Decode your lease — clause by clause, state by state.
Paste a clause from your residential lease and we’ll flag the 12 most-litigated terms — late fees, deposits, auto-renewal, attorney-fee shifting, habitability waivers, arbitration, holdover multipliers — with the rule for your state pinned to a primary state-legislature citation. Calm, plain-English, never ambulance-chaser.
Everything runs in your browser. We don’t POST your text anywhere — there is no server hop in v1.
Analyzer · residential lease
Decode a clause
Paste a clause excerpt — your text never leaves the browser. Or pick a clause type to read its 50-state enforceability grid.
Everything happens in your browser. We don't POST your text anywhere — there is no server hop in v1. See how the analyzer actually works.
- Your text never leaves the browser
- Primary state-legislature citations
- No content logged, ever
- 50 states + DC
- 12 clause types
- Primary-source citations
- Browser-only analysis
- Calm, plain-English
- No content logging
- Never a guess — pending is labeled
How the decoder works
Four steps, all in your browser
The legal answer is never generated by an AI — the classifier only identifies the clause type; a static, primary-source-cited ruleset supplies what your state says.
Paste a clause
Drop in one sentence or a few paragraphs from your residential lease. The text stays in your browser — there is no server hop in v1.
Redact locally
The browser strips tenant and landlord names, addresses, phones, and emails before anything is matched. You see only the counts.
Classify the clause
A local pattern matcher identifies which of the 12 most-litigated clause types your text triggers — clause type only, never the legal answer.
Read the state rule
A deterministic, primary-source-cited ruleset renders what your state says, pinned to a state-legislature citation — or an honest “pending” pin.
How the legal answer is produced
The rule for your state is read from law — not written by a model.
That single discipline is what makes a lease tool trustworthy. Here is exactly how a clause becomes an answer.
Primary statute, not paraphrase
Every verified rule pins to the state-legislature URL where we read it. The citation carries the authority — not our summary.
Deterministic, not generated
An AI never writes the legal answer. The classifier only spots the clause type; the rule comes from a static, reviewed ruleset committed in the repo.
Pending is labeled, never guessed
When a state-clause cell isn’t verified yet, we show a visible pending pin and the legislature link — we never invent a citation to fill a row.
Privacy promise
We don't see your lease.
- Your browser, your text. Your lease text is processed in your browser. In v1, no lease content leaves your device — there is no server hop at all.
- Redact-before-hop architecture. When the AI extraction tier ships (Pattern F), only the redacted clause text leaves the browser. Tenant name, landlord name, address, and phone numbers are stripped first.
- No content logging, ever. We never store, sell, or share your lease text. Aggregate counts (clause-class, success or failure) are the only telemetry — never content, never identity.
Verify the architecture: how the analyzer works · full privacy policy.
12 clause types
The clauses we cover
Every clause page renders a 50-state enforceability grid with statute citations and a "verify directly" link to the state legislature. The deterministic rules survive YMYL review — the classifier identifies which clause type your text triggers, the ruleset tells you what your state says.
late-fee-caps
Late-fee schedule
How much your landlord can charge when rent is late, and what kind of grace period (if any) state law requires.
pet-fees
Pet fees, pet rent, pet deposits
How much a landlord can charge for a pet — as a one-time deposit, a recurring monthly fee, or a non-refundable charge.
security-deposit
Security-deposit caps and return timelines
The maximum security deposit a landlord can collect, and how many days they have to return it (with itemized deductions) after move-out.
auto-renewal
Automatic renewal of the lease
Whether your lease automatically rolls into a new fixed term if you don't give notice — and how much notice you have to give.
attorney-fee-shifting
Attorney-fee-shifting clause
Whether the loser pays the winner's lawyer fees in any lease dispute — and whether the clause is one-way (landlord wins only) or two-way.
repair-obligation
Repair-obligation shifting
Whether the lease tries to push the landlord's duty to keep the unit habitable onto the tenant.
habitability-waiver
Habitability waiver
Any lease term that tries to make you waive the right to a habitable unit — separate from "as-is" repair-shifting.
arbitration
Mandatory arbitration / jury-trial waiver
Whether the lease forces you to take any dispute to private arbitration (instead of court) and waives your right to a jury trial.
non-disclosure
Non-disclosure / non-disparagement
Whether the lease forbids you from publicly reviewing the landlord, complaining to housing authorities, or sharing your experience.
late-rent-eviction
Pay-or-quit / eviction notice timing
How many days the landlord must wait after rent is late before they can file an eviction case — and what kind of notice they have to give first.
sublease-prohibition
Sublease and assignment
Whether you can sublease the unit, and how much discretion the landlord has to refuse permission.
holdover
Holdover-tenant rent multiplier
What happens (and what you owe) if you stay past the end of your lease without a renewal.
Browse by state
Find your state on the map
Landlord-tenant law is state law. Click your state for its clause-by-clause rules. Verified states are emerald; states still pending verification stay grey — an honest view, never a guess.
- VT · Vermont
- NH · New Hampshire
- MA · Massachusetts
- RI · Rhode Island
- CT · Connecticut
- DE · Delaware
- MD · Maryland
- DC · District of Columbia
- None yet
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Verification status
27/ 600 cells verified
5% primary-source verified · the rest are labeled pending.
We verify state-clause cells in waves, highest-renter-population states first. Until a cell is checked against a state-legislature URL it carries a visible PLACEHOLDER pin — never a guess. When we don't know, we say "pending verification" and link to the state legislature so you can verify directly. Read the methodology →
Read before you sign
A lease is just words until you know what they mean.
Paste a clause and see how it's likely to read in your state — calmly, privately, and with the state-legislature source one click away. Nothing leaves your browser.
Before you sign
Know what a clause really means in your state.
Paste a clause, read with confidence, and verify directly against the state legislature — all without your lease ever leaving your browser.
Informational, not legal advice. We are not a law firm. Verify with a licensed tenant-rights attorney before relying on any output.