FinePrint scores your MSA, SOW, or service agreement 0–100 and tells you exactly what to negotiate. A lawyer charges $300+ for this. See your risk score free.
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FinePrint reads every clause and scores the agreement 0–100, flagging high, medium, and low risks.
Each flag comes with a plain-English explanation and a practical suggestion — and every major red flag includes a copy-paste pushback email you can send your client.
One important distinction: we’re not a terms-of-service reader. Apps like fineprint.to summarize website terms you can’t change. FinePrint reads the client contracts you can negotiate — MSAs, SOWs, service agreements — and tells you exactly what to push back on.
| FinePrint | A general chatbot | ToS reader apps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for contracts you negotiate MSAs, SOWs, client agreements |
✓ Yes | ✗ General-purpose | ✗ Reads ToS you can’t change |
| Structured 0–100 risk score Comparable across contracts |
✓ Every scan | ✗ Prose, no calibrated score | ✗ Summaries, no score |
| Severity-tagged clause findings Deal-breakers separated from nitpicks |
✓ High / medium / low | ✗ Buries the big risks in a list | ✗ Not built for clause risk |
| Copy-paste pushback emails For every major red flag |
✓ Built in | ✗ Only if you prompt it right | ✗ Nothing to push back on |
| Prompt engineering | ✓ None needed — paste and scan | ✗ Good reviews need crafted prompts | ✓ None needed |
| Price | ✓ $5 per scan, free risk score | ✗ $20/mo subscription, use it or not | ✓ Free – $9.99/mo |
| Privacy | ✓ Never used to train models | ✗ Depends on your settings | ✗ Check their policy |
FinePrint is an informational tool, not a law firm — not legal advice. But it’s the closest thing to a contract specialist you can get for $5.
Red flag of the week · #1
Every week, one real clause from a real freelancer agreement — torn down so you can spot it in yours before you sign.
The clause
“All Work Product, including any pre-existing intellectual property, materials, templates, or code incorporated therein, shall be deemed ‘work made for hire’ and Contractor hereby assigns all right, title, and interest therein to Client, throughout the world, in perpetuity.”
Where it hides: Section 2, “Work Product and Intellectual Property” — the part of the contract most freelancers skim because it sounds standard.
Why it hurts: This doesn’t just cover what you make for this client. “Pre-existing intellectual property… incorporated therein” means the templates, snippets, and tools you brought into the project — the same ones you reuse on every engagement — now belong to the client, forever, worldwide. If you ever reuse your own toolkit on another client’s project, you’re technically infringing on rights you signed away.
What to negotiate instead: narrow the assignment to work created specifically for this engagement, and expressly carve out your pre-existing materials, tools, and libraries. One sentence does it:
“Contractor assigns to Client all right, title, and interest in Work Product created specifically for this engagement, excluding Contractor’s pre-existing materials, tools, and libraries.”
Subject: Quick ask on Section 2 (IP ownership)
Hi [Name], Thanks for sending this over — I'm happy to assign the IP I create specifically for this project. One tweak I'd like to make to Section 2: as written, it also hands over my pre-existing templates, tools, and code that I reuse across client work. I'd rather limit the assignment to work created for this engagement, and expressly carve out my pre-existing materials. Would you be open to: "Contractor assigns to Client all right, title, and interest in Work Product created specifically for this engagement, excluding Contractor's pre-existing materials, tools, and libraries"? Thanks, [Your name]
Spotted in a real anonymized freelancer agreement. FinePrint is an informational tool, not a law firm, and this isn’t legal advice.
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The short answers.
A general chatbot gives you a summary and hopes you asked the right follow-ups. FinePrint gives you a 0–100 risk score, severity-tagged clause findings, per-clause "why it matters" and "what to negotiate" guidance, and copy-paste pushback emails for the big red flags — with zero prompt engineering and your contract never used to train models. See the full comparison.
Those scan website terms you can't change. FinePrint scans the contracts you negotiate — MSAs, SOWs, service agreements — and tells you what to push back on, including copy-paste emails for the big red flags. They read the terms you can't negotiate. We read the contracts you can.
It's a first-pass screen, not a lawyer — which is why it costs $5, not $500. Every high-severity finding comes with a nudge to run it by a lawyer before you sign. And your first paid scan is covered: if the report doesn't flag a single useful issue, the $5 comes back, no questions.
No. FinePrint spots common contractual risks and explains them in plain English, but it is not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice. For high-stakes agreements, talk to a licensed attorney.
Client service agreements, MSAs, SOWs, contractor agreements, NDAs — the contracts you negotiate. Paste the text or upload a PDF or DOCX. (We don't do website terms of service — you can't negotiate those.)
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