Mission
Turn contract data into advantage
Move from static PDFs to structured intelligence — so risks surface before they become renewals crises, and negotiation knowledge compounds.
About Klara Legal
Making contract risk visible.
Klara Legal is the company legal brain — a contract operations workspace for in-house teams and the firms that support them. We help you understand agreements, explain risks to the business, and preserve the context behind every commercial decision.
Vision
The operations layer for commercial contracting
Every company should know what was agreed, why it was accepted, and what to negotiate differently next time — across legal, sales, finance, and leadership.
Why we exist
Contracts capture the what. We capture the why.
CLM tools manage documents. Drafting AI speeds up language. Neither preserves the trade-offs behind MSAs — the knowledge teams lose every quarter.
9.2%
of annual revenue at risk
Contract mismanagement shows up as missed renewals, unseen liability, and deals re-negotiated from scratch. Klara gives operators and counsel a shared picture before signatures dry.
Team
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Kevin De Pauw
Co-founder — Business & strategy
Entrepreneur running an IT and software consultancy, with a decade building technology businesses across development, data, and security. Leads growth, partnerships, and go-to-market.
Thomas Wielfaert
Co-founder — AI & product
Started as a researcher in computational linguistics, then spent eight years building AI/NLP and full-stack systems for legal technology platforms — now turning that experience into structured, actionable contract intelligence.