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What changes when you stop eyeballing NDAs.
A potential partner sends you a one-sided NDA before a joint venture discussion. You forward it to your lawyer. $800 later, the advice is: push back on three clauses.
Kontractually flags the three one-sided clauses in under a minute. You respond with targeted markup or send one focused question to your lawyer. Cost: $0 or a 10-minute call.
You sign an NDA with an overbroad confidential information definition. Six months later, your own independently developed product is arguably covered by the definition you agreed to.
Kontractually catches overbroad definitions before you sign - flagging when the definition includes publicly available information, independently developed material, or information already known to you.
A tech company sends you an NDA with no carve-out for legally required disclosures. You sign it. Later, a regulator requests the information and you have conflicting obligations.
Kontractually flags missing permitted disclosure carve-outs every time. You add the standard language before signing and avoid the conflict entirely.
Every NDA clause that creates risk.
Pre-built NDA playbooks cover the clauses that cause the most problems in confidentiality agreements.
Catch one-sided confidentiality obligations
The most common NDA issue: obligations that only protect one party's information. Kontractually checks whether confidentiality runs both ways and flags agreements where your information is unprotected while you bear all the obligations. Your playbook defines whether mutual protection is required or optional.
Flag overbroad confidential information definitions
Definitions that include publicly available information, independently developed material, or information already known to the receiving party create risk you did not intend to accept. Kontractually checks every definition clause against your playbook's standard carve-outs and flags deviations.
Confidentiality periods that match your risk tolerance
Indefinite confidentiality obligations are often unenforceable. A 2-year period might be too short for trade secrets. Kontractually checks the confidentiality term against your playbook threshold and flags anything outside your acceptable range, including survival clauses that extend obligations beyond the NDA term.
Residuals clauses and missing permitted disclosures
A residuals clause lets the receiving party use information retained in employee memory after exposure to your confidential information. Common in enterprise tech NDAs, it significantly weakens your protection. Kontractually also flags missing carve-outs for court orders, regulatory requirements, and securities law obligations.
It checks your NDA against rules you define in your playbook. A typical NDA playbook covers: whether the confidentiality obligation is mutual or one-sided, whether the definition of confidential information is overbroad, whether there are adequate carve-outs for legally required disclosures, whether a residuals clause is present (which can significantly expand what the other party can do with retained information), the confidentiality period, return-or-destruction obligations, and the governing law. You can add or remove rules based on what matters to your business.
Yes. You can configure your playbook from the perspective of either party. For NDAs you send: check that your obligations are properly defined and your recipient's obligations are enforceable. For NDAs you receive: flag terms that go beyond what you're comfortable with, missing protections for your information, and provisions you'd typically push back on.
ChatGPT applies generic legal knowledge. Kontractually applies your rules. The difference matters: ChatGPT might flag a 3-year confidentiality period as 'standard' because it is. Your playbook might say anything over 2 years needs legal approval. Kontractually catches that. It also generates a structured review with confidence scores and source citations - traceable, auditable output rather than a chat response.
Yes - and residuals clauses are one of the most common NDA issues we see flagged. A residuals clause lets the receiving party use information retained in the 'unaided memory' of employees who were exposed to your confidential information. This is common in enterprise tech NDAs and significantly weakens your confidentiality protection. Kontractually will flag it if your playbook includes a residuals clause rule.
That's the primary use case. You receive an NDA on the counterparty's template, upload it, and Kontractually reviews it against your standard. It flags where their template deviates from your preferred terms - so you know what to push back on before you respond.
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