A lot of clients hold back information when they first contact us. We ask them to sign a mutual NDA. If they have a template ,we review it. In case they dont have any idea about NDA format, we send them our template of simple confidentiality NDA. We found this NDA from Robby Russell of Planet Argon on rails business google group.
This is a very simple NDA we use and is just one paragraph. Also, this confidentiality agreement takes care of both developer's and client interests whereas a lot of long traditional NDAs tend to favor clients in a lot of situations. A lot of potential clients liked this and we have not got any question related to this mutual NDA. I hope you will find this useful.


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This is very useful, thanks a ton.