Terms of Service

The short version

• • You upload a PDF, we generate a plain-English report. $5 per report.
• • It’s a thinking partner — not legal advice. Don’t treat it as one.
• • If you don’t love your report, email us and we’ll refund you.
• • Don’t use the service for illegal stuff or to abuse the AI.

Service description

Contract Decoder takes a PDF you upload, sends its text to an AI model (currently Anthropic’s Claude), and returns a plain-English summary, a list of risky or unusual clauses, and questions you might want to ask before signing. We charge a flat $5 per analysis and do not auto-renew or subscribe you to anything.

Not legal advice

This is the most important section, so we’re putting it up top. The output of Contract Decoder is not legal advice and we are not your lawyer. The AI may misread clauses, miss things, or make mistakes. You should treat the report as a starting point — a way to spot questions you might want to ask — not as a verdict. For high-stakes contracts (M&A, litigation, anything regulated, anything where money on the line is more than you can afford to lose), please consult a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction.

Refunds

If you’re not happy with your report for any reason, email hello@contractplainly.com within 30 days and we’ll refund the $5. No questions asked.

What you can’t do

• • Upload contracts you don’t have the right to analyze.
• • Try to extract our prompts, jailbreak the model, or use the service to abuse the underlying AI.
• • Use the service in violation of any law that applies to you.
• • Resell, scrape, or build a competing product from the output.

Your content

You retain ownership of any contract you upload. By uploading, you grant us a limited license to process the file solely to generate your report — nothing else. See the privacy policy for retention details (24 hours, then deleted).

Availability

We try to keep the service running but make no uptime guarantees. We may add, remove, or change features at any time. If a paid analysis fails because of an outage on our end, we’ll refund you — see refunds above.

Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of your use of the service is capped at the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim — at most a few dollars per analysis. We’re not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. If a court finds this cap unenforceable in your jurisdiction, the cap is the maximum allowed by that law.

Changes

We may update these terms. The “last updated” date at the top of the page tells you when we did. Continued use of the service after changes means you accept the new terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@contractplainly.com.