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Introducing the Common Paper API

In the first post on our blog we laid out our vision that contracts should be APIs. Today, we’re excited to announce an important step to making that vision a reality: the official release of the Common Paper API.

Benjamin Garvey • Updated September 14, 2023

The Anatomy of a Common Paper Standard

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.

Tiffany Bui LeTourneau • Updated March 15, 2023

SaaS Contracts – Which To Use And When

  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 […]

Jake Stein • Updated September 14, 2023

Speeding up Common Paper: Reducing Image Size by 99%

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.

Lauren Hallden • Updated September 14, 2023

Help Your Customers Negotiate Better

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.

Jake Stein • Updated September 14, 2023

How To Work With Design Partners

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.

Jake Stein • Updated September 8, 2022

The Impact of Accelerating Sales Cycles

There are a lot of blog posts with “10 simple tips to accelerate your sales cycle.” It seems obvious that shorter sales cycles are better, but the benefit goes far beyond pulling a few customers forward from next quarter into this one.

Jake Stein • Updated September 14, 2023

How to Draft Terms of Service for Product Led Growth

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.

Tiffany Bui LeTourneau • Updated September 27, 2022

My Best and Worst Contract Negotiations

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

Jake Stein • Updated September 14, 2023

The In-House Case for Contract Standards

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.

Tiffany Bui LeTourneau • Updated September 14, 2023

Meet Common Paper

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.

Jake Stein • Updated May 25, 2022

Contracts should be APIs

Contracts control trillions of dollars of economic activity. On a scale this big, even small inefficiencies on each individual contract would add up to billions of dollars of waste. Unfortunately, the inefficiencies in contracting are not small.

Jake Stein • Updated May 25, 2022

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