About
About Contract Cloud
Contract Cloud was created to help organisations review, manage and understand contracts faster, without losing the governance, security and legal judgment that sensitive documents require.
Built by legal and technology professionals
AI-powered contract review and management software for law firms, in-house legal teams, procurement and compliance teams.
Founders
People who understand the contract work behind the software.
Trent Smith
Co-Founder, Contract Cloud
Trent Smith is a co-founder of Contract Cloud and an experienced in-house lawyer with more than 11 years' legal experience, including around 8 years working in-house.
Trent has advised on commercial contracts, procurement, technology, privacy, risk, governance and regulatory matters.
His in-house experience gives him a practical understanding of the pressure legal teams face to review contracts quickly, manage risk consistently and support the business without becoming a bottleneck.
Trent co-founded Contract Cloud to help legal teams, businesses and law firms use AI in a practical, secure and commercially useful way, while keeping lawyers in control of the final outcome.
Matthew Taulke-Johnson
Co-Founder and Lead Engineer, Contract Cloud
Matthew Taulke-Johnson is a co-founder of Contract Cloud and an experienced senior software developer with more than 20 years' experience building digital products, platforms and software systems.
Matthew has extensive experience across web development, SaaS platforms, system architecture, integrations and applied AI. Since the emergence of GPT-3.5, Matthew has worked deeply with AI-driven solutions, including practical tools that use large language models to solve real business problems.
At Contract Cloud, Matthew leads the technical development of the platform, bringing together secure cloud infrastructure, document management, AI-assisted review, retrieval-augmented generation, Word add-in functionality and workflow automation.
Matthew's focus is building software that is reliable, scalable and easy to use, helping legal teams and businesses adopt AI in a practical, secure and commercially useful way.
Our story
Founded to solve a practical contract problem.
Contracts are critical to every organisation, but they are often reviewed manually, stored across disconnected systems and difficult to manage once signed.
We built Contract Cloud to give legal, procurement and compliance teams a secure workspace for contract review, document management, risk analysis and lifecycle management.
What we believe
Practical principles for legal technology that teams can trust.
Practical AI
AI should support professional judgment, not replace it.
Security first
Legal and commercial documents require secure infrastructure and careful governance.
Built for real workflows
Contract tools should fit the way lawyers and business teams actually work.
Australian focus
Australian organisations should have access to secure, locally relevant contract technology.
Clarity over complexity
Good software should make contract work easier to manage, not harder to explain.
Trust
Designed for sensitive legal and commercial documents.
Contract Cloud's security positioning is aligned with its current Security page and Australian hosted infrastructure approach.
Australian focus
Local ownership, local hosting and local support expectations.
Contract Cloud is positioned for Australian organisations that need contract technology with legal-sector credibility and a clear security posture.
Talk to the team
Discuss AI contract review, document management, security, procurement and enterprise requirements with Contract Cloud.