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TrustMark™ for AI Contracts: Get Your Terms Certified Before Buyers Push Back

TrustMark™ certifies your AI terms against real-world market data so customers can trust your AI governance, risk allocation, and data use before negotiation begins.

Powered by Certify™, which analyzes and benchmarks AI contract terms to generate contract signals.

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What Is TrustMark™ AI Certification?

AI contracts are not trusted by default.
They are questioned, escalated, and slowed down.
TrustMark removes that friction before it starts.

TrustMark™ is an independent certification that verifies your AI contract terms are market-aligned across risk, data use, and governance. Using Certify™, TermScout analyzes and benchmarks your agreement against defined AI certification criteria to assess transparency, responsibility, and compliance. The outcome is TrustMark™ AI certification, an external signal that builds buyer confidence and helps procurement and legal review move faster.

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Why TrustMark™ AI Certification Matters

Procurement and legal teams increasingly review AI terms before approving vendors, especially when those terms affect data use, responsibility, compliance, and risk.

AI is evolving rapidly, while regulations race to catch up. This uncertainty leaves businesses and buyers questioning AI terms in contracts. Without clarity, deals slow down, risks increase, and trust in your brand erodes.

TrustMark™ AI certification uses Certify™ to analyze and benchmark AI-related terms against defined transparency and compliance criteria. By providing independent certification, TermScout gives vendors an external trust signal that helps accelerate review, build customer confidence, and reduce negotiation friction.

Accelerate Procurement and Legal Review

Procurement teams move faster when AI terms have already been independently analyzed, benchmarked, and certified.

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Reduce AI-Related Legal and Compliance Risk

Reduce legal and compliance risk by certifying AI commitments around data use, transparency, security, and compliance.

Strengthen Buyer Confidence in Your AI Terms

Procurement and legal teams gain assurance that AI commitments are transparent and enforceable.

Strengthening Buyer Confidence with Certified AI Terms

How TrustMark™ AI Certification Helps

  1. Demonstrates your AI contract terms meet transparency standards

  2. Helps procurement and legal teams review vendor AI terms faster 

  3. Reduces redlines and negotiation friction around AI terms 

When you pursue TrustMark™ AI certification, you receive both the certification and a supporting report showing how your AI terms were analyzed against defined criteria.

Customers Love TermScout

A great way to reduce negotiation time in B2B contracting. Great team, helpful support. TermScout is really leading the way to make contracting easier for B2B organizations like mine.
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Alex Raymond

Founder & CEO

TermScout Gives Contract Negotiators a Significant Edge and Approvers Excellent Risk Transparency. I really enjoy working with the TS team and honing the software to be a key piece of the workflow for many clients who have high-volume contracts and limited people resources to review each one.
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Andrew Banquer

VP, Corporate Solutions

When we look at vendor contracts, we leverage TermScout reviews and rating data to help us quickly understand which vendors are going to be easy to work with and which ones are going to require extensive negotiations.
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AI Certification Criteria

TrustMark™ AI certification evaluates AI terms across criteria commonly reviewed by procurement, legal, privacy, security, and risk teams.

Use Restrictions

Establish use restrictions for your AI offering

Transparency & Explainability

Address how customer data is used

Data Usage & Ownership

Clarify how customer data is retained

Security & Incident Response

Confirm that customers retain ownershipof their data

Transparent Communication

Commit to notifying customers of security breaches

Ongoing AI Practice Commitments

Commit to ongoing conversations around best practices

Legal Compliance

Show compliance with applicable AI laws

How TrustMark™ AI Certification Works

Important Note:  TrustMark™ AI certification is available only to vendors whose agreements already qualify for core TrustMark™ certification.

Step 1

Start with Core TrustMark™ Certification

Submit your agreement for TrustMark™ certification review.

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Step 2

Add TrustMark™ AI certification for AI-specific terms and commitments.

Certified vendors can request an additional Certify™ analysis focused on AI-specific terms related to data use, transparency, data handling, security, and compliance.

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Step 3

Showcase TrustMark™ AI Certification

Display TrustMark™ and TrustMark™ AI certification to show that your agreement is market-aligned, benchmarked, and negotiation-ready.

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What you receive:  
• TrustMark certification
• Benchmark report against AI contracts
• Identified negotiation risks

Next step:

Confirm whether your agreement already qualifies for core TrustMark™ certification,
then submit your AI terms for additional review.

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Who Benefits from TermScout™ AI?

Close More Deals.
Hit Quota Faster.

For sales, nothing slows momentum like a contract stuck in review. AI terms only add to the friction, creating new questions and risks for buyers.

With TrustMark™ AI, your contracts come independently certified for fairness, compliance, and transparency. Buyers gain confidence in your AI commitments, see less need to redline, and deals move faster to signature.

Key Benefits for Sales:

  • Shorter deal cycles: Eliminate weeks of back-and-forth.
  • Higher win rates: Trusted AI terms lead to quicker sign-offs.
  • More selling time: Spend less time managing contract risks and more time closing business.
See How Sales Teams Close Faster →

Reduce Review Work
Without Increasing Risk

Legal teams already spend countless hours combing through boilerplate terms. AI contracts add even more complexity, from data use and ownership to compliance and security.

With TrustMark™ AI, your AI-related terms are independently benchmarked against industry standards, making it clear where you stand and what truly needs attention.

Key Benefits for Legal:

  • Less repetitive work: Eliminate cycles spent on boilerplate AI clauses.
  • Clear benchmarking: Know instantly how your AI terms compare to standards.
  • Focused attention: Prioritize emerging AI risks, not generic provisions.
See How Legal Teams Save Time →

Negotiate Less, Buy With Confidence

AI brings new risks to procurement, from data usage and ownership to compliance and security. Without clear standards, evaluating vendor terms is slow and uncertain.

With TrustMark™ AI, you replace guesswork with independent certification that validates fairness, compliance, and transparency in AI contract terms. This gives your team clarity from day one and confidence to move sourcing decisions forward quickly.

Key Benefits for Procurement:

  • Shorter negotiations: Spend less time debating AI clauses.
  • Independent proof of fairness: Confidence in vendor AI commitments from the start.
  • Smarter decisions: Focus only on the risks that truly matter.
See How Procurement Moves Faster →

Drive Deal Velocity and Operational Alignment

RevOps teams thrive on speed, accuracy, and consistency. AI terms can complicate the process, slowing handoffs and adding risk when standards aren’t clear.

With TrustMark™ AI, contracts are independently validated before negotiations begin, aligning sales and legal from the start. The result is fewer redlines, smoother handoffs, and faster revenue recognition.

By certifying your AI terms, RevOps leaders can confidently support deal velocity while reducing operational friction.

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Accelerate Revenue With TrustMark™ AI and have Market-Ready Contracts

Finance leaders rely on clarity and consistency to manage risk and revenue. AI terms introduce new uncertainties around compliance, liability, and data usage that can stall deals and complicate controls.

With TrustMark™ AI, contracts are independently certified against industry standards, reducing exposure and accelerating execution. This ensures every certified deal aligns with internal policies while meeting market expectations.

From reducing liability to speeding revenue recognition, TrustMark™ AI gives finance teams the confidence to close business faster.

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