Contracts, understood
For Freelancers, founders, small-business operators, and working professionals who review ordinary service, vendor, contractor, or software agreements and use AI to summarize or draft them. For non-lawyers. · 15 days · Concepts
The days
Listen to the whole course · 81 min
- 1Read the deal before the clausesBy the end you can state a contract's business deal in four plain-language questions before reviewing its clauses. Listen · 5 min
- 2Identify who must do whatBy the end you can connect each important obligation to a named party, action, trigger, and deadline. Listen · 5 min
- 3Define scope without hidden workBy the end you can test a scope for deliverables, exclusions, dependencies, and a change path. Listen · 5 min
- 4Pin down payment and acceptanceBy the end you can connect fees, invoices, payment dates, and acceptance to observable events. Listen · 5 min
- 5Find ambiguous languageBy the end you can spot undefined, subjective, and conflicting language and turn it into focused review questions. Listen · 6 min
- 6Understand warranties and promisesBy the end you can distinguish an operational promise, a warranty, and a remedy question in an ordinary agreement. Listen · 5 min
- 7Trace liability when things failBy the end you can trace an ordinary failure from event to loss, responsibility, exclusion, and financial limit. Listen · 6 min
- 8Read indemnity as risk transferBy the end you can map an indemnity's trigger, covered claim, protected party, process, and limits. Listen · 6 min
- 9Protect ownership and licensesBy the end you can separate background materials, new work, ownership, and licensed permissions. Listen · 6 min
- 10Handle confidentiality and dataBy the end you can map confidential information and personal data by source, permitted use, access, protection, and end-of-term handling. Listen · 6 min
- 11Plan termination before conflictBy the end you can map termination triggers, notice, cure, transition duties, and surviving obligations. Listen · 6 min
- 12Notice renewal and lock-inBy the end you can calculate a renewal decision date and identify price, notice, and minimum-term constraints. Listen · 5 min
- 13Resolve conflicts and change termsBy the end you can map escalation, dispute handling, document precedence, and amendment authority. Listen · 6 min
- 14Challenge an AI-drafted contractBy the end you can audit an AI-drafted agreement against the intended deal, missing context, internal conflicts, and failure scenarios. Listen · 6 min
- 15Decide when to sign or escalateBy the end you can turn a completed contract map into a reasoned proceed, renegotiate, pause, or legal-review decision. Listen · 5 min