Commercial Contracts
Commercial Contract Counsel for Startup and Technology Companies
For startups, technology companies, AI companies, operators, and growth businesses negotiating customer, vendor, SaaS, services, pilot, data, licensing, platform, and strategic agreements.
Based in New York. Working with clients across the U.S. and internationally.
How Jason Helps
Review and negotiate commercial contracts with the business objective, risk allocation, workflow, data rights, and operational reality in view.
Help companies avoid contracts that look acceptable on paper but do not match how the product, pilot, platform, or customer relationship actually works.
Support sales, procurement, partnership, vendor, data, AI, and platform contracting without turning every commercial issue into legal theater.
Where This Fits
When to Reach Out
- You are negotiating a customer, vendor, SaaS, services, pilot, data, licensing, or strategic partnership agreement.
- A customer or vendor form creates risk around IP, data, privacy, liability, indemnity, insurance, exclusivity, payment, or termination.
- The business team needs a contract reviewed quickly, but the issue is more than just redlines.
Common Matters
- Customer, vendor, SaaS, services, pilot, data, licensing, and platform agreements.
- AI product, agent, data-use, workflow, and model-improvement terms.
- Indemnity, limitation of liability, insurance, confidentiality, IP, publicity, exclusivity, and termination issues.
- Commercial contract playbooks, negotiation support, and outside GC contract triage.
FAQ
When should a startup involve counsel in a customer contract?
Usually when the deal affects revenue, data, IP, product obligations, liability, exclusivity, payment timing, customer-facing risk, or future fundraising diligence.
Are AI contracts different from ordinary SaaS agreements?
Often, yes. AI products may raise additional questions around data use, model improvement, outputs, human oversight, workflow actions, auditability, and failure modes.
Can Jason help with fast-moving sales contracts?
Yes. The goal is to protect the business while keeping the deal moving, with attention to the terms that actually matter for the company’s stage and leverage.
What makes a pilot agreement risky?
A pilot can be risky when the contract, insurance, data rights, customer expectations, and actual workflow do not match.
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