The ultimate business law library at your fingertips

Think of AgreementBuilder as your business law toolkit. Within the Handbook of Business Contracts we've even provided a mini-course in business law to give you a strong grasp of the basic principles involved. Also, included are sections on "alternative dispute resolution" by using arbitration and mediation vs. litigation.

The business contracts were torture-tested here first

We just don't believe that stationery store business contracts typed into a computer will really protect your business and build good relationships. Instead, we've paid our attorneys, and used these contracts ourselves, learned from the deals made, and then refined them further to make sure that we do even better the next time. Your business shouldn't be the torture testing ground for dumb things that can cost a fortune. Instead, you can benefit from our effort, experience, and investment.

JIAN's Agreement Builder stands out from the rest of the pack... It has document templates for a wide range of business needs, including all the forms you'd want to operate a company on a day-to-day basis... use it as a short-form device to hammer out terms of an agreement before you turn them over to your attorney.
- Jeffrey J. Fahs, Home Office Computing, Wired by Law

Please don't let legalese get in the way of a good deal.

Most contracts are often written with complete disregard for the potential emotional impact of the wording. I can remember working in sales for a large company and either losing a sale or waiting to complete a sale because my customer needed their legal department to review and approve our sales contract. (Years later, I borrowed $750,000 from Citibank and their Promissory Note was in plain English! Here's one success model to follow.)

A business contract in plain-English is better

All of the sample contracts in AgrementBuilder are complete, understandable, and appealing to the feelings as well as the logic of the people involved with your deals. We've removed most of the legal gibberish so that you and your customers, suppliers, reps, employees and others can easily understand these agreements and do business with you. These are the things we've fixed in Agreement Builder — everything is smooth, understandable, and appealing to the emotions of the people involved with your deal.

These contracts and agreements are written not only from a "US law compliance point of view" as from a "Globally conscious and common sense for human beings" point of view. That's what makes them so good... They are in plain-English and cover what they need to cover to protect each party. I hope that helps you make your decision.
- Heidi Riege, Vice President, JIAN

Like having a smart lawyer sitting beside you

Attorneys' comments and notations throughout assure that you understand each section and explain what to do and why. The comments can even be left in to help clarify specific points during negotiations. We used Microsoft Word's 'Hidden Text' feature to prevent them from printing, plus you can turn them off/on with a click of an icon.

Remember to protect your investors and potential acquirers!

This is easy to overlook. Remember, your business is a product too! In the future, you may want to sell it. The business relationships you are establishing now can add considerable value to your business. Investors and acquirers will want to review everything to be certain that their risks are minimized and that your deals (the deals they will acquire) are well documented and assignable to them. Considering their interests now in all of your agreements can save you a small fortune in future "due-diligence" and/or renegotiations with partners, and leave the door open to a much richer future for yourself. We've built-this in to every sample agreement for you as much as possible.

60-Day Get-the-Job-Done Money-Back Guarantee

AgreementBuilder takes the headache out of your business deals, and saves you money, too. If it doesn't or you don't feel you got your money's worth, for any reason, we will give you your money back. JIAN is here to help you succeed and make our world a better place for business.

Establish clear terms, make friends and stay in business. Now you have the tools.

165 ways to establish clear terms, keep friends and stay in business.

Here are the tools! Just click on any title and you can preview it on-screen with Adobe Acrobat Reader to make sure you are getting exactly what you want. (We've locked-out copying and printing because we want you to buy them! The NDA~General you may download and use.)

Early understandings make for the longest relationships.
- Alan Dohrmann

As with every JIAN template, you are free to make as many editing and formatting changes as you like.

We recommend that you scan the entire list since we may have named an agreement differently than you may expect. (Not seeing what you want? Please click here to tell us.)

Remember, any one of these sample legal agreements can easily be worth 1,000X your investment:
(After you review the agreement, click your browser's Back button to return to this page.)

