Digital Marketing Agency Service Agreement: Must-Have Clauses for Agencies and Their Clients
Digital marketing agencies and their clients often start engagements without a properly drafted service agreement — relying instead on a proposal, a scope-of-work email, or a loosely worded retainer letter. When a campaign underperforms, a relationship sours, or one party decides to walk away, the absence of a clear contract…
SaaS Pilot and Proof of Concept Agreement: What You Must Have Before Enterprise Deals
Enterprise SaaS deals rarely start with a signed subscription agreement. They start with a pilot — a limited deployment that gives the prospect organization a chance to evaluate your product in their environment before committing to a full contract. What most early-stage SaaS companies do not realize is that this…
AI Vendor Due Diligence: 8-Point Legal Checklist for Businesses Adopting Third-Party AI Tools
Your company adopts a third-party AI tool. The vendor provides their standard agreement, which runs to fifteen pages of terms that your team skims before clicking accept. Six months later, a client asks who owns the content your team generated using the AI. Your finance team discovers the vendor has…
SOC 2 Compliance and SaaS Contracts: What Enterprise Buyers Require and How Your Agreement Must Respond
When a mid-market or enterprise company evaluates your SaaS product, the first legal document they request is not your pitch deck or pricing sheet. It is your SOC 2 report. Enterprise procurement teams now treat SOC 2 compliance as a baseline before contract negotiations even begin, and what you say…
Beta Testing Agreement: What SaaS Companies Need Before Going to Market
Most SaaS companies run a beta before launch. Fewer have a beta testing agreement that actually protects them. The gap between “we gave some users early access” and “we have a signed agreement that governs that access” is the gap between a controlled test and a legal exposure. Beta testers…
How to Draft a SaaS Pricing Change Clause That Keeps You Compliant and Out of Court
Learn how to draft a SaaS pricing change clause that complies with FTC rules, state subscription laws, and protects your business from customer disputes and chargebacks in 2026.
Right to Audit Clauses in SaaS Contracts: What Vendors and Buyers Need to Know
Learn what right to audit clauses in SaaS contracts actually mean, how vendors and buyers should negotiate them, and what terms protect each side’s interests.
SaaS Statement of Work vs. Subscription Agreement: What Every Business Needs to Know
Understand the legal differences between a SaaS Statement of Work and a Subscription Agreement, and why using the wrong document can expose your business to costly disputes.
NDA for Technology Companies: What Your Agreement Must Actually Cover
Sharing proprietary technology, source code, or product roadmaps with a potential partner, investor, or contractor without a proper non-disclosure agreement is one of the most common and costly mistakes technology founders make. By the time you realize the agreement you used was missing a critical clause, the damage is already…
What Every SaaS Subscription Agreement Must Include (And Why a Template Will Cost You)
Your SaaS company just signed its first enterprise customer. They are paying $2,400 a month, and the deal closed on a standard terms-of-service template you downloaded for free. Six months later, they dispute a billing cycle, claim your platform failed to meet an uptime promise that was never defined, and…