I always wished there was a standard NDA — like YC’s standard SAFE.

But there wasn’t one.

So we built it.

Meet the Skala NDA: fast, mutual, no-nonsense.

Bookmark it — the quickest way to get an NDA signed.

https://www.skala.io/nda

Coinceptual-artist ‘n’ poet-lawyer. Creating, casting, and coining the conceptual brand names and frames empowering us all to win it all.

building skala.io, partner at buzko.legal

Love this vibe and these types of initiatives. The problem with “standard” docs: 

1) they’re everywhere

Every major startup law firm — Cooley, Gunderson, Wilson , Fenwick, Orrick — already publishes its own “standard” NDA. 

and there's that YC-funded https://commonpaper.com/ project I mentioned at our joint birthday dinner! 

2) the formaker controls the "standard" form

Even YC’s SAFE shifted from pre-money to post-money without any vote or warning. That wasn’t consensus. That was a push update. Maybe it was the right move, but it was done at someone's discretion. 

Standards are good. Governed, forkable Decentralized Legal Information would be better.

We can move from docs you download to participatory agreements.
	1.	Open – like open source, with changelogs, forks, and attribution.
	2.	Decentralized – governed by contributors, not central gatekeepers.
	3.	Enforceable – using pre-agreed, neutral on-chain decentralized adjudication mechanisms, smart liquidated damages, escrows.