Check us out at Ironclad! We were YC 15 and now work with hundreds of millions of contracts across a pretty diverse customer base. Would be happy to have our team take a look and see if we can get you what you need. https://ironcladapp.com/
This is fantastic, snooze is essential to my email flow and I've been waiting for N1 to release this. Love the additional features like emoji too. Keep it coming.
Hi sandworm, nice to speak with a fellow lawyer. We're not providing legal advice with Ironclad, on the site and in the article I think it's pretty clear that we're not trying to replace lawyers. What we are trying to do is give companies tools to keep better legal records, which is currently the domain of a bunch of fragmented software systems. Our goal is to tie those together.
So to answer your question, we use Ironclad to keep our legal records in order, and we use a lawyer for legal advice.
If you are a company set up on another structure, we can take the documents you're currently using (from your lawyer for instance) and set them up on the system for you. We're designed to be the infrastructure layer, not necessarily the ones coming up with the templates. But we do have those DE C-Corp templates up since many YC companies are set up that way.
>How does Ironclad ensure that you'll "never lose a contract again"? Can you dictate what the folder structure will be and have Ironclad follow that automatically?
-Yes, you can!
>Can you have it follow agreement naming conventions?
-Yes!
>How does it handle successive iterations of a contract that is being negotiated?
-We are working on this, but there's some cool functionality built in to Dropbox already for collaboration. I'd suggest sharing the Dropbox folder that contains the doc and using those for now, they are pretty good.
>Can you also store a record of emails/discussions regarding those negotiations with the contracts?
-We're working on this, but for now you still can use Dropbox comments, etc.
I think this is a really cool idea. One of the things we're designed to do, as the administrative layer, is take these conventions that are set up by experts and put them into software so that anyone can then execute on them. This would be a neat example.
Clerky is awesome. What we're going for here is more of the automated record keeping and management. It seems like most company's legal docs are a mess (and I know from reviewing lots of them when I was an attorney).
The templates we provide can help you automatically keep your company's legal folder in pristine condition - we're not just setting you up with the template, it's the whole process layer from end-to-end.
To be clear though, we don't provide any legal advice whatsoever. We're designed to work with an attorney - so that if you need them to edit Section 2.1 of a document before it gets sent out, you can just have them hop in to the Dropbox folder and make the edits. It's the administrative layer for legal, not the advice layer.
We want you to use the same template again and again! What we are really trying to provide is the administrative support layer that doesn't currently exist, or is being done by a human. So we help you fill in that template faster, we integrate with HelloSign so that it's sent out for signature automatically when you've approved it, and we create folders and store the final docs there for you when you're done.
It's more of an end-to-end approach than just dealing with templates. The idea is you'd pay Ironclad $49/month rather than pay an assistant way more than that to keep you organized. Does that make sense? Would love any feedback if you think of this differently.
Cool thanks! Would love to hear back from you once you've had a chance to use it and hear what you like and don't like. One thing that's been awesome about going through YC is really learning to take feedback from users. Give us a shout any time at [email protected]
Correct in terms of default templates. Our default templates, which are used by YC companies typically, are designed by attorneys for Delaware C-Corps in California.
We are designed to be able to take in any type of legal document though, including docs you already have from your attorney. So if you're not using the default templates, or you've customized them yourself, that limitation won't apply.