oneNDA is a crowd-sourced, open-source Non Disclosure Agreement.

If we all started from the same starting NDA template, we would save enormous amounts of time, money and effort.

No more battle of the forms and no more negotiating terms that are not market standard or add little to no value. Businesses would be able to get to the commercial deal quicker and lawyers would have more time to spend time on the more strategic work.

It’s a no brainer.

oneNDA has gone through an extensive drafting process with leading law firms and in-house lawyers from around the world. It’s been a collaborative process and no one firm or company is responsible for the drafting.

None of the law firms involved were engaged by TLB to give legal advice - all their time was kindly volunteered. The participating law firms haven’t assumed a duty of care or approved the final draft and therefore are not professionally responsible to you. You should speak to a lawyer if you have any doubts as to whether the oneNDA is appropriate for you and your circumstances.

We’ve carefully considered what terms to include in this agreement to cover the key obligations you would typically expect to find, without burdening the parties with unnecessary and overly onerous obligations as well as what NOT to include.
Have a look at the Graveyard Document in the Resources menu  to find out more about why certain terms you may have seen in NDAs in the past aren’t included and why.

oneNDA has been adopted by organisations from around the world. Although it was drafted by lawyers qualified in English, Californian or Australian law, we think it works in other jurisdictions too.

If in doubt, please seek legal advice to make sure the NDA will work as expected if you need to choose a different governing law.

Feedback is strongly encouraged. We need to iterate to make oneNDA better. Please leave your feedback here.

Once a version of oneNDA is published, we’ll put it out to the public to provide us with feedback here.

The community will also be asked to ‘upvote’ on the suggestions they agree with. That feedback will then be collated at specific intervals and incorporated into the agreement which will be released as a next version. When we release a new version, it won’t have any impact on any previous versions you’ve signed.

No, it’s entirely free to use oneNDA.

The oneNDA template is designed for use in the most common of instances where two parties want to enter into commercial discussions. If you want to use it for more complex scenarios for example to share personal data or sensitive IP, you may want to check with a lawyer to make sure oneNDA works for you.

No. The fact that oneNDA is not your template, but an industry standard, gives you leverage. If the other side pushes back, you can say that this is a standard that’s been adopted by hundreds of companies and therefore, shouldn’t be changed. The objective of this initiative is to reduce the time we spend on NDAs and keeping the branding neutral is a strategic part of that.

Because the outcome of of everyone being able to add their own language to it is that everyone will end up with their own ‘flavour’ of oneNDA resulting in a world where we all have to go back to reviewing, redlining and negotiating. Not ideal and certainly not in the spirit of the initiative.

However, if you end up negotiating it and changing the language, please make sure you remove any reference to oneNDA and all branding.

Easy! Just go ahead and download it and then tell us you’re using it. It’s free and a total no brainer.

To use it, just populate the Variables fields on the first page and send to the other side for signature.

Need help rolling it out internally? We’ve got you.

We firmly believe that the future of contracts lies in standardisation. There is no reason why each and every contract should be expressed in different words, especially when 90% of standard commercial agreements say more or less the same thing.

We want the oneNDA community to tell us what they want to see built next, whether that be a clause to layer on top of oneNDA to make it fit for purpose for a different use-case, a completely different agreement  or another process which is causing friction and delays.

The more the legal community sings off the same hymn-sheet, the more efficient we become as an industry and the less of a bottleneck we’ll be to the businesses that rely on us to help them promote their commercial interests.

Our mission at TLB has always been to disrupt the world of law so that it is democratised, simplified and made more accessible. Our approach to date has been to work with individual in-house teams who share a similar vision by providing them with a very pragmatic managed service and legal design. You can read more about why we started oneNDA and how we delivered it here.

We believe that successful businesses start by being motivated to add real value - the rest usually follows.

No. By using oneNDA, you also agree that oneNDA comes as is, without any warranty at all. No one involved in writing, reviewing, or improving oneNDA will be liable to you for any damages related to this licence or use of oneNDA, for any kind of legal claim.