One place to draft, redline, sign, and query every agreement, with AI built in from the start, not bolted on later.
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Most contract software was built for 50-person legal departments, teams with the time and headcount to spend three months tagging a portfolio before the software does anything useful.
Lean teams don't have that runway. So most of them never switch, and the contracts stay in Word.
Aline is built for the team actually doing the work: the two-to-five person department running contracts for the whole company. The GC who's also the privacy officer, the HR escalation path, and the person pulling every limitation-of-liability clause because the CFO needs a number by Friday.
Four capabilities, one system. No tab-switching, no exports, no separate tools to stitch together.
Drafts contracts, redlines against your playbooks, researches legal questions, and analyzes agreements in plain English. It runs on Claude, GPT, and Gemini — picked per task — and grounds every answer in the actual contract.
Routes contracts for approval and manages intake, so sales, procurement, and finance stop running deals through email threads.
Electronic signatures inside Aline. Stop paying for a separate e-signature tool, and the contract never leaves the system to get signed.
Ingests your contracts from Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, or Box, extracts key terms automatically, and lets you run reports across the whole portfolio. No manual tagging, no metadata entry.
Legal isn't the only team that touches contracts. Aline is built so the rest of the business can answer their own contract questions — without pulling legal into every thread. Legal defines the guardrails once; sales, procurement, finance, and ops work inside them.
Most CLMs assume you'll spend three months pre-processing your portfolio before the tool does anything. Aline doesn't.
Sync your agreements from Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, or Box, and Aline extracts the metadata and classifies the documents on its own. You can query the portfolio the same day.
Aline is tailor-made for the teams actually doing the contract work.
Aline was founded in 2019 by Brent Farese, who spent a decade as an attorney before building it. As an in-house GC, he dealt with the same chaos most legal teams deal with: scattered repositories, manual redlining, and no way to answer a basic question about his own portfolio without a day of digging. He's also an engineer — which is why Aline ships fast and stays simple.
That was years before ChatGPT shipped, and it matters. Aline wasn't built by wrapping a chatbot around a filing cabinet. The contract infrastructure came first; the AI layer was added to a system that already understood the documents.
Aline is headquartered in New York City. The team is engineers, legal professionals, and customer specialists who work directly with the legal teams using the product every day — so every feature ships from a conversation with someone who has to use it.
Aline started as a better contract system for the one team size everyone else ignored. The ambition is bigger than that. We're building a single operating system for contracts — one place where legal, finance, ops, and procurement run the entire lifecycle, from first draft to renewal, on the same source of truth.
As the AI layer deepens, work that used to require a 50-person department keeps getting done by the people already doing it. The goal is a world where being a small team is never the reason you fall behind on your contracts.
If a customer wouldn't say it in conversation, we don't build it or write it.
We lead with real numbers and outcomes — "45 minutes to 2 minutes," not "faster."
Every feature ships from a conversation with someone who has to use it.
Aline handles the repetition so the hard calls get the time they deserve.
Aline doesn't make the final calls, and it doesn't replace an in-house counsel's read on a deal. That's the work in-house legal gets hired for. Everything else is what gets in the way.
Our advisors are leading general counsels who have run legal at SaaS, consumer, and enterprise companies. They know the job Aline is built for because they've done it themselves.
Book a demo and we'll show you how your agreements look in Aline, or start a trial and run it yourself.
