Contract infrastructure first, AI layered on top
Aline was founded in 2019 by Brent Farese, an attorney with roughly a decade of practice, including in-house general counsel experience, before he built the company. Its own founding narrative is that it built the contract-data infrastructure first and added the AI layer afterward, which shows up in features like AlineSign unlimited e-signature and contract analytics across a portfolio without manual meta-tagging.
Aline says it runs on AWS in the United States, holds a SOC 2 Type II report and is GDPR compliant, and states it never trains on customer data, standard privacy framing shared across the AI-native CLM category.



