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Read the agreement before you accept it

Paste a Terms of Service, a Privacy Policy, an End User License Agreement — or just the paragraph that worries you. You get a grade, the clauses that actually matter quoted in the document's own words and translated into plain English, a six-item checklist of the rights you keep or give up, the red flags ranked by severity, and what a fairer version of each clause would say instead.

Both examples ship with a saved analysis, so you can read a complete report — grade, clauses, rights checklist and all — without signing in and without spending a credit.

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Or drag a saved copy in — .txt, .md or .html, read in your browser. Nothing uploads until you run.

Only used to label the report and your saved history.

Paste an agreement to price the run.

What this does, and what it does not

The prescan is a phrase reader, not a lawyer. It knows sixteen patterns that reliably matter — a licence that is both perpetual and irrevocable, content used for “developing new products” rather than for operating the service, termination at “sole discretion,” a class-action waiver, an indemnity running from you to the provider — and it sweeps for six consumer rights. It runs in your browser, on your text, with no account and no network call, and it gives you a provisional verdict the moment you paste. What it cannot do is read a negation or a carve-out: “we do not sell your personal information” trips the same pattern as “we sell your personal information.” That is exactly why every flag it raises is handed to the full analysis as something to confirm or overturn with a reason, and why this page shows you the reconciliation instead of quietly dropping the disagreements.

The full analysis quotes the document back at you. Every clause card carries the text it is talking about, so you can check the reading against the words rather than taking it on trust, and a clause the analysis could not find in your paste says so rather than inventing language. Where the document is silent, the rights checklist says “Unknown” — silence is a finding. Nothing here is legal advice, nothing here predicts how a court in your country would treat an arbitration clause or a liability cap, and nothing here is a substitute for asking a lawyer when the money or the data at stake is worth it.

Nothing to hand? Read the , a fictional photo service that takes a perpetual sublicensable licence to your uploads and can close your account without notice, or the , which does most of it properly and still has something worth knowing about. Both replay a saved analysis for free.