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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.

laurenhallden • November 14, 2022

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 • October 26, 2022

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 • 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 • July 26, 2022

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 • June 13, 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 • June 1, 2022

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 • May 25, 2022

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 • March 1, 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 • February 7, 2022

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