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Centari

Generative AI for deal data extraction

Head of Sales - Legal

Full-Time
$320k - $370k/yr
Expert
New York, NY, USA
In PersonTravel up to 30%.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • Personally sourced and closed six-to-seven-figure deals with sophisticated buyers, ideally law firm partners, and can run a multi-stakeholder sale end to end without an established playbook; candidates should be able to explain how they reached the decision maker, what the buyer needed to see, and what closed the deal.
  • 10+ years in or selling into law firms, including enterprise sales of software, data, or information services to AmLaw or Magic Circle firms; time in practice at a leading transactional firm counts toward the experience requirement.
  • Bring real law firm relationships or the sales background to build them quickly.
  • Have personally built part of a sales motion, such as an outbound program, an account plan, or positioning written and tested personally.
  • Have the executive presence to engage with a law firm partner and the discipline to run an individual pipeline before there is a team.
Responsibilities
  • Own new business in the law firm market, including relationships, deals, and the playbook for expanding market share.
  • Run the full sales cycle from first conversation to signed six- or seven-figure engagement, working with law firm partners and knowledge management and innovation leaders.
  • Develop positioning, messaging, outbound activity, and account targeting for AmLaw and Magic Circle firms.
  • Build the system that keeps the pipeline full and set the pilot and pricing guardrails the team sells within.
  • Convert introductions from channel and integration partners into opportunities and, where appropriate, closed deals.
  • Shape how Centari serves the law firm market as the business grows.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience generating demand and closing deals at an early-stage company without an established category or team.

About the company

Centari provides a full-stack transactional law and deal intelligence platform powered by generative AI. It helps legal and financial deal teams extract key data points from transactional documents at scale by using secure, large language models combined with trusted market data. The product automates data extraction and analysis from a firm’s internal documents, allowing teams to boost due diligence efficiency and improve decision-making. The platform integrates multiple AI models with a focus on transparency of AI performance and strong security to meet confidentiality and compliance requirements. Revenue comes from subscriptions based on firm size and usage. Centari differentiates itself by combining secure, compliant data-handling with flexible AI model integration and a focus on deal points and due diligence for legal and financial professionals.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$8.4M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • August 24, 2026 Projects, Tasks, and Intelligence expand daily usage beyond review.
  • Centari lists Ropes & Gray, Willkie, Fried Frank, Wilson Sonsini, and Gilbert + Tobin.
  • September 22, 2026 SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 support enterprise procurement.

What critics are saying

  • Harvey, Legora, and internal KM teams commoditize legal AI workflows by 2027.
  • Attorney curation remains expensive; bad citations poison precedent databases and undermine trust immediately.
  • A single large-firm renewal failure, like Ropes & Gray or Fried Frank, crushes credibility.

What makes Centari unique

  • Centari’s Deal Reasoning Engine structures clauses, amendments, and citations across closing sets.
  • August 13, 2026 Precedent Intelligence unifies search, editable citations, and multi-doc comparison.
  • June 16, 2026 MCP and Copilot integrations embed deal intelligence inside existing firm workflows.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Remote Work Options
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
  • Competitive salary

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6 month growth

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Centari
Oct 13th, 2026
Introducing Agentic Review: the fastest path to deal data you can trust.

