Gerri
Close contracts faster while controlling risk
79 followers
Close contracts faster while controlling risk
79 followers
Gerri is the AI agent for contract negotiation. Gerri is built for revenue teams who want to close contracts faster while controlling risk. With Gerri, you can scale legal expertise, accelerate the sales cycle, and coordinate contract review across the whole team. Most AI contract tools only help the lawyer, but sales, finance, ops, and legal all have a stake in getting a deal signed. Gerri works for everyone to get the deal closed.
Hey PH! I'm Jake Stein, co-founder and CEO of Common Paper.
We built Gerri because of a pattern we kept hearing from our users. Contracts were slowing deals down, and when we dug into why, the answer was almost always the same: redlines.
What surprised us was how repetitive the problem was. Most companies were seeing an 80/20 situation where a handful of the same issues came up on contract after contract. They wanted to loop in their attorneys for the really thorny legal issues, but not to answer the same questions over and over again. Also, many of the contract questions aren't legal at all, but instead need to be answered by a different member of the team.
What was missing was a way to decide once, and then have the system handle it automatically from that point forward. That's the core of how Gerri works: you build a playbook that reflects how your company actually negotiates, and Gerri's AI applies it to every contract that comes in. Accepts what you'd accept. Pushes back on what you'd push back on. And escalates the things that genuinely need a human, routing each issue to the right person (legal, sales, finance, etc.), then generating a clean file that's either ready to sign or send back to the other side.
The result is that 90% of contracts get reviewed in under 3 minutes, often before anyone on your team has realized that the contract arrived.
Happy to answer any questions about how the playbook works, how teams are using it, or anything else. And if you want to see it in action, there's a short demo linked above.
First 3 contracts are free at getgerri.ai
I'd love to hear how you're handling redlines today and what you wish existed
@jakestein I couldn't focus on the project—there were such cuties in the video ❤️
@maria_anosova hahaha thank you! Not the first time they've stolen my thunder :)
@jakestein Yeah, kids are like that.
And your project is awesome too.
does a company need a documented playbook before gerri can do anything, or does it help you build one from scratch?
based on the description, it sounds like the playbook comes first, since gerri "applies" it rather than creates it. that actually makes sense for later-stage teams where contract positions are already established but stuck in someone's head. the real unlock isn't the 3-minute review time, it's forcing cross-functional alignment on what's actually acceptable upfront, which is a conversation most companies avoid until a deal is already in trouble. :)
@gabrielpineda Good question! Most of the companies that use Gerri didn’t have a playbook before they started using it. There are a few options for creating one:
Our law firm partner creates one for you
We can mine your previously signed contracts for potential playbook rules that would have gotten you to a similar place as those accepted contracts, and then you can review to see if it matches your actual preferences
You can start with the sample playbook we provide and then iterate on that as you go
This could be a huge unlock for deal flow. The biggest hurdle I see is getting the non-legal teams to trust the automation. What does the onboarding look like to get a company's playbook into the system and build that initial confidence with the sales and finance folks?
@krutytskyi Thank you and that's a great question! We can help with migrating existing playbooks into Gerri, although in many cases it's as easy as copying and pasting some text. The much trickier step, as you called out, is inspiring confidence. One thing that helps many teams is running some of their historical contracts through the system first. That way, they can see how Gerri follows their playbook and compare to what they did manually before.
Additionally, Gerri provides an auditable record of every decision it makes, the playbook rule(s) it used, and the rationale of how it was applied. The humans on the team have the option of overriding those decisions, and of course those are recorded as well. So the process is often like bringing on a new employee. You check their work at first until you're confident in them, and then you can give more and responsibility as they earn it
Thanks for the detailed breakdown, @jakestein! The 'new employee' analogy is spot on - it really frames the onboarding process in a way that non-legal teams can relate to. Making it auditable is definitely a game-changer for building that trust. Good luck with the rest of the launch!
@krutytskyi I appreciate that, thank you!!
Congrats on the launch! Let’s go!
@stevenfabre Thank you! And btw Liveblocks is super cool!