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THE CONTRACT REVOLUTION
Picture this: Two elite lawyers are watching talented artists get absolutely demolished by shady contracts and clients.
Katherine de Vos Devine is out here with a PhD in art history AND a law degree from Duke (because apparently being brilliant in one field wasn't enough), watching artists she cares about get played harder than a bootleg mixtape. She's been in the trenches—negotiating seven-figure public art contracts, teaching art law at universities, speaking at Harvard and Yale, and basically becoming the legal superhero the art world desperately needed but didn't know how to ask for.
Meanwhile, Robert Devine is over at major international law firms handling contracts for corporate giants, watching these billion-dollar companies protect themselves with bulletproof legal armor while individual creatives operate on hope and good vibes. He's got an MBA and multiple law degrees from Duke, served over a decade in the Navy—so he knows a thing or two about protecting assets and making things run smoother than honey.
Then it hits them like a bass drop: Why should only the corporate big shots get access to elite legal protection? The whole system was backwards—the people who needed legal protection the most were the ones who could afford it the least.
So they said "enough of this nonsense" and decided to flip the script. They took all that high-level legal firepower they'd been using for corporations and packaged it up for the rest of us. No more choosing between eating and getting legal protection. No more hoping clients will play fair. No more working scared because you don't know if your contracts will hold up when push comes to shove.
Implement Tools was born from pure rebellion against a broken system—elite lawyers who got tired of watching talented people get taken advantage of just because they couldn't afford $500-an-hour legal consultations. We're talking about contracts written by attorneys who've handled everything from Michelin-starred restaurant empires to multinational corporate deals, but designed for the graphic designer in Brooklyn, the podcaster in Portland, and the muralist in Miami who just want to get paid fairly for their work.
Bottom line: We saw the gap and we filled it. Professional legal protection without the professional legal bills. Boss-level contracts without the C-suite budget. Because every creative deserves to walk into client meetings knowing they've got the same caliber legal backup that the Fortune 500 companies use—just in language that won't make your brain hurt and at prices that won't make your wallet cry.