Introducing Agentic Review: the fastest path to deal data you can trust. October 13, 2026 On this page Trusted data, faster Your deal history, where decisions get made Putting your institutional data to work across your AI stack Today Centari is releasing Agentic Review in preview, which shortens the path to verified deal data, together with updates that put that data to work in live negotiations and from your email inbox. In a demo, AI platforms for deal work look alike: a chat window, a grid, fields pulled from a contract. Every firm and fund now has capable AI tools in its tech stack, and for ad hoc work they are useful. The real test comes after the demo. At a law firm, a partner has to stand behind the output in front of a client. At a fund, the output has to hold up in an audit. AI outputs that appear in seconds still have to be checked. When no one checks them at the source, every end user has to check them again, on every query and for every downstream use case. Centari built Centari to check once, at the source, so the data becomes an institutional asset that can be relied on everywhere. Unverified data is a liability. Verified data is an asset. Agentic Review gets your team to the asset sooner. A data asset you can trust starts with how Centari reads a document. Deal documents are systems of logic. A defined term on page 12 controls a covenant on page 47. A side letter changes what a partnership agreement means for an LP. An amendment two years later modifies key provisions that came before it. Centari's Deal Reasoning Engine maps how a document is built before extracting anything, and reasons across every related document in the deal, amendments and side letters included. Every data point Centari returns is cited to its source language. Its frontier document understanding capability is why the most demanding transactional practices in the world, including Ropes & Gray, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Fried Frank and Wilson Sonsini, run their deal intelligence on Centari. And the results are measurable. At leading Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin, analyzing a deal with 200 data points used to take a full day and now takes under an hour. Trusted data, faster. Centari built Centari around human-in-the-loop verification, combining industry-leading data quality with a streamlined interface to audit AI outputs. Agentic Review, now in preview, keeps the human in the driver's seat while removing time-consuming repeated checks. Centari recognizes patterns in how your team approves outputs and can now auto-verify high-confidence answers, freeing reviewer time to focus on just the answers that require a judgment call. Administrators have complete control over where Agentic Review runs, and every automatic verification stays in the audit log. Every review your team completes makes the next one faster, and every verified deal builds AI-ready data your organization can rely on for years. Your deal history, where decisions get made. Verified data pays off at the moment of a decision, and decisions rarely get made inside a database. Today's release brings your organization's deal history to the surface in two more places where decisions happen: live negotiations and your email inbox. The markup from the other side. When a markup lands on your desk, the question is always the same: how far does this drift from what Centari has accepted before? Now you can upload the draft to Centari Intelligence and get a reliable answer based on your deal history. Lender's counsel can go into the client call with specific examples of where a borrower's first turn of a credit agreement strays from terms accepted from comparable borrowers, with each point cited to a prior deal. A fund's IR team can see how an incoming side-letter request compares with every side letter the fund has granted. Every answer draws on your own history. The question in your inbox. For deal professionals, work happens in email. You can now access Centari Intelligence directly from your inbox without opening another system. The next time someone asks, "What indemnity caps have we accepted in our last ten mid-market SPAs?" simply forward the question to Centari and get an answer back for your review in seconds. Replies come only to you, under the same access controls and ethical walls as the platform. Putting your institutional data to work across your AI stack. Your data should work for you across every tool your organization runs. Centari is built for interoperability. The Centari MCP Server connects your deal database to all applications that support MCP, the open standard for connecting AI tools to data, so an answer in a general purpose platform draws on the verified record in Centari. Every organization can now buy capable AI. No one can buy your deal history. Private markets run on documents, and Centari is building the information infrastructure to put every one of them to work. To see what your own documents can do, request a demo.

Centari
Aug 13th, 2026
Centari Precedent Intelligence: retrieval powered by your deal data.

