I built a Chrome extension that reads SaaS Terms of Service so you don't have to

Every SaaS has a Terms of Service. Nobody reads it. I got burned by an auto-renewal clause I missed. Paid for a full year of a tool I'd stopped using 3 months in. When I went back to read the ToS, the clause was in paragraph 14, written in legal language that would take a lawyer to parse. So I built Explain Legal, a Chrome extension that does it automatically. How it works When you land on a SaaS pricing page, the extension: Detects that you're on a pricing or checkout page Silently fetches the Terms of Service from the same domain Analyzes it with Claude (Anthropic's API) Surfaces the results in a sidebar — no clicking required What it shows you A verdict: Safe, Caution, or Avoid Up to 3 red flags focused on financial risk (auto-renewal, non-refundable payments, price change rights) 2 questions to ask support before you commit The technical stack Chrome Extension (Manifest V3, vanilla JS) Vercel serverless function as a proxy (keeps the API key server-side) Upstash Redis for usage tra