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Paste a contract clause and this free checker identifies which of 17 common clause types it is, then flags the terms lawyers most often negotiate: a limitation of liability with no cap, a one-way indemnity, an auto-renewal with no notice deadline, a termination right with no cure period, and vague standards such as "best efforts" or "sole discretion." It is rule-based, runs in your browser, and sends the text nowhere.
The checker first matches the text against 17 clause types: limitation of liability, indemnification, auto-renewal, termination, confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicit, assignment, governing law and venue, entire agreement, exculpatory or release, holdover, estoppel, reservation of rights, third-party beneficiaries, power of sale, right to audit, and common disaster. Each detected type links to its definition in the Gavel clause library.
It then runs type-specific rules. For a limitation of liability it checks for a cap, an exclusion of consequential damages, and whether only one party is protected. For an indemnity it checks whether the obligation is one-way, uncapped, triggered by any use of the service, or missing a claims procedure. For an auto-renewal it looks for a non-renewal notice window, a named method of notice, and year-long renewal increments. For a termination clause it checks for a one-sided termination for convenience, a cure period, non-refundable fees and the absence of data return terms.
Across every clause it flags language that causes disputes regardless of type: "best efforts," "sole discretion," "then-current rates," an undefined "material," "time is of the essence," perpetual obligations and "notwithstanding anything to the contrary." Each finding is marked Review, Note or OK, with the matched words shown.
The checker reads only the text you paste. It does not know what the rest of the agreement says, which side you are on, or what your firm's positions are, so a cap it cannot see in Section 9 is reported as missing. It uses pattern matching rather than a language model, which keeps it fast and private but means unusual drafting can be missed. It is a reading aid, not legal advice.
For a review of the whole contract against your own playbook, with proposed redlines as tracked changes inside Microsoft Word, that is what Gavel Exec does. It starts with 25 free queries and no credit card.
The checker runs in your browser and makes no network requests, so the text never reaches Gavel or any other server. Follow your firm's confidentiality policy as you would with any software, and clear the box or close the tab when you are done.
Seventeen: limitation of liability, indemnification, auto-renewal, termination, confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicit, assignment, governing law and venue, entire agreement, exculpatory or release, holdover, estoppel, reservation of rights, third-party beneficiaries, power of sale, right to audit, and common disaster. Text that matches none of them still gets the general checks for vague standards and undefined terms.
No. It uses rules written by Gavel's team, which includes practicing attorneys, matched against the text with pattern matching. That is why it can run entirely on your device. Gavel Exec, Gavel's AI contract review product for Microsoft Word, does use language models and reads the whole agreement.
You can paste more than one clause, and the checker will report every clause type it finds, but its rules are written for one clause at a time and it cannot tell which section a cap or carve-out belongs to. For a whole contract, review clause by clause here or use Gavel Exec in Word.
