Common Paper release notes · Jun 2026
Common Paper announced broader API management for agreement templates and an updated Claude skill, plus a Gerri API with playbooks, flags, and redline workflows.
The SAFE for commercial contracts
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Common Paper is a remote-first, Philadelphia-based contract-tech / legaltech SaaS that helps revenue teams build, negotiate, sign, and manage commercial contracts using open-source standard agreements and AI negotiation agents, with a strong emphasis on making contracts programmatically accessible as APIs.
Primary product
Structured contract platform for building, negotiating, signing, and managing commercial contracts, now centered on the AI negotiation agent Gerri and API-accessible contract workflows.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
517 Spruce St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3707, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Contract lifecycle management / legal tech
Offices
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
freemium
enterprise custom pricing
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$5.1M
Latest round
Venture Round · Apr 2023
Latest amount
$500K
Apr 2023 · Y Combinator
Mar 2023
Mar 2022 · Boldstart Ventures / Uncork Capital
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-Founder and CTO
Senior Staff Designer
Head of Product
Work & culture
Remote-first and all-remote across the US, with explicit emphasis on employees showing up as their genuine selves and on building open-source, standards-based contract workflows.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium subscription pricing with per-user monthly tiers plus custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —Open-source standard contracts hosted publicly
- —Contracts treated as APIs with structured data
- —AI negotiation/redline agent (Gerri)
- —Network effects from standardized contracts
- —Committee-backed agreement standards
- —Programmatic access via API and MCP integrations
Technology
REST API
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Claude / Claude Code integration
GitHub-hosted open-source repos
Auth0
Salesforce integration
HubSpot integration
Slack integration
Vanta integration
Google Drive
Box
Dropbox
OneDrive
Okta / Active Directory / SAML
eSignature workflows
AI contract review agent (Gerri)
Open-source contract standards
Customers
Figma
Databand
ClickHouse
Crossbeam
Guru
strongDM
SurePath AI
Competitors
Ironclad
Juro
ContractWorks
Icertis
Agiloft
SpotDraft
Contractbook
Tomorro
LegalSifter
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1.7M ARR (2024 estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
44.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Common Paper release notes · Apr 2026
Common Paper shipped upgraded agreement search with sender/recipient, attachment, agreement-type, and template search plus advanced filters.
PR Newswire / IT News Online · Apr 2026
Common Paper announced Gerri 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI contract negotiation agent, claiming 10X faster processing, support for any contract type, a personality settings feature, and an optional attorney review add-on.
Common Paper release notes · Feb 2026
Common Paper released an official Claude skill, open-sourced on GitHub, to let Claude and other agents interact directly with the Common Paper REST API.
Common Paper release notes · Jul 2025
Common Paper launched Gerri, its AI agent for redline analysis, designed to review negotiated agreements against a user-defined playbook and return commented DOCX files.
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