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There has been an effort to standardize MNDAs with oneNDA (https://onenda.org/), at least in tech and I've seen it work well for SaaS deals. I think they also released oneDPA but I haven't used it yet to understand if it accepted or not.

I wish more companies would use standard contracts, definitely helpful for smaller orgs with non-existen or very small legal teams. Now we just need them to be well accepted...

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I'm right there with you on more companies using standards :)

As you mentioned, there are some other efforts to create standards like oneNDA. We're sort of competitive with them, in a similar way that the Apache license is competitive with the GPL.

While there are important differences in our approaches and focus areas, I'm a fan of more adoption of standards in general and there's a lot that we agree on.

Some companies choose Common Paper over oneNDA because we offer agreement types that they don't, including a Cloud Service Agreement, Design Partner Agreement, and Professional Services Agreement. As far as I know, they only provide agreement templates and not software to manage them.

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