Contractually makes contracts easy for
web-smart small businesses.
We want to do for contracts what FreshBooks has done for invoicing and what Basecamp has done for project management. With just a web browser, people can prepare, negotiate and organize their contracts, all in one place.
Our grand vision is to make the legal experience welcoming, simple and delightful. While many find the law dull, confusing or even intimidating, we see a chance to make it better.
So far, people seem to like where we’re going. We won the People’s Choice Award at Launch Party 9.
Contractually is based in Vancouver, Canada.
The Contractually Team
Martin Ertl, Founder and CEO
Martin is an entrepreneur and lawyer, and loves leading big changes. He started Contractually to make life easier for everyone who has to deal with contracts. Martin previously co-founded Navarik to provide web-based cargo inspection software for global oil producers. Martin also practised law at Davis LLP, a full-service national law firm. He holds a B.Sc. in physics from UBC and a law degree with distinction from McGill. He likes his beer brewed in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot.
Jeff Horton, CTO
Jeff thinks, therefore he is.
John F. Gray, Director of Business Development
John jumped into the web world three years ago, bringing his experience in business development and sales to companies creating new software products. He was co-founder and CEO of Mentionmapp, a visual analytics company that was acquired by OverInteractive Media. Before that, he sold legal software and services (LexisNexis), tech and software services (Rand Worldwide), and medical devices (Auto Control Medical). John has a B.Ap.Sc. in communications and a B.A. in English, both from Simon Fraser University. His secret health trick (don’t try this at home): he actually likes going to the gym — at 5:30am every morning.
Zak Greant, Technical Architect and Advisor
Zak has been building little parts of the Net for almost 20 years, from individual websites up to advising and helping manage organizations behind key Internet technology and infrastructure. He has been a contributor to the PHP project, the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, and has worked with MySQL AB, Sxip Identity, eZ Systems AS, the Mozilla Foundation and the MediaWiki Foundation.
Vince Hodges, Lead Developer
Vince is an entrepreneurial software developer with over 22 years of experience in developing applications. He has worked on software for a diverse set of industries from banking and oil to social games and music sharing, giving him the knowledge and wisdom to help bring any application to life.
Our Advisors
John H. Goodwin
John is President of Effective Business Strategies Inc., a management consulting firm. Bringing a market-oriented lens, he advises clients on building management teams, commercializing new products, entering new markets, corporate development and strategic alliances, often tapping his wide range of contacts in the US, Canada, Western Europe, China and India. John’s career started with large global firms, including Dunlop, Alcan and MacMillan Bloedel, and he later served as Chairman and CEO of two public company startups. He is an alumnus of UBC and UCLA and also did graduate work at the London School of Economics. He also manages marketing and sales for his wife Rose-Marie, a noted visual artist.
Dean Leung
Dean has spent over a decade in advancing the use of technology in the legal world. He is the Infrastructure and Communications Director with Holland and Knight, an Am Law 100 firm, and was previously Director of Information Technology with Davis LLP and Manager of Information Technology for McCarthy Tetrault. He is Vice President of the Communications Technologies Peer Group for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), and has authored several white papers and spoken widely on voice and data communications, virtualization and business continuity. Dean holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a focus on networking and communications from UBC. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Doug Robinson, QC
Doug is a mediator for commercial and construction disputes. Previously, he was a partner at Lawson Lundell and Founding Chair of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, promoting a civil justice system that is accessible, effective, fair and efficient. Doug has served as Chair of the UBC Alumni Association and as a member of the UBC Thunderbird Athletic Council, fundraising for athletic facilities. He earned his B.Com. and LL.B. from UBC, and rowed for Canada internationally.