Pre-release · v0.0.1

Whereas

The open-source contract repository.

Recitals

Whereas legal teams are increasingly asked to manage contracts at the speed of software, but the contract management market remains dominated by closed, expensive, cloud-only platforms;

Whereas sensitive client agreements should not be required to leave a firm's infrastructure as a precondition for tooling;

Whereas AI-assisted contract review is genuinely useful but must be auditable, span-cited, and not built on hallucinations;

Now, therefore, Whereas is a self-hostable, AGPL-licensed contract repository for legal teams who want their tools to work the way they do.

What it does

• Repository. Upload, search, and permission-scope contracts across your team.
• Metadata extraction. Parties, dates, term, governing law, value — every field cited back to the source text.
• Clause intelligence. Segmented and classified against the CUAD taxonomy. Extensible.
• Playbook deviation. Define your firm's positions in YAML. Whereas flags clauses that don't match.
• Q&A over your corpus. Ask questions; get answers with clause citations.
• Embedded signature. DocuSeal runs alongside Whereas, no third-party vendor required.

Status

Whereas is in early development. The repository scaffold is up; the first tagged release (v0.1) is the next milestone. Watch the GitHub repo or join the discussion if you want to contribute.

License

Whereas is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Run it yourself, modify it, share your modifications. Commercial licensing available for organizations that need to deploy Whereas without the AGPL's network-use clause.