Used by engineering teams that take compliance seriously
OSPO directors, engineering counsel, and DevSecOps leads use Cohorto to close the gap between contributor activity and legal record-keeping.
Kartex Systems
Open-Source Program Lead
Kartex Systems maintains open-source components across 12 repos that feed into their enterprise product stack. Their four-person OSPO was tracking CLA status in a shared Google Sheet — one row per contributor, manually updated after each email confirmation. After deploying Cohorto, they eliminated the spreadsheet entirely. New contributors now sign through the PR comment thread without any OSPO involvement. Average contributor onboarding time dropped from 4 days to under 30 minutes.
4 days → 30 min contributor onboardingOrbivex
Senior Counsel, Engineering
Orbivex's engineering counsel needed a defensible CLA record for an IP due diligence review tied to a strategic partnership. Their prior process — DocuSign PDFs scattered across inboxes, some contributors handled via email confirmation only — could not produce a coherent audit trail under the timeline given. Cohorto was deployed specifically to reconstruct and future-proof that record. Within two weeks of onboarding, the legal team exported a single timestamped PDF covering every contributor, CLA version, and signing event — formatted for external legal review.
10-min audit export vs. 2-day manual digCloudmeld Technologies
DevOps Platform Engineer
Cloudmeld's DevOps team manages CI/CD infrastructure for an inner-source program with 200+ internal contributors across 30 repos. CLA tracking was blocking PR merges manually via a custom webhook that broke regularly. Cohorto replaced the fragile webhook with a stable platform integration and eliminated recurring OSPO support tickets related to stuck CLA checks.
Zero CLA-related support tickets post-migrationNovalign Corp
OSPO Director
Novalign Corp's OSPO oversees 40+ open-source repositories across three business units. After a team acquisition, two different CLA templates were in use — and nobody had a reliable mapping of which contributors had signed which version. Cohorto's version management feature let the OSPO issue a targeted re-sign request to only the contributors covered by the deprecated template, with no manual list building. All affected contributors had signed the updated agreement within 72 hours.
100% re-sign compliance in 72 hoursFrom the teams using Cohorto
We went from chasing signatures in email threads to a fully automated flow. Every new contributor to our open-source stack is tracked the moment they open a PR.
Cohorto's audit export saved us hours during our last IP due diligence review. The legal team could see the full CLA history for every contributor in one document.
Our engineers stopped getting blocked on CLA status and our OSPO stopped being the bottleneck. That alone was worth it.
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