•  Action by Incorporator
  
•  Advertising Co-op
  
•  Affiliate Operating Agreement
  
•  Agreement Extension
  
•  Articles of Incorporation
  
•  Assignment ~ Accounts Receivable
  
•  Assignment of Pre-Employment Works
  
•  Background Research Release ~ Comprehensive
  
•  Background Research Release ~ Simplified
  
•  Bailment
  
•  Beta Test Agreement
  
•  Bill of Sale
  
•  Business Assets Transfer
  
•  Buy-Sell Agreement
  
•  Cancel Order
  
•  Cancel Order ~ Buyer Breach
•  Cancel Order ~ Seller Breach
•  Collection Agent Appointment
  
•  Commercial Lease
  
•  Commercial Sublease
  
•  Confidentiality
  
•  Confidentiality ~ 1 page
  
•  Consignment Sale
  
•  Consulting ~ Marketing Services
  
•  Consulting Services
  
•  Contract Assignment
  
•  Copyright Assignment
  
•  Corporate Bylaws
  
•  Credit Purchase
  
•  Custom Software Development
  
•  Custom Software License
  
•  Dealer Resale Agreement
  
•  Debt Assignment
  
•  Directors Consent ~ 1st Meeting
  
•  Directors Consent ~ to Action Taken
  
•  Distribution Agreement ~ Exclusive
  
•  Distribution Agreement ~ Non-Exclusive
  
•  Divorce Property Settlement
  
•  Employee Invention Assignment
  
•  Employee Non-Compete
  
•  Employee Non-Disclosure
  
•  Employee Stock Bonus
  
•  Employment ~ Employee
  
•  Employment ~ Executive
  
•  Employment Continuation
  
•  Employment Termination
  
•  Equipment Lease
  
•  Equipment Purchase
  
•  Extended Service
  
•  Extended Use License
  
•  Finder for Sale of Business
  
•  Finder’s Fee ~ Investors
  
•  Finder’s Fee ~ Sale
  
•  General Partnership
  
•  Hardware Maintenance
  
•  Idea Submission
  
•  Indemnity
  
•  Independent Contractor
  
•  International Distribution
  
•  International License
  
•  Internet Joint-Marketing
  
•  IP Acquisition
  
•  IP Purchase Letter
  
•  Joint Development
  
•  Joint Marketing
  
•  Joint Venture
  
•  Kid’s Contract
  
•  Lease Assignment ~ Lessee
  
•  Lease Assignment ~ Lessor
  
•  Lease Guarantee
  
•  Lease Modification
  
•  Legal Representation ~ Contingency
  
•  Legal Representation ~ Fee
  
•  Letter of Intent ~ Binding
  
•  Letter of Intent ~ Do Business
  
•  Letter of Intent ~ Negotiate
  
•  Letter of Intent ~ Non-Binding
  
•  Letter of Intent ~ Purchase Business
  
•  Letter of Intent ~ Sell Business Assets
  
•  Limited Partnership
  
•  LLC Action by Consent
  
•  LLC Articles of Organization
  
•  LLC Certificate of Units
  
•  LLC Consent to Appointment as Registered Agent
  
•  LLC Operating Agreement
  
•  Mail List Exchange
  
•  Mail List Rental
  
•  Manufacturer’s Representative
  
•  Manufacturing ~ Exclusive
  
•  Marketing Consulting
  
•  Marketing Partnership
  
•  Material Usage License
  
•  Mutual Contract Termination
  
•  Mutual Release
  
•  National Account Manager
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ Deal
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ Employee
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ Formal
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ General
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ Mutual
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ Product Submission
  
