Business Law, in Plain English.

Replacing your AI model vendor? What you can export, what stays behind, and what to negotiate before you give notice.

AI can draft a document. It can't advocate for you, allocate your risk, or take responsibility for the outcome. Here's the line between the two.

An AI draft can read cleanly and still contradict itself. Six ways contract clauses conflict, what tends to go missing, and what you can check yourself.

What an ongoing engagement actually involves once it starts: the document inventory, how work gets sequenced, what the business itself has to supply — and what to confirm in the engagement agreement.

Auto-renewal, price-increase rights, notice windows and termination for convenience: the renewal language in your own customer agreement, explained.

Founders rarely balk at the hourly rate. They balk at not knowing the hours. How hourly and flat-fee billing work, what a retainer is, why an estimate is not a cap, what drives bills up, and whether a consultation is your next step.

The disclosure section everyone reads addresses governmental agencies. Four other prohibitions in Chapter 552 reach any person, alongside a 60-day cure process, tiered civil penalties, and express preemption of local AI rules.

California’s bot statute is narrower than its reputation and Texas reaches fewer businesses than expected. What an AI chatbot on your site actually has to disclose — and the three things that create far more exposure than the disclosure itself.

You have answered dozens of security questionnaires and signed as many DPAs. Over time those commitments stop agreeing with each other and with the product.

Adding an AI vendor to a SaaS product usually makes it a subprocessor under data processing agreements you already signed, which commonly carry advance-notice and objection terms. What that triggers, and how to sequence it before you ship.

A reseller or channel partner agreement authorizes another company to sell or bundle your SaaS product to its own customers — as your product, under your brand — in exchange for a commission or margin. Revenue split, territory, brand use, volume commitments, and wind-down all need to be in the contract before either side signs.

A marketplace needs separate buyer and supplier terms. Settle fees, payouts, chargebacks, liability allocation, content and data rights, and suspension in the contract — before the first transaction, not after the first dispute.