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Have a contract that's giving you doubts?

AI contract review that reads your contract the way the dispute will. 8 sections, plain English, in sixty seconds. In private beta today. Join the waitlist for priority access and early offers when Clerk Starter opens.

Free uploads open with Clerk Starter. Today you can see the sample report, take the 5Cs Control Score, and join the waitlist for first access.

8 sectionsPerformance · liability · damages · payment · guarantees · warranties · risk · disputes
Built on 25 years of practiceFIDIC, EPC and commercial contracts across 30+ countries
How it will work

Upload. Scan. Decide.

Here's the production flow — opens with Clerk Starter. Today you can see the sample output, take the 5Cs quiz, and join the waitlist for first access.

01

Upload the PDF

Drop any contract. The Clerk will accept FIDIC Red, Yellow, Silver, bespoke EPC, services, supply, lease, NDAs — up to 25 MB.

02

60-second scan

The AI reads the contract against an 8-section high-level legal checklist built on 25 years of EPC and FIDIC practice.

03

You get the report

Clear plain-English report: what's found, what's an issue, what's missing. Share it, print it, or escalate to a human-reviewed Control Scan.

What the Clerk reads for

The 8-section high-level legal review.

The same checklist a senior contract manager would run through on first read. Each section scores found · issue · missing · not applicable, with a one-line finding.

01Performance

Scope, obligations, acceptance, time, defects, performance guarantees.

02Liability

Caps, carve-outs, indemnities, consequential and indirect loss.

03Specific damages

Delay LDs, performance LDs, service credits, bonuses, thresholds.

04Price & payment

Price basis, variations, interim valuations, retention, interest, set-off.

05Guarantees

Parent company, bank, advance payment, performance, warranty bonds.

06Warranties

Defects liability period, latent defects, remedies, fit-for-purpose.

07Allocation of risks

Force majeure, change in law, site conditions, insurance split, title.

08Disputes & law

Governing law, jurisdiction, DAB, expert, arbitration, notice regime.

What you get back

A report your project director actually reads.

Plain English. One page per section. No fluff.

Each of the 8 sections comes back with a status dot (found · issue · missing · not applicable), a one-line finding and a short list of the specific clauses or gaps that drive the status.

  • Senior-grade reading, in 60 seconds
  • Share with your QS, your lawyer, your board
  • Export as PDF for the project file
  • Upgrade to a human-reviewed Control Scan at any time
Sample report · EPC Contract60-second scan
02 · Liability

Issue. Overall liability cap stated as 100% of contract price with no sub-cap for IP or data breach. Consequential loss carve-out is incomplete — delay LDs excluded from cap but loss of profit is not.

03 · Specific damages

Found with gap. Delay LDs set at 0.1% per day capped at 10% of contract price. No performance LDs defined for key output guarantees — risk sits uncapped against the party in breach.

04 · Price & payment

Found. Interim payment on monthly valuations with 30-day pay-when-certified cycle. Retention 10% reducing to 5% at takeover. Interest on late payment at ECB+2%.

07 · Allocation of risks

Missing. No change-in-law clause for post-signature regulatory change. Site condition risk is 100% contractor — unusual for a brownfield site with known ground issues.

Plans

Free to discover. Paid tiers coming soon.

Four tiers from quick AI scan to senior human review. The interactive sample is live today. Starter, Professional and Control Scan open in waves — join the waitlist for priority access and early offers.

Interactive Sample

See what the Clerk's output looks like — today, in your browser.

Live today
No upload · browser-local
  • Scripted sample run on an illustrative EPC contract
  • Full 8-section report preview
  • Plain-English findings
  • Status dots: found · issue · missing
  • No file upload, nothing sent
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Clerk Starter

For individual engineers, QSs and PMs reading a few contracts a month.

Coming soon
Regular AI scans · fair-use allowance
  • Everything in Free scan
  • Regular AI scans with a monthly allowance
  • Saved scan history
  • PDF export of every report
  • Early-access pricing for waitlist
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Most asked about

Clerk Professional

For professionals and small teams reading contracts every week.

Coming soon
Higher allowance · comparison · saved reports
  • Everything in Clerk Starter
  • Higher monthly scan allowance
  • Side-by-side comparison of two versions
  • Team seats
  • Priority access and early offers for waitlist members
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Coming soon

Control Scan

AI scan + senior human review on one specific contract.

