# commonpaper.com

> AI-optimized mirror of commonpaper.com containing 55 pages totalling 53,006 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://commonpaper.com/. Last updated: 2026-04-20T03:31:30.146Z.

Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG).

## Homepage

- [Trusted by:](/site-root.html): Common Paper powers contract collaboration, negotiation, signing, and billing for revenue teams. Build trusted templates using our standard agreements, then leverage AI agents to negotiate, sign, and manage your contracts in a single workflow. Sign up for free (123 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Meet the Committee](/committee/index.html): Each of our standard agreements is built by the Common Paper Committee, a group of in-house and law firm counsel passionate about helping tech companies speak the same language through open standards for commercial transactions. (436 words)
- [Review less, close more.](/product/ai-agent/index.html): Gerri, our AI negotiation agent, reviews and responds to markup automatically—so you can close faster with less back-and-forth. Automate your redlines (444 words)
- [Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement](/standards/mutual-nda/index.html): Use the Mutual NDA with industry-standard terms, created by a committee of 40 experienced attorneys. Download PDF or Word for free and get to agreement faster. (3,649 words)
- [Jake Stein](/blog/author/jakecommonpaper/index.html): Jake Stein is the Co-founder and CEO of Common Paper. He’s worked in B2B software sales for over 15 years, first as co-founder and COO of RJMetrics (acquired by Magento, now part of Adobe) and then as co-founder and CEO of Stitch (acquired by Talend, where he was SVP of Growth). Jake has raised multiple rounds of venture capital funding and is a Ycombinator alum. (1,107 words)
- [Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement](/standards/index.html): Common Paper standard agreements have been downloaded more than 40,000 times and used to close millions of dollars in deals. They are created and maintained by a committee of expert attorneys and released for free under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License. (601 words)
- [blog/speeding-up-common-paper-reducing-image-size-by-99/index.html](/blog/speeding-up-common-paper-reducing-image-size-by-99/index.html) (1 words)
- [release-notes/index.html](/release-notes/index.html) (1 words)
- [Overview](/blog/saas-contracts/index.html): Founders can get lost in the alphabet soup of NDAs, SLAs, DPAs, etc. Learn how your go-to-market model, stage, and industry determine the right contracts to use (2,054 words)
- [Overview](/blog/help-your-customers-negotiate-better/index.html): 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. (1,331 words)
- [Template LOI](/blog/what-is-an-loi/index.html): An LOI, or Letter of Intent, is a document that describes a plan to work together in the future. LOIs are informal and non-binding. Free template and tips (1,395 words)
- [blog/category/uncategorized/index.html](/blog/category/uncategorized/index.html) (1 words)
- [Overview](/blog/design-partner/index.html): 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. (1,677 words)
- [Overview](/blog/my-best-and-worst-contract-negotiations/index.html): Founder and CEO Jake Stein has seen a lot of negotiations across his career. Some good, some bad, and some very ugly. (1,307 words)
- [Overview](/blog/choosing-the-right-contract/index.html): Welcome to "Making Legal Your Superpower", a series designed to help you rethink your relationship with legal teams—whether you’re working with in-house counsel or outside advisors. We’ll cover everything from picking contracts to common pitfalls and how to build a strong partnership with your legal team. Although I am not your lawyer, I am a (1,245 words)
- [Overview](/blog/network-effects-contracts/index.html): Standard contracts have a powerful network effect, and we’re seeing it in action at Common Paper. Thousands of companies have signed contracts on our platform, and, on average, repeat recipients sign 52% faster than first-timers. As more companies review and sign the standard agreements, the odds get better for our users that the next contract (1,205 words)
- [Overview](/blog/baa-agreement/index.html): The Business Associate Agreement is one of the least-well-understood contracts that we deal with, and one of the most common questions we get is about the Underlying Agreement. I’m writing this post to help explain what you need to know about BAAs and how the underlying agreement is handled in Common Paper. The Basics: BAAs (768 words)
