Here are straight answers to the most common questions about Roast My Contract, how it works, what you get, and where the limits are.
No. Roast My Contract is an AI-assisted contract analysis and explanation tool. It highlights risky, unusual, or one-sided terms and explains them in plain language, so you can make better decisions and have smarter conversations with the other side. It is not a substitute for advice from a qualified lawyer.
You get a structured report that summarises the contract, calls out red flags and one-sided clauses, and suggests practical talking points or questions you can use in negotiation. The goal is to help you understand the trade-offs before you sign, not to give you a generic "this is fine".
Roast My Contract is built for commercial agreements: SaaS and software contracts, service agreements, freelancer and agency contracts, NDAs, partnership agreements, and similar business documents. Very niche or heavily local-regulated areas may require a human lawyer to review in more depth.
You can paste text directly or upload common document formats such as PDF and Word documents. We convert what you send into clean markdown before analysis so the system can work with it reliably.
Most roasts complete within a few minutes, depending on contract length and system load. You will see a clear status and can come back to your results at any point once they are ready.
We treat your contracts as sensitive. They are processed securely, not used to train public models, and handled according to our Privacy Policy. If you have specific compliance questions, you can contact us and we will walk you through the details.
Often, yes. Roast My Contract is designed to help you decide where to focus and what to ask, not to replace human judgment in high-stakes situations. If the deal is material to your business, you should treat the roast as a briefing pack to take to a lawyer or use in negotiations, not the final word.
For many commercial agreements, a traditional human review can easily run from several hundred to several thousand in legal fees, especially once you factor in follow-up questions and redrafting. In many cases, Roast My Contract gives you a structured, opinionated review for roughly 10–50x less than a typical human review, and usually in minutes rather than days. The idea is not to replace lawyers, but to let you reserve paid legal time for the high-impact issues the roast surfaces, instead of paying someone to explain every single clause from scratch.
Roast My Contract exists out of frustration with how contract reviews usually work. They are costly, slow, and intimidating, so many people skip them, sign anyway, and end up cornered by one-sided terms they never fully understood. AI tools make it possible to do this differently. Roast My Contract uses them to make contract reviews faster, cheaper, and easier to understand – scanning, flagging, and explaining the risky parts in plain language so you see the problems before you commit, not after.
We are actively improving Roast My Contract and we care a lot about real-world feedback. If something is unclear, feels off, or you have an idea for a feature that would make your contract reviews easier, you can reach out via the contact page on the site or by replying to any email we send you. We read every message and use it to prioritise improvements, bug fixes, and new capabilities, so your input genuinely helps shape where the product goes next.
Roast My Contract is designed first and foremost for people who regularly sign commercial agreements but don’t have an in-house legal team on tap. That includes founders, freelancers, agencies, and small businesses who need to understand what they’re signing without turning every contract into an expensive legal project. If you are dealing with SaaS, services, retainers, NDAs, or partnership agreements and you want a clear, opinionated view of the risks before you commit, this service is built for you.
Roast My Contract is not only for companies. Everyday people sign important contracts too – job offers, employment agreements, rental contracts, phone plans, car finance, and big online purchases. If you are about to sign something that feels long, complex, or one-sided and you just want to know what you are really agreeing to, the service can still help. You don’t need to be a founder to deserve a clear explanation of the small print.
Yes. Roast My Contract is not trying to replace expert reviewers – it can also act as an extra pair of fast, tireless eyes. Seasoned lawyers and in-house teams can use a roast as a quick triage or second opinion before they dive in themselves, or as a way to sanity-check work done by associates or trainees. It won’t match deep black-letter analysis, but it can surface patterns, omissions, and human slips that are easy to miss when you are under time pressure, and give you an early sense of where you may want to focus your own review.