Plain-language risk flags
Every clause that can cost you, ranked, with the consequence named in numbers from your own contract. Not a summary of the agreement. The four lines that matter.
Contract review for small businesses
Know what you
are signing.
Clause reads any contract and flags the risky clauses in plain language, with the redline you should ask for, before you sign.
Free for your first contract. Honest help, not legal advice.
managed-it-services-agreement.pdf
reading
4. TERM AND RENEWAL. The initial term of this Agreement shall
commence on the Effective Date and continue for a period of
twenty-four (24) months (the "Initial Term"). Upon expiration
of the Initial Term, this Agreement shall automatically renew
for successive twenty-four (24) month periods unless either
party provides written notice of non-renewal not less than
ninety (90) days prior to the end of the then-current term.
5. TERMINATION. Client may terminate this Agreement for
convenience upon sixty (60) days' prior written notice,
provided that Client shall pay an early termination fee equal
to fifty percent (50%) of the Service Fees that would have
become due for the remainder of the then-current term.
The problem
The fine print costs you later
Nobody reads a forty page services agreement on a Thursday afternoon. The clause that hurts is never the one in bold, and the bill for missing it arrives two years later.
- 68%
- of small business owners have signed a contract they later regretted
- $4,700
- the average a small business loses each year to renewals it meant to cancel
- $300 to $600
- what a lawyer charges to read one commercial agreement
Illustrative figures used to describe the problem Clause is built for, not results from a survey we ran. The third is the range small business owners report paying for a single contract review at typical US commercial rates.
How it works
Three steps, about forty seconds
01
Upload the contract
Paste the text or drop the PDF. A services agreement, a lease, an NDA, a software subscription, a statement of work. Ten pages or ninety. Nothing to configure and no template to pick, because Clause works out what it is reading.
Text-based PDFs up to 10 MB. If a file is scanned images rather than text, Clause says so instead of guessing.
02
Clause reads every line
Every clause is read in the context of the whole agreement, because a termination clause means something different next to a two year auto-renewal. Each one is compared against what is standard for that kind of deal, and each quote is checked back against your own text before you see it.
A quote the model produced that does not appear in your document is thrown away rather than shown. A highlight on the wrong sentence is worse than no highlight.
03
Get flags and redlines
The risky clauses come back ranked, each with what it says, why it costs you, how it compares to normal, and the exact language to ask for. Copy the redline into your reply and send it. That is the whole job.
Most customers send the suggested wording straight back to the other side. The rest take it to a lawyer, who now has a thirty minute meeting instead of a three hour one.
See a review
A real one, on a real agreement
This is a managed IT services contract of the kind a dental practice signs. Click any clause. Nothing here is a mockup: it is the product screen, with the product’s own output.
Managed IT Services Agreement
Northgate Dental Group and Bluecrest Technology Partners
8
clauses flagged
4
high risk
High risk
overall read
Flagged clauses
Section 4
Auto-renewal, 24 months, 90 day notice
this Agreement shall automatically renew for successive twenty-four (24) month periods (each, a "Renewal Term") unless either party provides written notice of non-renewal not less than ninety (90) days prior to the end of the then-current term
Quoted from your document, word for word.
The read
This is a two-year managed IT agreement that renews for another two years unless you cancel ninety days early, and it puts almost all of the risk on the practice. Before signing, get the renewal down to twelve months, get the liability cap up from one month of fees to twelve, and make the indemnity mutual. Those three changes are worth more than everything else in the document combined.
What you get
Five things, all of them the point
Redlines, ready to paste
The replacement wording, written to be pasted into a reply. One button, one clause, one ask.
“...renew for successive twelve (12) month periods unless either party provides notice not less than thirty (30) days prior...”
Standard versus yours
Knowing a clause is unusual is only useful if you know what usual is. Every flag names the norm with a number attached.
- Standard cap
- 12 months of fees
- Yours
- 1 month of fees
Renewal reminders
Clause watches the notice window, not the end date, and tells you sixty and fifteen days before the deadline that actually binds you.
Business and Team plans
Model-agnostic routing
Each step goes to the model that is best at it, and a long or self-contradicting agreement escalates automatically.
See the routing tableBuilt AI-native
The model is the engine, not a feature we added
Clause was not a rules engine that later added AI. There is no version of this product without modern language models, because the work is reading. No regular expression finds an auto-renewal written as “shall continue for successive periods of equal length unless”, and no template explains to a dental practice what a one month liability cap means for their patient records.
Clause is model-agnostic by design. Every step asks for a task, not a model, and one file decides which lab answers. A lab changing its price, its policy or its quality is a configuration change here, not a rebuild. Long or self-contradicting agreements escalate to a frontier model on their own.
Routing table, generated from the code
- Read the contract and flag the risky clausesgpt-4.1-mini/balanced
- Draft the change to ask forgpt-4.1-mini/balanced
- Write the overall risk readgpt-4.1-mini/balanced
- Work out what kind of agreement this isgpt-4.1-nano/fast
Candidates from other labs are declared behind the same interface and switch on when their key is present. The escalation rule and the fallback chain are on the How the AI works page.
Customers
What it catches
“The agreement had a twenty-four month auto-renewal with ninety days' notice and I had eleven days left to cancel. I did not know that. Clause did, in about forty seconds, and it told me the date rather than the clause number.”
“Every vendor contract goes through Clause before it reaches me now. I get the four clauses to argue about instead of forty pages, and I can send the suggested wording back the same afternoon. Our lawyer sees the ones that deserve a lawyer.”
Illustrative customer stories, written to show what Clause catches. They are composites, not quotes from named customers.
Pricing
One contract free, every month
Prices are in US dollars and that is the only price list there is. No setup fee, no minimum term, cancel from the dashboard.
MonthlyAnnual
Switch to annual and two months are free.
Free
One contract a month, reviewed properly. Enough to find out whether the thing in your inbox is fair.
$0forever
No card required
1 contract review a month
- 1 contract review a month
- Every risky clause flagged and ranked
- Plain-language explanation for each flag
- How each clause compares to what is standard
- Paste text or upload a PDF
Business
For the owner who signs something most weeks. Unlimited reviews, the redline written for you, and a nudge before the renewal date.
$29per month, USD
$348 a year, or $288 on annual
Start on Business
Card payments are not switched on in this deployment yet, so this joins the list and we email you the moment it is.
Unlimited reviews, redlines, renewal reminders
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited contract reviews
- Suggested redlines, written to paste into an email
- Renewal and notice-window reminders before the deadline
- Contract history you can search
- Export a review as a PDF to send to a lawyer
- Email support
Team
For the ops lead everybody forwards contracts to. Five seats, one shared library, and answers the same day.
$79per month, USD
$948 a year, or $792 on annual
Start on Team
Card payments are not switched on in this deployment yet, so this joins the list and we email you the moment it is.
5 seats, shared contract library, priority support
- Everything in Business
- 5 seats
- A shared contract library the whole team can read
- Comments on a clause, so a decision has a record
- Standard terms your company will not go below, applied to every review
- Priority support with a same-day first reply
Read the next one before you sign it
One contract a month, free, with every risky clause explained and the change to ask for written out. No card.