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The Protocol

One Pact.
A thousand deals.

Startups have the SAFE. Big Tech has the MSA. You have… a Word doc? OnePact is your standard — the rules of the road, set once and not re‑negotiated deal to deal. Every deal after that is just the business, argued fast and signed faster. Below: the four mechanisms that make that true, each running on a real clause, not a mockup.

We lock the Law. You negotiate the Business.

Standard terms · set once (nobody signs it)

The OnePact Master Agreement

every clause read in · explained in plain English · guard‑railed

Deal Terms

Deal #1

minutes, on rails

Deal Terms

Deal #2

minutes, on rails

Deal Terms

Deal #3

minutes, on rails

Set your standard once; every deal rides it — incorporated by reference, never re‑papered. Deals stop dying over indemnity caps nobody understands: the law is locked, only the business is on the table.

01Your standard · ours or yours

Not negotiated. Just there —
and reused a thousand times.

You start from a standard — one set of house terms that governs everything you close. Use the OnePact Standard out of the box, or bring your own; either way it becomes your standard. Nobody signs it — it's a standing set of terms, incorporated by reference into every deal.

The OnePact Standard arrives already lawyer‑built and vetted — that work finished before you showed up. Bring your own paper instead, and it's read in clause by clause for your counsel to approve before it governs anything. Either way the work happens once. Then it just runs.

Your standard · two ways in

Use the OnePact Standard

house terms, ready out of the box — already known cold

Bring your own terms

upload your set — read in clause by clause, then it becomes your standard

Then, on every deal: incorporated by reference into the SOW — you never re‑paper the whole contract, and every clause was lawyer‑reviewed before it could govern anything.

One clause, fully known

The letter · Clause 8.7

“Service Recipient owns any Intellectual Property Rights created in connection with…”

The plain meaning

“The client owns what gets made for them.”

The interplay · detected, counsel‑confirmed

Attachment 2.3VARIESMSA 8.7

Influencer content, meme templates and background IP are licensed, not assigned — a carve‑out the machine detected and a lawyer confirmed. Both clauses now carry the mark.

02Know — every clause, in depth

Every clause gets read.
Once, properly, so you never have to.

Every clause gets three layers of knowledge: the verbatim letter (anchored to the exact clause text), a plain‑English gloss (what it means, in one sentence a founder can read), and your firm's position (what to fight for, what to concede, where the floor is).

Then the web: when an attachment modifies the master — varies it, supplements it, disapplies it — the machine detects the interplay and asks counsel to confirm or correct. It never asks your lawyer to remember; it shows its reading and takes a ruling.

03Deal — compile, send, close

Answer a questionnaire, or paste the thread.
The SOW compiles cited to clause — not guessed.

Paste the thread or answer a short questionnaire — the compiler assembles a statement of work from your standard terms (incorporated by reference), cites the clause behind every answer, and flags anything unresolved as an explicit gap. Then send one link.

Compiled on your standard terms

PaymentNet 30 · Cl. 6.5
IP & usageAssigned + carve‑outs · Cl. 8.7
Deliverable datesGAP — you decide

Unknowns become loud gaps. The system never guesses a term into a contract.

They need nothing installed

Your counterparty gets a link:

onepact.io/deal/respond/…

  • read every term, in plain English
  • accept, or push back — in the browser
  • no account, no software, no PDF tennis

They push back. The rules answer.

AUTO

“Net 45?” — within standard. Accepted instantly.

ESCALATE

“Net 150?” — beyond standard. Held for an eyes‑open sign‑off.

BLOCK

“Cap your right to be paid?” — never. Floors are structural. They don't bend.

04Learn — your paper becomes power

The more contracts you show it,
the closer to market standard you get.

Dump a pile of similar contracts and OnePact mines them: clause variants are clustered, ranked from most protective to most flexible, and born as negotiation plays — each one citing the precedent it came from, each one pending review until your counsel approves it.

And when your standard terms are updated to a new version, the machine diffs them and tells you exactly what changed and nothing else — no re‑reading forty pages to find one number.

A mined play · L1 → L5

L1
Most protective — full assignment, all rights
L2
Assignment with named carve-outs
L3
Balanced — the house standard
L4
Licence-led, term-limited
L5
Most flexible — broad licence back

Every level cites its source contract. Nothing serves unapproved.

Version supersede · the exact diff

master v2 → v3 · 1 change detected

breach notice window: 2 hours

+ breach notice window: 24 hours

Everything untouched stays byte-identical — approvals included.

Why you can trust it

The system has laws.
It refuses to break them.

Your terms are the single source of truth.

Every piece of knowledge is anchored to the exact clause it explains, and re-checked against it whenever that clause changes.

Draft never serves.

AI drafts explanations, positions and plays at volume. None of it can touch a live deal until a named lawyer approves it. The approval is logged, with provenance.

Changed text re-opens its approvals.

If a clause is ever changed, every approved explanation pinned to its old text is automatically pulled back for re-review. Knowledge cannot outlive the words it describes.

Floors clamp. They never bend.

Counsel-set bounds are structural: within standard is automatic, beyond standard demands sign-off, past the floor is impossible. No prompt, no persuasion, no exception path.

That's the machine.
Now go do a deal with it.

Paste the thread. Watch it become a contract.

OnePact · Living agreements for the modern economy