AI Force Majeure Clause Writer
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Did the pandemic trigger your force majeure clause? For a great many contracts the answer was no, and the reason was almost never the phrase itself. It was the list of events underneath it, which had been copied from a template written decades earlier. AI Force Majeure Clause Writer builds the clause where the work actually is: the trigger list and the notice mechanics.
Short answer: AI Force Majeure Clause Writer is a free AI tool that drafts a force majeure clause, defining the qualifying events, the notice requirement, the duty to mitigate and the point at which either party may terminate.
What is AI Force Majeure Clause Writer?
AI Force Majeure Clause Writer produces the provision that excuses performance when something outside a party's control prevents it. You describe the contract, the events you are concerned about and how you want notice handled. The output is a drafted clause with the components such provisions conventionally carry.
Force majeure is a creature of the contract in common law systems, which means you get what you wrote and nothing else. Some civil law systems supply doctrines that operate whether or not the contract says anything, and the interaction between the two is exactly why a lawyer needs to see the finished clause.
Why Use AI Force Majeure Clause Writer?
Nobody negotiates this clause until the day it matters, at which point the negotiation is over. It is the clause most often copied unchanged between contracts, which is how supply agreements ended up with lists mentioning riots and shipwrecks and not mentioning a supplier's own supply chain failing.
Drafting it deliberately takes twenty minutes and forces two useful questions: what actually stops us performing, and what happens to money already paid. Most people have never asked either.
The second value is symmetry. Many clauses protect one side only, and the party accepting a one sided clause frequently has not noticed. Seeing the draft written out makes that obvious.
The Anatomy Of A Clause That Works
| Component | What it does | How it fails |
|---|---|---|
| The definition | States the general test: beyond reasonable control, unforeseeable, unavoidable | Written so broadly that ordinary difficulty qualifies |
| The event list | Names specific qualifying events | Copied from an old template and missing modern risks |
| The exclusions | Says what does not qualify, typically cost increases and labour disputes of your own staff | Omitted, so any inconvenience is arguable |
| Notice | How quickly the affected party must tell the other, and what the notice must say | Vague, or so short it is routinely missed |
| Consequences | What is suspended, what continues, and what happens to payments | Silent on money, which is where the dispute actually arises |
| Mitigation | The duty to work around the event | Absent, allowing a party to sit still and rely on the clause |
| Long stop | The point at which either party may terminate | Missing, leaving both sides stuck indefinitely |
How Does AI Force Majeure Clause Writer Work?
The tool runs in the browser, free and with no account.
- Describe the contract in the prompt box: what is being supplied, by whom, over what period, and the disruptions that would genuinely prevent performance.
- Choose an AI model. MSB AI, Anthropic Claude AI, OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Qwen and others sit in the picker, and it is worth generating twice and comparing the event lists.
- Open the advanced options accordion and set the jurisdiction framing and how much legal weight the wording carries.
- Generate. The output card builds the clause with a live word count.
- Copy, Listen, Reuse and Download appear on the result. Reuse is the useful one, because a second pass adding your specific risks improves the clause considerably.
- Export to DOC so the clause can be dropped into the agreement and marked up by counsel.
- The activity history panel keeps this session's versions, which helps when comparing a supplier friendly draft against a customer friendly one.
| What you add to the prompt | What changes in the clause |
|---|---|
| The specific disruptions relevant to this contract | The event list reflects real risk instead of a generic template |
| Whether payment obligations should be suspended | The consequences section addresses money, which most clauses omit |
| How long you can tolerate a suspension | A long stop termination right appears with a defined period |
| Which side you are drafting for | The balance of the clause shifts, and you can see how far |
Where This Clause Earns Its Place
Supply and manufacturing agreements, where physical disruption is the whole risk. Construction contracts, where weather, materials and access all matter. Services agreements with defined delivery dates. Event contracts, where a venue closure ends the entire purpose. Software and hosting agreements, where infrastructure and network failures are the realistic events. Logistics arrangements, where routes and ports are the exposure.
It matters less in short, simple contracts where non performance would simply end the relationship anyway. Even there, a short clause is worth having, because the alternative is arguing about whether performance was excused with no wording to point at.
Write the list for this contract, not for history Templates carry events from another era and omit the ones that stop modern businesses: a cloud provider outage, a cyber attack, a payment network failure, an export control change, a supplier insolvency, a pandemic restriction. Ask what has actually disrupted your operations in the last five years, and put those in. A named event is far stronger than relying on a general catch all.
What The Drafted Clause Includes
A tailored event list
Qualifying events written for this contract, including the modern ones templates leave out.
Stated exclusions
What does not qualify, typically cost increases and a party's own labour disputes, so ordinary difficulty is not arguable.
Notice mechanics
How quickly notice must be given, what it must contain, and the duty to update while the event continues.
A position on payment
Whether payment obligations are suspended, which is where most disputes under this clause actually arise.
A long stop right
The period after which either party may terminate, so nobody is bound indefinitely to a contract that cannot be performed.
Tips For Drafting And Negotiating It
- Include a catch all after the specific list, but do not rely on it. Courts in several jurisdictions read general words narrowly against the specific ones listed.
