Count Down Your Non-Compete Window Before You Resign — Free
Paste your non-compete clause with your own dates, and see the exact day the restriction stops binding you — and whether the offer already on your desk lands inside the window.
The proof surface
A non-compete feels open-ended because it is never put on a calendar; stamping the reader's own start date plus the clause's own length turns a cloud into a date a start offer can be checked against.
Why the flat version breaks
Assuming it expires at resignation
Most clauses run from separation, not signature — counting from the wrong date is off by exactly the notice period.
Signing the new offer first
Once the start date is on paper, arguing it later is a favour, not a term.
Reading the clause once, badly
Lengths hide in 'following the termination of employment' boilerplate — the number you paste decides the countdown.
How to work the countdown card
Signature, length, territory, resignation date and any offer — keep the dates dated.
Convert the clause's own wording once; the card counts from your resignation date.
The end date is printed, and any start date you add reads inside or outside the window.
Move the start, shorten the clause in writing, or take the timeline to a lawyer.
What the card replaces
| Question | Before | On the card |
|---|---|---|
| When can I start | 'it depends' vibes | a stamped end date from your own dates |
| Is the offer safe | hope, then a rescission letter | the start date checked inside or outside the window |
| What do I ask for | a general 'can you waive it?' | a moved start date or a written shortening, named |
The card counts from what you paste; whether a clause is enforceable in your state is a question for a lawyer, not a calculator.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the countdown card: your clause lengths and your own dates stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a index card with a stamped header
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 7 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The countdown and the stamped end date are free. The paid layer keeps every clause you are handed, prints the dated prep plan, and exports the timeline to take to a lawyer.
Open the restriction countdown card companionBoundary
This countdown card works only on the clause facts and dates you paste you paste. It does not rule on enforceability in your state, does not negotiate with your employer for you, and does not interpret statutes or case law. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with an employment lawyer for enforceability, and your new employer's HR for start-date terms before you rely on it.
What this is built on
- Every figure comes from the clause facts and dates you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: the countdown starts at the resignation or effective date you supply and runs the clause length you enter; any offer date is checked against the stamped end date
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Before: the reader carried the clause as a vague forever-cloud. After: they see the restriction ends on a named date 191 days away and schedule the new start after it, because they counted from their own clause.