Contract & Lease Review:Upload Any Agreement and Get an Attorney-Grade Analysis in Under a Minute
Before you sign a lease, an employment offer, an NDA, a settlement release, or any other legal agreement, you deserve to know exactly what's in it. Vikk AI's contract review is built for that. Upload any document, PDF, DOCX, or pasted text up to 300,000 words, and in 30 to 60 seconds Vikk AI reads every clause, flags the risky language in plain English, cross-checks it against your state's current laws, identifies the protections that should be there but aren't, and drafts the specific changes worth negotiating. Your first review is free. No credit card required.
This is the tool renters use before signing a lease, new hires use before accepting an offer, freelancers use before returning a client MSA, and small-business owners use before committing to a commercial space or vendor agreement. It's purpose-built for U.S. law across all 50 states, continuously updated as statutes change, and, unlike general-purpose AI chatbots, it never uses your uploaded documents to train public models. Every conversation is encrypted in transit and at rest, and you can permanently delete any document at any time.
The stakes are real. Bad clauses buried in everyday contracts cost Americans billions of dollars a year in withheld deposits, surrendered IP, unwanted renewals, waived rights, and settlements that could have been negotiated down. A thirty-second review often prevents thirty days of regret, or thirty thousand dollars of loss.
What Vikk AI Reviews
Housing and real estate
- Residential leases: apartment, house, condo, room rental, sublease, short-term, month-to-month, and fixed-term. Checks security deposit amounts against state caps, late fee enforceability, entry notice requirements, early termination fees, subletting restrictions, pet policies, and the dozens of clauses landlords routinely insert that are void or unenforceable under your state's tenant protection laws.
- Commercial leases: retail, office, industrial, coworking, and pop-up. Checks rent escalation, CAM charges, personal guarantees, assignment and subletting rights, exclusivity, signage, tenant improvement allowances, and default remedies.
- Purchase agreements: real estate purchase contracts, disclosure documents, HOA bylaws, closing documents, and inspection reports, against state disclosure requirements.
Employment and independent contractor
- Offer letters and employment agreements: salary, equity vesting, PTO, severance triggers, at-will language, and benefit commitments.
- Non-compete, non-solicit, and non-disclosure: checks enforceability under your state's most current law. Most non-competes are void in California, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Minnesota, severely limited in Washington, Colorado, and Illinois, and federally restricted under the FTC's rule developments.
- IP assignment clauses: checks carve-outs for pre-existing IP, personal projects, and open-source contributions. California Labor Code § 2870 mandates certain carve-outs that most template agreements omit.
- Separation and severance agreements: identifies what you're being asked to give up, what's missing, and what's negotiable.
- Independent contractor agreements and MSAs: scope, payment terms, IP ownership, indemnification, limitation of liability, and termination rights.
Business and commercial
- NDAs (one-way and mutual): scope of confidential information, duration, residuals, and exceptions. Flags overly broad definitions and missing carve-outs.
- Service agreements, SaaS contracts, and vendor contracts: auto-renewal traps, liability caps, indemnification asymmetries, and data-processing addenda.
- Operating agreements and partnership agreements: capital contributions, distributions, buy-sell triggers, drag-along and tag-along rights, and deadlock resolution.
- Loan and financing documents: personal guarantees, acceleration clauses, prepayment penalties, and default definitions.
Consumer, financial, and other
- Settlement agreements and releases: scope of release, confidentiality, and non-disparagement.
- Arbitration agreements and class-action waivers: enforceability under state and federal law, and whether you can opt out.
- Medical and financial powers of attorney, wills, healthcare directives: state execution requirements, scope, and successor provisions.
- HOA covenants, membership agreements, and gym contracts: auto-renewals, cancellation rights, and hidden fees.
What the Analysis Tells You
Every review returns a structured breakdown with five clear sections. You get the answers a careful reader with a law degree would give you, in plain English, with specific section references, in under a minute.
1. Plain-English summary
A 3-to-6 sentence overview in plain language. What this document is, who's bound, what it's asking you to do or give up, how long it lasts, and the single most important thing to know before signing.
2. Clause-by-clause risk flags
Every clause in the document, annotated with a risk level (low, medium, high, critical), the specific language being flagged, and a plain-English explanation of why it matters. Critical flags include things like: security deposits above your state's statutory cap, non-competes in states that ban them, blanket waivers of non-waivable rights, and indemnification clauses that expose you to unlimited personal liability.
3. Missing protections
What's not in the document, but it should be. This is where most reviews add the most value. A well-drafted lease should include specific language about security deposit return timelines. A well-drafted independent contractor agreement should carve out personal IP. A well-drafted settlement release should be mutual.
4. State-law cross-check
Every flagged clause is cross-checked against your state's current statutes, case law, and any applicable federal law. If a clause is void or unenforceable in your state, Vikk AI says so, cites the controlling authority, and explains what it means in practice. This is the core thing general-purpose AI chatbots cannot do reliably: apply the law of the right jurisdiction.
5. Proposed redlines and negotiation language
For every serious issue, Vikk AI drafts the specific replacement language to propose, and an email you can send to the counterparty requesting the change. You don't get vague advice to negotiate a better term. You get the exact words to paste into your reply.
