They sent you a contract.
Don’t sign that yet.
For $250, a tech lawyer reads your sponsorship contract, marks every red flag, and tells you exactly what to push back on. 24-hour turnaround. No retainer, no minimum.
“Talent agrees not to promote, endorse, or appear in content for any competing or adjacent brand for a period of twelve (12) months following the Term.”
“Adjacent” is the trap — could mean any food brand, not just direct competitors. Push for “directly competing” + define a category list. Cut the term to 30 days post-payment.
You spent years building an audience. You shouldn’t sign blind.
10K–250K creators
You’ve outgrown the ‘sign and pray’ phase. Brands are sending real contracts now and you can’t afford to miss the gotchas.
First-time sponsorship deal
First brand contract, first agency deal, first product partnership — and the language reads like a different planet. We translate.
Repeat creators reviewing terms
You sign these all the time and the exclusivity clauses keep getting longer. We tell you which ones to push on and which ones to walk.
Six red flags I find in nearly every contract.
Exclusivity that’s too broad
‘Adjacent brands’ instead of ‘directly competing.’ Twelve months instead of thirty days. We catch the language that locks you out of every future deal in your category.
Usage rights that never expire
Perpetual, royalty-free, all-media usage of your face, your name, and your back catalog. We push back on term, scope, and platform — to a defensible window.
Payment buried in conditions
Net-90 payment terms. ‘Subject to brand approval.’ ‘On final acceptance.’ We move payment up front, on a schedule, with milestones the brand can’t back out of.
Morality clauses you can’t survive
Vague ‘reputational harm’ triggers that let the brand pull payment for any reason. We narrow the trigger and add a cure period.
FTC disclosure on you
Brand makes you do the disclosure but takes none of the legal risk. We rebalance — disclosure language gets attached to the contract, brand approves it.
IP grab on your existing content
Some contracts try to license your back catalog when all they bought is one Reel. We carve out everything outside the deliverable.
Send the contract. Get the redline by tomorrow.
Send the contract
Email it in or upload through the form. Up to 10 pages. Tell me the brand and your audience size.
I’m reading
I read every clause and flag the gotchas. No template review — actual eyes.
Redline + notes
I send back the contract with comments, suggested redlines, and a negotiation cheat-sheet.
You’re ready
You go back to the brand with specific asks. Or walk. Either way, eyes wide open.
$250 flat. No retainer.
One contract review, 24-hour turnaround. Add a 15-minute strategy call for $100 — free for the first 10 founders’ buyers.
- Full contract redline (up to 10 pages)
- Red-flag annotations on every clause
- Negotiation cheat-sheet · push / accept / walk
- 24-hour turnaround
- +15-min strategy call · free (first 10 buyers)
- FTC disclosure language included
Questions creators ask.
Brand sponsorships, talent agreements, product partnerships, agency representation, podcast sponsorships, and creator-to-creator collabs. If it's a contract you'd sign as a creator, I'll review it.
Don’t sign blind.
$250. 24 hours. A contract you can sign with eyes wide open — or one you can walk away from before you regret it.