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TrustMark™ AI Certification: Independent Certification for AI Contract Terms

Earn independent TrustMark™ certification showing your AI contract terms meet transparency and compliance standards.

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What is TrustMark™ AI?

TrustMark™ AI is independent certification of AI-related contract terms. TermScout evaluates your agreement against evolving industry standards to validate transparency, responsibility, and compliance.  The outcome is an independent TrustMark™ certification that builds customer confidence and accelerates procurement review 

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Why AI Terms Certification Matters

Procurement and legal teams increasingly evaluate AI contract terms before approving vendors.

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  analyzes AI-related contract terms against established standards for compliance and transparency. By providing independent third-party certification, TermScout gives vendors a trusted badge that accelerates revenue, builds customer confidence, and enhances trust.

Accelerating Deals →

Procurement teams move forward faster when AI contract terms have already been independently certified.

Accelerating Deals with AI Terms Certification
Reducing Regulatory Risk with AI Terms Certification

Reducing Risk →

Reduce legal and compliance risk with independently certified AI contractual commitments.

Strengthening Procurement Confidence →

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

Strengthening Buyer Confidence with Certified AI Terms

How TrustMark™ AI Helps

 • Demonstrates your AI contract terms meet transparency standards
• Helps procurement and legal teams evaluate vendors faster
• Reduces AI-related contract negotiations
• Builds trust earlier in the sales process 

Unlock Trust and Compliance in AI Terms.

When you certify your AI terms with TermScout™, you get more than TrustMark™ certification. You receive a transparent report showing how your AI contract terms meet defined certification criteria.

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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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Certification Principles

TrustMark™ AI evaluates AI contract terms across several categories commonly reviewed by procurement, legal, 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

Best Practice Commitment

Commit to ongoing conversations around best practices

Legal Compliance

Show compliance with applicable AI laws

How TrustMark™ AI Certification Works

Important Note —  The AI Certification badge is available only to vendors who are already TermScout Certified. 

Step 1

Start with Core Certification

Submit your agreement for TrustMark™ certification review.

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Step 2

Add TrustMark™ AI certification for AI-specific commitments.

Certified vendors can request an additional AI Terms-specific analysis, focused on  data use, transparency, data handling, security, and compliance.

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Step 3

Showcase Trust

Display TrustMark™ and TrustMark™ AI certification to demonstrate transparent contracts and responsible AI commitments.

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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.
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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.
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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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