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Be Contract Wise Scotland
Scotland · Contract drafting and review

Draft it properly. Understand it fully.

Very powerful, carefully prepared tools to draft and review contracts under Scots law — from a simple one-page agreement to a complex commercial deal. Answer plain-English questions to create a professionally drafted contract, or upload one you've been sent for a clause-by-clause review.

Create a contract

Simple or complex, answer a short, plain-English set of questions about your deal. Our carefully prepared drafting tools produce bespoke terms plus the right boilerplate, explain every clause, and let you export a professionally laid-out document to sign.

Review a contract

Upload a contract you've been sent — even a scan or photo. Powerful review tools give you a plain-English summary, every risk rated from your side with suggested wording, a missing-clause check, and a chat to ask questions about it.

Current law

Drafted to Scots law as it stands in 2026, including recent reforms.

Private by design

We don't keep your answers or your contracts on our servers.

Ready to sign

Word and PDF, laid out to a professional standard, with execution blocks for each party.

Powerful tools, carefully prepared

Every tool has been carefully prepared by a retired solicitor with over 30 years' experience of international commercial law to handle simple and complex contracts alike, with the safeguards a professional draft needs.

For drafting

  • 25 contract types, from NDAs and services agreements to shareholders' agreements, leases and guarantees
  • Bespoke drafting from your answers, with fixed, reviewed wording for the clauses where precision matters most
  • Legal numbering, automatic cross-references, and a cover and contents page for detailed contracts
  • Clause library, liability builder and execution blocks for companies, LLPs and individuals
  • A consistency check before export, saved versions and Word tracked changes

For reviewing

  • Upload a PDF, Word file, scan or photo of a contract you've been sent
  • Plain-English summary and a check for missing clauses
  • Every risk rated from your side of the deal, with suggested wording to propose
  • A downloadable review note and a ready-to-send email to the other side
  • Ask follow-up questions about the document

Guides, specimens and glossary

Prepared by a retired solicitor qualified in England and Wales (LLB, LLM), with over 30 years' experience of international commercial law. He holds no legal qualification in Scotland and does not claim any authority to practise or advise on Scots law.

Plain-English guides to each contract type under Scots law, specimen contracts showing structure and key wording, and a glossary of contract terms.

Contract guides (Scotland)  ·  Contract glossary  ·  How we draft

Part of the Be Wise Apps family of informational tools. Be Contract Wise (Scotland) covers contract law in Scotland only — for other jurisdictions or matters outside contract law, check out our other apps.

Questions about the tools

What can Be Contract Wise do?

It provides very powerful, carefully prepared tools to draft and review contracts under Scots law. You can create 25 types of contract, from NDAs and services agreements to shareholders' agreements, leases and guarantees, or upload a contract for a review with risk ratings and suggested wording.

Can it handle complex contracts as well as simple ones?

Yes. Choose Simple for a short agreement or Detailed for a comprehensive one with a cover page and contents. Complex drafts get the same safeguards: fixed wording for key clauses, a clause library, a liability builder, automatic numbering and cross-references, and a consistency check before export.

Is Be Contract Wise free?

Yes. Drafting and reviewing contracts is free. The app provides legal information and draft documents, not legal advice.

Who prepared the tools?

A retired solicitor qualified in England and Wales (LLB, LLM), with over 30 years' experience of international commercial law, including with international law firms and in-house. He is retired from practice but remains registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority. He holds no legal qualification in Scotland and does not claim any authority to practise or advise on Scots law.

Should I still see a solicitor?

For anything important, yes. Use “Have a solicitor check this” on any finished draft to send it to a solicitor for review before you sign.

Step 1 of 4 · Create a contract

What kind of contract do you need?

Pick the closest match. If nothing fits, describe your situation below and we'll work out where it belongs.

Not sure which category?

Describe your situation in a sentence or two and we'll suggest the right category.

Step 2 of 4 · Create a contract

How thorough does this need to be?

Both tiers produce a contract that's enforceable and properly drafted — the difference is how much protection and detail you get beyond the essentials.

Simple

2–3 pages
  • Core commercial terms for your deal
  • Essential boilerplate only — what's genuinely needed for enforceability
  • Short-form force majeure and termination
Best for: lower-value, lower-risk arrangements where you want something signable quickly without much negotiation overhead.

Detailed

Comprehensive
  • Everything in Simple, plus audit rights where relevant
  • Full warranties/indemnities schedule
  • Detailed IP ownership and assignment provisions
Best for: higher-value, ongoing, or higher-risk relationships where you want fuller protection and are prepared to negotiate points of detail.
Step 3 of 4 · Guided questions
Step 4 of 4 · Review before we draft

Check everything before we generate

This is exactly what will be used to draft your contract. Edit anything that isn't right.

Upload & review

Upload a contract to review

We'll extract the text from your document before anything is sent to the model. You'll get a plain-English summary, a flag list of anything unusual or one-sided, a missing-clause check, and a chat that only answers from what's actually in your document.

Points are flagged and rated from your side of the deal.

This summary is generated from the document you uploaded only. It does not verify signatures, check for missing pages, or confirm the document is the final signed version.
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