We're Charles and Billie, a husband-and-wife team in Tennessee. We've done the late nights, chased the invoices, negotiated the rates, and like a lot of freelancers, signed contracts we didn't fully understand.
One of those contracts cost us. A buried clause meant losing rights to work we'd spent months on. It wasn't carelessness. Legal language is built to be confusing. It isn't written for the freelancer. It's written to protect the people hiring them.
So we built ClauseShield.
“Every freelancer deserves to understand what they're signing. In plain English, in seconds, without paying a lawyer $500 an hour.”
ClauseShield uses a fine-tuned Legal-BERT model, trained on more than 40,000 real legal clauses, to read your contract the way a specialized attorney would. It flags risky language across eight categories that matter to freelancers: payment terms, termination, IP ownership, liability, NDAs, non-competes, kill fees, and more. More on what makes ClauseShield different.
It doesn't just find problems. It tells you why something is risky and hands you replacement language to fix it. Upload a contract, get a risk score from 0 to 100, and download a redlined version ready to send back to your client. That's the whole thing. No complexity. No legalese.
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ClauseShield isn't a corporate legal tool with an enterprise price tag. It's a small piece of software from a husband-and-wife team in Tennessee, built because we needed it ourselves. Late-night proposals, scope creep, payment anxiety. We've lived all of it.
Developer, designer, writer, consultant, or any kind of independent professional. You deserve to know what you're signing. Have a look at our blog for practical contract tips.
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