Freelance Agreement Review Tool: Flags on the Contractor Draft

A client freelance or contractor one-pager arrives as PDF or DOCX before the first invoice, and you cannot see on that paper whether scope is open, whether IP assignment swallows pre-existing tools, whether pay is Net-60 with no late-interest lever, or whether revisions are unlimited. Checkory is a freelance agreement review tool: you upload their draft and get the same file back with flags on scope, IP, pay and revisions.

Freelance vs consultancy vs a PSA

Dedicated freelancer pages in the search results usually sell Word tracked changes, a fairness score, a negotiation email, or a findings report. Checkory returns a different artefact: the contractor one-pager you uploaded, with flags on the same file, sitting on the clause itself.

This page is for one document type — the inbound freelance or independent-contractor one-pager they asked you to accept before kickoff. It is not a clause list, not a consultancy upload, and not a professional-services checklist. The job is to mark the paper you are about to start work under.

This URL is the contractor one-pager

You upload the PDF or DOCX they sent. You open the same pages, in their order, with flags on the wording they asked you to take. Scope and revision caps, IP assignment and background tools, pay and a missing kill-fee mark stay on the sentence that creates the risk. A detached score pulls the issue off the page. The useful object here is the annotated source file, so you and a solicitor can read the surrounding paragraph.

The first pass is a list of questions on their draft. It does not rewrite the one-pager, it does not invent a fairness band, and it does not tell you the gig can begin.

Consultancy stays on the live consultancy tool

A longer consulting agreement — methodology IP, control, substitution, indemnity shaped like employment — is a different document type. That upload lives on the consultancy agreement review tool. Do not treat this URL as a clone of that H1. If the file in your inbox is a staff-aug paper, go there. If it is a short contractor one-pager, stay here.

Flags on scope, IP, pay and revisions

Four clusters decide whether you still keep background IP and a bounded scope and pay, or whether this paper assigns your tools and leaves unlimited revisions on Net-60. The table names the mark. The proof you came for is an IP assignment sentence that captures pre-existing tools, highlighted on their one-pager, with a pointer to the CDPA — not a tracked-changes export and not a kill-fee chat.

Scope and revision caps

As required and reasonable revisions are not a delivery plan. If deliverables are unnamed and there is no change-order sentence, the mark sits on that gap. A later statement of work can still rewrite dates and acceptance; the child-file walk is the statement of work review checklist. This page does not clone that checklist. It tells you whether this one-pager even bounds the gig.

IP assignment and background tools

GOV.UK is blunt on commissioned work: the first legal owner is the person who created the work, not the commissioner, unless you agree otherwise in writing. A court may imply only a limited non-exclusive licence for the commissioned purpose, not a transfer. The guidance is ownership of copyright works. A freelancer on a contract for services is not the employee exception.

The statute pointer on first ownership is CDPA 1988 section 11: the author is first owner, subject to the employment exception. An assignment of copyright is not effective unless it is in writing signed by or on behalf of the assignor — CDPA 1988 section 90(3). The cite is a pointer, not a finding that this sentence fails. An all-IP-including-tools grab is still a High question before you start.

Pay, deposit and missing kill-fee marks

Net-60, pay-when-paid, or silence on late interest is a cash-flow flag, not a calculation that this invoice qualifies. Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 section 1 implies statutory interest on a qualifying commercial debt, subject to Part II. A missing kill-fee is a gap on their wording. This product does not draft one and does not send a negotiation email. The longer Net-30 method lives on the payment terms Net-30 review checklist; use it as a reading path, not as this upload.

Which page covers which paper

Mixing three document types hides the clause that will actually bind you. The comparison above is the split. The links below keep each neighbour on its own URL.

Link the consultancy tool, do not clone that H1

If the paper is a consulting agreement with control, methodology, and substitution, use the live consultancy tool. This page stays on the contractor one-pager. A clause walk for freelance payment and thin IP lines still lives in freelance contract clauses to review before signing. That guide is a reading list. It is not an upload, and it is not this tool.

PSA checklist is B29, not this tool

A professional services agreement has its own reading path. The checklist for that document type is the professional services agreement review checklist. Use it when you want a human walk of PSA structure. Use this page when you want the freelance one-pager marked.

A client standard one-pager can also trigger UCTA 1977 section 3: where you deal on the other’s written standard terms, the other cannot exclude or restrict liability for breach, or claim a substantially different performance, except so far as the term is reasonable. The cite is a hook for a one-sided template, not a finding that this term is unreasonable.

Freelance contract review tool on their draft

The cluster freelance contract review tool and the supporting phrase independent contractor agreement review tool are the same job on this URL. Neighbours return paste-back redlines, Word tracked changes, risk scores, or a ready-to-send email. The wedge here is flags and cites on the file you uploaded.

Freelance and contractor one-pager are the same job

If the filename says ICA, contractor terms, or freelance agreement, this is the upload. Do not split the slug. A later master or PSA is a different file. Search for upload freelance agreement is the same gesture: one draft in, the same file back with flags, then a human decision about kickoff.

Not a Word tracked-change export

Suggested replacement language applied as tracked changes is a different product. This pass does not export a markup for the client and does not open a chat about what is fair for a kill fee. List what to challenge from the flags. Send a human markup if you push back. Open /document-analysis with their one-pager in hand.

AI freelance contract review, not a kill-fee chat

The query ai freelance contract review lands on software that will look at this gig paper. Neighbours score fairness, draft a negotiation email, or rewrite in an editor then offer e-sign. Checkory keeps the risk on their sentence so you can read the surrounding paragraph with a colleague. A general chatbot summary of a freelance PDF is one phrase of contrast and then we leave it: a transcript is not the annotated file.

Marks and cites, not a negotiation-email bot

The SRA warning notice on misuse of AI, published 17 August 2026, states that generative AI includes summaries, drafts, research and chatbots, and can invent fictitious cases and references. Treat every cite as this provision may be relevant, then read the official text and the clause together. If they do not match, the mark is a question, not an answer. Confidential paper pasted into a public tool is a confidentiality decision of its own.

IR35 how-to stays on the blog

Substitution, control and mutuality on a contract for services is a separate how-to. That walk is how to check IR35 substitution, control and mutuality clauses. This page does not steal that H1. If the one-pager looks like employment for tax, send High to a solicitor and use the IR35 article as method. The first pass here still marks scope, IP, pay and revisions on the file they sent.

When do High flags leave this pass

Success on this page is concrete. After the pass you can name which one-pager sentences to challenge before starting work, which High items go to a solicitor, and you do not treat the marked file as a Word redline pack, a kill-fee draft, or a stamp that the gig can begin.

Send the pack when IP assignment swallows tools and methodologies, revisions are unlimited, pay is Net-60 with no late-interest lever, a non-compete would block the trade, unlimited indemnity sits on a one-pager, or a statute pointer and the clause do not match. The Legal Services Act 2007 section 12 lists reserved legal activity; this product is not a solicitor. Default cites are England and Wales.

Walk the marked file with a colleague. List the push-back. Keep High items on the solicitor clock. The first pass is the question list on their contractor draft, not a kickoff stamp.