At first glance, you may think Common Paper standard contracts are significantly different from what you’ve seen before. Standardization offers advantages over the traditional approach, where each company has its own bespoke template, and the standards are fully backward compatible with traditional contracts.

  I talk with a lot of founders of early-stage SaaS companies. They know that they need to have a contract in place with their customers, but they often get lost in the alphabet soup of NDAs, SLAs, DPAs, etc. They are focused on whatever it takes to close their first customers, and they are […]

As the lead designer at Common Paper, I love working with the visual elements that make our brand unique. But large background images can really hurt your load time. Here’s how we optimized ours.

I talk to a lot of founders about how much they hate contract negotiation. It slows down deals, increases costs, and adds compliance risks. When I tell them that I’m working on this problem, they’re often skeptical at first. Here’s how standard help your customers negotiate better.

TLDR: We just launched the standard Design Partner Agreement to help founders ground relationships with their earliest users and customers on solid footing. It’s free to download or use in our app.

We use the Common Paper Cloud Service Agreement as our Terms of Service, and it only took us an hour to make it happen. Here’s how.

Founder and CEO Jake Stein has seen a lot of negotiations across his career. Some good, some bad, and some very ugly.

There’s a buzzing conversation surrounding standards in commercial contracting. Who are standards for and why should attorneys care?

Drawing from her experience as in-house counsel at Uber and Lime, our Head of Legal Ecosystem Tiffany Bui LeTourneau weighs in on the “a-ha!” moments that took her from standards skeptic to true believer.

We believe in a world where contracts are APIs, and we’re building the platform to make it a reality. I’m delighted to announce the launch of our structured contract platform and open source Cloud Service Agreement. Plus, we raised a $4.5 million seed funding round from some incredible investors who share our vision.