When Chris Combs talks about legal technology, he doesn’t see it as merely a disruption. Lawyers, he likes to point out, have historically managed their workflows manually. That era, in his view, is ending.
Combs is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LinkSquares, an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform built around a simple insight he and co-founder Vishal Sunak had in 2015. They saw that growing companies were straining under agreements they couldn’t easily search, analyze, or learn from. “That was the aha moment,” Combs recalled. “This historical information mattered and no one had a good way to manage it.”
Combs’ operating background was built early, from driving business development at Backupify through its acquisition by Datto to co-founding and operating Ucloser, where he led go-to-market execution, sales, and operational strategy from product concept through acquisition. At LinkSquares, he didn’t come to the CEO role as a new face—he co-founded the company and spent the decade before as COO and later Chief Business Officer.
But solving a single, narrow problem isn’t what Combs is interested in. His philosophy, he has said, is to build products that “address the various tasks that legal teams and general counsels handle daily.” While building and scaling companies, Combs repeatedly saw how contracts became dead weight after they were signed. Agreements were scattered across inboxes and folders, hard to search, and almost impossible to analyze at scale. For fast-growing companies, that meant legal risk, missed obligations, and lost leverage.
Since Combs stepped into the CEO role in early 2025, he has steered the company’s next phase, focused on scaling responsibly and proving that legal teams can be more strategic than reactive. By the end of his first year at the helm, LinkSquares had grown to more than 1,000 customers, and teams saved more than 800,000 hours on manual contract review during 2025.
For Combs, the end goal is to make the value visible.