What a finding is made of
A finding is not a sentence of AI opinion with a source bolted on afterwards. It has four parts, and the first two are the ones you check.
“… upon any early termination by Tenant, all rent for the unexpired portion of the Term shall immediately become due and payable as liquidated damages, in addition to any sums otherwise owing hereunder …”
Cal. Civ. Code § 1951.2 — a California landlord’s damages after a tenant leaves early are limited to the rent lost, reduced by what the landlord could reasonably have avoided.
Move out early and this clause bills every remaining month at once, rather than the loss the landlord actually suffers.
A redline of the clause, and a message you can send. Drafted, never sent.
Parts 1 and 2 are facts you can confirm without us. Parts 3 and 4 are our reading of them, and are exactly where you should expect to disagree sometimes.
Verifying one, in four steps
- Search your own document for the quoted sentence. If the words in the finding are not in your file, the finding is wrong and nothing after it matters. This single check catches the failure people worry about most.
- Open the rule it names and read the section. Not our summary of it — the section. If the rule says something narrower than the finding claims, the finding is overreaching and you should treat it as a lead, not a conclusion.
- Check every date against the clause it came from. Dates are extracted from the sentence they appear in, so a date and its label should always be readable together in your original. If a deadline does not appear in the clause it is attached to, do not act on it.
- Then disagree with it. A finding you have checked and rejected can be resolved, and it stops competing for your attention. An analysis you cannot argue with is not worth much at volume.
What is checkable, and what is judgment
| Part of the analysis | Can you verify it yourself? |
|---|---|
| The quoted clause | Yes — search your own file for it. |
| The rule cited | Yes — read the section it names. |
| The extracted date | Yes — it should appear in the clause it is attached to. |
| The severity | Partly. It is our ranking of how much the clause can cost you. Reasonable people rank differently. |
| The money figure | Partly. It is arithmetic on terms in your document; check the inputs, then the sum. |
| “What to do about it” | No. That is advice-shaped, it is not legal advice, and it is the part a professional should own. |
Confidence is displayed only when there is something behind it. If a document’s type or a figure cannot be established from the text, no confidence number is shown at all rather than a made-up one — an empty space is more honest than a plausible percentage.
Claims we do not make
The fastest way to check a product’s honesty is to read what it refuses to say. These are ours, and they are enforced by a check that runs on every deploy rather than by good intentions.
- No testimonials, and no named customers. We have none we could source, so there are none on this site.
- No user counts, logo walls, or “trusted by” strips. Same reason.
- No usage statistics. No documents-analyzed counter, no hours-saved figure, no percentage of users who anything.
- No compliance certifications. Not SOC 2, not ISO 27001, not HIPAA or GDPR “certified”. If we ever earn one it will appear on the trust page and only once it is true.
- No guarantee of a legal outcome. Main AI is not a law firm and does not give legal advice.
A build check scans every page on this site for exactly those shapes — star ratings, attributed quotes, logo-wall markup, population-scale counts — and refuses to publish if one appears. It was written before the copy it polices, so there was never a version of these pages it did not apply to.
The limits worth knowing before you rely on it
- Input quality bounds everything. A dark photo of a folded page yields worse text, and every finding downstream inherits that. Where the text is unreadable, the analysis will be thin rather than confidently wrong.
- Rules move. A statute cited today can be amended tomorrow. The citation is there so you can check the current text at the source, which is the only version that matters.
- Absence is not clearance. No flag on a clause means nothing matched, not that the clause is safe. Main AI can tell you what it found; it cannot tell you what it missed.
- One document at a time. Uploads are processed sequentially, with a 90-second ceiling per document before it is marked failed and the queue moves on. Nothing here runs in parallel.
The best first test is a document you already know
Run something you have already read closely and check the flags against what you found. That tells you more in five minutes than any claim on this page.
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