- [Overview](/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-common-paper-standard/index.html): At first glance, you may think Common Paper standard contracts are significantly different from what you’ve seen before. Standardization offers advantages over the traditional approach, where each company has its own bespoke template, and the standards are fully backward compatible with traditional contracts. (830 words)
- [Standard Contract Protections](/blog/responsibility-for-customer-actions-in-contracts/index.html): Software products can be used in a wide variety of contexts. While the vast majority of customers are honest, some might use your product in a shady way. It’s natural for a vendor to ask "What happens if customers use our product for illegal activities?" Let's break down how your contract can protect you and (1,108 words)
- [Cloud Service Agreement](/standards/cloud-service-agreement/add-customer-data-access-and-sharing-rights-under-eu-data-act.html): Overview The EU Data Act came into effect in September 2025 and is designed to make data generated by connected products and related services more accessible and fairly shared between businesses and the users who generate the data. It applies to manufacturers and suppliers of connected products and related services, including providers of cloud services, (604 words)
- [Introducing our structured contract platform, open source standards, and the seed funding to make it all happen.](/blog/meet-common-paper/index.html): 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. (830 words)
- [Overview](/blog/how-to-draft-terms-of-service-for-product-led-growth.html): 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. (593 words)
- [Sample language](/standards/software-license-agreement/right-to-terminate-for-convenience-after-set-time-period.html): Sample language Written to work with Common Paper standard agreements. Right to terminate for convenience after set time period Software License Agreement version: 1 Add as Section 4.3(c): “after the first { 12 months } of the Agreement for any reason or no reason by giving the other party { 45 } days prior notice.” (157 words)
- [Overview](/blog/avoiding-common-negotiation-pitfalls/index.html): In our previous Making Legal Your Superpower posts, we explored how to choose the right contract and the power of starting negotiations from a balanced position. Today, we're tackling a challenge that every business faces: the pitfalls that can delay or derail even the most promising negotiations. As someone who has seen thousands of negotiations (912 words)
- [Overview](/blog/understanding-the-limitation-of-liability-clause/index.html): Liability limits, or caps, are one of the most frequently negotiated terms in contracts. Whether you're dealing with a widely used standard like the Cloud Service Agreement (CSA) or a bespoke contract that was written for a single deal, understanding how the limitation of liability works is crucial for vendors, customers, and other contract stakeholders. (1,062 words)
- [Sample language](/standards/software-license-agreement/permit-assignment-to-any-affiliate/index.html): Sample language Written to work with Common Paper standard agreements. Permit assignment to any Affiliate Software License Agreement version: 1 Replace the second sentence of Section 10.6 with: “However, either party may assign this Agreement upon notice to an Affiliate, or if the assigning party undergoes a merger, change of control, reorganization, or sale of (172 words)
- [**Data in and data out**](/blog/contracts-should-be-apis/index.html): 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. (1,025 words)
- [Overview](/blog/how-to-change-a-standard-contract/index.html): It might seem counterintuitive to see a guide to modifying standard agreements on this blog. After all, a key feature of the Common Paper standards is consistency – the committee designed them to be applicable across many different companies and situations, and they are. This is a consideration for all standards, and different agreements handle (873 words)
- [Overview](/blog/impact-of-accelerating-sales-cycles/index.html): 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. (1,208 words)
- [Overview](/blog/introducing-the-common-paper-api/index.html): In the first post on our blog we laid out our vision that contracts should be APIs. Today, we’re excited to announce an important step to making that vision a reality: the official release of the Common Paper API. (831 words)
- [Overview](/blog/streamlining-contract-negotiations-tactics-for-success.html): If you have a child under 10, you almost certainly know all about balance bikes. If you’re unfamiliar, a balance bike is stripped of pedals, brakes, gears, streamers, baskets, etc. We used to teach kids to ride by taking a regular bike and adding training wheels—which is how I learned. It turns out that the (816 words)
