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There are two different things on contracts.io wearing the word “template”, and the difference matters enough to lead with it.

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Twelve in the library

Twelve papers are in the library. Each one has a name people use, a title that prints on the paper, and the aliases it answers to. Each of the twelve has a page at contracts.io/templates wearing In the library, which prints its title and the aliases it answers to.
The door does not offer you a paper by name. It has no template row, no slash palette and no recogniser reading your sentence for a kind — that was taken off the door deliberately, because a page whose whole proposition is just say it does not need a row of category names telling you what you are allowed to say. The twelve are what the library holds, not what the field guesses.

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Eighty-seven kinds described

The written catalogue is larger than the library, and it is honest about the gap. 87 kinds across twelve shelves:

Services

10 kinds

Software

10 kinds

Commercial

9 kinds

Corporate

9 kinds

Legal ops

9 kinds

Employment

8 kinds

Personal

8 kinds

Intellectual property

6 kinds

Confidentiality

5 kinds

Property

5 kinds

Data

4 kinds

Policies

4 kinds
Each kind’s page says what it is, who uses one, what you are deciding when you make one, the sections such a contract typically has, the kinds related to it, and three questions people ask. All of it is general and jurisdiction-neutral, because a page that told you what your jurisdiction requires would be advice. The 75 kinds outside the library print the search terms they answer to and then say plainly that the door does not match them yet. The catalogue is checked against the door’s own list at build time: if the twelve ever change and this does not, the build fails rather than the page lying.

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”Start it at the door”

Every one of the 88 pages ends at the same place, and it is not a download.

Start it at the door

Describe the contract you want in the field, in your own words. Lex drafts any kind you can describe, whether or not it is one of the twelve.
There is no downloadable file anywhere on contracts.io, and no page claims one exists. The twelve in the library are papers the product makes, not documents it hands you; the other 75 are descriptions of a kind of contract, and the way you get one is to say what you agreed.