Review a venue or supplier contract

At the top is a one-line headline, such as "Two things to raise and one to check before you sign." or "Nothing here needs raising before you sign." Below it is a short summary of the contract in plain English.

"The clauses that matter" sets out the clauses picked from the contract, with their section numbers. Amounts, percentages and time periods in each clause are highlighted so you can spot them quickly.

Alongside, each point the review flags says what it is and what to ask or negotiate. The most important points come first.

"Money and dates" lists the deposits, payments and charges the contract mentions, with the amount and due date where the contract gives one. An amount the contract doesn't give shows as "Not stated".

Each flagged point has one of three labels.

Raise this: something worth taking up with the venue or supplier before you sign.

Check this: something to look at more closely or ask about.

Fine as it is: a term that's normal, so you don't need to argue over it.

If nothing is flagged, the review says so.

Each review is kept with the vendor or venue you chose. Open the review panel and choose the same vendor or venue: earlier reviews are listed under "Read before", with the name and date. Select "Open" to see one again.

When a review finds a deposit and you haven't entered one for that venue or supplier, PlanHitch fills it in for you. This happens for uploaded PDFs, and for pasted reviews you keep with a venue. It never replaces a deposit you've typed yourself.

On the free plan, each wedding includes one contract review per wedding. The panel shows "Your free plan includes one AI contract review, on the house." Once it's used, the panel offers Premium in place of the upload box.

Premium and Unlimited include unlimited reviews.

Reviews are counted per wedding on every plan. If your wedding moves back to Free after a paid plan, reviews you ran on the paid plan count towards the free allowance.

A review that fails, for example because the PDF couldn't be read, isn't counted. On any plan, a wedding can start up to 5 reviews an hour.

PlanHitch reads the text in the PDF. If it can't find any, for example in a scanned contract, the review fails with "Could not extract text from PDF". Paste the text in instead.

Only PDF files can be uploaded. For a Word document, copy and paste the text.

Very long contracts are cut to roughly the first 12,000 words before they're read.

The contract is read by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. The contract's text is sent to Anthropic's API, and the result comes back to PlanHitch.

PlanHitch uses Anthropic's API under its commercial terms, which say that what is sent through the API isn't used to train Anthropic's models. The privacy policy has the details.

The review reads a document and reports what it appears to say. It is not a legal review, it is not carried out by a solicitor, and it may not spot every fee, penalty, cancellation term or unfair clause. It may also describe one wrongly.

Use it to know what to ask. Don't sign a contract on the strength of it. If a contract matters to you, take proper legal advice on it.

If you've connected PlanHitch to ChatGPT or Claude, you can paste the whole contract into the chat and ask for a review. The result shows as a card in the chat and uses the same review allowance as the app. A review done in a chat isn't kept with a venue or supplier in PlanHitch.