We built Clausehopper to fix our own pain points.

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Contracts are complex and convoluted.

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Clausehopper simplifies, without sacrificing detail.

The Problem

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Credit docs just keep getting longer.

  • The rise of private credit and of liability management exercises (LMEs) has transformed credit markets and the credit agreements that underpin them.

  • Closing LME loopholes adds length and complexity to already long and complex credit agreements.

  • Credit agreements now regularly span hundreds pages that are filled with defined terms and intra-contract references.

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And AI isn’t there yet.

Investors compete on their speed and the creativity of their solutions. Fast and creative capital solutions require analysts to be quick and careful when analyzing credit agreements.

  • AI tools can summarize some credit agreement terms, but summaries are insufficient in a world where the precise language matters.

  • AI tools hallucinate and make mistakes. They are often more confused by intra-contract references and defined terms than humans are.

  • The only way to double-check an AI response is to go spinning through the credit docs yourself. Having to do so means no time is saved.

Our Approach

We make complex contracts easier to read by consolidating everything needed to understand a provision onto a single screen—no more searching across 200+ pages to piece together the meaning of a single term.

We’re not a chat bot or an AI summarization tool. Users always see the full contractual text verbatim, just reorganized for greater clarity. Why? Because we believe too much capital is at risk to rely on anything less that the precise language of these agreements.

About Us

Our team has broad experience across law, finance, and tech. Our first-hand experience of the pain points that bankers, lawyers, investors, and other advisors face informs the design of Clausehopper at every step.

Co-founder Lauren Pansegrau has held a variety of roles where having a tool like Clausehopper to speed through credit agreements would have made her life much easier. She worked as a special situations investor at GIC and as a leveraged finance credit analyst at Bank of America prior to attending Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she continued working in distressed debt at Angelo Gordon, Ropes & Gray, and the S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in Finance from the University of South Carolina.

Co-founder Yehuda Maes honed his technical skills and finance knowledge in quantitative finance roles at BlackRock and Citadel Securities. He gained management experience as a consultant at Bain & Company and as an early employee at Norm Ai, a leading compliance AI start-up in NYC. He has also felt the pain of navigating complex credit agreements as a law clerk in the restructuring group at Paul, Weiss and for the District of Delaware Bankruptcy Court. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in Math and Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

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Start hopping today.

If you’d like to learn more about Clausehopper or schedule a live demo, please contact us here or email contact@clausehopper.com.