The Chancery Lane Project

What The Chancery Lane Project does

The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) is a UK-registered non-profit charity (Company number 14237798, Charity number 1204664), founded in 2019 from a legal hackathon and headquartered in London. Its core product is a free, open-source library of more than 250 copyright-free climate-aligned contract clauses, supported by step-by-step guides, glossary terms, and sector-specific Climate Risk Toolkits covering built environment, finance and capital markets, food and agriculture, supply chains, M&A, and other verticals. These resources are designed to help lawyers, sustainability professionals, and procurement teams embed binding decarbonisation commitments into commercial contracts; the company does not sell licences but operates on grants and institutional supporter funding. Reach is global, with activity in 110+ countries, including a deliberate Latin America push via 17 Spanish-language clauses adapted to Mexican law in collaboration with Nader, Hayaux & Goebel and Hogan Lovells Mexico City.

The business model is freemium and community-led, distributed entirely through self-serve website downloads with no sales motion. Distribution and demand generation rely on the Climate Clauses Working Group (450+ members from ~300 companies, with 278 active in the last 30 days), a CPD-certified 'Climate Contracting in Action' training course, hackathons, sector events (TechUK, GAIL Summit, London Climate Action Week), case studies, LinkedIn, and email newsletters. Marquee adopters include NatWest (supply contract sustainability clauses), Salesforce, Vodafone, Telstra, PLMJ (used across EUR 150 million in lending facilities), Buro Happold, Field, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, the UK Environment Agency, and New Zealand Green Investment Finance. Additional offerings launched in 2025-2026 include Playbooks, a Shoosmiths Foundation-backed climate contracting learning platform piloted in the UK, Mexico, and the United States, and an open-source 'Markdown for Agents' WordPress plugin that serves simplified Markdown to AI bots. The organisation is led by Executive Director Ben Metz and Founder Matt Gingell, with a team of 11-50.

Financially, TCLP discloses a single $100,000 grant from the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation in 2024 and operates without product revenue, making it grant- and sponsor-dependent. Strategic priorities visible in the data are: (i) jurisdictional expansion (UK-centric to Latin America and beyond), (ii) vertical expansion into food waste via WRAP and into nature-positive built environment via the Better Buildings Partnership and UK Green Building Council, (iii) building AI- and machine-readable infrastructure for legal content, and (iv) embedding TCLP clauses into industry-standard frameworks such as the BBP Green Lease Toolkit.

Name

The Chancery Lane Project

Legal name

The Chancery Lane Project

Website

https://chancerylaneproject.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Chancery Lane Project is a UK-registered charity that provides a free, open-source library of 250+ climate-aligned contract clauses, guides, toolkits, and training, used by lawyers, sustainability teams, and procurement professionals across 110+ countries to embed decarbonisation commitments into commercial contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate-aligned legal content and contract services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Policy Management, Training & Ethics/Whistleblowing (BPAEAPAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Regulatory Reporting, Tax & Audit Trails (reconciliation, provenance) (FSAPAJAI)

Keywords

• Climate contract clauses
• Open-source legal templates
• Sustainability training courses
• Climate risk toolkits
• Decarbonisation contract tools

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Free Open-Source Content: All climate-aligned clauses, guides, and resources are provided free of charge to anyone. The organization is a charity registered in the UK, operating on funding from supporters and grants rather than product revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) is a UK-registered charity that develops and distributes free, open-source climate-aligned legal contract clauses, guides, toolkits, and a CPD-certified training course that organisations and legal professionals use to embed decarbonisation and sustainability obligations into commercial contracts. Its offerings also include a peer-led working group community, playbooks for content adaptation, a WordPress plugin ("Markdown for Agents"), and jurisdiction-specific clauses (e.g., Mexican-law clauses).

Product overview

The Chancery Lane Project is a non-profit organization that provides a comprehensive suite of free, open-source climate-aligned legal tools and resources. The core offering includes a library of over 250 copyright-free climate clauses, step-by-step guides, and the Climate Clauses Working Group community. Supporting products include the CPD-certified 'Climate Contracting in Action' training course, Climate Risk Toolkits for sector-specific legal risk management, Playbooks for content adaptation and hackathons, a WordPress plugin called 'Markdown for Agents,' Spanish-language clauses for Mexico, and an emerging climate contracting learning platform. The organization focuses on helping legal and business professionals embed climate action into contracts and legal processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Climate Clauses Working Group: Free monthly peer-led online group to take practical action on climate through contracts, with over 450 members from nearly 300 companies
• Climate Contracting in Action
• Playbooks
• Climate Risk Toolkits

Products and services

• Climate Clauses Library A free, open-source library of over 250 copyright-free climate-aligned legal clauses that organisations and legal professionals can download and embed in commercial contracts to drive decarbonisation and sustainability.
• Guides

