You built the app in a weekend. Then the App Store asks for a privacy policy URL, a partner wants an NDA before the call, and your first business customer sends over a contract. The startup law firm General Legal has put 12 of its templates on GitHub for free, in markdown your AI agent can read and fill in from your codebase.
Check All 12 to see which ones you need now. Four Jobs has prompts to paste. Read Before You Publish before anything goes live or gets signed.
Twelve documents written by the attorneys at General Legal, PC, for startups and tech companies: terms, privacy policies, NDAs, a services agreement and more. Each one comes as a clean markdown file and the original Word file. The parts you change are wrapped in <mark> tags, so your agent knows exactly what to fill in and what to leave alone. CC0 means you can copy, edit and publish them without asking or crediting anyone.
Most solo founders fill these pages one of three ways, and none of them is great:
Here the legal text is written by lawyers, and the only bits your agent touches look like this: [Company Name].
Paste these into Claude Code, Cursor or any agent that can read your project and fetch a URL. Swap in your own names.
A privacy policy is a list of promises about your app. Your agent can read the code and see what you collect and where it goes, then fill the template to match.
Read the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy (U.S.) and Cookie Notice templates in https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates. Then go through my codebase and list every piece of personal data I collect, every third-party service it goes to (analytics, payments, auth, email, error tracking) and every cookie or tracker. Use that to fill in the <mark> fields, delete the optional sections that don't apply, and add /terms, /privacy and /cookies pages linked from the footer. Don't reword the unmarked text. List anything you had to guess as questions for me.
Mutual when you both share things, one-way when only you do. Fill the blanks in two minutes, not two days.
Fill in the Mutual NDA from https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates (templates/mutual-nda/template.md) between [my company] and [their company], for talks about [topic]. Fill only the blanks and leave every other word as it is. Then tell me in three plain sentences what each side is agreeing to and how long it lasts.
The advisor agreement covers their time, their options, vesting, and that anything they make for you belongs to you. The prompt makes you decide the numbers, not your agent.
Fill in the Advisor Agreement from https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates for [advisor name], who will help with [area]. Don't pick any numbers yourself. List every term I still need to decide (shares, vesting months, the non-compete field, dates) with one plain sentence on what each one means, and leave those blank.
Whoever sends the first draft sets the terms. Start from a services agreement written for the software company, plus the data addendum their security team will ask for.
Read the Master Services Agreement and the U.S. Data Processing Addendum in https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates. My customer is [company] and they're buying [what I sell] for [price]. Fill in the <mark> fields, then write a one-page plain-English summary of what I'm promising: payment terms, the liability cap, how I handle their data, and how either side can end it. Flag anything I should get a lawyer to check.
Re-run job 01 when you add a tool. New analytics, a new email provider or a session recorder means your privacy policy is out of date.
The green ones are for launch day: anything with a website or signup needs them. The rest you pick up as the business does.
Both DPAs and the MSA are written from the provider's side, which is your side if you're the one selling the software. If a customer sends you their own paper instead, these are still useful to compare against.
Free on GitHub at General-Legal/legal-templates. Your agent can read them straight from the repo, or you can keep a copy next to your code.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/General-Legal/legal-templates/main/templates/privacy-policy-us/template.md
Swap privacy-policy-us for any folder name in the repo. Give the link to your agent with one of the prompts above.
git clone https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates
Each folder has the template, and most have a README on when to use it.
The docx-originals/ folder has the original Word files. Send those when someone wants tracked changes.
Each file says it isn't legal advice and doesn't make General Legal your lawyer. For launch pages and NDAs, a careful fill-in is fine. Before you sign a big contract or hand out equity, pay for an hour of review.
If the policy says you don't share data and your app sends it to an analytics tool, the policy is the problem. Have your agent check the code, not your memory, and re-check when you add a service.
The terms use California law and include binding arbitration. The offer letter is written for California. The GDPR policy assumes a U.S. company with no office in the EU or UK. Change what doesn't fit you.
CC0 means you don't have to credit anyone. General Legal still asks you to keep their short credit footnote when you reuse a template. It costs you nothing.