A new home
Leases · purchase agreements
The rent that quietly climbs, the auto-renewal buried near the end, the deposit that is hard to get back.
A second read before you sign
Signing a contract is stressful.Understanding it should not be.
Upload your lease, job offer, or freelance deal. We read every page, tell you in plain English what is fair and what is worth pushing back on, and return your contract redlined — before you sign.
You will not sign this alone.
$4.99 per read. No subscription, ever.
Private. Your contract is not stored by default.
Residential lease · clause 14 · rent
14.2 Landlord may adjust the monthly rent at any time during the term upon seven (7) days’ written notice to Tenant, and Tenant’s continued occupancy shall constitute acceptance of the adjusted amount.
Worth pushing back on
This lets the landlord raise your rent mid-lease on seven days’ notice — and treats staying in your home as accepting the new amount. We would ask to fix the rent for the full term, or require at least 60 days’ notice.
What you get back
A calm, plain-English read on your contract.
This is a lot to take in. We read all 14 pages and sorted it for you.
We found 4 things worth fixing before you sign this lease.
38of 100
Largely balanced. This is the most common result we see. Most leases have a few clauses worth pushing back on. Yours is no exception.
typical lease lands here
A starting point for your conversation, not a verdict on the whole deal, and not legal advice.
Why you can trust the read
Every reason here is one you can check.
No borrowed logos, no vague “AI-powered.” Real contracts, a measured benchmark, and a gate that nothing worse gets past.
Read by a panel, not one model
Your contract is read by several independent engines that do not compare notes. One pulls the facts, one weighs the risk, and one argues against you like opposing counsel — and can only raise a concern, never bury it. Findings are cross-checked, not averaged.
Nine in ten material risks, measured
On a locked benchmark of real, expert-marked contracts, the read catches roughly nine of every ten material risks while holding false alarms down. Measured against human judgment — not asserted.
Graded on contracts lawyers marked up
Real commercial agreements from public company filings — more than 13,000 clauses annotated by legal experts across 41 categories. Real deals, not invented examples.
Nothing ships that scores worse
Every change to how we read a contract has to clear a regression gate against that locked benchmark before it reaches you. If it would lower the score, it does not ship. The bar only moves up.
Private by default
Your contract is never used to train a model, and is not stored after the read unless you ask.
How it works
Three steps, and you are never reading it alone.
No legalese, and no lawyer required. Upload a contract and get a plain-English read with the exact words to push back on.
Step 1
Upload your contract
A lease, a job offer, a freelance deal, as a PDF, a Word file, or a photo. Drop it in and we take it from there.
Step 2
We read every line
We read all of it the way a careful friend would, and mark the lines that matter, in plain English.
Step 3
You get what to ask for
A calm read on what is fair, what is worth pushing back on, and the exact words to use, drafted for you.
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What comes back with every read
More than a report. Your contract, returned ready to negotiate.
Every read now comes back with your own document redlined, a spoken assistant that knows your analysis, and a saved record of every conversation. All for the same flat price.
Redline · tracked changes
12.4 Either party may terminate this Agreement with five (5) days’ notice upon thirty (30) days’ written notice, provided that all outstanding fees…
Your own contract, returned redlined.
We draft the replacement language and mark it into your original document as tracked-changes edits, clause by clause. A Word file arrives with your report email, ready to review and send back.
Contract Assistant · spoken
“What does the non-compete actually stop me from doing?”
“Clause 8.1 restricts similar work statewide for two years. That is broader than most. I would ask to limit it to your county.”
Grounded in clause 8.1 of your contract
Ask about any clause, out loud.
A live, spoken conversation about your contract. It answers only from your finished analysis, and every answer points to a line on your page.
Discussion · saved with the report
Saved conversation · 4 min
Non-compete scope, severance timing
- — The two-year statewide restriction is broader than most.
- — Severance arrives as one payment, not installments.
Next step: ask to narrow clause 8.1 before signing.
Every conversation, kept with the report.
The Discussion tab holds a written summary and the full record of what was asked and answered, so the advice you heard is still there when you sit down to negotiate.
Why a second read
One opinion can miss things. A careful second read catches them.
A single quick answer is easy to get and easy to trust too much. We read your contract more than once, from more than one point of view, and only hand you what holds up. Nothing that matters slips past you.
