44% of freelancers have worked without getting paid. In most cases, the contract allowed it. Check yours before you start working.
These are the clauses that cost freelancers thousands. Every single one is legal.
Sounds reasonable until you're doing the 8th round for free. If the contract doesn't cap revisions, you're working for nothing.
If the client decides when they're 'satisfied', they control when (or if) you get paid. Look for objective acceptance criteria.
No termination payment clause means the client can cancel after you've done 80% of the work and owe you nothing.
Vague deliverables like 'all necessary design work' give the client unlimited scope. You agreed to a project, not a retainer.
Go through this list with the contract in front of you. Anything you cannot find in writing is a risk you are carrying yourself.
Short, honest answers — including where this tool stops being useful.
The risk in freelance contracts is rarely exotic legal language — it is ordinary sentences that quietly move risk onto you: unlimited revisions, payment on «satisfaction», no kill fee, uncapped liability. CheckClause flags those sentences and explains in plain language what each one costs you in practice.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. This is a first pass that catches the common traps before you sign, so you know whether the contract needs a lawyer at all. For a high-value deal, an unusual arrangement, or a dispute already under way, hire one.
About 30 seconds for a typical freelance agreement. You upload the file and get a risk score with every flagged clause quoted and explained. No account is needed for the first check.
It is processed to produce your report and is not sold, published, or used to train models. If the contract is under an NDA that forbids any third-party processing, read that NDA first — that restriction binds you regardless of which tool you pick.
PDF and DOCX, the two formats clients actually send. A scan without a text layer will not work, because there is nothing to read — export the original from the editor instead.
Yes. The analysis works across the languages the site supports, and the report comes back in the language you are reading now, even when the contract is written in another one.
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