Six Questions to Ask a Contract Before You Sign It

In plain terms: Six questions to ask a contract. You are not getting legal advice. You are getting the questions.

You skimmed it. You know you skimmed it.

Fourteen pages, and the part that will actually hurt is one sentence somewhere in the middle about automatic renewal.

You do not need a lawyer to find the sentence. You need to know it is there.

The move: make it answer six specific questions.

The exact words to use

Copy this, paste it into ChatGPT, and add your own material underneath it.

Read this agreement as if you are protecting me. Tell me: 1 what am I committing to, 2 how do I get out, 3 what happens if I am late, 4 what happens if they are late, 5 what renews automatically, 6 what is missing that should be here. Quote the exact line for each. If it is not in the document, say not in the document.

Quote the exact line is what stops it summarising a clause that was never there.

What comes back

Six answers. Each with the line it came from.

Now you can read fourteen pages in the six places that matter, and walk into your attorney's office with a list instead of a shrug.

The one thing to watch

About twelve pages of pasted text is the ceiling. Past that it silently drops the rest and answers confidently about the part it saw. Long contract: paste it in sections.

This is not legal advice.

It is the list of things to ask someone who gives it.

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