Non-reserved business legal services
Most legal problems in a small business are not dramatic. They are a contract nobody signed, an employee with no written terms, an ICO fee nobody paid. They cost nothing until the day they cost a great deal. This tells you which ones you are carrying, in about five minutes, for nothing.
Thirty-five questions across eight areas. At the end you get a score out of 100, a score for each area on a red, amber and green scale, and a list of your gaps in priority order — with what each one is, why it matters and what closing it involves. The report sits at a private link that stays live, and you can save it as a PDF.
It is genuinely free. No card, no trial, no unlock. We built it because the honest way to show a business owner what we are worth is to tell them something useful about their own business before they have paid us anything.
Take the free legal healthcheck → — five minutes, eight areas, a scored report you keep. The tool runs on Buzz OS, our own platform, which is why the link leaves this site.
Is the business set up so a claim against it does not become a claim against you personally? Limited company or not, a signed shareholders' or partnership agreement covering exit, deadlock and death, and whether Companies House actually reflects reality.
Are you protected when you buy and when you sell? Written terms that are yours rather than a competitor's, contracts that are signed and current rather than running on terms that expired years ago, and whether your terms say who carries the loss.
Would you survive an employment tribunal? Written statements of terms within the statutory window, a handbook that has been read, right-to-work checks that were actually done, and whether your disciplinary and grievance procedures would stand up.
Could you pass an ICO check? Registration and the data protection fee, a privacy notice that describes what you really do, processor agreements with the suppliers who hold your data, and a plan for the day someone asks for a copy of everything you hold on them.
Can anyone copy what makes you money? Whether the name and logo are protected, whether the work your contractors produced actually belongs to you, and whether the confidentiality you rely on is written down anywhere.
Premises obligations you have not read, break clauses you have missed, and the cover you are legally required to hold. Employers' liability is a statutory requirement the moment you have staff, and it is one of the more common gaps.
Could you recover a large unpaid invoice cleanly? Whether you can prove the contract, whether your terms charge interest, and whether you would know what to send before issuing a claim. This is where most of the money quietly leaks.
Anything that could shut you down or fine you. Trade licences and permits, anti-money-laundering duties if your sector has them, and consumer rules if you sell to the public.
Mostly yes or no. “Not sure” is a proper answer and it scores honestly rather than generously, because in practice if you are not sure whether you have something, you do not have it.
One number out of 100, plus a score for each of the eight areas on red, amber and green. You see immediately which two or three areas are actually the problem, rather than a general sense of unease.
Not a list of everything — a priority order. Each gap says what it is, which area it came from, and whether it is something you can close with a template, something we do for you, or something that needs a regulated solicitor.
A free twenty-minute debrief: what is urgent, what can wait a year, and a fixed price for closing each gap. No obligation, and if the honest answer is that nothing here is worth paying to fix yet, that is what you get.
Because the alternative is asking you to trust a legal firm you have never used, on a problem you cannot see, at a price you have not been told. That is how legal services normally get sold and it is why business owners put off dealing with any of this until something breaks.
A scored report changes the conversation. You arrive knowing what you have got and what you have not. We arrive already knowing where to look. The debrief is twenty minutes rather than an hour of scoping, and the price we quote is for work you have already decided you want, rather than work we have persuaded you into.
It also does something more selfish, and it is fair to say so: it shows you what we are like to deal with before you are out of pocket. If the report is useful and the debrief is straight, you will think of us when the next thing lands on your desk. If it is not, you have lost five minutes.
It is not legal advice, and it does not create a solicitor–client relationship. It is general information generated from the answers you give, and the score is a way of prioritising rather than a legal opinion. A question cannot know your contract, only whether you told us you have one.
Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. That matters for a specific set of work: reserved legal activities, which include issuing and conducting court proceedings, are handled by RHF Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the SRA under number 324115. Where your report identifies something that falls on that side of the line, it says so and names them rather than pretending we can do it.
Most gaps fall into one of three buckets, and the report tells you which. Some you can close yourself with a document and half an hour. Some are fixed-fee work: a contract review is £249 +VAT, business terms and conditions are £695, an employment starter pack is £895, a shareholder agreement is £1,250, HR policies with a staff handbook are £1,495. The whole schedule is on the fixed-fee work page and the price is agreed in writing before anything starts.
If the honest answer is that this keeps happening to you — a contract most months, a staffing question most quarters — then a subscription from £49 +VAT a month is cheaper than paying for each one. If it is a single job, pay for the single job. We will tell you which, including when the answer is the cheaper one.
Debt is the area where the report most often comes back red, and it has its own home. Business Debt Recovery is our debt recovery service — a trading style of Buzz Legal Ltd, so the same regulatory position applies. It costs a late invoice live as you type and tells you which pre-action rules apply to your debtor.
Yes. There is no card, no trial and no charge. You answer 35 questions, you get the scored report, and you keep it — it lives at a private link that stays live and saves as a PDF. The twenty-minute debrief afterwards is free as well. We do it because the fastest way to show a business owner what we are worth is to tell them something useful about their own business before they have paid us anything, and because it makes the conversation that follows shorter and more honest for both sides.
About five minutes. Thirty-five questions across eight areas, and most of them are yes or no about things you either have or do not have — a signed shareholders' agreement, written terms, an ICO registration. There is nothing to look up and nothing to prepare. “Not sure” is a proper answer and it scores honestly rather than generously, on the basis that if you cannot remember whether you have something, you are not currently relying on it.
No, and the distinction is worth being precise about. The report is general information generated from the answers you gave. It does not create a solicitor–client relationship and it is not a legal opinion on your position, because a questionnaire cannot read your contract — it only knows whether you told us one exists. Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the SRA. Where a gap needs a regulated solicitor, the report says so and names RHF Solicitors, SRA no. 324115, rather than implying we can handle it.
They produce your report, which sits at a private link so you can come back to it and share it with a co-director or your accountant. We hold your name, business name and email address so we can send you that link and offer the debrief. We do not sell data and we do not pass it outside Buzz and the advisers named in our privacy policy. If you want the record deleted afterwards, ask and it is deleted.
You will hear from us once, offering the free twenty-minute debrief on your report. If you would rather not have it, say so in a one-line reply and that is genuinely the end of it — there is no sequence behind it and no call rota. This site runs no analytics, sets no cookies and does not track you around the internet, which is a deliberate choice for a legal brand and is set out in full in our cookie policy.
Then you have spent five minutes establishing that you are in better shape than you thought, which is worth knowing and worth having written down. It does happen. Most businesses land somewhere in the middle: two or three areas genuinely worth fixing, and the rest fine to leave alone for now. We would rather tell you that than manufacture urgency, and the debrief is as likely to talk you out of work as into it.
Yes, and it is more useful, not less. If your email matches your Buzz record the result is attached to your file, so the team you already deal with can see it rather than you having to explain it again. Existing accounting clients often score worst on employment and data protection, because those are the two areas an accountant has no reason to look at and nobody else has been asked to.
Buzz Legal provides non-reserved business legal support. Reserved legal activities are carried out by RHF Solicitors, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA no. 324115). This website is for information only and does not constitute legal advice.
No card, no catch, and the report is yours to keep. Buzz Legal Ltd is not a firm of solicitors and is not regulated by the SRA.