Why we built ClauseAudit

Most people sign a job offer, lease, NDA, or freelance contract without really reading it. Not because they don't care. It's that a lawyer costs $300–500 an hour, takes days, and feels like overkill for a four-page agreement. So they skim, trust the other side, and hope nothing in the fine print comes back to bite them.

ClauseAudit closes that gap. Upload a contract, or a photo of one, and in under a minute you get a plain-English read on what's risky, what's normal, and what you should push back on, before you put your name on it.

The story behind it

As a property consultant, I watched this play out over and over: clients about to sign a builder-buyer agreement, worried, sometimes rightly, that the contract favored the seller and not them. Most of the time they had no easy way to know for sure. They'd either sign on trust, or pay a lawyer for a review that took days and cost more than the deal made sense for.

It made me realize this wasn't just a real estate problem. Anyone signing a contract without legal backup was facing the same blind spot. That's the problem ClauseAudit is built to solve.

Aapt Dubey, Founder

How the analysis stays grounded

A generic chatbot will confidently tell you a clause is “standard” with nothing to back it up. We do the opposite. ClauseAudit checks each clause against a curated reference set tied to actual law, California's deposit cap and 24-hour entry rule (Civil Code §§1950.5, 1954), the ban on non-competes (Bus. & Prof. Code §16600), the federal Copyright Act's rule that work-for-hire isn't automatic for contractors, the DTSA baseline for NDAs, and more.

When a clause matches a benchmark, you see the comparison, “three months' deposit versus the typical one to two.” When there's no reliable benchmark, we say so instead of guessing. The same review is tuned to your US state across all 50 states and DC, because the same clause can be airtight in one state and unenforceable in the next.

What it is, and what it isn't

ClauseAudit is a risk-education tool, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. It won't replace an attorney for a high-stakes deal. What it will do is make sure you walk into that lawyer's office, or that negotiation, already knowing the right questions, instead of paying someone to find the obvious problems for you. Your contracts are never used to train AI, and we keep your analysis, not your original document.

Who runs it

ClauseAudit is built and operated by Datacorp Software LLP (202 Golf Link Residency, Sector 18B, Dwarka, New Delhi 110078, India). We're a small team that thinks ordinary people deserve to understand what they sign. Questions, feedback, or a contract type you'd like us to support? Email support@clauseaudit.com.