# 5 questions to ask before signing a developer contract

By Venus Paneliya, full-stack AI engineer. Category: Founders. Originally posted on LinkedIn.

I've worked with founders who signed developer contracts without asking a single technical question.

Not because they were careless.

Because they didn't know what to ask.

Most non-technical founders evaluate developers on:

- Portfolio
- Rate
- Communication skills

Those matter.

But they miss the questions that actually predict whether the project will succeed or fail.

Here are 5 questions I'd ask before signing any developer contract.

None of them require technical knowledge.

All of them reveal whether the developer thinks about your business or just your feature list.

Save this.

You'll need it.

Which of these 5 would you add to your next developer interview?

The original post includes a document: 5 Questions to Ask Your Developer (7-page document).

Canonical: https://venuspaneliya.com/writing/five-questions-before-a-developer-contract/