I Built an AI-Powered Contract Analyzer to Detect Risks in Seconds

Source: Dev.to

Why I built Contract Analyzer

Contracts are everywhere — employment agreements, NDAs, vendor contracts, service agreements — but reviewing them manually is slow, stressful, and easy to get wrong.

I noticed that many people outside legal teams struggle to understand:

• Which clauses are risky
• What’s missing
• What really matters in a long contract

So I decided to build Contract Analyzer.

What is Contract Analyzer?

Contract Analyzer is an AI‑powered web app that analyzes contracts and highlights:

• Risky clauses
• Missing or unclear terms
• Key insights and summaries in plain language

The goal is simple: Help people review contracts faster and with more confidence.

Tech stack

• Frontend: Next.js deployed on Vercel
• Backend: .NET API running on Railway
• Database: PostgreSQL

This setup allowed me to iterate quickly and deploy globally without heavy infrastructure overhead.

Challenges

• Making AI output understandable for non‑legal users
• Handling long contracts efficiently
• Designing a UI that feels simple, not overwhelming

There’s still a lot to improve, but this first version already saves a lot of time.

What’s next?

• Better clause explanations
• Support for more contract types
• Improved summaries and risk scoring

Launched on Product Hunt 🚀

I just launched Contract Analyzer on Product Hunt and would love feedback from the dev community.

If you have ideas, feedback, or questions — feel free to comment. Happy to answer anything!