Common Paper
Standard agreements and contract platform for faster B2B deals
4.4Free; paid plansBest for Portfolio companies speeding up sales contracts; funds standardizing NDAs
Standard Agreements Contracts Open Source
Overview
Common Paper publishes free, open-source standard agreements — mutual NDAs, Cloud Service Agreements, DPAs, design partner and pilot agreements — drafted with input from a large committee of technology lawyers, plus a platform for sending, negotiating, and signing them. VCs recommend it to portfolio companies to compress sales-contracting cycles, and use its standard NDAs in their own deal flow.
Key features
- Open-source standard agreements (NDA, CSA, DPA, pilot, design partner)
- Structured cover-page format separating business terms from legal boilerplate
- Send, negotiate, and e-sign contracts on platform
- Contract tracking and repository
- Standards maintained with a committee of technology lawyers
Pros
- Standardization genuinely shortens negotiation cycles
- Free templates are high quality and widely accepted
- Cover-page structure makes terms legible to non-lawyers
Cons
- Standards are strongest for B2B SaaS contracting, narrower elsewhere
- Counterparties unfamiliar with the format sometimes redline from scratch anyway