Ironclad AI Assistant
Ironclad's AI agents inside its CLM (contract lifecycle management) platform. Ironclad parent: $200M+ ARR; backed by Accel, Sequoia, YC, BOND. AI features include auto-redline, review, and contract intelligence. Note: separate Rivet Memory Node row already in catalog under Framework-embedded memory — this is the CLM-AI framing.
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 23 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- CLM platform with AI agents vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Created
- 2014 (Ironclad founded); AI Assistant 2023 vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- Ironclad: Accel, Sequoia, YC, BOND-backed; $200M+ ARR vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, hipaa, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: contract-lifecycle AI workflows in-house counsel
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Dominant CLM market position; AI Assistant integrated where contracts live; broad enterprise customer base.
Cons
AI Assistant is a CLM-overlay feature, not a standalone agent product; less ambition than Harvey on raw-task-replacement.
Claims & capabilities
Ironclad parent: $200M+ ARR; AI Assistant launched 2023; auto-redline + clause-detect + risk-summary
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- not applicable — wrong section
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (22 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is CLM platform with AI agents vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Ironclad's AI agents inside its CLM (contract lifecycle management) platform. Ironclad p… vendor
- Claims / benefits Ironclad parent: $200M+ ARR; AI Assistant launched 2023; auto-redline + clause-detect + … vendor
- Created 2014 (Ironclad founded); AI Assistant 2023 vendor
- Funding Ironclad: Accel, Sequoia, YC, BOND-backed; $200M+ ARR vendor
- Customers / scale Mastercard, Asana, Salesforce, OpenAI + Fortune 500 vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA; GDPR vendor
- Deployment SaaS vendor
- HQ San Francisco vendor
- Founders / pedigree Jason Boehmig (CEO); Cai GoGwilt (CTO) vendor
- Optimised for contract-lifecycle AI workflows in-house counsel vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure DocuSign; HelloSign; Salesforce CPQ vendor
- Pros Dominant CLM market position; AI Assistant integrated where contracts live; broad enterp… vendor
- Cons AI Assistant is a CLM-overlay feature, not a standalone agent product; less ambition tha… vendor
- Project & sources ironcladapp.com/ai/ vendor
- adoption-accelerator yc-s15 third-party
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications gdpr,hipaa,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages rest vendor