Margaret Pohl
Commercial contracts & SaaS
A US law firm for startups
Senior counsel for startups, on Slack.
A named attorney from a top-ten firm, in your Slack — turning sales, employment, and equity contracts around in hours, not weeks. No retainer until you're ready.
4 hr
Median MSA turnaround, reviewed and signed by a senior attorney.
$4K /mo
Starting retainer. Cancel any month, no penalty.
100 %
Senior attorneys, top-ten firm or top-ten law school.
The problem
Every contract is a deal stalling.
A sales MSA in legal review is a quarter of revenue waiting in escrow. An offer letter that takes three days is a senior hire your competitor closes. A SAFE that sits with outside counsel for a week is momentum your round loses. Most startups don't have a legal problem — they have a legal throughput problem. The lawyers they can afford are too slow. The lawyers who are fast cost $1,200 an hour and bill in six-minute increments. So they paste the contract into a chatbot, hope, and hit send.
What Clawsen is
A real law firm, built differently.
Three things make Clawsen different from BigLaw, from AI tools, and from a full-time hire. We lead with the first one, because the other two only matter if the first one is true.
01
A named attorney, not a queue.
You get one person — with a photo, a track record, and a number you can call. They know your cap table, your standard MSA, and the deal you closed last quarter.
02
BigLaw caliber, startup price.
Every Clawsen attorney comes from a top-ten firm or a top-ten law school. No associates learning on your time. Fixed monthly retainers from $1,500, or per-document pricing for one-off work.
03
Predictable price. No surprise bills.
Fixed monthly retainer or fixed-price per document. You always know what you're paying before you say go. No six-minute increments. No partner-vs-associate sleight of hand.
How it works
Send a contract. Get it back the same day.
Onboarding is one hour the first week. Everything after that happens in Slack.
01
You send. We turn it around.
Email or Slack. The work happens between you and a senior attorney you know by name — turnaround measured in hours, not days.
02
Your attorney signs off. You ship.
A senior lawyer applies judgment to every contract, signs off on the redline, and hands it back ready to send. No queue. No associates.
The team
Named lawyers. Real bios. Real bar numbers.
Every Clawsen attorney has practiced at a top-ten firm or graduated from a top-ten law school. Usually both. You'll be matched with one — and you'll know their name on day one.
Daniel Nakamura
Equity financings & cap tables
Aisha Sandhu
Employment & equity comp
Jordan Hartwell
SaaS contracts & data privacy
Pricing
Three ways to work with us.
One-off, monthly retainer, or full GC. Switch any month — no annual commit required.
Per document
From $400/document
One contract, one fixed price. No retainer, no minimum, no commitment. Same senior attorneys, same turnaround.
- Fixed price quoted upfront
- NDA < 1 hour · MSA < 4 hours
- Same senior attorneys, same rosters
- No subscription, no minimum
Counsel
From $1,500/month
A named attorney on call for the contracts you actually get. The right fit for post-seed teams with steady but not heavy deal flow.
- One named attorney, dedicated
- Slack and email coverage
- Up to 8 contracts per month
- Standard queue
Fractional GC
From $4,000/month
A named attorney embedded in your Slack. Full coverage across sales, employment, and equity contracts. Onboarding in week one.
- One named attorney, dedicated
- Unlimited Slack and email
- Up to 20 contracts per month
- Priority queue — your contracts go first
Northwind
Atelier
Halford·Co
Lumens
Crestline
Mira & Foss
Our MSA used to take ten days at Cooley and a fight with procurement. With Clawsen we close it in an afternoon. Same caliber of work, fraction of the friction.
I came in skeptical that software could touch the quality. It can't — but it can do the boring part. What I got was my old Wilson lawyer, on Slack, on Tuesday.
2,400 +
Contracts shipped through Clawsen in the last twelve months.
6 days
Average sales-cycle compression after switching from outside counsel.
$0
Spent on associate training. We don't bill juniors to learn on your matter.
Why not the alternatives
Why not just…
$1,200/hr to a partner who hands it to a first-year.
You'd pay top of the market for a partner's name and middle of the market for the work. We bill flat fees, and the attorney whose name is on the email is the one who reviewed it.
Great for throughput. Nobody to call.
AI redlines are useful — we use them ourselves. But there's no one to call when the deal gets complicated, and no one who builds context over time. We pair the throughput with a named attorney.
$250–$350K plus equity. Most Series A's don't need one yet.
A senior GC is the right answer at Series C. We're the bridge until you get there — and when you do hire, we hand the keys over cleanly, with a clean playbook and a referral.
Start here
Talk to an attorney this week.
30-minute intake call. We'll match you with an attorney whose background fits your stage — and you'll meet them before you commit. No retainer until you're ready.