Contract Review
Someone sent you their paper. Find out what you would be signing.
A contract review is a licensed lawyer reading an agreement someone has sent you and telling you which provisions actually matter, what they mean for your business, and what to ask to change. Ruby does it for a flat fee per review, confirmed in writing before any work begins, and returns marked-up redlines alongside a plain-language summary.
- Business days
- 1–5Business days
- Lawyer reviewed
- 100%Lawyer reviewed
- Surprise bills
- $0Surprise bills
What a review covers
Initial review and redlines — a lawyer reads the agreement and marks it up, so you get proposed wording rather than a list of concerns you have to translate into asks yourself.
Plain-language summary — what the agreement does, where it is one-sided, and which clauses are worth spending negotiating capital on.
One round of revisions — after the other side responds, a second pass on what came back, included in the same flat fee.
Full lawyer review — a lawyer licensed in Canada reviews every file. The review is not generated and shipped unread.
When you need one
When a customer, investor, landlord or vendor sends you their paper and you are being asked to sign it. It is also the right service when you already have a signed agreement and need to know what it actually commits you to — before a renewal, a financing, or a dispute. If nobody has sent you anything and you need the document itself, that is drafting rather than review.
Need the document written instead of read? See the agreements Ruby drafts, each at a flat fee from $299.
Questions people ask
Review starts from someone else's document; drafting starts from a blank page. Review is a flat $499 CAD per review. Drafting is priced per agreement type, from $299, across the 34 agreements Ruby builds from scratch.
The flat fee covers the review, the redlines and one round of revisions after the other side responds. Negotiation beyond that is separate work, and Ruby will price it before starting rather than billing into it.
Yes, and it is a common reason people ask. The output is the same — what the agreement commits you to and where the risk sits — but the useful question shifts from what to change to what to do next, such as which notice periods or renewal dates you need to diarize.
This page is general information about Canadian business law and is not legal advice. Laws differ by province and change over time, and how they apply depends on your circumstances. For advice on your situation, speak with a lawyer licensed in your province.
Had a contract sent to you?
Ruby reviews it for a flat $499 CAD, confirmed before any work begins, with a licensed Canadian lawyer on every file.