automation expertise, Docusign is signaling that its AI strategy will go well beyond simple contract analysis—it intends to let AI agents actively execute agreement workflows across business functions.