Straight answers about guided Gemini setup, review contexts, manual change detection, PDFs, accounts, and what stays local.
About the product
It reviews legal text from web pages and text-based PDFs, then highlights the clauses that look risky, unusually broad, or worse than typical for your review context. The result includes a verdict, severity-rated issues, source evidence, and a suggested action.
Generic AI tools usually summarize everything. Clausewize focuses on structured risk review: verdicts, severity, clause-level evidence, and category-aware judgment instead of a broad recap.
“This document outlines the terms of service for the platform. Key points include data sharing with third parties, an arbitration clause, and standard usage policies. Overall, the terms appear fairly standard...”
Today, yes for the free path. Clausewize runs in BYOK mode, so the extension calls your provider directly from the browser. If you do not already have a key, the extension now guides you through getting a free Gemini key from Google AI Studio in a couple of minutes.
It reviews terms of service, privacy policies, subscription terms, refund and cancellation policies, AI data usage policies, consent flows, and text-based PDFs.
Yes for text-based PDFs. If a PDF contains readable text, Clausewize can analyze it. If the PDF is image-only or scanned, Clausewize declines honestly because OCR is not part of this release.
Review contexts let you analyze the same terms for different kinds of risk. The document stays the same, but Clausewize can prioritize what matters for personal use, business/vendor review, AI/data-sensitive work, or creator/IP concerns.
No. Clausewize does not monitor tabs or run real-time checks. You trigger each review manually, and change detection only runs when you manually re-check a page or PDF you reviewed before.
No. It is a decision-support tool that surfaces issues and evidence quickly. If the stakes are high, you should still consult a lawyer.
Clausewize output is automated analysis based on algorithmic scanning of Terms and Conditions. It should not be construed as a substitute for professional legal advice, tax analysis, or regulatory compliance assessment.
Privacy and data
No. It only works on the page you explicitly ask it to analyze, using browser permissions tied to your action on that tab.
By default, results stay in extension storage. If you sign in, final analysis records can sync to your account for dashboard history, sharing, printable briefs, and cross-device comparison. Raw HTML, DOM snapshots, and extracted legal packets are not synced.
Never. BYOK provider keys are stored in the extension only and are never sent to our servers.
Creating a share link requires sign-in because the brief needs a synced analysis record. Anyone with the active link can open the shared brief. The link is unlisted rather than public search content, and the owner can revoke it from the dashboard.
Hosted mode is still planned. When it launches, it will be the convenience path for people who do not want to manage provider keys themselves. The trade-off is explicit: the extracted legal packet is processed by Clausewize infrastructure instead of going directly from your browser to your BYOK provider.
BYOK and providers
Bring Your Own Key. You add your own provider key to the extension and the extension calls the provider directly from your browser.
The current BYOK provider set is OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. Hosted mode is still waitlist-only.
The extension itself is free in BYOK mode. Your actual cost depends on your provider and chosen model. The guided Gemini setup is the easiest free-start path today, and other BYOK providers remain available if you prefer OpenAI or Anthropic.
Pricing and accounts
An account adds the features that genuinely need a backend: synced history, cross-device comparison against prior synced reviews, synced default review context, revocable share links, printable briefs, and up to 5 MB of synced analysis storage. The core verdict, evidence, review contexts, local history, and markdown export stay free without an account.
No for the core product. Install the extension and use BYOK if you only want local analysis, evidence, review contexts, local history, and markdown export. Sign in if you want synced history, share links, printable briefs, or cross-device comparison against prior synced reviews.
Signing in enables account-based sync for final analysis results across devices, with up to 5 MB of storage in the free tier, plus share links, printable briefs, synced default review context, and cross-device comparison against prior synced reviews.
Change detection is manual. When you re-check a page or PDF you reviewed before, Clausewize compares the new extraction with the previous review for the same review context. On the same device it can use richer local comparison details; across devices it compares against the prior synced review record.
The exact pricing is still being finalized. The intent is a simple paid option for people who want convenience instead of key management.
Hosted is not live yet. Join the interest list if you want managed analysis without bringing your own provider key.