As a result of a recent transaction between Neudesic, LLC and ikaun Inc., the Unika team is proud to announce that we have officially changed our company name to ikaun (pronounced “icon”). You may be asking yourself why we would do such a thing. We asked the same question, and we’re pretty excited about the answer.
Why we changed our name
Unika.ai has operated under its name for the past year, seeing rapid growth since its initial launch. Neudesic, LLC has common members but is not the parent company of ikaun Inc. Neudesic will support ikaun through a shared services relationship. While ikaun Inc. is a wholly independent business entity, ikaun will have the benefit of Neudesic’s financial backing and an army of technology consultants that provide ikaun unmatched ability to customize our solution to meet your organizational needs. As the product evolved to be a technology leader in the legal services space, we anticipated potential trademark issues, and more importantly, we believed that owning a .com domain was required to validate our position in the market.
Ikaun now houses an entire suite of legal technology products, including The Firm Directory, Research Directory, and Pulse. Each of these products were previously owned and operated by our team under Neudesic’s umbrella. With ikaun’s official launch, the suite of products is now a wholly independent business entity.
Why your firm should use ikaun
The legal services industry is rapidly changing, forcing firms to adapt or lose to their competition. The most successful firms are delivering a better customer experience and improving business development’s win-rate with the help of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and experience management platforms to gain a competitive advantage. For a law firm to be successful in today’s market, they must make their experience easily discoverable, reusable, and sharable by business development and fee earners.
We spent over a decade working with members of the legal industry to uncover common challenges with business development, marketing, and knowledge management professionals. Ikaun was born as a direct result of what we discovered, with the goal of delivering a world-class experience management platform for the legal services industry.
Our mission is to create an ever-evolving knowledge set of experience that modernized knowledge management through the ability to maintain current knowledge analytics and easily reuse knowledge when cross-selling, staffing, and generating pitches and proposals. Ikaun offers a unique solution for streamlining how experience is discovered, shared, and reused within law firms.
Does ikaun mean something?
To us it does. I is for Intelligence, intellectual and integrated…client intelligence, matter intelligence, firm intelligence, intellectual property. Ikaun also represents artificial intelligence which is a key differentiator in our technology offering. K is for knowledge including knowledge management, knowledge harvesting, and knowledge sharing. A is for assistance, advice and automation, and automatic. UN is for understanding, unified and unique.
So ikaun is:
integrated knowledge, automating and assisting understanding.
AI-Powered Co-Authoring
ikaun transforms the RFP and proposal process by leveraging AI to generate firm-branded, client-ready proposals in minutes. By intelligently reusing past responses and ensuring consistent messaging, it significantly reduces manual effort while improving win rates.
Intelligent Proposal Automation
With powerful document automation, ikaun enables firms to generate proposals, pitches, and legal submissions using dynamic, branded templates. Conditional logic, real-time data mapping, and seamless CRM integration ensure that ever document is accurate, compliant, and on-brand.
Experience Capture
ikaun serves as a centralized structured repository for firm knowledge, allowing teams to store, organize, and access critical business information efficiently. Customizable data fields, robust search, and automation rules ensure information remains accurate and easy to retrieve.
CVs and Biographies
ikaun captures and structures firm-wide experience, enabling teams to showcase expertise efficiently. Integrated attorney biographies and matter profiling provide instant access to relevant credentials, improving business development and cross-selling opportunities.
Award Submissions
Automating the directory submission process, ikaun collects relevant case studies, manages referee tracking, and formats entries to meet the exacting standards of legal ranking bodies. This reduces submission time while ensuring law firms present a compelling and competitive profile.
Seamless System Integrations
ikaun integrates with essential firm systems, including CRM, billing, experience databases, and marketing tools. Whether pulling structured data for proposal automation or pushing updates to a firm's website, ikaun ensures data flows seamlessly across the organization, eliminating redundancy and manual updates.