About ClauseShield

One bad contract. One mission.

We're a group of friends who've been freelancing for years. We've done the late nights, chased the invoices, negotiated the rates, and — like too many of us — 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 building. It wasn't carelessness — it's that the language was designed to be confusing. Legal jargon isn't written for us. It's written to protect the people who hire us.

That's when we decided to build ClauseShield.

What ClauseShield actually does

ClauseShield uses a proprietary engine — a fine-tuned Legal-BERT trained on over 40,000 real legal clauses — to read your contracts the way a specialized attorney would. It detects risky clauses across 8 categories that matter to freelancers: payment terms, termination rights, IP ownership, liability, NDAs, non-competes, kill fees, and more. Learn more about what makes ClauseShield different.

But it doesn't just find problems — it tells you exactly why something is risky and gives you the replacement language to fix it. Upload a contract, get a risk score from 0-100, and download a redlined version ready to send back to your client. That's it. No complexity. No legalese. Just clarity.

The numbers behind the shield

This is for us

ClauseShield isn't a corporate legal tool with an enterprise price tag. It's built by a group of friends from Tennessee at Obsidian Clad Labs who've been in the trenches — late-night proposal writing, scope creep negotiations, payment clause anxiety. We built this because we needed it, and we know you do too.

Whether you're a developer, designer, writer, consultant, or any kind of independent professional — you deserve to know what you're signing. ClauseShield puts that power in your hands. Read our blog for practical contract tips and guides.