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Draft a mutual NDA from agreed terms for legal review

Two businesses want to share confidential information, and you need a mutual NDA drafted from the terms you agreed, with the open choices flagged for your lawyer.

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The prompt

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Use it when Two businesses want to share confidential information, and you need a mutual NDA drafted from the terms you agreed, with the open choices flagged for your lawyer.

  • {{reviewer}}
  • {{other_party}}
  • {{parties}}
  • {{purpose}}
  • {{agreed_terms}}
  • {{governing_law}}
  • {{our_positions}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Draft a mutual non-disclosure agreement from the terms below, for {{reviewer}} to review before it goes to {{other_party}}, so that both sides can share information for the purpose we agreed and the lawyer can see which terms were chosen and which are still open. This is a draft for legal review, not legal advice.

The parties, as they should be named: {{parties}}
The purpose for sharing information: {{purpose}}

The terms we agreed:
"""
{{agreed_terms}}
"""

Governing law and courts, as chosen: {{governing_law}}
Our standard NDA positions, if we have them: {{our_positions}}

Draft the agreement with numbered clauses covering:
1. Purpose
2. What counts as confidential information, including whether it must be marked and how information shared orally is treated
3. What is not confidential: information that is public through no fault of the recipient, already known to it, developed independently, or received from someone free to share it
4. How the recipient must protect the information and use it only for the purpose
5. Who it may be shared with, such as employees and advisors who need it and are bound to keep it confidential
6. Disclosure required by law, with notice to the other party where allowed
7. How long the agreement lasts and how long the duty of confidentiality lasts, including any longer period for trade secrets if agreed
8. Return or destruction at the end, with any exception for backup copies if agreed
9. No license, and no obligation to go ahead with any deal
10. Remedies, as agreed
11. General terms: entire agreement, changes in writing, counterparts and signatures

After the draft, add a choices table with the columns Clause, Term used, Where it came from (our agreed terms, our standard positions, or [CHOICE NEEDED]).

Keep the draft under 1,500 words, in plain English with few defined terms, and mark it "DRAFT FOR LEGAL REVIEW".

For example, a choices row might read: "7. Term | 2 years from signing; confidentiality lasts 3 years after the end | agreed terms". That example shows the form only.

Rules:
- Use our agreed terms for every choice, and our standard positions only where the agreed terms are silent, saying so in the table.
- Do not add clauses that change the deal, such as non-solicitation, non-compete, residuals or standstill terms, unless they are in the agreed terms. If our standard positions include one, list it in the table as [CHOICE NEEDED] rather than adding it.
- Keep it mutual: each obligation applies to both parties in the same way unless the agreed terms say otherwise.

If a term the draft needs is missing, such as how long confidentiality lasts, write [CHOICE NEEDED: what to choose] in the clause and do not pick a typical period.

Variables

{{reviewer}}
Who reviews the draft, for example "our lawyer".
{{other_party}}
Who it will be sent to, for example "the potential distribution partner".
{{parties}}
Each party's legal name and where it is registered, or [PARTY NAME] placeholders.
{{purpose}}
Why information is being shared, for example "to evaluate a possible joint product".
{{agreed_terms}}
What both sides agreed: how long it lasts, what counts as confidential, who it can be shared with, return or destruction, remedies.
{{governing_law}}
The governing law and courts you chose, or "not yet agreed".
{{our_positions}}
Your standard NDA positions or template rules, or "none".

Why it works

  • What to avoid. Clauses that change the deal, such as non-solicitation or residuals, are added only if agreed; a standard position becomes a [CHOICE NEEDED] row instead.
  • Format. A choices table shows where every term came from, so the lawyer reviews the decisions rather than rereading the whole draft.
  • If unsure. A missing period or condition is left as [CHOICE NEEDED] instead of being filled with a typical figure.

How to use it

  1. Press Fill in blanks and type your details into each blank. What you type stays in this browser.
  2. Copy the filled prompt into the AI tool you already use, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, or open it in the Grader or the Prompt Tester here.
  3. Before you rely on it, try it on three or four real examples. The Prompt Tester runs them all at once and shows which ones go wrong.
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With the MCP server added to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code, call get_prompt with {"prompt": "mutual-nda-from-terms"}, or just ask for it by name.