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Common Paper

Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. We create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These are analogous to the SAFE, but are between customers and vendors rather than investors and startups. The standardized format means that data within contracts is structured from inception. We build software for managing standard contracts, accelerating sales cy

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. We create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These are analogous to the SAFE, but are between customers and vendors rather than investors and startups. The standardized format means that data within contracts is structured from inception. We build software for managing standard contracts, accelerating sales cy

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Common Paper is classified as Cybersecurity from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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customersstartupsvendorssales agreementsvendorsSAFENDAsDPAsopen-source contracts
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Common Paper

Cybersecurity · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Lamar Health

match 67

We deal with drugs that cost on average $70,000/patient per year. These patients need their medications within days but currently it takes weeks because of complex, manual workflows that were built around poor data standards. At Lamar Health, our mission is to get patients on therapy fast. Our customers are specialty pharmacies, infusion clinics and hospitals that are moving quickly to use AI to offset operational risks and gain competitive advantage.

shared product terms: deal, customer, risk, standard; shared product theme: sales and marketing, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Ironclad

match 66

Ironclad helps companies make and manage their business contracts. Customers like L'Oréal, Heineken, and Salesforce use our platform to move up to 80% faster, make better decisions through data, and effectively manage risk. We are backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Bond, Franklin Templeton, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: contract, customer, faster, risk; shared product theme: sales and marketing, security and compliance; same category: Cybersecurity; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sameplan

match 62

Sameplan is a customer-facing collaboration tool that enables sales teams to align with prospects, increase efficiency, and close more business. Enterprise deals can be very complex, rather than managing these high-value relationships over email, Sameplan acts as the central hub for the deal.

shared product terms: close, deal, customer, sale; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Paperplane

match 58

Paperplane helps builders', plumbing, and timber merchants mitigate their credit risk by predicting which customers will default 4+ weeks before anyone else. Instead of relying solely on credit reports and lagging public data, Paperplane uses the company's own transaction data and customer knowledge directly from sales reps to make more accurate predictions in real-time.

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: customer, risk, transaction, sale; shared product theme: sales and marketing, security and compliance; same category: Cybersecurity; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

FirstQuadrant

match 46

FirstQuadrant helps revenue teams move faster, stay organized, and close more deals, by streamlining the behind-the-scenes sales-work so nothing ever slips through the cracks. In October 2025, FirstQuadrant Inc. completed a confidential agreement with a leading AI technology company that recognized long-term strategic value in components of the FirstQuadrant platform and data infrastructure and sunset the platform.

shared product terms: faster, close, deal, sale; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Seneca Systems

match 43

Every day, incredible government workers serve the public without the resources—and appreciation—their important work deserves. These hard-working teams have to deal with communications arriving from too many channels, maze-like processes for fulfilling constituent requests, and a dangerous lack of visibility into constituent opinions on major issues and the work teams perform. Software can help! But the vendor community has responded with hard-to-use, hard-to-implement, and hard-to-purchase pri

shared extracted concept terms: vendor; shared product terms: these, deal, but, vendor; shared affiliation: Y Combinator