Dan Selman is a smart-contract and legal-technology engineer who co-founded both Clause, Inc. and the Accord Project. Dan Selman's Twitter Score is 8.4 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #109,624 among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Dan Selman co-founded Clause, Inc., where he served as CTO, building a smart-agreement platform that automated contract-driven actions such as notifications, compliance checks, and contract-status updates. DocuSign acquired Clause's IP on June 1, 2021, bringing most of the team into DocuSign, where Dan Selman subsequently worked as a Distinguished Engineer focused on smart agreements before departing.
Dan Selman also co-founded the Accord Project, an open-source initiative developing technology-neutral infrastructure for computable smart legal contracts. The project's software is built to run across multiple execution environments and distributed ledgers rather than tying users to any single blockchain. Dan Selman is affiliated with the Linux Foundation and was named a mentor for Google Summer of Code projects by the Accord Project in 2024. He currently works at Meta.
Dan Selman has presented at industry events including the Hyperledger Global Forum 2020, where he spoke on transitioning from Hyperledger Fabric chaincode to smart legal contracts using the Accord Project stack. Dan Selman's account has published 10,411 posts and has been mentioned by 9 accounts a total of 17 times, reflecting sustained engagement within the smart-contract and legal-tech community.
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