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I'm in my 40s and asked my GP for it since I similar had a bad experience with it a few years ago. After warning me 3 times that it might not get covered by insurance, they gave it to me. I tried to get the second dose at a pharmacy, and they would not do it since I'm under 50. I got the second dose at my GP again a few months later.

I had an 100+ year old Underwood restored at this shop. They did a great job, and it was a delight to have them walk me through both the history of my machine and the care they took in getting it working again

In the long term, we'll expand out from that. It will be industry by industry, since the contracts you need for eg manufacturing or catering are going to be very different than software.

Some of our agreements, like the NDA, are already used in other industries since they are more industry agnostic

We're focused on B2B software companies, so we don't have any templates for that use case. I'm not aware of publicly available templates serving bespoke manufacturers, but I'd love to learn about them if you find any

Thanks for checking, and unfortunately it seems like my original comment is no longer editable. I'd like to blame autocorrect, but I think I was actually typing before I had my coffee this morning

All of our standard agreements are released under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. More details on that license here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Thank you!

Unfortunately, I don't know of any resource besides an attorney that would help with a custody issue. I'm sure that's rough, and I hope things turn out as well as possible for your friend and their family. A few other resources that are outside the commercial realm are:

https://helloprenup.com/ https://hellodivorce.com/ https://www.getdynasty.com/ https://trustandwill.com/

I haven't personally used those services, but the founders are great

Thanks for the mention and kind words! I’m one of the cofounders of Common Paper, happy to answer any questions.

Our docs are free, released under creative comments, have been downloaded more than 17,000 times and used to close millions of dollars worth of deals.

If you’re not sure what kind of contract you need, this blog post might help:

https://commonpaper.com/blog/saas-contracts/

You are correct, that was a typo. Thanks for flagging and the additional context. Updated my original comment.

These pictures are fantastic, and I couldn't agree more about the museo antropología. I've been there three times and I'd love to go back. There were two things in particular that blew my mind the first time I visited:

There's an exhibit about the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, how it was built on top of a lake, the wild history of things that happened there, etc. It was only when I was almost done with the exhibit I realized [edit] Tenochtitlan is Mexico City, the place I had been for the past few days. It was hard to reconcile.

My main takeaway about the Aztecs from history class was that they were the victims of the Spanish conquistadores. That's true, but they have a fascinating backstory where they were the conquerors of other groups and did a variety of amazing and terrible things. I had a one-dimensional view of the region, and I had never even heard of some of the people that they had conquered.

That's helpful context, thanks. And your last sentence made me smile. Definitely helpful to hear how you think about this

I appreciate sharing it with your team. On the topic of getting updates from contracts, I've had a similar (frustrating) experience. One thing we offer to make that easier is a Slack integration to proactively alert the relevant stakeholders when an important event has happened with a contract. We also have an API and webhook for getting it into other systems.

For internal legal teams, the biggest motivator is often re-allocating their time to more strategic and/or more interesting work. They have a long list of other projects that they'd rather focus on if they can reduce their time spent on yet another NDA or routine sales contract.

Thank you!

I really appreciate that, thank you

There are some similarities in our model to Bonterms. 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 Bonterms because we offer agreement types that they don't, including a Design Partner Agreement and Partnership Agreement. As far as I know, they only provide agreement templates and not software to manage them.

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.

I also often find it hard to get the information I actually care about from privacy policies. We tried to make it clear while checking the legal and compliance boxes we needed to, but I agree we can do better on that front. I'm also optimistic that this is an area where standards might be able to help, but I'm not a privacy policy expert and would need to do a lot more research to know for sure.

The short answer is that a subset of our team has the ability to access a user's contracts in order to provide support, fix bugs, and improve the product. We log instances when that access is used.

You're absolutely right that there are important differences between the attorney-client relationship versus the relationship with us or any other software provider. If that's not something you're comfortable with, then using the standard contracts without the software will probably be a better option.

I had not seen that, thanks for sharing. As you said, this is a different kind of version control from what we offer, but I think we could borrow some of their ideas, or at least use it as inspiration. It's very cool

Thank you!

Thank you, and you're correct that so far we've been mostly focused on cloud software so far. We've recieved some other requests for an on-premises contract as well, and we plan to add that.

The Cloud Service Agreement allows for a product with both on-prem and cloud-hosted components, so it might be a fit if you have a web-based control plane, for instance. However, if your product is purely on-prem, then the CSA is probably not the right fit.

This is a fair critique. We recently kicked off a project to get our SOC 2 report/ audit, and we should add a section to our site about our information security measures. Thanks for flagging that.

While we don't offer uptime guarantees to users on our free tier, SLAs are an option for paying customers.

All of our users, free and paid, can download all of their contracts and the associated structured data from our system at any time if they'd like a backup. Our API also makes it possible to do this continuously.

Thank you! And we do plan to expand into other industries in the future.

Interesting, I will check them out, thank you

Thank you!

I appreciate you taking a chance on us when we were brand new!

Thank you!

We charge based on the number of customers with whom you have at least one active contract. Many of our users find that they will sign multiple agreements with the same customer, eg an NDA, CSA, DPA, and then another CSA to upsell or renew at the end of the term.

Our goal for our product is to help with the entire lifecycle of the customer. From entering into the initial agreement, to getting paid, to keeping track of your obligations across customers, to upselling and renewing, to answering diligence questions when you're raising money or getting acquired.

I have mixed feelings about this. We embed Dropbox Sign to handle the signature step, so that part of the experience is straight from them.

They handle the steps of making sure it's a compliant, legally valid signature, which is great.

However, a lot of the ceremony as you called it is not required to make it a legally binding signature, it's mostly to make people feel like it's legit.

We may take this in-house at some point to streamline it, but Dropbox has been a good partner to us, and I'm grateful that they enabled us to get up and running quickly.

Thank you Taylor!

It's all the same principles