The Contract Clause Swipe File
70 annotated clauses for freelancers and small studios — what each one actually does, the version that protects you, the version that does not, and the questions to take to a lawyer.
Key Capabilities & Features:
- •Written to make you a better reader of contracts rather than to hand you documents to sign unread — which is the only honest thing a non-lawyer product can do
- •Clause pairs showing the same protection written well and written uselessly, since the difference is usually a few words and is invisible until it matters
- •A trap catalogue of ten clauses that arrive in client-supplied terms looking like boilerplate and are the ones worth pushing back on
- •Each section ends with the specific questions to take to a lawyer, so an hour of legal time covers what actually matters to you
- •Explicitly not legal advice, and it says so on the page rather than in a footnote
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What's Inside
7 modules70 examplesEvery module below is included in the single purchase.
- 1
Scope & Deliverables
10 examplesTen clauses defining what is being bought, shown in enforceable and unenforceable pairs, plus the acceptance criteria clause that ends the never-finished project.
- 2
Payment & Late Payment
12 examplesTwelve clauses on schedules, deposits, milestones, interest and suspension of work — including which of those you will actually enforce and which are decoration.
- 3
Intellectual Property
10 examplesTen clauses on ownership, assignment on payment, licence versus transfer, portfolio rights, and pre-existing tools you must not accidentally give away.
- 4
Indemnity & Liability
10 examplesTen clauses on liability caps, mutual versus one-way indemnity, and the uncapped indemnity a large client's standard terms will quietly ask you to accept.
- 5
Force Majeure & Delay
8 examplesEight clauses covering what force majeure genuinely does and does not excuse, notice requirements, client-caused delay, and postponement versus cancellation.
- 6
Termination & Cancellation
10 examplesTen clauses on notice, kill fees, work in progress, cancellation windows for events and bookings, and what happens to deposits.
- 7
The Trap Catalogue
10 examplesTen clauses that appear in client-supplied contracts, read as boilerplate, and are the ones to negotiate — unlimited revisions, uncapped indemnity, IP assigned before payment.
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You will sign contracts you did not write. The realistic goal is not to become a lawyer — it is to read a client's standard terms and know which three clauses to argue about.
The Contract Clause Swipe File is 70 annotated clauses across scope and deliverables, payment and late payment, intellectual property, indemnity and liability, force majeure and delay, termination and cancellation, plus a trap catalogue. Each clause carries three notes: what it actually does, who it protects, and the condition under which it fails.
Many appear in pairs — the same protection written so it works, and written so it does not. An IP clause that assigns ownership on completion rather than on payment gives your work away to a client who has not paid you. A late payment clause with interest you will never charge is decoration. A liability cap that omits the words it needs to omit is not a cap. In each case the difference is a handful of words and is completely invisible until the day it matters.
The trap catalogue is ten clauses that arrive inside client-supplied terms, read as ordinary boilerplate, and are worth your one negotiation. Uncapped indemnity is the most common. Unlimited revisions is the most expensive. IP assigned on delivery rather than on payment is the one people sign without noticing.
And every section ends with the specific questions to take to a lawyer. An hour of legal time spent asking targeted questions about your own contract is worth considerably more than an hour spent explaining what you do.
This is not legal advice, and it is not a template pack. It is a reading product, written to make you competent at recognising what a clause is doing. Contract law differs by country and sometimes by region, and nothing here can account for yours. Have a lawyer review anything you actually rely on.
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The indemnity entry paid for a year of insurance
Asked my insurer the exact question it suggested. The answer was that the policy would not have responded to the indemnity in my client's standard terms. I had signed three contracts with that clause in.
Four words in my IP clause
Mine said on completion. Changed it to on payment plus the no-licence sentence. A client went quiet on a final invoice two months later and the conversation went very differently than it would have.
My lawyer hour was actually useful
Went in with six specific questions from the end of each section instead of asking her to review everything. Cost me one hour rather than four and I understood the answers.
Not templates, and not your jurisdiction
It says both of these repeatedly and it means them. You cannot copy anything out of this and sign it. What you get is the ability to read a contract and know what to argue about, which was honestly what I needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this legal advice?
No. It is a reading product that explains what clauses do so you can recognise them and ask better questions. Contract law varies by country and often by region, and a document written for a general audience cannot account for yours. Have a lawyer review anything you rely on.
Can I copy these clauses into my contract?
No, and it is not built for that — the clauses are shown to be understood rather than lifted. Several are deliberately shown in broken form. What you can take to a lawyer is the list of specific questions at the end of each section, which makes an hour of legal time go much further.
Which country is it written for?
It explains concepts — indemnity, liability caps, assignment, force majeure — that exist across common-law jurisdictions in recognisable forms, and flags the points where local law decides the outcome. It is not a UK, US or EU product and does not pretend to be one.
Do I need an AI tool?
No, it is a reading product. If you want prompts for scoping and pricing the work these contracts cover, that is The Client Proposal Swipe File or The Agency & Consultant System.