Your contracting, engineered.
For companies that see the same agreements every week and want the process built properly. We write the playbook, build the clause library, and set up intake, routing, and approvals in the tools your team already uses. Then we run it for you, or hand it to your team with documentation.
Fee basis: Scoped fixed fee for the build; we run it or hand it over.
Built for companies in this position.
- Companies whose contract volume has outgrown email threads and memory.
- Legal teams that bought a CLM and still route work by hand.
- Operations and revenue teams that need to see where every agreement stands.
- Companies preparing to hire in-house counsel that want a system ready on day one.
The work product, not a time entry.
A written playbook, a clause library with fallback positions, intake and routing inside your existing tools, approval thresholds, and a reporting view.
- 01
Written playbook
Positions, fallbacks, walk-away points, and approval thresholds for each contract type, written so a reviewer or a new hire can apply them consistently.
Document · versioned - 02
Clause library
Approved language for the clauses you negotiate most, with fallback versions and a note on when each one applies.
Library · with fallbacks - 03
Intake and routing
A defined path from request to signature inside your tools: where agreements arrive, how they are classified, who reviews, and who approves.
Configured in your stack - 04
Reporting view
A view of what is open, what is waiting on whom, and which terms come up most, built where your team already looks.
Dashboard or report - 05
Runbook and handover
Documentation of the system as built, so your team can operate it, or so we can run it for you under Commercial Contracts.
Runbook
What the fee covers, and what it does not.
Scope is written down before work starts. Anything in the third column is discussed and agreed with you in writing before we do it.
- Discovery of current contract flow and volume
- Playbook authoring for agreed contract types
- Clause library with fallback language
- Approval thresholds and escalation paths
- Intake and routing configuration in your existing tools
- Reporting view and runbook
- Buying or licensing software on your behalf
- Custom software development unrelated to contract flow
- Data migration of legacy contract archives (unless scoped)
- IT administration of your systems
- Additional contract types after the build
- Integration with a tool not in the agreed list
- Ongoing review of agreements (Commercial Contracts)
- Template suite drafting
The sequence, step by step.
- 01Together
Discovery
We map how agreements arrive today, who touches them, where they stall, and which contract types make up most of the volume.
- 02Together
Playbook authoring
We write positions, fallbacks, walk-aways, and approval thresholds for each contract type, and you approve them.
- 03We do
Clause library
We assemble approved language and fallback versions for the clauses you negotiate most.
- 04We do
Intake and routing build
We configure intake, classification, review, approval, and signature routing inside the tools you already use.
- 05We do
Reporting view
We build a view of open agreements, owners, and recurring issues where your team already works.
- 06Together
Handover or managed run
Your team takes the system over with a runbook, or we run it for you on fixed fees under Commercial Contracts.
Timing depends on the matter, the documents, and how quickly decisions come back. We agree on expectations in the written scope.
Built inside the tools your team already uses.
Intake, routing, approvals, and reporting are configured where requests already arrive. The written scope lists exactly which tools are included.
- Messaging
- Slack
- Documents
- Google Drive
- SharePoint
- Signature
- DocuSign
- CRM
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- CLM
- Ironclad
- Other CLM
- Work tracking
- Jira
- Asana
Product names are trademarks of their owners and are listed to describe compatibility, not partnership or endorsement.
Built by a former General Counsel who also writes software.
EJ Archuleta has served as General Counsel at technology companies and has built contract systems inside operating companies, where the people waiting on a signed agreement were down the hall.
He is also a software engineer and builds the firm's own systems. The playbook and the integrations are designed together, by someone who has had to run the result.
If one of these is true, it is time to talk.
Send a short description through the intake form, or call. The next step is a short call, then a written scope.
- 01You have a CLM, but agreements still move by email forward.
- 02Different people accept different terms for the same agreement.
- 03Nobody can say how many agreements are open or who is holding them.
- 04You are about to hire in-house counsel and want a system in place first.
- 05Sales leadership asks for contract status and legal cannot answer quickly.
How the fee is set.
Scoped fixed fee for the build; then we run it or hand it over.
The build is quoted as one fixed fee after discovery, against a written scope that lists the contract types and the tools. Afterward, we run it for you under Commercial Contracts or your team takes it over with the runbook.
What clients ask before they call.
Tell us what is happening. A lawyer will reply.
Use the intake form to describe the agreement, the dispute, or the question. EJ reviews each submission and replies to set up a short call. If a deadline is days away, call instead.