Freelance Contract Board — 3-Lens Contract Review

How it works

Freelance Contract Board runs your contract through a three-phase adversarial review process instead of a single pass:

Phase 1 — Three reviewer lenses, one at a time. Scope Creep Skeptic, Liability & IP Realist, and Payment Terms Sharpener each review the same contract in turn, finishing one lens's notes before the next starts.

Phase 2 — Cross-examination. Every finding gets challenged or corroborated by the other two lenses — false positives get contested with a concrete reason, and issues that multiple lenses flag get marked as higher priority.

Phase 3 — Board verdict. Every finding is tagged CONFIRMED / CORROBORATED / DISPUTED, followed by one sign recommendation you can actually act on.

⚠️ Not legal advice. This is a pattern-recognition pass for the contract risks freelancers most commonly get burned by, run by an AI agent — it does not replace a lawyer. For high-value contracts, get an actual attorney to review it.

Sample output

Illustrative sample, not a real run.

## Phase 3 — Board verdict
1. **[CORROBORATED]** Open-ended "additional services as reasonably requested" clause with a flat fee (Scope Creep + Payment Terms) — renegotiation ask: cap deliverables/revisions explicitly.
2. **[CORROBORATED]** IP transfers "upon creation" while client can terminate at-will before the 45-day payment trigger (Liability & IP + Payment Terms) — renegotiation ask: tie IP transfer to receipt of payment.

**Sign recommendation:** Do not sign as-is — 2 CORROBORATED findings, send renegotiation asks first.

Use cases

• Get a structured read of a client contract before signing, to help you decide whether it needs a lawyer's review
• Flag the specific patterns that turn into unpaid work — unbounded scope, IP handed over before payment, net terms over 30 days with no late-payment protection
• Use inside Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw sessions directly — paste the contract text and go

FAQ

Does this replace a lawyer? No — it's a reasoning-based pattern-recognition pass, not legal advice. For high-value or unusual contracts, get an actual attorney to review it.

What if my contract contains real names or payment amounts? The Skill treats that as context only and is instructed not to echo it back beyond what's needed to explain a finding — redact counterparty names and contact details before pasting if you'd rather not share them. The Skill has no server and does not collect your text itself; whatever you paste is sent as-is to your agent's model, and your agent or model provider may retain it under its own policy.

What if I only have a scope-of-work doc, not a full contract? Paste whatever you have — the board reviews whatever text you give it and will note if a section (e.g. payment terms) isn't covered by what you pasted.