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Read every contract before you sign it.

All of it.

You get sent a 14-page MSA and either skim it and pray, or pay a lawyer $500 and wait three days while the deal stalls. Fine Print reads every clause, flags the ones that can actually hurt you, explains each in plain English, and suggests a redline — so you know exactly what to push back on.

Fine Print — MSA review ready
Master_Services_Agreement.pdf — click a clause
MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT
between Northgate Logistics Ltd ("Client") and Northpeak Studio ("Provider")
Scan result
0 high-risk 0 negotiate 0 clean
Scan the contract,
then click a highlighted clause
for the plain-English risk + a redline.

The risk, in one sentence

Why it matters

Suggested redline
Status: idle Clauses read: 0 of 7 Time:
14 pgs
of legalese in a typical MSA — and the clause that bites you is always on page 11, in sub-section (c).
~90 sec
from upload to a full clause-by-clause flag, versus three days and $500 for a lawyer's first read.
3 types
of clause cause nearly all the damage: unlimited liability, IP grabs, and auto-renewal traps. It reads for those first.
0
pretence that this replaces a lawyer. It tells you which clauses need one — most don't.

The problem

You sign things you haven't read, because reading them properly is slow and expensive.

Every freelancer and small business does it: a contract lands, you skim the numbers page, and you sign. The risky clause is never the price — it's the liability cap you didn't notice, the IP clause that grabs your tools, the renewal that locks you in.

01 / The skim-and-pray

You mean to read it. But it's 14 pages of "hereinafter" and the deal is waiting. So you sign and hope — and hope is not a legal strategy.

02 / The lawyer tax

A proper review is $500+ and three days — for a contract worth $8k. So you only lawyer-up on the big ones, and get burned on the "small" ones.

03 / The buried clause

The dangerous bits hide behind boring headings. "Indemnity," "Assignment," "Term & Renewal" — the words sound harmless until they cost you.

How it works

Your risk profile, applied to every contract you're sent.

Week 1 — Your risk profile

What you can't accept (uncapped liability, losing your pre-existing IP), what you'll negotiate, and what's fine. Fine Print builds your clause library around how you actually work.

Week 2 — Calibrate

We run your past contracts through it and you check the flags. We tune severity to your judgment — so it cries wolf rarely enough that you keep trusting it.

Live — every contract read

Send a contract, get back a clause-by-clause flag with plain-English risks and redlines, in about ninety seconds. High-risk items are marked "take this to a lawyer."

The honest part

This is not a lawyer. It's the thing that tells you whether you need one.

Anyone who says AI replaces a contract lawyer is selling you something. Here's the actual line.

✕ What it won't do

Negotiate for you, give legal advice, catch a novel clause crafted for your specific situation, or stand behind an opinion in a dispute.

For genuinely high-stakes or unusual contracts, you still want a human lawyer — and Fine Print will say so, in writing, on exactly the clauses that need one.

⚠ Not legal advice. Never claimed to be.
✓ What it does brilliantly

Reads 100% of every routine contract — the MSAs, SOWs, NDAs and DPAs you currently skim — and flags the standard traps with a plain-English explanation and a starting redline.

You stop signing blind on the 90% that's routine, and you spend lawyer money only on the 10% that genuinely needs it — better targeted than before.

✓ Every clause read. The risky few, escalated.

Pricing

Fixed fee. Agreed clause-catch bar. Miss it and you don't pay.

No per-seat pricing. You know the number before we start.

The pilot — up to 10 contracts
$3,500 fixed fee
  • Your risk profile + clause library, built with you
  • Clause-by-clause flags, plain-English risks, redlines
  • Calibrated on your past contracts to your judgment
  • Agreed clause-catch bar — measured, in writing
  • "Take this to a lawyer" escalation on high-risk items
Start the pilot →
After the pilot
$250 /contract · or $400/mo
  • Per-contract review, or a rolling monthly queue
  • Clause library updated as your standards evolve
  • New contract types added on request
  • Cancel any month; your data leaves with you
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§ The guarantee: before we start we agree the clause-catch bar in writing — the share of standard trap clauses (from an agreed test set) it must flag correctly. If the measured result misses the bar at the end of the pilot, you don't pay the pilot fee.

Questions

The things everyone asks before trusting it with a contract.

Is this legal advice?

No, and it's designed to be upfront about that. Fine Print is a first pass that reads every clause of routine contracts and flags the standard traps in plain English. For genuinely high-stakes or unusual contracts it tells you to involve a lawyer — and marks exactly which clauses need one, so that expensive hour is spent on the right pages.

What kinds of clauses does it catch?

The ones that actually hurt small businesses: unlimited or uncapped liability, broad indemnities, IP assignment that grabs your pre-existing tools, auto-renewal with short notice windows, long payment terms, one-sided termination, and non-competes. Your clause library is built around your own "never accept" list in week one.

What about confidentiality — my contracts are sensitive?

They're processed on infrastructure I control and document, not used to train anyone else's model, and not retained beyond what's needed to produce your review. If you have specific confidentiality obligations, we design around them in week one — including, where required, keeping everything inside your own environment.

Can't I just paste it into ChatGPT?

You can, and it'll give you a plausible-sounding summary — sometimes right, sometimes confidently wrong, with no consistent standard behind it. Fine Print applies a fixed clause library tuned to your risk profile, so the same trap gets flagged the same way every time, with a severity you calibrated. Consistency is the whole product.

What if it misses something?

That's why the guarantee is measured against an agreed test set of trap clauses, not a vague promise. No system — human or machine — catches everything, which is why high-risk items are always escalated to a real lawyer. The goal isn't perfection; it's that you stop signing the routine stuff blind.

Fit

Who this is for — and who should keep their money.

✓ Built for

  • Freelancers, agencies and SMBs who sign without a lawyer on call
  • Anyone who's skimmed an MSA and hoped for the best
  • Teams who only lawyer-up on big deals and get burned on small ones
  • People who want to negotiate the risky clause, not the whole document

✕ Not for

  • Anyone who thinks it replaces a lawyer — it doesn't
  • M&A, litigation, or genuinely novel high-stakes contracts
  • Companies with in-house counsel already reviewing everything
  • People who'd rather not know what they just signed

Next step

Send me one contract you're about to sign. I'll show you what I'd flag.

One email, twenty minutes. Bring a real contract (redact what you like) and I'll run it through Fine Print live, so you can judge the flags for yourself before spending anything.

Replies within one business day.