RestrictiveCovenant.ai — advice from our partner law firms

Are your restrictive covenants enforceable?

If a clause in your contract is stopping you from taking a new job, joining a competitor, or starting your own thing, you need to know whether it can actually be enforced. Upload your contract, answer a few questions, and the platform builds a detailed briefing note. One of our partner law firms then gives you a straight answer, for a fixed fee.

How it works

Sound familiar?

You signed something. Now it’s in your way.

A restrictive covenant is a clause that limits what you can do after you leave a job. The question is never whether you signed one. It is whether yours can actually be enforced against you, for what you want to do next.

A job you can’t take

There’s an offer on the table, but a clause says you can’t join a competitor.

A threat from your old employer

They’ve warned you, or your new employer, that they’ll go to court.

A business you can’t start

You want to set up on your own, and your contract appears to forbid it.

A clause you don’t understand

You’re not even sure the wording is valid, or what it actually stops you doing.

Here is the part most people don’t know: these clauses are often drafted far too widely, and a good number cannot be enforced. But that turns entirely on yours, the exact words, your role, and how you leave. (Roughly five million people in Great Britain have one, so you are not the only one wondering.)

How it works

Three steps to a straight answer.

Finding out used to mean paying a solicitor to read everything and take a long history before they could even start. The platform does that part, so the advice comes quickly and at a fixed price.

Step 1

Upload your documents

Add your contract, offer letter, or staff handbook. The platform reads what you give it, and nothing you upload is stored.

Step 2

Answer the questions

A short set of questions, written by barristers, that pulls out the points which decide whether your clauses hold: how long, how wide, what they protect, and what you were given in return.

Step 3

Build your briefing note

Work through it with the platform to produce a detailed briefing note. One of our partner firms then reviews it and tells you whether your covenants are enforceable, for a fixed fee.

Our partner firms

The advice comes from a regulated law firm.

The platform gathers the facts and builds the briefing note. The legal advice, on whether your covenants can be enforced and what you can safely do, comes from one of our partner firms. The platform never gives it.

MadeUpLaw LLP

FakeFirm LLP

NotReal Lawyers LLP

ExampleLaw LLP

Each is a firm of employment solicitors that advises on a fixed fee, with the groundwork already laid by your briefing note. When you instruct one through the platform, you are taking advice from regulated solicitors.

RestrictiveCovenant.ai is a platform operated by Restrictive Covenant AI Ltd, a subsidiary of DefendThis Limited. It does not provide legal advice and does not decide whether your covenants are enforceable. The firms named here are fictional, shown for demonstration.

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The tool

Ready when you are.

Upload your documents, answer the questions, and build your briefing note. The tool is free to run. You only pay if you choose to instruct one of our partner firms.

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What it costs

One fixed fee, and you know it up front.

The reason this kind of advice is normally expensive is the time. A solicitor has to read the contract, take a long history, work out which restrictions exist and how they bite, and only then turn to the law.

The platform does that part. By the time your matter reaches a partner firm, the clauses are identified, the facts are gathered, the gaps are marked, and the right questions are already on the page.

So the firm can quote a single price up front. No hourly billing, no surprise. You know the cost before you start.

Per partner firm

£1,000+VAT

Restrictive Covenant Review · fixed

Your briefing note, prepared from your answers, included at no charge
A solicitor reviews it and advises on your position and your realistic options
Written advice, returned within three working days
A follow-up call to talk it through

Illustrative price for demonstration. The tool is always free to run; you only pay if you choose to instruct a firm.