How these pages are written

This site publishes pages about contracts, and pages about contracts are the easy kind to get wrong. Here is where the facts come from, how a page is made, who reads it, and what it is not.

Where the facts come from

Two sources, both named. The first is this site’s own catalogue: the 87 kinds of contract the product knows and the 184 legal systems it can name as governing law, which are the same lists the picker at the door reads. The second is Wikidata, published under CC0, for the facts about a place. Where Wikidata has nothing to say about a unit, the page has fewer rows on it. A fact is sourced or it is left out. It is never padded.

How a page is drafted, and the AI part said plainly

Most pages here are generated: the data above is assembled into a page by code, so the numbers on a page and the numbers in the product cannot drift apart. The words around that data, and the posts on the blog, are drafted with AI assistance. That is worth stating at the top rather than leaving to be worked out, because concealing it is the only version of this that would be a problem. A model is a hand here, not an authority.

Who reads it before it goes up

The contracts.io editors. A person on the team reads a page before it is published, and nobody on that team is a lawyer — this page does not pretend otherwise. What the review is answerable for is narrower and checkable: that the page says what the data says, that nothing on it is invented, and that it does not slide into telling you what to do. We do not put an individual’s name to it, because the pages are the company’s work and it is the company that answers for them.

The last-reviewed convention

Pages carry a line saying when a person last read them — this one says 2 September 2026. It is written by hand, one date per family of pages, and it moves only when somebody has actually looked. It is deliberately not the build date. A date that moved every time a typo was fixed would say a page was checked on a day nobody checked it, and that is a small lie told in the loudest possible place.

The rules we write under

• Every section describes something that works today, or is labelled as still being built.
• Nothing that fakes scale: no customer logos, no quotes from customers we do not have, no numbers we cannot show, no integrations that are drawn rather than wired.
• No dead links and no dead controls. One button that does nothing undoes every honest line above it.
• Facts, not advice. A page may say what a contract usually names. It may never say what your contract should do.

What these pages are not

They are not legal advice, and no page here is reviewed by a lawyer. A page can tell you what a kind of contract usually names and how this product files it. It cannot tell you what your agreement means, whether it holds, or which law it should live under. A draft from the door is a starting point, not a finished agreement.

How much we publish

A few posts a week and a handful of new pages, on the same days, indefinitely. Pages are built where somebody is actually asking the question, and a page that would only repeat another one with a name swapped is not published at all.

Reporting something wrong

The contact page says how, and says honestly what exists to reach us with today.

Last reviewed 2 September 2026 by the contracts.io editors. How these pages are written.