T

The Brief:

- Common Paper is helping startups close deals faster and with less risk.

- CEO & Co-Founder: Jake Stein

- CTO & Co-Founder: Benjamin Garvey

- Investors: Y Combinator (W23)

- History: Just Launched

Launch YC: 📃 Common Paper - Faster sales with standard contracts & structured data 📃

Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. Founded by Jake Stein and Benjamin Garvey, who met while working together at a BI startup called RJMetrics, the company offers a solution to the unpredictable delays, high legal bills, and limited visibility that often plague contract negotiations.

Image Credits: Common Paper

‎To address these issues, Common Paper developed a series of standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These contracts, which are analogous to the SAFE but are designed for use between customers and vendors, provide a standardized format that structures data from the outset.

Image Credits: Common Paper

In addition to its contracts, Common Paper also offers software for managing standard contracts and accelerating sales cycles. This software also makes the data within the contracts programmatically accessible to other business systems.

To date, thousands of people have downloaded Common Paper's standard contracts, and 63% of the contracts on the company's platform close within 24 hours. If you're a startup looking for a more efficient way to close deals, consider giving Common Paper a try.

Posted 
March 14, 2025
 in 
Launch
 category
← Back to all posts  

Join Our Newsletter and Get the Latest
Posts to Your Inbox

No spam ever. Read our Privacy Policy
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.