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The Guarantee You Missed
A separate guaranty exhibit, or three words in the signature block ('individually and personally'), can put your house behind the lease. It can be uncapped, carry no burn-off and survive the sale of the business.
The decode is FREE. The letters are flat-fee.
For the 32 million U.S. businesses with no in-house counsel
You don’t have General CounselThey know itNow it doesn’t matter.
Their lawyers wrote it. Paste the lease. The clause that puts your house on the line comes first, then what the rest costs and every date it turns on.
Read My DocumentPaste it and read it, no account needed
Cited or Dropped
Every finding cites its clause. A deterministic guard checks each one against your document and removes what it can't verify.
Read Once, Then Gone
Your document is analyzed in memory and discarded. There's no document database to breach, subpoena or sell.
Only on Your Side
We never take a cent from the landlords, franchisors, insurers or processors on the other side of your paper.
Same Answer, Any Price
Free and paid users get the identical analysis. Payment buys the artifacts you act with, and nothing else.
Who It’s For
You didn’t sign up to read contracts. You signed up to build something.
You opened the doors on a lease you read once, at 11pm, between payroll and a supplier call. Paste it, and what you agreed to comes back in plain language with the clause beside it.
The Personal-Guarantee Detector
The line that quietly puts your house behind the lease.
Three words in the signature block can put your personal assets behind the business’s obligations, your house included. The detector quotes that clause verbatim, with a deterministic scan behind the AI in case the model softens it. What you do about it is yours to decide.
Check My DocumentWhat the Free Decode Shows
Their fine print, in plain English, with every finding tied to its clause.
- Your findings, ranked critical, warning or note, each quoting the clause it lives in.
- The personal-guarantee check, quoted verbatim.
- Every figure, percentage, date and notice period in one table, each tied to its clause and verified.
- Every deadline on your calendar in one click (.ics), and an opt-in Renewal Watchdog that emails you before a window closes.
Deadlines & the Renewal Watchdog
Every dated deadline on your calendar, before the window closes.
Miss a non-renewal window by a day and the term can roll for years. The decode puts every dated deadline on your calendar in one click, and the opt-in Renewal Watchdog emails you before a window closes. The document itself is never stored.
Find My Deadlines
Where Operators Lose Money
Five patterns from the red-flag rules the decode checks every document against.
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When CAM Outgrows Rent
Base rent is the teaser. The cost hides in uncapped controllable operating expenses, admin loadings on top of CAM, and an audit clause that bills you the landlord's costs unless you find a big error. That's how a cheap lease gets expensive, year after year.
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The Renewal Window
Miss a narrow non-renewal window by a day and the term can roll for another five years. The date that decides it sits in a clause you'll never reopen.
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Chargebacks Lost on Format
A representment that answers the wrong reason code, in the wrong format or after the deadline can lose even when you were right. Card-network rules ask for evidence matched to the specific code, and a letter saying the charge was valid doesn't supply it.
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The Reclassified Payroll
A workers' comp or general-liability audit can move your payroll into a costlier class and back-bill the difference. Classifications can be disputed. The code and the dispute window decide how, and the window has a clock.
What You Can Paste
Commercial lease
CAM charges, personal guarantees, assignment restrictions, relocation clauses, operating-expense pass-throughs.
Vendor / supplier contract
Auto-renewal traps, unilateral price escalation, liability shifting, termination asymmetry in MSAs and supply agreements.
Franchise agreement / FDD
FDD red flags, territory, renewal terms, post-term non-competes — organized into questions for your franchise attorney.
Insurance audit / policy dispute
Premium audit workpapers, classification disputes, audit-driven retro bills on GL and workers' comp.
Chargeback / processor dispute
Reason codes decoded, representment evidence checklists, processor reserve and termination clauses.
Demand letter received
Decode what they're actually claiming, your options, and when this is lawyer-now territory.
Anything Else They Sent
NDAs, partnership agreements, letters of intent and government notices get the same read: the money terms, the liability terms, the exit terms and every deadline.
How It Works
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Paste or Upload
A PDF, a Word file, a photo or plain text. It's read once, in memory, then discarded.
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Read It Free
You get ranked findings with verbatim citations, the personal-guarantee check, the numbers table, every deadline, your options and the cost of doing nothing. Free and paid users see the same decode.
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Act If You Choose
$99 buys the Action Package for most documents ($79 for chargebacks, $199 for franchise): the redline letter, protective notice, representment kit or briefing memo your document calls for, ready to send under your name.
What It Costs
The Decode
$0The full analysis, identical to what paying customers see. That's the deal.
- Ranked findings with verbatim citations
- The personal-guarantee detector, shown above the findings
- The numbers table: every figure, tied to its clause
- Every deadline found, with a calendar (.ics) export
- Your options, the cost of doing nothing, and when to get a human
Action Package
$99Every letter and kit one matter calls for, ready to send under your name.
- A redline request letter or negotiation email built from your findings
- A personal-guarantee ask list (caps, burn-off, good-guy conversion)
- A chargeback representment kit or a dispute letter draft, by document type
- An attorney briefing memo, for matters that need one
- Everything as editable text, sent under your own name
Deal ReviewComing Soon
$499For a matter that spans documents, like a lease with its guaranty and work letter, or an FDD with its franchise agreement: one brief across all of them.
- Analyze up to five related documents as one matter
- One brief with findings across documents and one deadline calendar
- Conflicts between documents flagged, such as the guaranty against the lease
- The full Action Package for every document in the matter
Flat fees, per matter, good for 30 days. The Action Package is priced by document: $99 by default, $79 for chargebacks and $199 for franchise. There’s no subscription, no seat license and no “contact sales.”
Your Document Isn’t Kept
Your contract leaves no copy here to leak.
Your document is read once, in memory, and discarded, so there’s no document database to breach, subpoena or sell. Live analysis runs only under a no-training data agreement, and the code won’t send a document to the model without it. Everything else that’s kept is listed on the privacy page.
See Exactly What’s Kept →Fair Questions
Is this legal advice?
No. Recourse for Business is a reading tool and isn't a law firm. It tells you what your document says and what it costs, and says plainly when a matter needs an attorney, and which kind. Franchise documents get organized into questions for a franchise attorney.
What happens to my document?
It's read once, analyzed in memory and discarded. It's never stored, never sold and never used to train anything. Apart from short-lived server logs, what's kept is what you ask for: your email if you opt in, the deadline dates you ask the Renewal Watchdog to track (one click deletes them) and payment records, which live in Stripe.
Why is the analysis free?
Because charging for it would tempt us to bend it. The analysis is identical at every price; payment buys the letters, kits and memos you act with. Money never changes what the tool tells you.
How do I know it isn't making things up?
Every finding cites the clause it lives in, by section number or a short verbatim quote. Then a deterministic guard checks every quote, date, clause reference and numbers-table row against your document. Anything it can't verify is removed, and the analysis tells you so.
What if my situation is bigger than a tool?
The decode says so and names who to call: a business attorney, a franchise attorney, a CPA, an independent insurance broker or a payments specialist. Every analysis ends with “when to bring in a human,” and the engine can't leave that section out.
Do you work with landlords, franchisors, insurers, or processors?
No. We never take money from the institutions whose documents we critique, so the tool stays on your side of the table.
Walk in knowing what their paper says.
Paste what they sent you, and in a minute or two you’ll have the decode, free, with every finding cited to its clause.