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.
Active Founders
Benjamin Garvey
Founder
CTO @ Common Paper. Formerly RJMetrics / Magento / Adobe / Betterment. Loves charts and Twin Peaks.
Benjamin Garvey
Founder
CTO @ Common Paper. Formerly RJMetrics / Magento / Adobe / Betterment. Loves charts and Twin Peaks.
Jake Stein
Founder
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.
Jake Stein
Founder
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.
More than 10,000 companies have used Common Paper to close deals over the past few years. While the standards have helped, we keep hearing how painful the redline process is. The root cause is that contract negotiation is a team sport, but most tools are built for one player.
Most teams end up in one of two camps:
Every redline goes to the attorney, which is expensive and slows deals down
Redlines get triaged first, usually by someone in sales or ops, and contracts are one of 10 things they have on their plate
What's missing is a system where AI does the first read, loops in the right people when needed, and pulls all of their feedback into a new draft that can be sent back to the other side.
That's Gerri.
How it works:
Contracts get into Gerri three ways: upload, forwarded email, or direct inbox scanning. From there:
Gerri reads every redline against your playbook and automatically accepts, rejects, or counterproposes anything it can handle
Anything outside the playbook gets routed to the right person. That might be legal for indemnity questions, finance for payment terms, VP of Sales for commercial terms, etc.
Every AI decision cites the specific playbook rule behind it; every human override is logged
Gerri edits the Word doc directly and can add comments in your name, explaining the reasoning to the other side
Gerri typically reviews contracts before you even know they've arrived. You'll open your inbox, see a contract, and find it's already been handled.
What's new in 2.0:
10X faster processing engine. 90% of contracts reviewed in under 3 minutes.
Any contract type: your paper, their paper, standard or custom agreements
Personality Settings: set custom instructions that guide Gerri's behavior across all contracts, without editing individual playbook rules
Template Improvement: Gerri analyzes your negotiation history and suggests changes to your outgoing templates that proactively reduce future redlines. The more you use it, the smarter your paper gets.
Optional attorney review add-on: flat fee, 4-hour turnaround guarantee, for when you need a human in the loop
Available as a standalone product at getgerri.ai - No other Common Paper subscription required