Freelance agreement template
Most freelance disputes are not about money — they're about scope. What exactly is being delivered, how many revisions are included, and when does payment fall due. A short, clear agreement settles all three before the work starts.
Describe the project and the fee. Adehun writes the contract, you refine it, and the client signs from their inbox.
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What this agreement covers
- Scope of work
- The specific deliverables, described precisely enough that both sides would agree on whether they've been delivered.
- Fees and schedule
- Total fee or rate, deposit, milestone payments, and how long the client has to pay an invoice.
- Revisions
- How many rounds are included and what counts as a new request rather than a revision — the single most useful clause in a freelance contract.
- Intellectual property
- Who owns the finished work, when ownership transfers, and whether it is conditional on full payment.
- Portfolio rights
- Whether you may show the work publicly, and any embargo before you can.
- Termination and kill fee
- What either party can walk away from, and what is owed for work already done.
When you need one
- Taking on design, development, writing or consulting work
- Any project where payment is staged across milestones
- Work where the client expects to own the final files
- Repeat clients — one agreement per project keeps scope honest
From description to signed, in one sitting
- 1
Describe it
Tell Adehun what you're agreeing to, in plain language.
- 2
Refine it
Edit any clause, or ask the AI to redraft just that one.
- 3
Sign and send
Sign it yourself, then email the other party a private link.
- 4
They sign
Or they propose changes. Both signatures done, everyone gets the PDF.
Freelance agreement questions
Make transfer conditional on payment in full. It's the strongest, least confrontational leverage a freelancer has: the client gets ownership the moment they settle the invoice, and not before.
Fifty percent upfront is standard for short projects, and a third at the start with the balance across milestones works well for longer ones. The point is that you are never carrying more unpaid work than you can afford to lose.
Two is the usual answer. State clearly that a revision means refining what was briefed, and that changing the brief itself is new work quoted separately. Ambiguity here is what turns a two-week project into a two-month one.
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