•  Non-Disclosure ~ Simple
  
•  Notice of Intent to Repossess
  
•  Notice of Past Due Invoice-1st
  
•  Notice of Past Due Invoice-2nd
  
•  Notice of Past Due Invoice-Final
  
•  Notice of Rejection of Non-Conforming Goods
  
•  OEM / Remarketing
  
•  Partnership Assets & LLC Buyout
  
•  Partnership Dissolution
  
•  Patent Assignment
  
•  Patent License
  
•  Patent License Assignment
  
•  Personal Injury Release
  
•  Personal Loan Guarantee ~ Formal
  
•  Personal Loan Guarantee ~ Short
  
•  Power of Attorney
  
•  Power of Attorney ~ Revocation
  
•  Prenuptial ~ Formal
  
•  Prenuptial ~ Simple
  
•  Product License for Sale and/or Manufacture
  
•  Professional-Services
  
•  Promissory Note
  
•  Promissory Note + Stock Conversion
  
•  Purchase
  
•  Referral Acknowledgment
  
•  Release ~ Simple
  
•  Represent Buyer
  
•  Represent Seller
  
•  Residential Lease
  
•  Residential Sublease
  
•  Retail Salesperson
  
•  Retainer ~ Fee
  
•  Sales Rep ~ Commission Only
  
•  Sales Representative
  
•  Sales Representative ~ Foreign
  
•  Security ~ Formal
  
•  Security ~ Simple
  
•  Service
  
•  Settlement Agreement & Release
  
•  Severance
  
•  Shareholder Buy-Sell
  
•  Shareholder Consent
  
•  Shareholder Proxy
  
•  Small-Claims Court Worksheet
  
•  Software Development ~ Work for Hire
  
•  Software End-User License
  
•  Software License
  
•  Software Maintenance
  
•  Software OEM Remarketing
  
•  Software Source-Code Escrow
  
•  Stock Redemption
  
•  Sub-Contractor
  
•  Sublease Guarantee
  
•  Talent Model Release
  
•  Technology Evaluation
  
•  Testimonial Consent & Release
  
•  Trademark Assignment
  
•  Trademark License
  
•  Value Added Reseller
  
•  Web Referral Agreement
  
•  Website Developer ~ Work For Hire
  
•  Website Development ~ Work For Hire
  
•  Website Reciprocal Link
  
•  Work for Hire
  

For Windows Users:

• Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/Vista
• Office 2000/2003/XP/2007
• IBM-compatible PCs with a Pentium® processor or better, 166MHz or faster
• 32MB RAM, 64MB or more recommended
• 24MB hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive, 4x or faster
• Mouse or compatible pointing device
• 24-bit/true-color display
• Compatible with most popular printers

Please be sure you have all of the latest Windows and Office Service Packs installed... this makes world of difference!

• Click your START button (on your desktop)
• Click "Windows Updates" (or visit www.microsoft.com -- look for 'downloads') -- Please follow the Microsoft instructions.

Also, you may need to disable Norton before installing BizPlanBuilder.

For Macintosh Users:

The Macintosh version is a collection of Word and Excel templates that contain the very same content as the PC/Windows program. Unlike the Windows-based program with its document assembly system, we have taken the content and formatted it directly into complete Word and Excel spreadsheet templates for you—beautifully formatted documents that you can easily edit and format to your liking using Word & Excel. Your download will include a folder containing the documents neatly organized within sub-folders, with an "About" page introducing the JIAN business tool you have chosen.

The financial models are in Excel workbooks—they behave the same as in the Windows-based system with the document assembly system. Click them open, then click along the tabs at the bottom to access each page... You'll see, it's very comprehensive, straight-forward and credible.

No Windows-like Application

Although the Windows "wizard" is not there, the financials calculate just the same way as the PC financials. The text is fully editable—we have already assembled the documents for you for editing in Word. We wanted to offer a version of BizPlanBuilder for Mac customers, but R&D on Apple products is astronomical and is not in our current budget based upon the percentage of customers we have that use the Mac platform. We hope to have a cross-platform product out within the next 6 months that is collaborative for all of our users. We will honor our 6 month free upgrade to you at the time that product becomes available... Please send us a copy of your email receipt (or just email us and we will look you up) when you see a newer version of the product on this site. Thank you for understanding.

Mac OS

Macintosh OS 9 or later, including OS/X & Jaguar / Cheetah / Tiger

Power PC® processor

• 32MB RAM, 64MB or more recommended
• 24MB hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive, 4x or faster
• Mouse or compatible pointing device
• 24-bit/true-color display
• Compatible with most popular printers

Mac Basic Financial Statements**:

• Mac MS Office 98 or later, OR
• Mac MS Excel 5.0/95 or later
• Mac Intermediate** & Comprehensive** Financial Models:
• Mac MS Office 2001 OR Mac MS Excel 2001 or newer

** Requires full Office installation, and may not offer full functionality in some system configurations.