As of 13 August 2026, AI can draft a non-disclosure agreement.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a blank document and gather the legal names and addresses of both parties, checking them against official records or the parties' existing contract details.
   2. Write down the purpose of the disclosure, the types of information that need protection, the information that is already public, and who may receive the information.
   3. Choose the intended confidentiality period, return or destruction process, governing law and jurisdiction, and record any special restrictions or remedies the parties have discussed.
   4. Paste those facts into the prompt and ask the chatbot to draft the NDA without guessing any missing term.
   5. Copy the draft into your document and compare every name, address, definition, period, permission and jurisdiction clause against your gathered facts, replacing every remaining square-bracket question.
   6. Send the completed draft to a UK solicitor for review if the information is commercially important, the relationship is disputed, the parties are in different countries, or you need enforceable remedies before signing.

   Prompt

   Draft a clear, proportionate non-disclosure agreement under the law of England and Wales for the following situation.
   
   Disclosing party: [name and legal status]
   Receiving party: [name and legal status]
   Purpose of disclosure: [business or personal purpose]
   Confidential information to be covered: [describe the information]
   Information that must be excluded: [for example, information already public or independently developed]
   Permitted use: [what the recipient may use the information for]
   Permitted disclosures: [for example, employees, professional advisers or a legal requirement]
   Confidentiality period: [period]
   Agreement period: [period, if different]
   Return or destruction requirements: [requirements]
   Any special terms: [details]
   
   Use plain English and include sensible clauses for definitions, permitted use, exclusions, required disclosures, security, return or destruction, duration, remedies, governing law and jurisdiction. Do not invent facts, parties, dates or commercial terms. Where a term is missing, insert a clearly labelled square-bracket question rather than guessing. After the draft, provide a short list of assumptions, ambiguities and provisions that a UK solicitor should check. State clearly that this is not professional advice and that I remain responsible for deciding whether to sign or use it.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.