Hey everyone! 👋 This idea came from a very real personal moment. Recently, when I received an offer letter from a company, it came with multiple documents full of dense legal text and hidden clauses. Like most people, I was tempted to just skim and sign. But instead, I spent time digging through it and realized how easy it is to miss important obligations buried deep inside legal language. That experience stuck with me. I kept thinking — why is understanding a contract still so hard for normal people? Most of us don’t have the time (or legal background) to read every clause carefully, but the risks of missing something can be huge. So I started building beforeyouagree — a simple tool where you upload a document and quickly get the important parts highlighted: key clauses, risks, obligations, and red flags. The journey wasn’t straightforward. Early versions struggled with messy PDFs, scanned documents, and different legal formats. A lot of the work went into making document parsing reliable and making the output simple enough that anyone—not just lawyers—could understand it. This is still early, and I’d genuinely love feedback from this community. If you have contracts, offer letters, rental agreements, or NDAs you’ve always been unsure about — try it and tell me what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d want improved. Really excited (and slightly nervous 😄) to finally share this.

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What building BeforeYouAgree taught me about how casually people sign contracts

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a product called BeforeYouAgree, which is focused on helping people understand contracts better. While building it, one thing that really stood out to me was how casually most people deal with legal documents.

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What building BeforeYouAgree taught me about how casually people sign contracts

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What building BeforeYouAgree taught me about how casually people sign contracts