Agree2 nearly ready 2
When we launched the Agree2 beta back in March we were kind of impatient to get it live and going. Agree2 is our site for collaborating, writing, negotiating and accepting contracts.
We did some pretty unique things in that we went back to the basics of contract law to rediscover the real meaning of what a contract is. The core of Agree2 is pretty much based on traditional common law (implemented on Ruby on Rails of course).
However early feed back was really quite uninspiring for us and we realized that we needed to create major changes in the underlying usability to not just be based on legal concepts, but also bring the contract back to be something done between human beings like it always was before the day and age of Microsoft Word legal templates.
You know it can be kind of painful to start a major usability rewrite. Particular since we’re bootstrapping, but now 6 months later (we are funded by our own consulting work so we normally can’t work full time on Agree2) we are really pleased and so (thank God!!!) are our initial users.
We think it’s ready to start kicking some MS Word legal templates ass and in a big way. Feedback from early testers has been almost universally positive.
Anyway we are now back, if you’re already registered try logging in again at Agree2. If you already signed up for our beta keep an eye in your mailbox for your first Agreement in Agree2 our User Agreement (yes we eat our own dog food). If you would like to try it out go to Agree2 and register yourself.
Read more on our Extra Eagle Blog about what we’re doing with Agree2.
I will start posting new contracted related articles to the Extra Eagle Blog so make sure you add it to your feed reader. For my older articles my small business legal blogging archive will still of course be available.
Create, negotiate and accept legally binding contracts for free with our Agree2 service.
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Very nicely done Pelle. I’m glad to see you guys have come so far in the last 6 months! This is actually an area we were looking into as a company so now we definitely going to give it a shot after this news.
The other company we’re looking at is http://www.echosign.com/, do you consider them your competitor or do they do things in a much different manner?
In some respects they are a competitor. However while we handle the full life cycle of a contract (including signatures) they seem to be very focused on the signature, which is in my view really the least important aspect of contract law.
However the more companies that get contracts away from faxes, fedex and word templates the better. So we of course wish them luck.