About Onalu

Onalu comes from Hawaiian hoʻonalu — "to make like the wave."

Our story

Onalu started as a workflow automation product. We shut that down and carried the name forward after seeing tools alone don't guarantee results. Teams needed outcomes they could count on.

That insight led us to Service-as-Software for Legal DealOps: provider-owned delivery, measurable SLAs, and evidence as a first-class product.

Who we serve

U.S. B2B SaaS (≈200–5,000 employees) with steady NDA/DPA volume, negotiated MSAs/SOWs, and a legal team focused on cycle time, playbook adherence, data quality, and audit readiness.

Operating principles

1 Contract-first: define outcome, inputs, SLAs, evidence before build.

2 Provider accountability: we own the run—retries, escalations, clear failure codes.

3 Evidence by default: right-sized proof for every delivery.

4 Integrate once: shared connectors power all outcomes.

5 We don't practice law: we operationalize your playbook and escalate per your rules.

Meet the founders

Andrew Poon

Andrew Poon

Founder & CEO

Former VP, Product Management (Yahoo, Google). Focused on contractual SLAs and dependable delivery.

Accountable for: outcome definitions, contracts, customer value.

Derrick Whittle

Derrick Whittle

Founder & CTO

Former Senior Director, Engineering (Yahoo). Emphasis on observability and repeatability.

Accountable for: reliability, evidence, integrations.

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