Standard Agreements for the Enterprise
Cloud Terms
Enterprise SaaS/Cloud service subscription terms balanced between customer and provider.
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Standard Agreements
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Cloud Terms |
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Explainer |
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Additional Terms Toolkit |
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Data Protection Addendum (DPA) |
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DPA Setup Page |
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DPA Schedules |
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Service Level Agreement (SLA) |
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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) |
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Support Policy |
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Professional Services Agreement (PSA) |
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Mutual NDA
Free to download and use:
Standard Agreements
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Mutual NDA |
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Cover Page |
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Explainer |
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NDA Toolkit |
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Release Notes
Release Note for Bonterms NDA Example Cover Page (2022 10 17): Updated to change reference to “Additional Changes” to “Additional Terms” and otherwise conform format with other Bonterms Standard Agreement Cover Pages. (Note the phrase “Additional Changes” does not appear in the Bonterms Mutual NDA (Version 1.0)).
BONTERMS
User Spotlight
What do legal innovators have to say about Bonterms Standard Agreements?
"Standardizing on the Bonterms NDA has allowed us to enter into hundreds of NDAs with discerning partners with almost none of the old back and forth. It’s real innovation.”
– Eric Lentell
| Deputy General Counsel
Archer
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“Why do we sell on Bonterms? To skip the battle over whose form to use, preserve goodwill, and move straight to negotiating the issues that both sides really care about while leveraging a robust set of underlying core terms.”
– Jerry Levine
| Chief Evangelist & General Counsel
ContractPodAi
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"I’m a huge supporter of standards based contracting and the approach the Committee took with the Bonterms Cloud Terms. This is the future."
– Gary Mintz
| Head of Commercial Legal
Miro
"Being able to rely on Bonterms' trusted set of market-calibrated contracts is instrumental to our closing more deals, faster, on terms we can live with."
– Gavin Zee
| Head of Commercial Transactions
Sentry
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"We’re adopting the Bonterms Cloud Terms and NDA as an option for our customers because we believe these terms reflect market and will lead to a faster, better substantive result for both sides."
– Ben Richter
| Director, Legal
Abnormal Security
"We view using the Bonterms Cloud Terms for Dataiku Online as a way of building trust with our customers. The terms were vetted by experts and in-house counsel at leading companies to create a balanced, frictionless contracting experience."
– Alexis Liu
| Director of Legal
Dataiku
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"Using Bonterms allows us to leverage a balanced, best-practice set of terms and focus directly on the data, security and other issues we care most about in procuring new solutions."
– Rob Walker
| Senior Counsel
New Relic
Bonterms reached 7,000 Standard Agreement downloads on 3/7/23.
Committee
Our Standard Agreements Committee is composed of in-house and law firm lawyers, negotiation professionals and law faculty and students. We are extremely proud of this group and appreciate their extensive efforts in reviewing and improving our Standard Agreements.
About
Bonterms is simplifying commercial contracting through Standard Agreements. Our enterprise Cloud Terms, DPA, SLA and Mutual NDA let the parties start from a balanced foundation and negotiate by Cover Page, not redlines. The Bonterms Platform will leverage our Standard Agreements to take collaborative dealmaking to the next level.
Bonterms is lawyer-led and funded by XYZ Capital and Wilson Sonsini.
Read our story, watch our videos or contact us with any questions.
Team
Todd Smithline
Todd Smithline is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bonterms.
Todd has been designing, negotiating and teaching contracts for nearly thirty years.
Todd was General Counsel of Marimba, an enterprise software company he helped lead from start-up to successful public company. After Marimba Todd founded Smithline PC, a boutique technology transactions firm that represented category-leading Silicon Valley software/SaaS, platform and device companies and pioneered fixed-fee subscription billing. Todd started his legal career with Latham & Watkins and Gunderson Dettmer.
Todd teaches at UC Berkeley School of Law and is a board member or advisor to multiple start-ups.
Todd is a graduate of Tufts University and UCLA School of Law.
Chris Walker
Chris Walker is Co-Founder and Head of Product at Bonterms.
Chris has over a decade of experience in enterprise software. As a product leader at Palantir Technologies, Chris led teams building analytics software for Fortune 500 customers in the Banking, Oil & Gas, and Health Insurance sectors. Following Palantir, Chris held product leadership positions at DataFox, Oracle and DraftWise, a legal tech startup.
Chris is a graduate of Stanford University.
Patrick Mullin
Patrick Mullin is Business Operations Manager at Bonterms.
Patrick is charged with systemizing and improving every process and service at Bonterms. Prior to joining Bonterms, Patrick was Technology Manager for Propeller Industries, a provider of strategic CFO and finance services to growing companies. While at Propeller, Patrick developed products that delivered financial and operational insights to Propeller’s clients and also managed the company’s internal business and technology systems.
Patrick started his career as a corporate paralegal in the private equity transactions practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Patrick is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Advisors
Derek Schwede
Derek Schwede is an Advisor to Bonterms and Co-Lead of its Standard Agreements Committee.
Derek is Head of Legal at Modern Treasury, a fintech payments software company. Derek was previously a principal at Smithline PC, a boutique technology transactions firm where he represented category-leading Silicon Valley software/SaaS, platform and device companies. Derek began his legal career with Morrison & Foerster.
Derek teaches at UC Hastings School of Law and is a graduate of Rice University and Harvard Law School.
Investors
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