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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.

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Built by legal and technology professionals

AI-powered contract review and management software for law firms, in-house legal teams, procurement and compliance teams.

Australian owned Australian hosted Built for legal professionals Secure document management AI-powered contract review

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 worked across organisations including QIC, Tabcorp and UnitingCare, advising 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.

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.

Customer data at rest stored in AWS Sydney

AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit

RBAC, least privilege and access reviews

24/7 monitoring and automated alerting

AWS, Cloudflare, Aikido and OpenAI API listed as providers

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