A Real Walkthrough:LA Tenant, 8-Page Lease, Fourteen Minutes
What Vikk AI flagged
- Security deposit of $6,500 (Section 4.2): California Civil Code § 1950.5 caps residential security deposits at one month's rent for most tenancies. One month's rent would be $2,850, not $6,500. The $3,650 overage was flagged as critical, not just negotiable, actually void under state law.
- Blanket waiver of habitability claims (Section 17.4): flagged as unenforceable. California's implied warranty of habitability cannot be waived by contract.
- Auto-renewal for 12-month terms with 90-day notice (Section 21): flagged as medium risk. Enforceable in California but unfavorable.
- Late fee of $150 after one day (Section 4.3): flagged as likely unenforceable under California case law requiring late fees to bear a reasonable relationship to actual damages.
- Landlord entry on 24-hour notice, but also at landlord's reasonable discretion for any purpose (Section 11): California Civil Code § 1954 limits permissible entry to specific enumerated purposes.
- Tenant responsible for all repairs under $500 (Section 14): flagged as likely unenforceable under California's implied warranty.
- Mandatory arbitration with landlord-selected arbitrator (Section 24): flagged. Likely unconscionable and unenforceable given the one-sided selection mechanism.
What Vikk AI drafted
A professional, non-confrontational email the tenant could send the landlord's agent within the hour. The email cited the specific statutory caps, proposed a security deposit of $2,850 instead of $6,500, requested removal of the any-purpose entry language, and proposed a 60-day rather than 90-day renewal notice window.
What happened
The landlord's agent responded the next morning agreeing to the security deposit reduction (saving $3,650), the entry language change, and the renewal window shortening. She signed the lease with three meaningful revisions and $3,650 in her pocket. Total time from upload to signed lease: under 14 hours.
Other Recent Catches
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Freelance developer, Denver, MSA from an East Coast startup:
IP assignment clause captured everything she worked on during the term, whether or not related to the services. Vikk AI flagged it as overly broad and drafted a carve-out limiting assignment to work product actually produced for the client. -
Small business owner, Austin, commercial lease:
Personal guarantee with no sunset clause. Vikk AI drafted a 12-month burn-off provision tied to rent payment history. Landlord accepted. -
New hire at a growth-stage startup, Seattle:
Offer letter said equity subject to the Company's standard vesting. The attached stock plan had a clawback on termination for cause defined as including conduct detrimental to the Company. Vikk AI flagged the definition as dangerously vague and drafted a narrower definition tied to enumerated misconduct. -
Consumer, upstate New York, gym membership:
Auto-renewal clause with no notice required. Vikk AI flagged as likely unenforceable under New York General Business Law § 399-w, drafted a cancellation letter, and the gym released the member without the fee.
How to Upload and Review
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Step 1: Tap the paperclip icon (mobile) or drag your document into the chat window (web).
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Step 2: Select your file PDF, DOCX, or pasted text up to 300,000 words.
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Step 3: Tell Vikk AI what it is and what you care about.
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Step 4: Review the analysis, typically ready in 30 to 90 seconds.
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Step 5: Ask follow-up questions.
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Step 6: Export the analysis or copy the drafted language directly into your reply.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How long does a contract review take?
For a typical 5-to-15 page contract, the full clause-by-clause review is ready in 30 to 60 seconds. Longer documents may take 60 to 90 seconds. Vikk AI's effective context window is up to 300,000 words, which covers essentially every commercial contract, lease, or employment agreement you will encounter.
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Can Vikk AI review a contract that's in a language other than English?
Yes. Vikk AI supports document review in 30+ languages. You can upload a Spanish-language lease and ask questions in English, or upload an English document and ask follow-ups in Mandarin, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Arabic, Russian, and many others.
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Is my uploaded contract private?
Yes. Every uploaded document is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256), stored in SOC 2-compliant U.S. infrastructure, and is never used to train public or internal AI models. You retain full control and can permanently delete any document at any time.
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What happens if I already signed the contract?
Upload it anyway. The review will tell you what you agreed to, what's unenforceable regardless of your signature, what's modifiable by mutual agreement going forward, and what the practical risks are. Many clauses are unenforceable even when signed, and many contracts can be renegotiated after signature.
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Does Vikk AI's review replace a real attorney's review?
For the overwhelming majority of everyday contracts, Vikk AI provides a review that catches what most people would miss and what most attorneys would flag. For high-stakes transactions (contracts over roughly $100,000 in exposure, M&A, patent licensing, regulated industries), we recommend an attorney in addition to Vikk AI.
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Will the analysis hold up in court?
Vikk AI's analysis is a research and negotiation tool, not sworn legal testimony. It is not cited as authority in litigation. The underlying statutes and case law it identifies are, of course, citable.
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Can Vikk AI revise the contract and send it back for me?
Vikk AI drafts the proposed revisions in redline-ready language and drafts the email or letter you send with them. The sending is up to you. For most users, the drafted email is copy-paste ready.
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When should I hire a real attorney instead of using Vikk AI?
Vikk AI is designed as your first line of review for everyday contracts. For contracts over roughly $100,000 in exposure, patent licensing, FDA regulation, securities offerings, M&A, major commercial real estate, venture financing, or settlement agreements in ongoing litigation, we recommend adding licensed counsel. Every conversation includes a one-tap Connect With a Legal Pro button.
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