The company that gives your contract a credit score - and a badge to prove it.
TermScout headquarters, Denver. A team of fifteen decided the fastest way to end a negotiation was to grade it before it starts.
Two companies want to do business. They agree on the price, the product, the timeline. Then the contract arrives - sixty pages of clauses written by lawyers, for lawyers, about the small percentage of things that go wrong. Redlines fly. Weeks pass. The deal that was supposed to close on Friday now closes "sometime next quarter, probably."
TermScout looked at that scene and asked a blunt question: what if the contract came with a verdict? Not an opinion from the vendor's counsel or the buyer's counsel - a neutral, third-party grade. Fair or not fair. Balanced or lopsided. Sign here, or here's exactly what to fight about. That verdict is a TrustMark, and it is the whole idea.
Contracts should accelerate business, not slow it down. The goal is trusted, revenue-driving agreements - contracts that close themselves.Olga V. Mack, Chief Executive Officer
TermScout's pitch is refreshingly narrow. It does not want to draft your contract, store your contract, or negotiate your contract. It wants to read it, benchmark it against thousands of real-world agreements, and tell everyone at the table how it measures up. Opinion is expensive and slow. Data is cheap and fast.
The certification badge. An agreement rated Balanced or Customer-Favorable, with zero deal-breaker clauses, earns a public TrustMark that tells the other side: these terms are fair and ready to sign. Trust, made visible.
The intelligence layer underneath. Certify analyzes and benchmarks a contract against thousands of others on nearly 1,000 individual points, then hands sales, legal, procurement and RevOps a detailed report of exactly where the terms sit.
The first independent certification for the AI clauses now buried in software contracts. It reviews AI provisions across seven categories and awards an AI-compliance badge. You can only earn it if you already hold the core TrustMark.
A first-of-its-kind marketplace where lawyers could build and sell their own contract-review AIs. The Screens technology was acquired by Agiloft in 2025 - proof the market wanted machine-readable legal judgment.
A company sends its standard agreement in for independent review.
Certify scores it on ~1,000 points against thousands of real contracts.
Legal experts confirm the analysis for accuracy, consistency and fairness.
Balanced or better, zero deal-breakers? It earns a public TrustMark badge.
A single deal-breaker clause disqualifies the whole contract. Trust is not graded on a curve.
Launched February 2026 with HubSpot, Atlassian, DocuSign, Webflow and Hyland as founding partners, TrustMark AI reviews the AI-specific provisions creeping into modern contracts across seven categories.
TermScout sells to the people contracts actually slow down: sales and RevOps teams chasing quota, legal teams drowning in redlines, procurement teams trying to figure out if a vendor's paper is reasonable. The certified names skew toward enterprise software - the industry that invented the 60-page agreement in the first place.
Named CEO in April 2025. Formerly CEO of Parley Pro (acquired by LexisNexis) and VP/CEO of CounselLink CLM. A Stanford CodeX fellow and prolific legaltech voice.
A former corporate attorney who saw negotiation dysfunction up close and built TermScout to fix it. Stepped from CEO to the board in 2025 after joining Agiloft.
Co-founded TermScout on the premise that contracts could be turned into structured, comparable data instead of one-off documents read once and filed forever.
Early seed rounds ($1.25M, then $1.6M) back a company that reviews, rates and compares the software contracts buyers are asked to sign.
Co-led by NFX and Ground Up Ventures, with The LegalTech Fund and others. TermScout expands from rating to benchmarking against competitors.
The world's first marketplace for lawyers to build and sell their own contract-review AIs.
Agiloft acquires the Screens technology; Otto Hanson joins Agiloft and moves to TermScout's board. Olga Mack takes over as CEO.
The first independent AI-terms certification launches with HubSpot, Atlassian, DocuSign, Webflow and Hyland as founding partners.
AI is transforming business contracts, but innovation is moving faster than regulation. Vendors and buyers are left asking one thing: can we trust the AI terms in this agreement?TermScout, on launching TrustMark AI
● TermScout essentially gives contracts a credit score - a public badge instead of a leap of faith.
● The Certify engine scrutinizes a single agreement on nearly 1,000 individual points.
● One deal-breaker clause is enough to disqualify an entire contract from certification.
● To earn the AI badge, a company must already hold the core TrustMark. Trust is layered, not skipped.
● It's a team of roughly fifteen - small enough to fit in a conference room, aiming to standardize how the world signs.
Return to those two companies stuck on page 47. Now the vendor's agreement carries a TrustMark. The buyer's legal team opens it, sees the badge, pulls the report, and finds the terms already benchmarked as balanced with no deal-breakers hiding in the fine print. There is nothing to argue about that hasn't already been measured.
The redlines don't fly. The weeks don't pass. The deal closes on Friday, because the hardest part of the negotiation happened before anyone sat down - in an independent review that turned sixty pages of doubt into a single word: trusted. TermScout didn't make the contract shorter. It made the argument unnecessary.