SquarePact Contract Defense

👋 Aloha PH, we’re the team behind SquarePact Contract Defense. We're a small tech / AI startup, like many of you.

Not too long ago, we almost went bankrupt waiting for our first local government contract to close.

Crazy part is, the agency wanted to buy from us! Our champion wanted to move forward. The budget was there. The deal made sense for them.

But the procurement process---legal, compliance, IT, security, vendor onboarding---took months. We were a small startup trying to navigate a workflow designed for huge vendors with legal teams and contracting officers, who can afford to wait 6-12 months. We were constantly blindsided by new requirements, unexpected redlines, and long periods of silence.

We'd have one productive meeting with them, and the next meeting would be scheduled for two weeks later. One month stretched out to two, then six, then nine...we were down to our last few cups of ramen.

At the time, we kept thinking: “There has to be a better way to get through this.”

So we built one.

SquarePact Contract Defense is a lightweight tool that helps startups prepare for enterprise and government contracting long before they’re ready for it. Upload your contract, operating agreement draft, or SoW using our secure zero-data retention system. We’ll use our expert agentic system drawing from 100+ years' worth of sales experience we manually collected, and decades of research into reducing AI hallucinations (I'm an AI professor) to find:
- every objection they’ll raise
- every roadblock you'll face
- every slowdown tactic they'll try
- why it matters
- how to prevent it from happening proactively
- how to respond: fallback positions, safer alternative language

Just answers and a plan, so your small team can look like seasoned vendors and avoid the delays that nearly sank us.

If you’re moving up-market, starting to talk to bigger customers, or planning to sell into government, we’d love for you to try it. We built this for the version of us who didn’t know what was coming.

Happy to answer questions about enterprise sales, government contracting, procurement, or how the AI works under the hood. We’re here all day.

- John Licato, PhD
CEO and Founder, Actualization.AI

Hi PH! 👋 Co-maker here.

I want to highlight some critical technical challenge we solved: Privacy and Accuracy.

We talk to so many founders who are desperate for help with legal redlines, so they copy-paste sensitive NDAs or Service Agreements into generic LLMs like ChatGPT. That is a massive security risk that can actually get you disqualified from the enterprise deals you’re trying to win.

We built SquarePact specifically because "generic" AI isn't safe enough or accurate enough for contract law.

• Zero-Data Retention: We don’t train on your contracts. The services we use don't save your data.

• Anti-Hallucination: We force the AI to ground its answers in reality, not creative writing.

We wanted to build a tool that your potential customers' CISO would actually approve of you using. Give it a spin and let us know how the workflow feels!

Cheers!

Animesh Nighojkar, Ph.D.

VP Engineering, Actualization.AI

It’s surprising how manual and fragmented contracting still is, especially compared to how automated most other parts of startups have become. Interested to hear what’s been hardest for others when dealing with larger buyers.

Exciting! Which countries does this apply to? :)