Several careful readers, not one
Your contract is read more than once, by readers that work independently. One pulls out the terms, one weighs the risk, one argues back. Nobody rubber-stamps anybody.
The cautious read wins
When the readers disagree, we side with the reading that protects you. We would rather raise a concern you decide to wave off than stay quiet on one that mattered.
Every concern points to a line
Each thing we raise is tied back to the exact words in your contract. If we cannot point to the line, we do not put it in front of you.
The contracts that actually matter
The papers behind the moments that change your life.
You do not sign many of these in a lifetime, and each one carries a lot. Here is the kind of line we tend to find, in the moments where it counts most.
A first day
Job offers · employment
The non-compete that follows you out the door, the fine print that claims your side projects, the severance that was only ever a verbal promise.
A fair deal
Freelance · consulting
The endless revisions, the missing kill fee, the line that hands over work you built long before this client called.
A big commitment
Loans · partnerships · NDAs
The prepayment penalty, the personal guarantee with no ceiling, the confidentiality that never expires.
Healthcare, estate, construction, insurance, government work. We read those too. See every kind of contract we read.
Questions, answered plainly
The things people ask before they trust us with a contract.
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Several independent engines cross-check every finding, and one argues against you like opposing counsel — it can only raise a concern, never bury one. On a locked benchmark of real, expert-marked contracts spanning more than 13,000 clauses across 41 categories, the read catches roughly nine of every ten material risks while holding false alarms down, and every change to the engine must clear a regression gate before it ships.
Yes. By default, your contract is not stored after the analysis completes. If you opt into temporary storage, it is encrypted and automatically deleted after your selected period — up to 7 days. Contract text is never used for training.
Every report includes a PDF export, a pre-drafted negotiation email, and your contract returned as a redlined Word document with tracked-changes edits — ready to send to an attorney or the other party.
Your own contract, returned with tracked-changes edits drafted clause by clause. The replacement language is written into your original document, and a Word file arrives with your report email — ready to open, review, and send back.
A live, spoken conversation about your contract. It answers only from the finished analysis of your document, and every answer points to a line. Each contract includes a set amount of conversation time, and a written summary of every conversation is saved to the Discussion tab with your report.
Yes. BeforeJD for iPhone is on the App Store. Scan a contract with your camera, share files straight to BeforeJD, sign in with Face ID, and get a notification when your read is ready. Credits work on the web and in the iPhone app.
The multi-agent system handles multi-party agreements, specialized terms, and hybrid structures.
PDF, Word, RTF, TXT, CSV, HTML, XLSX, PPTX, plus images. Over 20 formats with built-in OCR for scanned documents.
Several independent engines review your contract without comparing notes: one extracts the terms, one interprets the risk, and one challenges the others like opposing counsel — and can only raise a concern, never lower it. A deterministic step then reconciles their findings, so the report is cross-checked rather than averaged.
No. BeforeJD is a first pass that surfaces concerns and provides negotiation language. Consult an attorney for decisions.
Under five minutes. The agents run in parallel, so total time equals the slowest agent plus a few seconds.
20 types across five categories: Employment, Real Estate, Business, Personal & Family, and Specialized. Each has its own playbook.
The General playbook analyzes any contract, flagging risks, generating negotiation language, and quoting clauses directly.
A chatbot gives one opinion, and a different one each time you ask. BeforeJD runs several independent engines plus an adversarial reviewer over 20 contract-type playbooks, reconciles them into structured output, and holds every change to a regression gate against a locked benchmark of real, expert-marked contracts.
On your iPhone
The same careful read, wherever the contract finds you.
BeforeJD for iPhone is on the App Store. Scan the agreement in your hand, send it from any app, and get the same plain-English report — redline included.
- Scan the paper copy with your camera.
- Share any file straight to BeforeJD.
- Face ID sign-in, and a notification the moment your read is ready.
- The Contract Assistant, on your phone.
- Credits work on the web and in the iPhone app.
Before you sign
Read it before you sign it.
A careful, multi-step read in plain English — the risks, the language to ask for, your negotiation email, and your contract returned redlined, in minutes. $4.99 per read, no subscription.
You will not sign it alone.