Paperwork is cheaper than the dispute it prevents
Most small businesses lose more money to missing paperwork than they ever spend on lawyers. A verbal partnership becomes a lawsuit once the business starts earning. A "quick handshake project" becomes an unpaid invoice with no leverage. A website without a privacy policy becomes a €20,000 GDPR complaint. The eight generators here cover the documents where the absence is the actual risk — not the ones a lawyer would happily draft you a bespoke version of.
Why generated templates are usually fine (and when they aren't)
For routine engagements — a design project, a supplier relationship, an office lease, a standard commercial NDA — a well-structured template is what most law firms would produce anyway, minus your name at the top of the invoice. Templates stop being enough for contracts above roughly $50k in annual value, cross-border deals with meaningful tax or IP exposure, anything in a regulated industry (finance, health, insurance, defence), and equity or acquisition documents. For those, use these generators to think through the terms, then have a lawyer review the final draft.
Reading the room: which document, when
Before a first conversation with a potential client or partner, use the NDA Generator. To pitch the actual work, use the Business Proposal Generator. When they say yes, use the Service Agreement Generator to make it enforceable. Co-founding a company? Partnership Agreement Generator. Recurring supplier? Vendor Agreement Generator. Any public website needs both Terms & Conditions and a Privacy Policy. Renting space? Rent Agreement Generator. Everything else is a variation on one of these eight.
What we deliberately left out
No employment contracts (employment law is jurisdiction-specific enough that a generic template does more harm than good). No shareholder or LLC operating agreements — those need a lawyer. No wills, no trusts, no anything court-facing. These generators are for commercial relationships between businesses, or between a business and its users — the paperwork that keeps ordinary business running.