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Why do legal teams feel tension with their business counterparts? Why do we sometimes forget we're all on the same team as our client? In contract negotiations, why does the other side come in with an adversarial mindset, when (usually) everyone wants to make a deal happen? I don't actually know the answers to these questions. But, I'm hoping that we can all start to re-examine our assumptions and challenge our established working habits to do away with some of these unnecessary frustrations. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce my new series on the Common Paper blog: Making Legal Your Superpower. First up: Choosing the Right Contract

?? We’re thrilled to announce that the Common Paper Software License Agreement is live.?? Common Paper standard agreements have been used by thousands of companies to close tens of millions of dollars in deals. We’ve been getting requests for an on-prem agreement since we released the first version of the Cloud Service Agreement more than 2 years ago. The CSA has always included support for SaaS products that include an on-prem component, but it’s not a fit for 100% on-prem products. Like all of our standard agreements, this one was created by a committee of >45 commercial attorneys and is available for free under a Creative Commons license. That committee’s work was informed by feedback from our friends at Replicated as well as dozens of other founders and sales leaders. The agreement is pre-loaded into every Common Paper account. When sending a Software License Agreement from our platform, you can automatically invoice and collect payment from your customer right after they sign (ACH, wire, credit card, etc), powered by our integration with Stripe. We’ve got downloads, RapGenius-style annotations, and tools to help you customize the agreement, all for free. Check the top comment below for the link

?? New Episode: Meet Jake Stein, Co-founder and CEO of Common Paper ?? From attic startup to $60M exit with Stitch ?? Pivoted Common Paper after the initial product failed ?? Leveraged free resources in go-to-market strategy ?? Now serving 140+ B2B SaaS customers ??? Hosted by Omer Khan Full show notes:?https://saasclub.io/404

I'm incredibly excited to talk with Olga about standard contracts. We'll talk about the challenges of getting standards off the ground, the progress made so far, and what's in it for attorneys, clients, and the surprisingly large contract ecosystem. Olga has a unique perspective informed by her background as a lawyer, legal tech CEO, educator, and more.

Common Paper now integrates with HubSpot, Slack, and Vanta - making it easier than ever to work with contracts across your entire workflow.

We’re happy to announce that v2 of the Common Paper Cloud Service Agreement is now available. The CSA is an industry-standard agreement for selling SaaS or cloud services that has been signed by thousands of companies. CSA v2 includes several improvements, including: ?? Language covering AI and the use of data for training? ?? Improved support for trials and pilot programs ?? More flexibility for outlining the payment process Like all of our standard agreements, CSA v2 is available for free under a Creative Commons license and was created by the Common Paper Committee, a group of over 40 tech attorneys from big law, boutique firms, and in-house at tech companies. You can build and send a CSA with this new version by navigating to the Templates menu in Common Paper. You can also download Word and PDF versions of the agreement through the app or on the CSA webpage.

Companies that use standard contracts benefit from a powerful network effect, where customers and their legal teams review a contract once and become more comfortable signing the same terms again in the future. Repeat recipients of Common Paper agreements sign 52%(!) faster than first-time recipients. Read more about the impact of network effects in standard contracts in our latest blog post from Jake Stein. Link in comments below ??

If your team signs lots of NDAs (e.g. to share your SOC 2 report), the Pages feature in Common Paper can make your workflow automatic. A Page is a publicly facing form that your customer can submit to kickstart the NDA signing process. We host it for you, or you can embed it in your site via an iframe. Either way, everyone on your team gets a URL to share with customers and prospects where they can get an NDA in place. Check out the demo video below for a look at how Vandelay Industries, a new startup building ERP solutions for the latex industry, embedded a page on their website to automate getting an NDA in place for security reviews.

We recently added support for metered / usage-based billing to our Stripe integration in Common Paper. Our automatic billing feature helps you get paid faster by instantly creating the appropriate subscriptions, invoices, etc. in your Stripe account based on the terms of your contract. Then, your customer gets directed to the payment workflow after they sign. Check out the video below for a look at the customer experience of signing a Common Paper agreement with automatic billing.

We recently added support for metered / usage-based billing to our Stripe integration in Common Paper . It gave me a reason to run through the whole UX again, and our team has really done a great job on this. The automatic billing feature helps you get paid faster by instantly creating the appropriate subscriptions, invoices, etc in your Stripe account based on the terms of your contract? and then presents a custom payment page to your customer immediately after they sign. Check out the video below for a look at the customer experience of signing a Common Paper agreement with automatic billing.