[bellerocky]

I think in the context, a person with an idea and no code, it does come of a bit silly to want to sign an NDA. I'm not sure why a consulting company works with such people. I'm guessing they cater to people with ideas who have too much money?

[JoeAltmaier]

Its simple. Consulting companies have to talk to people to get jobs. Those people commonly ask them to sign an NDA. You do it or you don't get the first conversation.

Was a consultant, signed way too many silly NDAs.

[tptacek]

There's an easy solution to this problem: just have your own confidentiality agreement (which you can have vetted, once, by your lawyer), and offer it. We'll sign other firm's paper, but we won't do it without legal review, and we'll avoid legal review if it looks like no work is going to come from the discussion.