Centari Precedent Intelligence: retrieval powered by your deal data. August 13, 2026 On this page Precedent Search: find language by meaning, not just by name Precedent Capture turns attorney judgment into a new type of data asset Multi-Doc Compare shows how a provision was negotiated across the firm's deal history Available now Centari turns a firm's deal documents into a structured, citation-backed database of its deal history. A firm's knowledge of deal terms and market trends is its most defensible advantage, yet for most firms it remains trapped in complex agreements and data silos. Nowhere is this gap more costly than in precedent retrieval. The best inspiration for a clause is usually the firm's own, and even after four years of legal AI platform pilots and rollouts, partners still tell Centari, Inc. they're struggling to find the language they need. Today, Centari, Inc. is launching three new Precedent Intelligence capabilities: Precedent Search, Precedent Capture, and Multi-Doc Compare. Precedent Search finds the exact provision a deal team needs across every matter. Precedent Capture lets the team refine and own the citations behind each provision. Multi-Doc Compare displays provisions side-by-side across matters. All three run on the same Deal Reasoning Engine that Centari customers use today to create proprietary deal databases at scale with attorney-grade accuracy. Precedent Intelligence works with the firm's structured data, not an index of documents, so every piece of information an attorney retrieves from the database comes with rich source citations and context. Precedent Search: find language by meaning, not just by name. Precedent Search brings clause-level retrieval into Centari Intelligence, the same conversational interface where attorneys already query the firm's structured deal data. A deal team can now retrieve an entire provision by describing what it does, not by guessing what words it contains. A partner is negotiating a deal where the signing may be delayed. The question is what termination rights the client should have if the signing slips. The partner remembers drafting a similar clause, but not the client or the matter it came from. In Centari, the partner can now describe the scenario and Precedent Search will locate the exact provision that matches it. Institutional memory stops being a matter of who was on the deal. Precedent Capture turns attorney judgment into a new type of data asset. The Deal Reasoning Engine gives every data point it extracts a pinpointed citation. Precedent Capture gives control of those citations to the deal team, so those who know the matter decide what the firm learns from it. In the Centari document viewer, users can adjust any citation's boundaries or attach a new one. On a closing date, that might mean extending the citation from the initial closing definition to take in the additional closings, so the next attorney searching for closing mechanics sees the full structure. The adjustment takes seconds. Edits are visible to everyone with access to the matter, and every change is tracked in the data point's history. Before a heavily used precedent matter circulates firm-wide, a knowledge management lead can curate its citations, so the firm accumulates language its own attorneys have deemed valuable in real world settings. Every refinement sharpens what Precedent Search returns for the next team that asks. Multi-Doc Compare shows how a provision was negotiated across the firm's deal history. Multi-Doc Compare puts the firm's negotiating history on one screen. Until now, that comparison lived in a partner's memory: recalling past deals, opening one file at a time, finding the clause in each, and tiling the windows across the screen, with no structured deal data to narrow the search. Building the comparison set takes seconds. From the database, a deal team narrows by deal type or counterparty and selects the matters to compare. Centari opens the provisions and citations side by side. Which provision fits the active deal remains a judgment for the partner. A private equity deal team comparing indemnity packages across prior software acquisitions can see how survival periods, baskets, caps, and fraud carveouts were negotiated in similar deals, with each excerpt linked to its source. Centari highlights differences across the set, making variations visible without reading every document. How has the firm negotiated this provision across its last twenty deals? A knowledge management team reads the pattern in one place, rather than reconstructing it matter by matter. That pattern is the raw material for internal guidance, a client update, or the next pitch, converting the firm's dormant deal history into value for its attorneys and the clients they serve. Available now. Precedent Search, Precedent Capture, and Multi-Doc Compare are live for all Centari customers, and across every deal document already in the platform. Finding a provision becomes a quick question rather than an afternoon in the DMS. Verifying the citation behind it takes an edit rather than a workaround. Every firm now has access to fast, general-purpose AI. What sets a firm apart is its own deal history, which exists nowhere else. Search, capture, and comparison have each existed somewhere in a firm's tech stack. What has not existed is all three running on the same structured deal data, in one place. Precedent Intelligence puts those provisions where the firm's deal intelligence already lives. Every provision the deal team captures makes the firm's next negotiation sharper. To see Precedent Intelligence running on your firm's own deal history, book a demo.

PR Newswire
Jun 23rd, 2026
Centari launches AI tools to track amendment changes and map complex legal deals

Centari, an AI platform for deal intelligence, has launched Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, two capabilities designed to help attorneys track changes across transaction documents and visualise complex deal structures. Amendment Awareness automatically identifies changes when amendments are uploaded and updates deal profiles to reflect current terms. Deal Maps generates visual graphs showing how agreements relate to one another, including which documents incorporate, modify or supersede others. The features address challenges in transactional law where meaning is often spread across multiple documents including amendments, exhibits and side letters. Centari's patent-pending Deal Reasoning Engine analyses relationships between documents rather than reviewing them individually. The capabilities are now available to Centari customers, including firms such as Ropes & Gray, Willkie and Wilson Sonsini.

LawNext
Jun 23rd, 2026
Deal-Intelligence platform Centari adds Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, features that deepen its multi-document analysis.

