Not a legal opinion. A better use of the thirty minutes you're paying your lawyer for.
The tool that reads a contract, flags the clauses worth a specific legal question, restates each in plain language, and hands you a prioritized list to bring to a qualified lawyer. It never tells you whether to sign.
A lawyer reading a contract cold has to find the issues and explain them from scratch. This tool does the second part first: it flags the clauses that commonly warrant a question, indemnification, termination asymmetry, IP assignment, non-competes, and restates each in plain language.
It does not tell you whether a clause is standard, fair, or safe to sign. That judgment belongs to a qualified lawyer who knows your jurisdiction and situation. This tool's entire output is a better set of questions for that conversation, nothing more.
The questions, ready before the call with counsel.
Same contract, same lawyer call, run two ways.
A freelance consultant is about to sign a services agreement with a new client and wants to prepare for a call with their lawyer before signing.
You ask Claude to review the contract. You may get a general summary of what it says, or, worse, an opinion on whether the terms seem reasonable, which is exactly the judgment that needs a licensed lawyer, not an AI.
Either way, you walk into the call with your lawyer without a specific list of what to ask, and the first fifteen minutes get spent finding the issues you could have brought in already flagged.
It flags the clauses worth a legal question and restates each plainly:
- →An uncapped indemnification clause, restated in plain language
- →A 12-month, industry-wide non-compete, flagged as broader than typical for a single-client engagement
- →A termination clause requiring 60 days' notice from the consultant but allowing immediate termination by the client
For each, a specific question for the lawyer, not "is this okay" but "is an uncapped indemnification clause typical for an agreement like this, and what would my actual exposure be," grouped by priority, with the process ending there. No verdict on whether to sign.
The cold version might have told you it looked fine. This gave your lawyer exactly what they needed to actually earn their fee.
- ✦Founders and freelancers reviewing a vendor, client, or services contract
- ✦Anyone about to sign a lease or employment agreement and preparing for a lawyer's review
- ✦Operators who want an efficient use of paid legal time, not a substitute for it
- →contract-questions.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →contract-questions-skill.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
- →A README inside the zip with install steps for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the API
What it does with a real question.
I am about to sign a 12-month services agreement with a design contractor who will build our product's interface. It includes a fixed fee of $60,000 paid in three installments, a clause assigning intellectual property on final payment, a 30-day termination notice, and a liability cap equal to fees paid.
The clause to ask your lawyer about first is the IP assignment. As written, ownership transfers to you only on final payment. Read plainly, that means that if the relationship sours after the second installment, or the contractor disputes the last invoice, you may have paid $40,000 for an interface you don't yet own and may not be free to keep using. The question to bring: "Does ownership pass only on final payment, and what happens to the work, and my right to use it, if the contract ends early or payment is disputed?" Also ask whether it covers the contractor's pre-existing components and tools, since that's often where ownership gets muddy.
Next, the liability cap equal to fees paid. Early in the engagement, that cap is small, and I can't tell you whether it's workable for a product interface you'll build a business on. Ask your lawyer how the cap behaves in month two versus month ten, and whether it should exclude things like confidentiality breaches or infringement.
The 30-day termination clause is worth one question: what are your obligations to pay if either side leaves mid-installment?
Bring context too: how critical this interface is to your launch, and how much delay you could absorb. Your lawyer's guidance depends on that as much as the text.
I'm not telling you whether to sign. Take these questions to counsel first, with the IP clause at the top of the list.
The full Tool runs the whole procedure and writes the complete deliverable, not this excerpt.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this Tool loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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Before you buy.
How is this different from just asking Claude directly?
Asked cold, Claude may give you a general summary of the contract, or worse, an opinion on whether it looks acceptable, which is legal judgment an AI should not be offering. This flags the specific clauses worth a question, restates each in plain language, and generates the exact prioritized questions to bring to a qualified lawyer. It never concludes with a view on whether to sign, only the questions to ask before you decide with counsel.
Will this work with ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs?
Yes. You get a native Claude Skill (.zip) that auto-invokes in Claude, plus a plain .md you can paste into a ChatGPT Custom GPT, a Gemini system prompt, or any LLM. The procedure travels with the file.
Can I share this with my team?
It's licensed for your own personal and professional use. The output it produces is yours to circulate. To put the Tool itself in the hands of a whole team, email hello@authority.md about team licensing.
What if it doesn't work for me?
If the file hasn't been delivered, or arrives defective or empty, we refund in full: see our refund policy.
Contract Questions is a preparation tool for a conversation with a qualified lawyer. It is not legal advice, does not assess whether any clause is enforceable or advisable, and does not substitute for reviewing the contract with counsel licensed in your jurisdiction before you sign.