- Say explicitly whether payment obligations are suspended. Most disputes under this clause are about money, not performance.
- Exclude cost increases unless you genuinely intend a price rise to excuse performance.
- Make the notice period realistic. Forty eight hours sounds rigorous and gets missed by the party whose site has just flooded.
- Require the notice to state the event, its effect and the expected duration, so the other side can plan.
- Include a mitigation duty, and require updates while the event continues.
- Set a long stop, commonly between thirty and ninety days, after which either party may terminate.
- Check whether the clause is mutual. If it protects only the supplier, ask why.
Draft it from the other side first Write the version you would want if you were the party invoking it, then read it as the party receiving the notice. The clause you end up with after that exercise is usually both fairer and more likely to be accepted without a lengthy negotiation, because the obvious imbalances have already been removed.
Setting Jurisdiction, Duration, And Legal Detail
These controls shape the register and the framing of the drafted clause. Jurisdiction matters more here than on most tools, because the doctrines that sit alongside force majeure differ fundamentally between legal systems.
| Option | What it controls | When to change it | Suggested starting point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | The legal framing the draft assumes | Set it to the contract's governing law | Whatever the agreement's governing law will be |
| Duration | The contract term the clause sits within | Match it to the agreement, since long contracts need a long stop | The actual contract term |
| Governing Law | The legal system referenced | Keep it consistent with the rest of the agreement | Identical to the contract |
| Enforcement | How strictly obligations are framed | With Cure Period suits clauses with a mitigation duty | Standard |
| Include Signature Blocks | Adds execution blocks | Off, since this is a clause rather than a standalone document | Off |
| Include Recitals | Adds background paragraphs | Off for a single clause | Off |
| Include Force Majeure Clause | Adds the force majeure language | On, since it is the entire point of this tool | On |
| Include Governing Law Clause | Adds a governing law provision | Off, because the agreement already has one | Off |
| Legal Detail | How formal and detailed the clause is, one to a hundred | Raise it for high value or long term agreements | Around sixty five |
| Custom Instructions | Free text that overrides the menus | When specific events or notice periods must appear exactly | List your qualifying events and your notice period |
Before The Clause Goes Into The Contract
- ✅ The event list names risks specific to this contract, not a generic set.
- ✅ Exclusions are stated, including cost increases where that is intended.
- ✅ The notice period is realistic for a party in the middle of the event.
- ✅ The clause says explicitly what happens to payment obligations.
- ✅ There is a mitigation duty and a requirement to keep the other side updated.
- ✅ A long stop termination right exists, with a defined period.
- ✅ The clause is mutual, or you have a reason for it not being.
- ✅ A lawyer has reviewed it against the governing law and the rest of the agreement.
Courts read these clauses narrowly In many common law jurisdictions a force majeure clause is interpreted strictly against the party relying on it, general catch all words are read in the light of the specific events listed, and an event that merely makes performance more expensive or more difficult will not usually qualify. Civil law systems may apply their own doctrines regardless of what the contract says. AI Force Majeure Clause Writer produces a starting draft and not legal advice, and it does not know your governing law or how the rest of your agreement interacts with this clause. Have a lawyer review it before signature.
Pros And Cons
Pros
- Forces attention onto the event list, which is where these clauses actually fail.
- Prompts for the money question, which most template clauses leave unanswered.
- Includes notice, mitigation and long stop provisions that copied clauses routinely omit.
- Free in the browser, no account, with a choice of AI models.
Cons
- It does not know how your governing law interprets these clauses, and the differences are substantial.
- It cannot see the rest of the agreement, where interactions and inconsistencies live.
- A well drafted clause still needs to be negotiated, and the other side will have views.
AIToolsay is a large collection of free AI tools running in the browser, with no account and a model picker on every one. AI Force Majeure Clause Writer belongs to a set of clause level drafting tools. When the other side returns your draft with changes, AI Contract Redline Explainer tells you what actually moved, and the provision that most often needs equal attention in the same negotiation is covered by AI Indemnity Clause Writer. AI Force Majeure Clause Writer is free for every contract you draft.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is AI Force Majeure Clause Writer free?
Yes, free in the browser with no account. Describe the contract and its risks, generate the clause, and export it for legal review.
Does force majeure apply automatically without a clause?
In common law systems, generally not. You get what the contract says. Some civil law systems apply their own doctrines regardless, which is one reason the governing law matters so much here.
Does a pandemic count?
Only if the wording covers it, either by naming epidemics and government restrictions or through a catch all a court is prepared to read that widely. A great many clauses drafted before recent years did not.
Should payment obligations be suspended?
That is a commercial decision and it should be stated explicitly either way. Silence on money is the most common source of dispute under this clause.
How long should the long stop be?
Commonly between thirty and ninety days, depending on how long the relationship can survive a suspension. Without one, both parties can be left indefinitely bound to a contract nobody can perform.
Should the clause be mutual?
Usually yes. A clause protecting only one party is common in supplier templates and is worth questioning, because the risk of disruption rarely sits entirely on one side.
Thank you for reading. Force majeure is the clause nobody reads until the week it decides everything. Spend twenty minutes on the event list, say what happens to money, put a notice period a flooded business could actually meet, and set a point at which either side can walk away.
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