Employment contract review for the UK,
clause by clause
You have days to decide on an offer and fifteen pages of terms you did not write. Ookulli checks every clause against UK law, flags what decides your notice, your bonus and where you can work next, and shows you the law behind each flag.
First review free. No card needed. Your documents are never used to train AI models.
What your employment contract actually decides
An employment contract is not paperwork. It sets how much notice you have to give, whether your bonus can be withheld after you have earned it, who owns what you build on a Sunday, and which employers you are free to go to next.
Most of that sits in three or four clauses near the back, written in language aimed at a tribunal rather than at you. UK law sets a floor under notice, holiday and sick pay, and your contract can improve on it. On covenants, bonus and intellectual property there is no floor, so the contract is close to the whole story.
Ookulli reads those clauses and tells you which are standard, which are one-sided, and which are worth a question before you sign.
Wondering whether the pay itself is normal? Our free UK salary checker shows official ONS earnings figures for your occupation, without an account or an upload.
What Ookulli checks in a UK employment contract
Notice, on both sides
Statute sets two different floors. Your employer owes you one week once you have a month's service, rising to a week for each complete year from year two and capping at 12. You owe one week, however long you stay. Everything above that is contractual, and the two sides are often not the same. Check that the notice you owe matches the notice you are owed.
What a termination clause doesPILON and garden leave
Payment in lieu of notice lets your employer end things immediately and pay the notice out, but only where your contract says so or you agree to it at the time. Garden leave keeps you employed and paid but away from the work, and normally needs its own clause too. Between them they decide how quickly you can start somewhere else.
How garden leave worksRestrictive covenants
Non-compete, non-solicitation and non-dealing clauses are void as a restraint of trade unless they are reasonable and no wider than needed to protect a real business interest. That does not make a wide one harmless. It still has to be argued, usually while a new employer waits.
What restrictive covenants coverBonus and commission
A contractual bonus is owed once you meet the stated criteria. A discretionary one can be withheld even when you have hit every target. The line to find is the one saying you must still be employed on the payment date.
The full pre-signing checklistIntellectual property
Work you produce in the course of the job belongs to your employer by default. The assignment clause matters for everything else: personal time, personal devices, and side projects the drafting may still reach.
IP assignment, and how the employee rule differsConfidentiality after you leave
Confidentiality obligations usually outlive the job. Check what counts as confidential and for how long, because a definition wide enough to cover general industry knowledge complicates your next role without protecting a real secret.
What a confidentiality clause coversProbation
Probation often carries shorter notice and suspends some benefits. Check whether it ends automatically or on a review that can extend it, and what notice applies while you are still in it. From 1 January 2027 the unfair dismissal qualifying period drops from two years to six months, which changes what a probation clause is really doing.
Probationary periods explainedHours, overtime and holiday
Holiday has a statutory minimum of 5.6 weeks, which is 28 days for someone working a five-day week, and your contract can only improve on it. Overtime is different. It is paid only if the contract says so, as long as your total pay still clears the minimum wage.
How overtime pay worksDocuments you have not been sent
Contracts routinely bind you to a handbook, a bonus scheme or a policy in force from time to time. Those documents are part of your terms whether or not you have seen them. Ask for every one of them before you sign.
How the review works, and how you check it
The fair question about any AI reading your contract is whether you can trust what it tells you. Ookulli answers it by showing its working instead of asking you to take the answer on faith.
Step 1
Your contract is split into clauses
Each clause is pulled out and read on its own, rather than skimmed as part of a fifteen-page summary.
Step 2
The applicable UK law is retrieved
Ookulli looks up the legislation and legal standards that actually bear on that specific clause.
Step 3
The clause is checked against that law
You get a flag with a reason attached, ranked so the things that matter appear before the things that do not.
Step 4
You can see where every flag came from
Each highlight names the clause it refers to and the law it was checked against, so you can verify it rather than take it on trust.
Upload a PDF or a DOCX and the review comes back in minutes. Anything still unclear goes to the chat, where you can ask follow-up questions about a specific clause and get an answer grounded in your own document. Ookulli gives you legal information, not legal advice. For a dispute, an equity package, or a negotiation with real money in it, see a solicitor.
Solicitor, general AI, or Ookulli
An employment solicitor
£200 to £500 an hour, and worth every penny for a contentious exit, an equity package, or a covenant you intend to fight. For a standard fifteen-page offer, the bill is out of proportion to the risk.
Reviewing a contract without a solicitorChatGPT or another general model
It will summarise your contract. It will also default to the legal framework it has seen most of, which is not the UK, and it will not tell you which law it used. General tools may also use what you upload for training, and an employment contract carries your salary, your address and your National Insurance number.
Why generic AI gets contract review wrongOokulli
Built for UK contracts, with the law cited on every flag, and your documents are never used to train AI models. Your first review is free, then £10 per document, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Employment contract review FAQ
The questions people ask before they upload an offer
Before you sign, three things worth reading
What to check in a UK employment contract before you sign
The long version, clause by clause, with what to negotiate.
What restrictive covenants can and cannot stop you doing
Non-compete, non-solicit and non-dealing, and where UK courts draw the line.
The clause library
One page per clause: what it means, the law behind it, and what a fair version looks like.
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