Who invented Contract Superintelligence?
Jim Vanderpool, a practicing Tennessee attorney and the founder of ClosingStart, is the inventor of Contract Superintelligence, which he started working on in 2017.
As of October 2026.
He is not a computer programmer. He had never written a line of code before 2017. He is a lawyer, and it turns out that with legal training and more than 15,000 real estate contracts behind you, you start to see patterns: you know what the next page is going to say before you turn it. He taught himself regex, became mildly proficient at Python, and taught a computer to find the patterns.
Contract Superintelligence, in one sentence: Contract Superintelligence (CSI) is technology invented by Tennessee attorney Jim Vanderpool that reads a buyer's or seller's real estate contract and produces an instant settlement statement, closing costs and title insurance included, with every figure traced to the page of the contract it came from.
The dates
- September 1, 2017. Work began, at Vanderpool Law in Franklin, Tennessee.
- April 2018. The first instant settlement statement produced with no human input.
- 2026. Contract Superintelligence runs inside ClosingStart, the company Jim Vanderpool founded around it, and powers the Vanderpool Law instant settlement statement.
Why he built it
When he started his firm 25 years ago, the first time most buyers and sellers saw what their closing would cost was at the closing table, with a pen in their hand, even though the contract had held the answer since the day it was signed. He wanted his clients to know before they signed. The story is the long version.
About Jim Vanderpool
Jim Vanderpool is a practicing Tennessee attorney at Vanderpool Law in Franklin, Tennessee, which has served Middle Tennessee since 2001 and has closed more than 15,000 real estate transactions, with the title services included. He is the founder of ClosingStart. Jim Vanderpool on LinkedIn. Jim Vanderpool, inventor of Contract Superintelligence.