Most of us sign things we don't fully read. Leases, credit card terms, work contracts, software agreements. They're long, dense, written in language designed to be skimmed past — and any one of them might contain the clause that costs you money, your work, or your peace of mind years later.
The most common contract problems are not bad clauses that catch your eye. They're missing protections you'd never know to look for. The deposit limit your state requires but isn't in the lease. The IP carve-out for personal projects that wasn't included. The cancellation right that should have been mutual but isn't.
A lawyer would catch those things. A lawyer costs $300-500 for an hour of their time. Most people sign anyway, hope for the best, and find out years later what they agreed to.
ClauseGuard is built to do what a careful lawyer does on a first read: identify the document, run a complete checklist of what should be present and what's risky, apply your state's law to every finding, and explain it in plain English.
It's not a replacement for an attorney — and we say that everywhere because it matters. But it's a tool that means no one ever has to sign something they don't understand again.