Deal-Intelligence platform Centari adds Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, features that deepen its multi-document analysis. Centari, an AI platform for managing complex transactions, today launched two capabilities, Amendment Awareness and Deal Maps, that help attorneys understand how transactions change over time and how documents relate to one another. Both features further extend Centari's platform beyond single-document review to reasoning across the multiple agreements, amendments, and ancillaries that make up a complex transaction. The features are available immediately to Centari customers. The features are designed to answer a problem most legal AI tools have not solved, the company says. Large language models read documents as text at a fixed point in time, while transactional attorneys read a deal as a system - following defined terms, chasing cross-references, and tracking how one agreement modifies, satisfies, or supersedes another. Centari says its patent-pending platform, which it calls the Deal Reasoning Engine, was built to work the second way, and that the two new capabilities extend that engine across amendments and across whole closing sets. "Transactional attorneys don't work document by document," said Kevin Walker, founder and CEO of Centari and a former Paul Hastings M&A attorney. "They work deal by deal. Understanding a transaction means understanding how agreements, amendments, schedules, and related documents fit together." Amendment Awareness. Amendment Awareness is designed to keep a deal's underlying data current as a transaction changes. When an amendment is uploaded to an existing matter, the system identifies what changed and updates the deal's data points to reflect the operative terms, rather than leaving a record that reflects the agreement as originally signed. In an interview yesterday, Walker drew a distinction between this and redlining. The capability is not tracking textual changes, but reading how an amendment alters the meaning of a deal over time. "It's a conceptual understanding of how a document is evolving over time," Walker said. "It's not just looking at how this text has changed, it's understanding how it's changed the meaning of the whole deal over time as new documents are signed." As examples of the kinds of documents the feature is built to handle, he pointed to amended and restated limited partnership agreements and amended purchase agreements, where rights can shift substantially between the first version and a later one. Centari says this capability can be of greatest use to credit facilities, portfolio company governance documents, fund structures, and other matters that evolve across multiple amendments. Deal Maps. The new Deal Maps feature (pictured in the image at the top of this article) generates a visual graph of how the documents in a transaction relate to one another, showing where one agreement incorporates, modifies, satisfies, replaces or supersedes another. The map is generated automatically, without manual classification or chart-building. Walker described the feature as a new way to visualize relationships that lawyers have historically had to reconstruct by hand. "Attorneys spend significant time reconstructing document relationships that already exist within a transaction," he said. "Deal Maps makes those relationships visible immediately." He compared the concept to the structure charts and fund-flow diagrams lawyers already build, but applied to the documents themselves. In the past, he said, that information lived in a closing checklist or had to be pieced together from circulating drafts. In a demonstration, Walker showed an M&A closing set of six agreements in which the map depicted an amended and restated purchase agreement superseding the original, with an equity commitment letter, a reps and warranties insurance policy, and an escrow agreement shown as satisfying or adding detail to it. Positioning at the data layer. Walker told me that the focus of Centari's development is not on the application layer alongside tools such as Harvey and Legora, but rather on helping firms create high-quality, structured data assets from their own deal documents - data the firm can then use in whatever AI system it prefers. "We want to help them create data that they can trust when it matters to clients," Walker said. Walker said Centari is working toward a definitive ontology of a firm's knowledge and deal history, running from the practice group down to the individual deal, clause and data point. He added that the company has expanded its team since late 2025, hiring attorneys from large firms and investing in applied legal research, and said the two new capabilities grew out of the founders' experience as practicing attorneys. Centari's customers include Ropes & Gray, Willkie, Fried Frank, and Wilson Sonsini.

Centari
Jun 16th, 2026
Introducing the Centari MCP Server and Microsoft Copilot integration.

Introducing the Centari MCP Server and Microsoft Copilot integration. June 16, 2026 On this page Put your firm's knowledge to work across your AI stack Deal intelligence, for the whole firm Centari turns complex deal documents into a library of your firm's most valuable intellectual capital: structured, attorney-grade data that powers a competitive advantage in both the business and practice of law. The knowledge is yours. Today, Centari, Inc. is giving you more control over where you put it to work, with the launch of the Centari MCP Server and Microsoft Copilot integration. Put your firm's knowledge to work across your AI stack. AI is evolving quickly, and so are the vendors who supply it. What outlasts legaltech volatility, and what defines your market leadership, is your firm's deal intelligence: the unique expertise that sets you apart when a client selects counsel for their next major transaction. Centari is designed for the firms that recognize proprietary, portable data and software interoperability are essential to their success in this new era of technology. The Deal Reasoning Engine produces citation-backed deal data the whole firm can rely on. And with its new integrations, you can now deliver this data to more places your team already works. * Centari MCP Server The Centari MCP Server securely connects third-party tools to your Centari deal database through MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard for linking AI applications to data sources. An AI assistant your attorneys already use, or an agent your innovation team builds, can draw on the firm's deal history within existing workflows. * Microsoft Copilot integration One of the most common barriers to adoption is the friction of switching between a growing number of tools. Set up Centari's integration with Microsoft Copilot in a single click, and users can instantly retrieve deal data from Centari while working in MS Office applications like Word or Outlook. Deal intelligence, for the whole firm. With AI reshaping what clients expect from their counsel, the speed of tech adoption is now table stakes. The firms that are pulling ahead are those that can synthesize intelligence across transactions and use it to win mandates and deliver superior client outcomes. Learn more about how Centari powers deal intelligence at leading firms like Fried Frank, Wilson Sonsini, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Gilbert + Tobin, or request a demo.