Who writes this blog
Everything on the ContractClerk blog is written by Clint Wallace, the founder of ContractClerk.
The experience behind it is first-hand rather than academic. Over years of running my own work I have drafted, reviewed, and negotiated freelance and vendor contracts from both sides of the table — as the person being hired and as the person doing the hiring. That means scoping deliverables, arguing about payment terms, reading liability clauses properly, and occasionally discovering the hard way what a clause meant only after signing it.
ContractClerk exists because of that last part. The agreements that cost small business owners money are rarely the ones big enough to justify a lawyer. They are the routine ones — the vendor order form, the SaaS renewal, the freelance engagement — that get signed unread because reading them properly costs more than the contract is worth.
Important
I am not a lawyer, and nothing on this blog is legal advice. What I write is practitioner experience and plain-English explanation of how commercial contract terms work. For anything high-stakes — a commercial lease, a personal guarantee, an equity document, or a live dispute — you should have a licensed attorney review it. Several articles here say exactly that, because it is true.
How this content is researched
Contract content is easy to write badly. Most of what ranks is padded, vague, or quietly invented. These are the rules this blog follows:
- No invented statistics. If a number appears here, it is either a verifiable product fact or comes from a named source. Where a statistic would be convenient but no real one exists, you get a worked example instead.
- Every external citation is checked. Links to legal sources — the Legal Information Institute, the Uniform Commercial Code, the FTC, the US Copyright Office — are verified as live and correct before publishing, not pasted from memory.
- Worked examples are labelled as illustrative. The arithmetic in the lease and payment articles is there to show how a calculation works, not to claim market averages.
- Plain English, not legalese. If a clause cannot be explained without jargon, the explanation is not finished.
- Corrections get made. Contract law changes, and articles that go stale get updated rather than left standing.
What ContractClerk does
ContractClerk is an AI contract review tool for small business owners. It reads an agreement clause by clause, flags terms that sit outside normal ranges, explains each one in plain English, and drafts counter-language you can send back. It covers around twenty contract types, and a review takes under thirty seconds.
It does not give legal advice, it does not create attorney-client privilege, and it is not a substitute for a lawyer on high-stakes agreements. Our guide to AI contract review versus a lawyer sets out honestly where each one fits.
Contact
Corrections, questions, or a clause you think deserves an article: contact@contractclerk.com.