[anrope]

This is a great market that nobody has run away with yet. If you find the right combination of features around contract lifecycle, it could be yours.

Common docs (clerky), redlining (ms word), esigning, tracking self serve contracts (ironclad), contract lifecycle management (pandadoc), employee onboarding (gusto).

There’s a lot of good criticism here about edge cases and getting buyin from large customers. But at the end of the day there are a ton of companies with zero game plan around their contracts process, plenty of room for a good product.

Curious how you’re thinking about dealing with ms word and ‘track changes’. Every lawyer wants to live there. Do you fight this or build your product to work word-first?

[jakestein]

You're totally right that lawyers want to live in Word. In the MVP version of the product, we tried to get everyone into the web app. Some people loved it, but we hit a brick wall whenever someone needed to go to Word.

We've since added native export to Word at every step in the contract lifecycle. One of our most requested features is the ability to easily re-import those Word files back into the same workflow after they've been edited, and we're working on a project right now to make that happen.

[anrope]

That’s great to hear. These guys do some smooth interactions with ms word and version tracking, worth checking out:

https://www.simuldocs.com/features/collaborate-microsoft-wor...

[jakestein]

Interesting, I will check them out, thank you