Contract review that happens where the work already happens.

The problem we set out to fix

B2B companies handle lots of contracts that look very similar to each other and the systems that handle those contracts are incredibly inefficient or costly (or both).

An in-house lawyer spends a startling share of their time handling agreements that are almost entirely standard: NDAs, order forms, MSA redlines etc. Any individual contract can be relatively quick if focused correctly, but all of the handling on each side greatly slows the process. Meanwhile the sales team waits, with no visibility into where a contract sits or what it is waiting on, and starts routing around the process entirely.

What we believe

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   A human decides every contract. AI does the reading, the extraction, the comparison against your policy and the first draft of the markup. It does not approve anything. We removed auto-approval from the product deliberately. Speed should come from a reviewer having everything in front of them, not from nobody looking.
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   Your standards, not our opinion. A generic AI assessment of a contract is close to worthless, because "is this term acceptable?" depends entirely on whose paper and whose risk appetite. AeroSpark measures every document against the policy and playbook you configure. Upload your own negotiation playbook and it becomes the standard the review runs against.
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   Meet people where they work. Legal tools fail when they ask a salesperson to log into a portal they will never open twice. Submitting a contract should take the same effort as sending a message, because that is the only version anyone actually adopts.
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   The counterparty's document is untrusted input. A contract that arrives from the other side is a file written by someone with opposing interests. We treat it accordingly — hidden text and instruction-shaped content are stripped before the AI reads a word of it.
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   Say what is actually true. Including on our own security page, where we would rather tell you precisely how your documents are handled than imply more than we have.

Where we are

AeroSpark is early. The product is live and in use, and we are working directly with the first teams running contracts through it. The people building it are the people you will talk to, and the things you tell us tend to show up in the product quickly.

Our team

Van Chappell

Van was most recently General Manager at BrandVerity (acquired by Partnerize). Prior to BrandVerity, Van founded 5IQ (acquired by Impact), a firm that helped affiliate managers identify partnership opportunities. Before working with technology startups, Van sold enterprise software at Perot Data Systems and Healthcare Dataworks. Van graduated from the US Naval Academy and served in the Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer.

Dave Naffziger

Dave was co-founder and CEO of BrandVerity up until its sale to Partnerize. BrandVerity sold affiliate monitoring and trademark abuse detection to large brands. Prior to BrandVerity, Dave was VP of engineering at Judy's Book, one of the original Yelp competitors. Dave was co-founder and director of Data Research at Quova, Inc. (acquired by Neustar), a firm that mapped the geographic locations of IP addresses. Dave started his career in management consulting at Bain & Company. Dave graduated from MIT.

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