Introducing Real-time SAFEs! Instantly discover and understand what’s in your deal.

About us

Welcome to Tome. We use artificial intelligence to decode contracts into language humans can understand. We level the playing field between those who have the time and resources for legal support and those who don’t.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing have already transformed many industries. Legal services is the next frontier.

Much of the routine contract review that law firms currently handle can be done faster and cheaper by advances in technology

Numerous companies have tried to build technology to better aid lawyers in their contract review. But human review takes time and is prone to error. Using AI and drawing from our team’s firsthand experience negotiating thousands of venture deals, we’ve created a faster and more accurate way to review contracts.

Contracts are code. Code can be deciphered and translated into language that all humans, not just lawyers, can understand.

We started building Tome in 2021 and launched in 2022. We’ve taken the time to ingest, decipher, analyze, and explain every word, clause, and document in thousands of venture deals. Given our vast database of venture deal documents, odds are if you upload a document, we’ve seen it before and can tell you exactly what each clause means, how common it is, and present alternatives. Tome leverages the best corporate law firms in the world for a fraction of the time and cost.

We’re a strange company. Despite having some of the most brilliant legal minds, we’re not a law firm and we don’t practice law. We’re a purpose-driven technology company, bringing contracts into the 21st century so you can advocate and negotiate for yourself.

If you’d like to work together check out our open roles.

Legal Advisory Board

Consistent with Our Values, Tome’s Legal Advisory Board comprises the world’s foremost experts, practitioners, and educators in venture capital. Leveraging their combined experience, the Legal Advisory Board helps us ensure that Tome is at the top of the market in accuracy and credibility.

Maryam Haque

Director, National Venture Capital Association

Nic Markman

Partner, Gunderson, Dettmer, Stough, Villeneuve, Franklin & Hachigian LLP

Brian C. Patterson

Partner, Latham & Watkins

Andrew Harper

Partner

Adam Sterling

Assistant Dean, Berkeley Law

Amit Bhatti

Head of Seed Fund, Bain Capital Ventures

Nadia Dugal

Co-Founder, Tome

Our Co-Founders

Stephen Trusheim

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Stephen is the co-founder and CEO of Tome. He used to negotiate thousands of investment contracts every year as the Partner & Head of Operations at SignalFire, a $3B quantitative venture capital firm. An engineer by background, he started building AI systems inside video games at age 12, built chatbots at age 18, and later received his B.S. & M.S. in Computer Science (AI) from Stanford. He was named Forbes “30 Under 30” in 2019. Today, he’s rated as “funnier than expected” in most pitch meetings.

Nadia Dugal

Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer

Nadia is the co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of Tome. Previously, as the most active venture capital lawyer in the world, Nadia was a leader at Flourish Ventures, the Omidyar Network, 500 Startups, and was an attorney at various corporate law firms. She is also an educator on venture deals for Berkeley Law and the National Venture Capital Association, and advises numerous venture capital funds. She graduated with honors from Georgetown University and the New York University School of Law. The Atlantic recently referred to her as an “almost part-time runway model.”

Contracts are meant to be understood. With Tome, you can sign with confidence and never “guess” what’s in your contract again.

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