Read before you sign
Send Contractward the document you have been sent — a PDF, the Word file, a photo of the pages, or the text pasted out of a portal. It reads every clause and sends back what the document does in plain English, plus the two or three clauses that are unusual, costly or one-sided, each quoting the sentence that gives it away.
No account. Your document is read and then dropped — nothing is stored.
This is not legal advice. Contractward explains a document and shows you where it departs from what is standard. It will not tell you whether to sign — that part stays yours.
Contractward report
Tenancy · England
38 other clauses read and found standard for this kind of document. The schedule is below.
An example report, run on a sample tenancy agreement written from the standard forms it imitates. Your own document comes back in exactly this form.
Clause 12.4 · page 11 of 14
The Tenant shall, at the Tenant’s own expense, have the carpets and all soft furnishings cleaned by a professional cleaning company of the Landlord’s choosing at the end of the Tenancy and shall provide the Landlord with a receipt.
Eleven pages in, sitting between the inventory and the smoke-alarm clause, in the same typeface and the same tone as the thirty-eight clauses either side of it. Nothing on the page tells you this is the expensive one. That is the whole problem, and it is the only thing Contractward is built to solve.
Report, part two
A flag without its sentence is a rumour. Every one quotes the words that triggered it and names the practice it was judged against — and the quote is checked against your document before you ever see it.
The Tenant shall, at the Tenant’s own expense, have the carpets and all soft furnishings cleaned by a professional cleaning company of the Landlord’s choosing at the end of the Tenancy and shall provide the Landlord with a receipt.
Flag 1 of 3.
The Landlord or the Landlord’s agents may enter the Property at any reasonable time to inspect its condition or carry out repairs, having given such notice as is practicable in the circumstances.
Flag 2 of 3.
Interest shall accrue on any rent outstanding for more than three days at the rate of 8% per annum above the Bank of England base rate, calculated daily from the date the sum fell due.
Flag 3 of 3.
This is the half of the job nobody demonstrates. Every heading below was read, compared with what this form normally contains, and found standard — so it never reached you. Your report carries this list too.
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41 clauses read · 1 raised first
The Landlord or the Landlord’s agents may enter the Property at any reasonable time to inspect its condition or carry out repairs, having given such notice as is practicable in the circumstances.
Example clause, written from the standard forms it imitates. Send your own and the same report comes back on it.
One
Upload the PDF, the photo you took of page four, the DOCX the agent emailed, or paste the text straight out of the portal.
Two
A tenancy is compared with tenancies, a loan with loans. That baseline is the whole job: without it, “unusual” is a word with nothing behind it.
Three
What the document does, in plain English. Then the clauses that are unusual, costly or one-sided — each quoting its sentence and naming the practice it departs from. The standard ones stay quiet.
Contractward is a reading tool, and it works today — you can send it a contract in the next minute. What it gives you is what a document says and where it departs from ordinary practice. It is not a solicitor, it has not met your landlord, and it is not a substitute for advice on your own situation.
No score, no risk rating, no green tick. Plenty of contracts with a costly clause are still worth signing, and that judgement needs things the document does not contain — how much you want the flat, what else is on the market, what you can absorb. You will know more than you did. The decision stays yours.
Standard boilerplate stays unflagged on purpose, and your report lists every clause it read and left alone so you can see that it looked. A tool that marked all forty-one clauses as worth your attention would have told you nothing, and you would have read none of them.
A PDF, the Word file from the agent, a photo of the pages on the kitchen table, or the text pasted straight out of the portal. Whatever form it arrived in.
No account, no sign-up. The document is read and then dropped — it is never stored, and the report lives only in this page until you leave it.
Still not legal advice. You get a summary and a short list of flagged clauses with their sentences quoted. You do not get a recommendation.