Free AI & Small Business Contract Templates

Editable Word templates for the businesses putting AI to work — policies to govern employee AI use, agreements to sign with AI vendors, and contracts for hiring the people who build it. Free to download, yours to edit.

6 templates

Policy

AI Acceptable Use Policy Template

A ready-to-edit acceptable use policy that governs how employees use generative AI tools at work. Covers approved tools, prohibited data, human review, disclosure, and IP ownership.

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Policy

Generative AI Policy Template

A ready-to-edit generative AI policy template that governs how employees create content with AI. Covers ownership and copyright risk of generated work, disclosure of AI-generated customer-facing content, brand-voice and accuracy standards, image and media generation rights, AI-generated code review, and prohibited generation like deepfakes and impersonation.

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Agreement

AI Data Processing Agreement (DPA) Template

A ready-to-edit AI data processing agreement template that a small business (the controller) signs with an AI vendor (the processor). This DPA controls whether your data can train the vendor's models, limits input/output retention, forces disclosure of sub-processors like OpenAI and Anthropic, and aligns with GDPR Article 28 and CCPA/CPRA.

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Agreement

Independent Contractor Agreement Template

A ready-to-edit independent contractor agreement template that a small business uses when hiring a freelancer or 1099 contractor. Covers scope, contractor status, compensation, IP assignment, a modern AI-tool-usage clause, confidentiality, termination, and warranties.

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Agreement

Software Development Contract Template

A ready-to-edit software development contract template for a client hiring a developer or agency to build software. Covers scope and specifications, milestones and deliverables, acceptance testing, milestone-based payment, intellectual property ownership, an AI-generated-code disclosure clause, warranties and a bug-fix period, confidentiality, change requests, termination, and limitation of liability.

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Checklist

AI Readiness Checklist

A ready-to-use AI readiness checklist that walks a small-business owner through the seven things to have in place before adopting AI or hiring an AI vendor: data readiness, process readiness, team readiness, use-case fit, budget and ROI, governance and risk, and vendor readiness. Check off what's done, flag the gaps, and fix them before you buy.

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Free AI & Small Business Contract Templates

AI Acceptable Use Policy Template

Generative AI Policy Template

AI Data Processing Agreement (DPA) Template

Independent Contractor Agreement Template

Software Development Contract Template

AI Readiness Checklist

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