Your client contract is 18 clauses.
Three of them will screw you.
Drop a client contract in. Claude reads it against an 18-point red-flag checklist. Get a one-page verdict with the exact clauses to push back on — and the rewrites that close the holes. $99 lifetime, unlimited contracts. Not a law firm. Not legal advice. A second set of eyes that doesn’t bill $400/hr.
Launch list open. $0 now. One email with your Stripe link when we ship (~6 weeks).
Every freelancer knows the clause that ate last year.
You’re a freelancer or solo consultant. A client sends you a 9-page contract. You scan it for the money part (dollar amounts, due dates, late fees). You skim the rest because the rest is "boilerplate." Then six weeks later you discover the termination clause lets the client cancel with zero days notice, the IP assignment says every drawing you made for them transfers retroactively even to work you did before you signed, the indemnification clause makes YOU liable for their third-party contracts, and the auto-renewal silently rolls you into another year.
A real lawyer review costs $300-$600 per contract. You sign 5-15 contracts a year. You can’t afford $3,000-$9,000/year on legal review. So you don’t get the review. You sign. You hope. You get burned. You add the clause to your mental list of "things to watch for next time." That list is currently 18 items long in Septim’s checklist. Most freelancers have 3-4 on their own list. The gap is what ate last year.
What Witness actually checks for.
IP assignment scope
"Work product" vs "all work of author." Retroactive assignments. Pre-existing IP carve-outs missing.
Indemnification direction
One-way (you indemnify them only) vs mutual. Third-party claims exposure. Cap amount.
Termination clause
Notice period both ways. Kill fees. Payment for work-in-progress on early termination.
Payment terms
Net-60 or Net-90. Late-fee interest rate. Deposit refundability. Milestone-vs-time basis.
Auto-renewal trap
Silent renewal with rolling price-hike rights. Notice window to opt out. Hidden multi-year extensions.
Non-compete scope
Duration, geographic, industry-wide. Non-solicit coverage of their clients vs all similar clients.
Confidentiality asymmetry
One-way NDA on them but mutual on you. Perpetual confidentiality vs time-limited. Residuals clause.
Venue / governing law
Their state vs neutral. Mandatory arbitration. Class-action waiver. Jury-trial waiver.
Warranties & disclaimers
Performance guarantees you can’t keep. Uptime SLAs on systems you don’t control. "Bug-free" promises.
Liquidated damages
Fixed-dollar penalties. Multiple-of-fee damages. Consequential damages exposure.
Scope creep protection
Change-order process. Written-approval requirement. Hourly overage rate. "Reasonable" ambiguity.
Exclusivity
Can you take other clients during the engagement? Right of first refusal on future work.
Subcontractor clause
Can you use subs? Client approval required? You’re liable for their work even if they’re independent.
Publicity & portfolio rights
Can you put their logo in your case studies? Blanket "confidential" clauses that silently block this.
Data ownership
Who owns analytics/telemetry/usage data? GDPR exposure? Data-return on termination.
Force majeure scope
Pandemic-era carve-outs still active? Client’s force-majeure rights vs yours.
Assignment rights
Can client sell the contract to a third party without your consent? Change-of-control triggers.
Surviving clauses
What clauses survive termination? Forever-confidentiality, non-compete after you’re gone.
A contract clause, before and after.
"Contractor hereby assigns to Client all right, title, and interest in and to all Work Product, including any pre-existing materials, derivatives thereof, and any improvements, modifications, or enhancements made by Contractor during the Term."
Suggested rewrite: "Contractor assigns to Client all right, title, and interest in and to the Work Product specifically created for Client under this Agreement, excluding any pre-existing materials of Contractor, which remain Contractor’s property and for which Contractor grants Client a perpetual, non-exclusive license solely for use within the Work Product."
Three steps. One PDF.
Upload the contract
Drag-and-drop a PDF or paste the text. Data is sent to Anthropic via your own API key — not ours. Nothing is stored server-side.
Claude reviews it
Against the 18-point checklist. Each flag returns a clause quote, a severity score, and a suggested rewrite.
Get the verdict
A one-page summary PDF you can save, share with your own lawyer, or send back to the client with your markup.
Unlimited reviews
$99 gets you unlimited contract reviews for life. Cap: 500 contracts/year per user (to prevent abuse — covered in ToS).
Witness is not legal advice.
Septim Labs is not a law firm. Witness is a pattern-matching tool that runs your contract against common red-flag patterns. It does not replace a qualified attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. For contracts where the stakes are high enough that you’d normally get one reviewed by a lawyer, get it reviewed by a lawyer. Witness is designed for the 80% of freelancer contracts where the stakes are "I don’t want to read 9 pages tonight" — not the 20% where a real attorney is the right move.
Witness’s output is AI-generated and may contain false positives, false negatives, or misinterpretations. Always read your own contract. If a clause feels weird, don’t sign. If Witness flags something, verify it yourself before rejecting the clause to the client.
$99 for the first 100. $149 after.
No credit card. No autobill. One email with your Stripe link when we ship. Cancel anytime.
Real questions.
Does Witness send my contracts to Septim?
No. Witness calls the Anthropic API directly using your API key. Septim never sees the contract text or the verdict.
Is this legal advice?
No. Witness is a pattern-matching tool. It is not a substitute for an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. For high-stakes contracts, pay the lawyer.
What formats does it read?
PDF, DOCX, plain text at launch. Google Docs and Word Online integration in v1.1 if demand.
Why $99 not $29 per contract?
Per-contract pricing creates friction every time you need a review. We want you to review EVERY contract, not just the scary-looking ones. $99 lifetime removes the friction. Unlimited reviews (capped at 500/year in ToS to prevent abuse).
Does it work for any country’s contract?
The 18-flag checklist is US/UK-centric at launch. International variants (EU, Canada, Australia, India) are on the v1.2 roadmap — leave a note in the reserve form with your country and preferred legal tradition.
When does it ship?
May 2026. Reserve locks in $99; standard rate is $149.
Can my lawyer use this to speed up review?
Yes — and we hope they do. Witness is positioned as "pre-read before the lawyer reads it," which cuts lawyer billable time. If you’re a lawyer buying for your own practice, email us — we’re exploring a professional tier.