Four people, strong opinions about clause recall
We're small on purpose. Every ClauseMesh engineer reviews real contracts with our legal advisors before shipping a new extraction type.
Who built this
Rachel Adeyemi
CEO & Co-Founder
Former head of legal at a Series B SaaS company. Built the first version of ClauseMesh after her team missed two below-threshold liability caps in the same fiscal quarter. JD from Columbia Law. Previously with Cravath for four years on M&A transactions.
Marcus Osei
CTO & Co-Founder
ML engineer with a background in document understanding systems. Spent six years at a legal data company building structured extraction pipelines for court filings before joining Rachel to build ClauseMesh. Designed the clause extraction model and the confidence interval framework from scratch.
Priya Krishnan
Head of Product
Runs product roadmap and legal domain research. Former contract operations manager at a Fortune 500 procurement team, where she managed a contract repository of 12,000 active agreements. She designed the risk rubric configuration system and the obligation register schema.
How we work
Extraction accuracy first
No new clause type ships without hitting 94% recall on our internal validation set. We'd rather delay a release than put a low-accuracy extraction type into a legal team's intake workflow.
Legal practitioners in the loop
Every taxonomy expansion involves working sessions with attorneys who review those clause types professionally. We don't make product decisions about legal workflows without someone who has practiced in them.
Async by default
We're distributed across New York and London. Decisions happen in writing, documented in our internal wiki. We meet twice a week. The rest of the time is deep work.
Who guides us
Three advisors from the corporate legal and NLP research communities help us avoid the most common ways AI-assisted legal tools go wrong.
David Chen
Legal Technology Advisor
Former CLM product lead. Advises on integration architecture and contract operations workflow design.
Elena Volkov
NLP Research Advisor
Research scientist specializing in information extraction from legal documents. Published work on clause boundary detection in multi-format contracts.
James Whitfield
M&A Legal Advisor
Partner at a mid-size M&A practice. Guides ClauseMesh's due diligence use case development and helps us understand what acquirers actually care about in target company contract review.