What is the Accord Project
Built for Commercial Agreements
The open source technology projects are specifically designed to enable users to templatize the natural language of any type of contract and integrate with smart contract logic developed for expressing and modeling legal concepts, clauses, and obligations.
Open Source
All software and documentation are open source enabling anyone to use, and extend the core functionality within, and for, their application or project. Accord Project software is maintained and governed through the Linux Foundation.
Common Format
The technology stack provides a common ‘.doc’ format for smart agreement templates meaning that contracting parties and users can develop contracts using the same core structure and specification, reducing focus on the technology and promoting ease of use.
Built for the Agentic Era
The architecture is natively suited to AI agent workflows. Markdown contract text is the format LLMs already understand. Concerto schemas provide structural validation that catches hallucinated values before they reach a signed agreement. Integrate your agents with The Agreement Protocol API (APAP) via Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint – so AI assistants can author, query, and run contracts as typed tool calls.
Extensible Models and Templates
The stack is built to be extensible to enable the use and reuse of domain models and templates for both full smart contracts and individual clauses. This helps to create a mature, progressive, foundation upon which to build smart agreements.
Community Driven
Building the future of contracting should be collaborative. The Accord Project is supported by organizations leading the development of smart documentation including DocuSign, xDTM Standard Association, IACCM, IBM and more.
Technical Steering Committee
The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) plays an important role in setting up priorities and in providing guidance to the Accord Project Technology Working Group.
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Governance documentation
All software is Apache 2.0 licensed and documentation is available under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
Documentation
Hosted by the Linux Foundation
Hosted by the Linux Foundation
The Accord Project is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source.
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