Coming soon
AI + human · 48–72 hours · walkthrough call
  • Full AI scan on the 8 sections
  • Senior reviewer validates every finding
  • Written report with recommendations
  • 30-minute walkthrough call
  • Multi-document review on quote
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Explore the interactive sample today. Starter, Professional and Control Scan tiers open in waves — waitlist members get priority access and early offers before anything goes public.

Need ongoing senior contract management? For teams that need a named senior contract manager embedded month to month — notices, variations, claims, payments — we work alongside Ask Contracks, our senior-practice sister service. Custom quote, scoped before you start.
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Free · 4 minutes · no PDF needed

Your contract is only part of the risk. How well is your project controlled?

The Clerk reads your contract. But paper doesn't fail — delivery does. The 5Cs Control Score takes four minutes and tells you where your project is likely to drift before it reaches the dispute.

Take the 5Cs Control Score →
  1. C1CONTAIN — scope & variations
  2. C2COMMAND — programme & delay
  3. C3CLOSE — decisions & instructions
  4. C4CONFIRM — payments & certification
  5. C5CONTROL — deadlines & cadence
FAQ

The honest answers.

Is this legal advice?

No. The Contract Clerk gives you a structured first-pass read of a contract against an 8-section high-level legal checklist. It is designed to help you spot where to look, not to replace legal counsel. For advice specific to your situation, book a Control Scan or speak to a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction.

What happens to my document?

Today, nothing — the live site accepts no uploads. The interactive sample runs locally in your browser against a fixed illustrative EPC contract. When the paid tiers open, your file will be processed to generate the report, encrypted in transit and at rest, deleted after processing on the entry tier, and stored in your account only on tiers where you ask us to. We will never share documents with third parties, and we will never use your documents to train AI models. The deployment details and sub-processor list are published on the privacy page before the first paid tier opens.

How accurate will the AI scan be?

The design goal is to flag the structural issues a senior reader would catch on first read — missing caps, incomplete carve-outs, risk allocation gaps, weak dispute mechanisms. It won't replace a senior lawyer's deep review, and we won't claim it does. That's what the Control Scan tier is designed for — AI finds the pattern, a human confirms the risk and recommends the move. Validated accuracy benchmarks will be published before Clerk Starter opens.

Will it read contracts in languages other than English?

Clerk Starter will open with English contracts first. French, Dutch, Spanish and German are planned for later waves — the sequence will be set by what waitlist signups ask for most. For contracts in other languages, the Control Scan tier will be delivered by a team that covers all four.

When will The Contract Clerk launch?

We're in private beta. Tiers open in waves as the production engine is validated — Clerk Starter first, then Professional, then Control Scan. We're not committing to a public date until we're confident in it. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the first to be invited, with priority access and early offers reserved for waitlist members. Until then, the interactive sample is live today — a scripted preview against an illustrative EPC contract so you can see the output structure.

How much will the paid tiers cost?

Pricing is being tested as we complete the beta — we're exploring a range from entry-level individual access up to full senior-reviewed scans. Waitlist members see concrete offers first and get priority access when each tier opens. We'll come to you with the actual numbers before public launch.

Is the live site running AI contract analysis today?

No, and we won't pretend otherwise. The live site accepts no uploads — the hero's "Interactive sample" plays a scripted preview against a fixed illustrative EPC contract so you can see the output structure. The real engine (PDF ingestion, clause extraction, evidence-linked findings, party-specific risk interpretation) opens with Clerk Starter. The waitlist is how we size the production build to what people actually want and get it right before we ask anyone to upload a confidential contract.

Who built this?

The Contract Clerk is built by a senior contract-management team with 25 years on major capex projects across energy, infrastructure, real estate and aviation in 30+ countries. The Clerk is our free-tier way of showing you how we read contracts, so you can decide whether to escalate to a human-reviewed Control Scan on the ones that matter.

Serguei Poppeleer, Founder of The Contract Clerk
Founder

Built by people who know contracts.

25 years. 30 countries. One recurring problem.

The Contract Clerk was founded by Serguei Poppeleer, an engineer and contract specialist who has spent over 25 years working across major construction, energy, infrastructure and aviation projects.

Across different countries, industries and contract forms, he kept seeing the same problem: capable teams losing time, money and control because contractual risks were identified too late.

The Contract Clerk was created to make the first reading of a contract faster, clearer and more accessible.

EngineeringM.Sc. Civil Engineering (Mons)
Contracts & arbitrationLLM Oil & Gas Law · MCIArb · IACCM
International projectsEPC, energy, infrastructure, aviation · Europe, Africa, Gulf

Built on real project experience. Powered by AI.

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