Every agreement should get a careful first read
Proviso helps in-house legal teams hold each draft to the positions they have agreed, so lawyers spend their time on decisions instead of first reads.
How Proviso started
Hannah Okafor spent nine years as general counsel at a freight company, where every carrier and vendor sent its own paper and all of it waited for the same three lawyers. Most agreements were fine. Finding that out took most of the week.
In 2022 she and Daniel Reyes, who had built document search at a legal research company, began writing the team’s positions down as rules a computer could check. The first version reviewed NDAs. By the end of that year it read every vendor agreement the company signed.
Today legal teams at more than 400 companies review with Proviso, from three-lawyer departments to firms with forty associates.
Leadership
Hannah Okafor
Co-founder and CEO
General counsel at a national freight company for nine years.
Daniel Reyes
Co-founder and CTO
Built document search at a legal research company.
Margaret Lindqvist
General Counsel
A commercial contracts partner in New York before Proviso.
Samuel Adeyemi
Head of Security
Ran security for a healthcare data platform.
Offices
Most of the team works from New York and London. The rest work remotely across the US and Europe.