- [Moving faster in open source at Uber](/blog/the-in-house-case-for-contract-standards/index.html): 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. (908 words)
- [Overview](/blog/contract-playbook/index.html): At fast growing companies, contract negotiations often become a bottleneck. Your legal team can't keep up with the volume, deals slow down, and pressure builds from all sides. This is where contract playbooks can make the difference. In this video, Common Paper’s Head of Legal Ecosystem, Tiffany Bui LeTourneau, talks with our CEO, Jake Stein, (8,148 words)
- [**The Basics of Design Partner Agreements and Data Processing**](/blog/design-partners-dpas/index.html): Design partner programs are a valuable tool for founders, but there's often confusion around the paperwork – especially when GDPR enters the picture. Let's start with which contracts you might use and how they interact. The Basics of Design Partner Agreements and Data Processing When you're running an early-stage startup, design partner programs can be (468 words)
- [Overview](/blog/implementation-professional-services-software/index.html): In addition to ongoing subscription fees or usage based pricing, some B2B software vendors charge for implementation and other professional services. This is more common when selling to large enterprises, as they need more help with change management and often allocate budget for services along with any new software purchase. Companies that charge for professional (346 words)
- [Overview](/blog/10000-companies/index.html): We're honored to share that more than 10,000 companies have signed contracts on the Common Paper platform. There are a lot of people to thank for this. First and foremost: The committee of attorneys who create our standard agreements, our amazing team that builds the platform, and our customers who trust us to help them (213 words)
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- [Version 2.1](/standards/cloud-service-agreement/versions/index.html): Version 2.1 Released: Nov 4, 2024 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Cover Page only Word (docx) Google doc Cover Page and Standard Terms Word (docx) Google doc With SLA - Cover Page only Word (docx) Google doc With SLA - Cover Page and Standard Terms Word (docx) Google doc Summary of changes Section (382 words)
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- [The Common Paper Blog](/blog/index.html) (1,326 words)
- [Version 1.1](/standards/data-processing-agreement/versions/index.html): Version 1.1 Released: May 9, 2025 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Cover Page only Word (docx) Cover Page and Standard Terms Word (docx) Summary of changes Corrects Section 10, Term of Agreement Version 1.0 Released: Jul 14, 2022 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Cover Page only Word (docx) Cover Page and (75 words)
- [Version 1.0](/standards/mutual-nda/versions/index.html): Version 1.0 Released: Jul 29, 2021 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Cover Page only Word (docx) PDF Cover Page and Standard Terms Word (docx) PDF Initial Version (43 words)
- [Version 1.0](/standards/ai-addendum/versions/index.html): Version 1.0 Released: Aug 7, 2025 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Standalone AI Addendum Word (docx) In-App Attachment Word (docx) Packaged Agreements CSA Word (docx) Software License Agreement Word (docx) Initial Version (47 words)
- [Start sending agreements today](/pricing/index.html) (421 words)
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- [We’re embarking on a big journey, but it isn’t our first](/about/index.html): Buying and selling technology is still harder than it should be, and there’s a painful roadblock keeping it this way: the negotiation and approval of contracts. Our vision is that contracts should be APIs - programmatically accessible and built on open-source standards. To make that vision a reality, we’ve assembled an amazing team of technologists, (225 words)
- [Version 1.1](/standards/professional-services-agreement/versions/index.html): Version 1.1 Released: Dec 12, 2023 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Cover Page only Word (docx) Cover Page and Standard Terms Word (docx) Summary of changes Section 11.3: change "Disclosing Party" to "Discloser" Version 1.0 Released: Jan 3, 2023 Hosted Standard Terms Full text Markdown Downloads Cover Page only Word (docx) Cover Page (76 words)
- [Streamline your full contract workflow](/standards/cloud-service-agreement/index.html): The Common Paper CSA was created by a committee of dozens of attorneys representing technology vendors, procurement teams, boutique firms, and Big Law. Download free and get to agreement faster. (11,952 words)

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