Redline

Contract review for small business owners

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Redline reads the vendor agreements, equipment contracts and commercial leases you get handed, ranks what’s risky, and drafts what to ask for instead. Every flag shows the exact sentence it came from. If Redline can’t point to the sentence, it doesn’t show the flag.

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Built by Gurnek Khaira · Source on GitHub

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A refrigeration service contract, the way a café owner would get it

Select a flag to see its sentence in the contract, or select a highlighted sentence to see its flag.

  1. Provider may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason, upon written notice to Customer, effective immediately.

    The Provider can end this agreement immediately, for any reason or no reason, with no cure period and no opportunity for you to fix anything first — while you can only terminate for the Provider's uncured material breach. This is a one-sided exit right that could end your refrigeration service relationship at any moment, which is a serious operational risk for a business that depends on working refrigeration equipment.

    Language you could propose

    You could propose replacing the termination section with: "Either party may terminate this Agreement for material breach upon thirty (30) days' written notice specifying the breach, provided the breaching party fails to cure the breach within that thirty (30) day period. Either party may also terminate without cause upon ninety (90) days' written notice to the other party."

The contract

EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGREEMENT This Equipment Service Agreement (the "Agreement") is entered into by Coldline Refrigeration Services, Inc. ("Provider") and the business identified on the signature page ("Customer"). 1. Services. Provider shall inspect, maintain, and repair Customer's commercial refrigeration equipment once per calendar quarter and respond to emergency service calls within twenty-four (24) hours. 2. Fees. Customer shall pay a monthly service fee of $640, invoiced on the first day of each month. Payment is due within fifteen (15) days of the invoice date. Late payments accrue interest at two percent (2%) per month. 3. Term and Renewal. This Agreement has an initial term of twenty-four (24) months and renews automatically for successive twenty-four (24) month terms unless Customer gives written notice of non-renewal at least one hundred twenty (120) days before the end of the then-current term. The monthly service fee for each renewal term will increase by twelve percent (12%). 4. Termination. Provider may terminate this Agreement at any time, for any reason, upon written notice to Customer, effective immediately. Customer may terminate only for Provider's uncured material breach. 5. Indemnification. Customer shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Provider and its affiliates from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, and expenses of any kind, including those arising from Provider's own negligence. 6. Personal Guarantee. The individual signing this Agreement on behalf of Customer personally and unconditionally guarantees the full payment of all amounts owed by Customer under this Agreement, without limit as to amount or time. 7. Governing Law. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio.

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What Redline checks

Six clause types checked on every contract, plus your own red lines: terms you won’t accept, checked with the same rigor. When nothing clears the bar, Redline says so and lists what it checked.

  • Personal guaranteeWhether you're on the hook yourself if the business can't pay, and for how much.
  • IndemnificationWhether you'd cover the other side's losses, even ones they caused.
  • Auto-renewalRenewals that lock you in, raise the price, or need notice months ahead.
  • Unilateral terminationWhether they can walk away at any time while you can't.
  • Arbitration and class-action waiversFlagged when present, so you know you're giving up court.
  • Liability caps and fee escalatorsFlagged when present: limits on what they owe you, and built-in price rises.

What Redline won’t do

  • Tell you whether to sign, or what a court would decide. It isn’t legal advice.
  • Read a scanned or photographed page. With no real text underneath, it says so instead of guessing.
  • Review agreements you drafted yourself. It’s for paper someone else hands you.

How it was built

Built from a product spec, decision records and tickets. Every step is written up in the repository.

  1. ResearchFour research passes on who has this problem and what already exists.
  2. SpecA product spec and ten decision records, written before any code.
  3. TestsContracts with planted clauses and known answers, checked on every change.
  4. Live testAn adversarial test of the deployed site, and a security review.

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