We’ve mentioned a few times a project we’ve been working on since last December for Scott Soloway. That project is in a public beta now: BaselineNDA.
We aren’t lawyers–that’s Scott’s area–so I won’t attempt to give a detailed explanation of the application’s appeal to corporate legal types who might see non-disclosure agreements crossing their desks in droves. We were interested in the technical challenge: could we build a web application that could be trained to “read” a Word document and recognize about 28 common clause types? Could we then alter the document according to a flexible set of rules, and return the altered document to the user?
We think we’ve done that, with Scott’s guidance, and late last week Ken Adams of AdamsDrafting.com had some pretty good things to say about the system as well. If reading and vetting NDAs is a part of your responsibilities, take a look at BaselineNDA; you might find it useful, and that’s the highest praise you can give us. (If NDAs aren’t part of your responsibilities, take a look at the demo; that might explain why we’re so pleased with the thing.)
