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The SAFE for commercial contracts
Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. We create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These are analogous to the SAFE, but are between customers and vendors rather than investors and startups. The standardized format means that data within contracts is structured from inception. We build software for managing standard contracts, accelerating sales cycles, and making the data within the contracts programmatically accessible to other business systems. Tens of thousands of people have downloaded our standard contracts, and 63% of the contracts on our system close within 24 hours.
Common Paper powers contract collaboration, negotiation, signing, and billing for revenue teams. It provides AI-assisted negotiation and a single workflow to build templates, negotiate, sign, and manage contracts with tiered pricing.
Users create and manage contracts from standard templates, then leverage AI negotiation agents to negotiate, sign, and manage contracts within a unified workflow. The product includes contract creation from templates, integrated negotiation and e-signature, automated billing workflows, and storage/exports (PDF/DOCX) with options for branding, roles, and integrations (e.g., Google Drive/Box/Dropbox, and various SaaS integrations). Pricing tiers unlock features such as multiple users, custom branding, workflow automations, and API/integration capabilities; enterprise offers custom configurations and pricing.
Who it’s for: Revenue teams at growing startups and larger organizations seeking to standardize and automate contract creation, negotiation, signing, and billing.
Pricing page with multiple tiers and enterprise customization; product features include AI negotiation agent and integrations, indicating active product development and market traction.
CTO @ Common Paper. Formerly RJMetrics / Magento / Adobe / Betterment. Loves charts and Twin Peaks.
Jake Stein is co-founder and CEO of Common Paper. Previously, he was co-founder of RJMetrics (acquired by Magento, then Adobe) and Stitch (acquired by Talend). Before RJMetrics, Jake worked in venture capital, started a landscaping business in high school, and was the 44th ranked table tennis player under 21 in New Jersey; achievements of which he is equally proud.
Common Paper helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk.
Common Paper provides standardized, open-source software contracts (e.g., Design Partner Agreement, Mutual NDA, TOS, DPA) and a contract management platform for startups to automate negotiation and data access. It targets founders and GTM teams to shorten sales cycles, reduce legal costs and risk by using standard contracts and a data-driven toolkit.
From the original launch (Jan 2023) — may be outdated.
AI contract repository
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