Quantifiable outcome

• Grenada triggered government bond 'hurricane clause' providing ~USD 17 million in immediate debt relief after Hurricane Beryl damage
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• WRAPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 May 2026WRAP partnered with The Chancery Lane Project to develop contractual tools designed to help businesses reduce costs and emissions associated with food waste in their supply chains. The partnership outlines legal commitments that can be adopted by businesses to drive food waste reduction, focusing on embedding sustainability obligations directly into commercial agreements.
• Nader, Hayaux & Goebel (NHG)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Collaborated with TCLP to create 17 Spanish-language climate clauses adapted to Mexican law. These clauses cover areas such as finance, construction, corporate governance, and M&A, making climate-aligned legal tools accessible across Latin America.
• Hogan Lovells Mexico CitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Partnered with TCLP to launch 17 climate clauses transposed into Mexican law at the 2025 GAIL Summit in Mexico City, supporting climate-aligned contracting across Latin America.
• TLT LLPminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTLT LLP created a built environment climate contracts tool to help users find climate-aligned drafting for different stages of transactions and building life cycles.
• Better Buildings Partnership (BBP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTCLP sat on the steering committee and legal working group for the development and re-launch of the Better Buildings Partnership's Green Lease Toolkit, substantially revised in January 2024. BBP is an industry consortium including over 50 of the UK's most prominent commercial property owners with approximately £340bn of real estate assets under management.
• AgDevCominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with TCLP at the GAIL Summit to explore practical ways to turn climate ambition into legal reality using contracts as tools for accountability and impact across Latin America.
• TrustLawminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with TCLP at the GAIL Summit to explore practical ways to turn climate ambition into legal reality using contracts as tools for accountability and impact.
• Innovative Finance InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with TCLP at the GAIL Summit to explore practical ways to turn climate ambition into legal reality using contracts as tools for accountability and impact.
• UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-delivered a breakfast event on 'Enhancing Nature-Positive Outcomes Through Legal Contracts' with over 50 built environment professionals. UKGBC provided expertise on nature-positive built environment frameworks.
• Hoare LeacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-hosted event with TCLP and UKGBC on nature-positive outcomes through legal contracts at Hoare Lea's King's Cross offices. Provided venue and expert contributions.
• TechUKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with TCLP to run a workshop at TechUK's 2025 Tech and Net Zero Conference on designing and implementing climate transition plans, with over 30 professionals participating.
• Shoosmiths FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to develop a climate contracting learning platform. Built a CPD-accredited education and training course over five months to equip legal and business professionals to address climate risks and enable decarbonisation.
• Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTCLP participated in the GAIL Summit 2025 in Mexico City where they launched 17 Spanish-language climate clauses and connected with hundreds of legal professionals exploring how law can drive a just and sustainable transition.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Practical Law (part of Wolters Kluwer): Commercial legal know-how and precedent provider used by corporate counsel. Closest commercial analogue to TCLP's clause library, but proprietary/paid and broader in scope — represents the for-profit direction TCLP could be pulled toward.
• CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project): Global disclosure system for environmental impact; informs regulation that mandates climate clauses in contracts. Operates upstream of TCLP — broader scope but anchors the demand TCLP serves.
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): Sets sustainability reporting standards used by TCLP's enterprise adopters. Broader scope and longer history but parallels TCLP's role translating ambition into structured, usable frameworks.
• Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi): Defines corporate net-zero target standards that increasingly need contractual translation. Comparable as a mission-driven standards body shaping the same buyer base TCLP serves.

Direct peers

• Climate Bonds Initiative: Develops standards and verification for climate-aligned bonds and finance. Highly comparable in the climate-finance clause space — PLMJ's use of TCLP clauses sits at the intersection of these two organisations.
• ClientEarth: Environmental law charity using legal tools to drive climate and nature outcomes. Most directly comparable mission and operating model to TCLP — both deploy legal expertise for climate impact rather than commercial return.
• Net Zero Lawyers Alliance: Lawyer-led alliance mobilising the legal profession for net zero. Overlapping mission, member base and education remit with TCLP — both target in-house and private-practice lawyers as climate change agents.

Others

• GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals): Risk professional association; TCLP has been featured in GARP Risk Intelligence on contracts and climate risk. Comparable in professional-education/certification model but risk-focused rather than legal-content focused.
• BSR (Business for Social Responsibility): Sustainability advisory network working with corporates on climate strategy. Adjacent: BSR advises the same buyers on whether to adopt TCLP-style clauses and could integrate TCLP content into its consulting deliverables.
• South Pole: Climate solutions provider offering carbon advisory, project development and ESG services. Adjacent — operates in the same climate-action buyer space but as a commercial consultancy, not an open-content charity.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors2 records

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Investments

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