About Ironclad
Enterprise contract lifecycle management built around AI clause extraction.
Ironclad was founded in San Francisco in 2014 by Jason Boehmig, a former Fenwick & West attorney who had built in-house contracting automations at the firm, and engineer Cai GoGwilt. The company went through Y Combinator in 2015, opened its first SOMA office, and now runs the contract lifecycle for Salesforce, L'Oreal, Dropbox, Asana, Mastercard, Zoom and OpenAI. In April 2025 former Docusign CEO Dan Springer took over the chief executive seat while Boehmig moved to Executive Chairman.
The platform covers the full contract lifecycle: intake, drafting, redlining, approvals, signing, the central repository, and post-signature obligations. The data model rests on workflows (templated contract processes with their own approvers and conditions), records (the executed agreements that land in the repository), parties, signers, milestones and properties. Properties are the structured fields that carry the metadata, with 175 built-in AI clauses that Ironclad detects automatically on executed contracts plus custom properties that legal teams train on their own examples. Ironclad AI sits across the platform for clause extraction, redlining suggestions and the Jurist agentic assistant launched in 2024.
The reason to pull Ironclad into a warehouse is that the contract is the moment a commercial commitment becomes binding, but the data lives behind a legal-ops boundary. The opportunity in Salesforce closes, the MSA gets signed in Ironclad, and the renewal date, auto-renew clause and termination-for-convenience window vanish into the repository until somebody pulls a report. Joined to the deal in the CRM, the invoice in the ERP and the headcount in the HRIS, those clauses turn into renewal pipeline, revenue at risk and supplier exposure that finance, sales and procurement can act on before the notice window closes.