Solutions
Contracts for freelancers and sole traders.
You are the business, the finance department and the legal department. Say what you agreed with a client in one sentence, read the contract it becomes, and send it. The client opens it in a browser, and never pays and never makes an account.
For freelancers
What a freelancer can do here.
Say it the way you would say it
“A statement of work with a studio, thirty days to pay.” That is enough. The contract comes back in plain language, with a blank wherever it needs an answer from you.
How it worksRead the clause that matters to you
Payment terms, who owns the work, what happens when a project stops: read a clause and read what it means, side by side, in words you would use yourself.
What this is forRedlines without the back and forth
Thirty days does not fit how you get paid? Change the clause, say why in a line, and the client answers on the same contract.
RedlinesThe client never pays and never makes an account
They open the contract in a browser, reply to a clause and put their name to it. Nothing to sign up for, no password to invent, no app.
TogetherGoverning law, picked
A client can be anywhere. Name the legal system the contract is written under, or more than one, and the contract records which.
Every governing lawStart with a template
Kinds from the catalogue that fit this desk.
- Freelance agreementA short services contract for one freelancer and one client: the job, the fee, the revisions, and the point at which the work changes hands.
- Statement of workThe short contract that names one job under a services agreement: what is being made, by when, and for how much.
- Independent contractor agreementBetween a business and a person working for themselves: the work, the pay, the ownership, and the fact that this is not a job.
- Retainer agreementA recurring fee for a standing arrangement: what is included each period, what rolls over, and how either side stops it.
- One-way confidentiality agreementIn the libraryOne side does the telling and the other side does the listening, and only the listener promises.
- Photography agreementFor a shoot: the date, the deliverables, who owns the images, what the client may do with them, and what the photographer may show.
Governing law this desk often names: England and Wales, California, New South Wales — or several at once. Every governing law.
The next brief deserves a contract you have read.
The other side never pays and never makes an account.
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