Know what's in the contract before your name is on it.
How it works
Three steps. One business day.
No calls to schedule, no back-and-forth. Upload the agreement and a SmartRisk-approved review comes back to your inbox.
Upload your contract
Sign up with your work email, add your firm's details, and upload the agreement as a PDF or DOCX. Everything you share is handled in confidence.
We review it, provision by provision
SmartRisk's risk-management specialists read every page and weigh your agreement against our ten-provision rubric. Every finding is checked, edited where needed, and explicitly approved before it goes anywhere.
Receive your report
Your formal Contract Review report arrives by email as a PDF — provision-by-provision findings with suggested language, typically within one business day.
What we review
Ten provisions carry the risk. We weigh every one.
Every review measures your agreement against the SmartRisk rubric — the provisions that decide who bears the risk when a project goes sideways.
Standard of Care
Exercise the degree of care and skill ordinarily practiced under similar circumstances by design professionals providing similar services.
Indemnity
Agreement holding the client harmless from liability, costs and damages and reasonable attorney fees.
Dispute Resolution
Agreement on how to handle all claims and disputes arising out of this agreement.
Limitation of Liability (LOL)
Limits the firm's liability for the Client's damages.
Consequential Damages
Liability and claims for indirect and consequential damages.
Instruments of Service
The use of reports, notes, drawings, specifications, data, calculations, and other documents supporting the project.
Warranties and Guarantees
Services provided will be rendered without any warranty and/or guarantees, expressed or implied.
Payment of Services
Define the details of payment terms.
Suspension & Termination
Methods and conditions for suspension and termination.
Code and Regulatory Compliance
Shall exercise usual and customary professional care in efforts to comply with laws, codes and regulations.
Why SmartRisk
Decades of judgment, in every report.
SmartRisk has spent decades helping design professionals negotiate better agreements. That experience is exactly what comes back to you: every finding in every report is reviewed, edited where needed, and explicitly approved by a SmartRisk risk-management specialist before it reaches your inbox.
- Contract received
- Expert review
- Approved
- Report sent
Nothing ships unreviewed
No report leaves SmartRisk until a risk-management specialist has approved every finding in it — no exceptions, no fine print.
Decades of AE risk experience
Your review carries the judgment of a risk-performance consultancy that has served architects and engineers for decades — not a boilerplate checklist.
Confidential by default
Your contract is used to produce your review — nothing more. Documents are handled confidentially from upload to report.
The next contract on your desk deserves a closer read.
Upload it today — your expert-approved review is typically back within one business day.
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