Whitepaper: machine-readable contracts

Your contracts are bleeding data. With Word and PDF as the default, contracts will always remain inherently uncollaborative, regardless of AI. This whitepaper explores the new, collaborative paradigm that's possible if contracts are created as machine-readable documents.

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What's inside?

Juro co-founders Richard Mabey and Pavel Kovalevich explore key definitions, how data can be used and captured throughout the contract lifecycle, and what the future looks like with machine-readable contracts.

Chapter 1

Your contracts are bleeding data.

Juro co-founders, Richard Mabey and Pavel Kovalevich, introduce this whitepaper by exploring the pain around the legacy contract tech stack of Microsoft Word, email and PDF.

Richard Mabey is the CEO and co-founder of Juro, the intelligent contract automation platform. Under his leadership, Juro has scaled rapidly, backed by $38 million in venture funding from prominent investors including Eight Roads, USV, Point Nine Capital and Seedcamp, and the founders of companies like Indeed, Gumtree and Wise.

Richard trained and qualified at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, working as an M&A associate in London and New York. He gained an MBA from INSEAD, and then spent time at LegalZoom, learning to build legal tech products.

Frustrated by the manual legal processes that slow down businesses, Richard co-founded Juro in 2016, with a mission to help the world agree contracts faster. Beyond Juro, he hosts the "Brief Encounters" podcast, makes angel investments, and supports other ambitious ventures from the boardroom. Richard is a Fellow of the RSA, an adviser to The Entrepreneurs Network and sits as a Non-executive Director of Bright Blue.

Chapter 2

Data in the contract lifecycle

What does data in this contract lifecycle look like? And how can we make better use of our contracts data through digitization?

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Chapter 3

Introducing the machine-readable editor

In order to make contracts work better for people, we must make them work better for machines. How did Juro's co-founders purpose-build an editor that was machine friendly?

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Chapter 4

The future: towards a contract data platform

What does the future hold for contract formatting? Richard and Pavel explore the dominant contract formats to reveal their pros and cons: Word, PDF, HTML and plain text.

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