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Common Paper

Common Paper is a contract management platform that helps revenue, legal, and operations teams build, negotiate, sign, and manage commercial agreements in minutes using a library of committee-drafted standard agreements (Cloud Service Agreement, Mutual NDA, DPA, BAA, Professional Services, Partnership, Software License, Pilot, Design Partner, and Letter of Intent) paired with AI-assisted contract review. The company exposes a public REST API at api.commonpaper.com/v1 with Bearer-token authentication, JSON:API read responses, Ransack filtering, offset pagination, a documented webhook catalog, an agentic account-provisioning flow, and an official hosted MCP server plus a published Claude agent skill, so agents and integrations can list, create, send, void, reassign, and download agreements and templates programmatically.

Common Paper publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Contracts, Contract Management, Legal Tech, and Agreements.

The Common Paper catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Common Paper’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 19 more developer resources.

44.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
CompanyContractsContract ManagementLegal TechAgreementsSaaS ContractsE-SignatureWebhookMCP

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Common Paper API

REST API for managing Common Paper agreements and templates — list, create, send, void, reassign, download, and share agreements; manage templates, attachments, users, organizat...

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Common Paper Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Common Paper Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: common-paper
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/common-paper.png
name: Common Paper
description: Common Paper is a contract management platform that helps revenue, legal, and operations teams build, negotiate,
  sign, and manage commercial agreements in minutes using a library of committee-drafted standard agreements (Cloud Service
  Agreement, Mutual NDA, DPA, BAA, Professional Services, Partnership, Software License, Pilot, Design Partner, and Letter
  of Intent) paired with AI-assisted contract review. The company exposes a public REST API at api.commonpaper.com/v1 with
  Bearer-token authentication, JSON:API read responses, Ransack filtering, offset pagination, a documented webhook catalog,
  an agentic account-provisioning flow, and an official hosted MCP server plus a published Claude agent skill, so agents and
  integrations can list, create, send, void, reassign, and download agreements and templates programmatically.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/common-paper/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- uncork-capital
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Contracts
- Contract Management
- Legal Tech
- Agreements
- SaaS Contracts
- E-Signature
- Webhook
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Contracts
- Contract Management
- Legal Tech
- Agreements
- SaaS Contracts
- E-Signature
- API
- Webhooks
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Common Paper API
  description: REST API for managing Common Paper agreements and templates — list, create, send, void, reassign, download,
    and share agreements; manage templates, attachments, users, organizations, invitations, and agreement history; plus an
    agentic account-provisioning flow (mint-key / redeem-for-account) and a hosted MCP endpoint. Bearer-token auth, JSON:API
    reads, Ransack filtering, offset pagination.
  humanURL: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.commonpaper.com/v1
  tags:
  - Contracts
  - Agreements
  - Templates
  - Legal Tech
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/common-paper-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/common-paper-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/common-paper-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/common-paper-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/common-paper-conformance.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/common-paper-webhooks.yml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/common-paper-mcp.yml
    note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list
      derived from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported
      mcp_server correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/common-paper-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://commonpaper.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api.commonpaper.com/docs
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/common-paper-authentication.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/common-paper-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/common-paper-webhooks.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/common-paper-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/common-paper-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/common-paper-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/common-paper-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.commonpaper.com/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/common-paper-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/common-paper-data-model.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.commonpaper.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.commonpaper.com/en/
- type: Blog
  url: https://commonpaper.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/commonpaper
- type: Pricing
  url: https://commonpaper.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.commonpaper.com/auth/auth0?screen_hint=signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.commonpaper.com/auth/auth0?screen_hint=signin
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://commonpaper.com/website-terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://commonpaper.com/privacy-policy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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