About ClauseShield

One freelancer. One bad contract. One mission.

I'm a solo developer and I've been a freelancer for years. I've done the late nights, chased the invoices, negotiated the rates, and — like too many of us — signed contracts I didn't fully understand.

One of those contracts cost me. A buried clause meant I lost rights to work I'd spent months building. It wasn't that I was careless — 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 I decided to build ClauseShield.

What ClauseShield actually does

ClauseShield uses a proprietary AI model — 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.

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 someone who's been in the trenches — late-night proposal writing, scope creep negotiations, payment clause anxiety. I built this because I needed it, and I 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.