Thanks! Not sure how many are a handful, but your first 5 customers are free (no matter how many different contracts you send them). You're still welcome to download and use the contracts
While we certainly are using technology to help solve the problem, it's more about creating contracts in a way that helps you focus on the key changes from contract to contract. When you build on immutable terms, and the only changes are in the contract's cover sheet, you can focus on the changes and not hunt down for words inside of an inscrutable PDF.
Small startups don't need contract management until they reach a point and then they wish they started doing it from day 1. :)
"hyper-standardized contracts" I suggest you take a look at the app! While our terms are immutable, the contracts can be heavily customized. So instead of hunting down a random word in a PDF you can focus on the things the material changes from agreement to agreement.
1. We didn't model it after a specific open source project, but Jake worked on https://www.singer.io. We do take inspiration from Open Source licenses like Apache 2, GPL, MIT, etc.
2. Open source in the sense that the terms of the contract are open source and released under a CCBY license. Terms are available via versioned URLs, github markdown source control, and maintained by a committee of contributors (attorneys).
We've released our contracts API! The Common Paper API allows you to create and send new contracts while channeling alerts to the people and systems who need them. The structure built into all of our standard agreements enables programmatic access and a consistent data model. This opens up a world of possibilities for automation, compliance, and integration.
I ignore stash completely by committing with -a and simply not worrying about the commit history so much, since they'll all be squashed anyway.
Never used the --oneline option before and I LOVE it. Thanks!