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Legal text drafted by lawyers, interpreted by courts, and executable by software – from the same open source template.

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The Accord Project
and its purpose

The Accord Project is a non-profit, collaborative, initiative developing an ecosystem and open source tools specifically for smart legal contracts. Open source means that anyone can freely use and contribute to development.

Smart agreements promise to reduce friction and transaction costs in the creation and management of commercial relationships. Enabling this future requires the necessary tools to format, share, execute, and manage legally enforceable machine-readable agreements. The Accord Project establishes and maintains a universal legal and technical foundation for smart legal contracts in a technology neutral manner.

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The open ecosystem for making agreements smart

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Cicero

Generate structured templates for any agreement

Create templates where lawyers write the contract text in Markdown and software executes the logic. Use open source Cicero to render, validate, and run them – or call them from an AI agent.

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Acceptance of Delivery {{shipper}} will be deemed to have completed its delivery obligations if in {{receiver}}’s opinion, the {{deliverable}} satisfies the Acceptance Criteria

Template Playground

Online editor for building, editing, and test smart agreements

Quickly build and edit contract templates using the Template Playground markdown editor and template library components

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Build agreements in a technology neutral format

Just like text documents, smart agreements should not be restricted to a particular technology platform such as a given blockchain system. The Accord Project provides a neutral, technology agnostic, format that enables a contract document to be written once and used, and reused, across a variety of supported technologies.

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Accord Project Tech Working Group – Q1 2026 in Review

Blog / Apr.9.2026

Accord Project Returns as a Google Summer of Code 2026 Organization

Mar.7.2026

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May.6.2026

Technology Working Group Weekly Meeting

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Open source software tools for smart legal contracts