Pre-seed SaaS founder
Hypothetical example: a two-person SaaS team keeping paperwork from blocking a fundraise
A busy pitch week. Paperwork that keeps up instead of blocking things.
Persona
Pre-seed SaaS founder
Industry
B2B SaaS (developer tools)
Contract types used
Mutual NDA, Advisor agreement, Independent contractor agreement
Illustrative outcome
Minutes per NDA
During peak pitch week
The problem
Picture a pre-seed B2B SaaS team (two technical co-founders) raising their first institutional round. A handful of investors, a corporate venture arm, a strategic operator, a couple of angels, might ask for an NDA before seeing the data room. Separately, the team might be finalizing advisor agreements alongside running pitch meetings most days of the week.
A founder in this situation might say: "We sent a stack of NDAs in a single week of fundraising. Each one took a few minutes."
Hypothetical example
What they tried before
A team like this might have a startup-friendly law firm on a deferred-fee arrangement, but every redline cycle can eat a day or two, costly during an active pitch week. A borrowed founder template might be lightly customized for someone else's deal and carry the wrong governing law.
What could change with Contract.DIY
- 01
Use the Mutual NDA template for any investor who requests confidentiality before seeing the data room, generated and sent for signature quickly.
- 02
Use the Advisor Agreement template for formal advisor relationships, with a vesting schedule, scope of involvement, and a clean termination clause.
- 03
Use the Independent Contractor Agreement when bringing on part-time help, with IP assignment language and jurisdiction-appropriate worker-classification carve-outs.
- 04
Keep a law firm engaged for the priced-round documents (SAFE, term sheet, financing agreement) while Contract.DIY handles everything upstream of that.
And: "Our lawyer handles the SAFE. They shouldn't be doing the NDA we send dozens of times a quarter."
Hypothetical example
The illustrative outcome
In this illustration, a team could send out NDAs quickly during a peak fundraising week and get most of them back signed the same day, spending well under two hours total on contract paperwork that week.
A team like this might use Contract.DIY for the high-volume, low-stakes-per-document agreements that recur across fundraising and early hiring, and their law firm for documents where bespoke legal craft actually moves the needle.
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