Built so every quotation can be checked.
BeforeJD™ returns one clear report on your contract, and a second reader checks every read before it reaches you. Every quotation in it is checked against your document.
One careful read, in one report.
11.3 This Agreement renews automatically for successive twelve-month terms unless Customer gives written notice at least ninety (90) days prior to the end of the then-current term.
Worth pushing back on
Ninety days is a long cancellation window. Miss it and you are locked in for another year. We would ask for thirty.
The principles behind it
Designed around a single worry.
That a fluent answer can still quote words a contract never contained. So every quotation in a report is checked against your document. Words we cannot find there are never shown as the contract's words: we remove them, or mark them as our reading, not the exact wording. Only then does one verdict reach you.
Checked before you see it
A second reader checks every read before it reaches you.Findings quote the contract
Each finding shows the contract's own words, so you can see exactly where the issue lives.Never shown as the contract's words
Every quotation is checked against your contract. Words we cannot find there are never shown as the contract's words: we remove them, or mark them as our reading, not the exact wording.Risks stay in view
A risk is never quietly averaged away. Every finding is ranked by how much it could cost you.
Measured, not assumed
Most contract tools do not publish how they are evaluated. We do.
The read is tested on real commercial contracts from public company filings, taken from a benchmark of more than 13,000 clauses marked up by legal experts across 41 categories. Real agreements between real companies, not invented examples.
A benchmark is only as honest as the discipline behind it. The evaluation set is locked so results cannot be cherry-picked. The same risk-detection measure is tracked over time, and every change to the read must clear a regression check before it ships. Tested on a public benchmark of more than 13,000 expert-labeled clauses, it finds about nine in ten material risks. See how it was measured. False alarms are counted too. Detection quality is measured, not assumed.
That discipline matters most for the contract that governs your income, your work, or your liability. For a read like that, the rigor is the whole point of doing the review at all.
BeforeJD is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Analysis is informational only. For legal matters, consult a qualified attorney.
What you get back
From the first red flag to the email that gets you better terms.
Risk, ranked
Every concern is sorted by severity, with the exact clause that triggered it quoted from your contract.Your contract, redlined
Edits drafted as a marked-up copy of your contract, with tracked changes, clause by clause, in the report and as a file that arrives with your email.A drafted negotiation email
For each clause worth pushing back on, a ready-to-send email with the words to ask for instead.The Contract Assistant
A live, spoken conversation about your contract. It answers questions about your contract and its report, with a set amount of conversation time per contract. Check any answer against your contract before you rely on it.Saved conversations
Every conversation with the assistant is saved, with a written summary, and opens from the assistant beside your report.Plain-English explanations
No legalese. Each finding tells you why it matters and what it means for your side of the deal.Every document format
PDF, Word, images, spreadsheets, and more. Scanned pages are read automatically. For a scanned copy, the changes are marked on the page.
On your devices
BeforeJD for iPhone and Mac.
The same plain-English read you trust on the web, now on the App Store and the Mac App Store.
iPhone and iPad · iOS 18+
Available now
Scan the paper copy with your camera, or share a file to BeforeJD from any app. Sign in with Face ID, and a notification arrives the moment your read is ready: the full report, the redline, and the Contract Assistant, on your phone. Reads work on the web and in the iPhone app.
Mac · macOS 13 and later
Available now
A native Mac app with its own window and toolbar. Choose a contract with the file picker, read the whole report in that window, and search inside it from the keyboard. You sign in once and stay signed in.
Free on the Mac App Store.