Ironclad began in 2014 when an attorney and an engineer teamed up to modernize contracts. The founding idea was that agreements sit at the center of a business, yet the work of creating and managing them could become an operational bottleneck.
The product grew from that workflow problem into a contract-management platform. Later additions, including AI Assist for negotiation and drafting, brought newer language-model capabilities into the same process. Ironclad’s journey connects the practical work of getting agreements completed with making their information useful after signature.