Notes from the desk
Short product updates about scoring, fairness, and how we read the fine print. Written for humans, not for a feature dump.
Every finding that surfaces in a Verbaterm review needs a direct citation, verbatim. No matching source excerpt means the claim stays hidden. Here is why that bar exists, and how to check the receipts yourself.
Most update emails do not spell out what got worse. Start with unilateral amendment language, then compare the new document for auto-renewal, arbitration, and data sharing—or Follow a published review so you are not rereading forty pages alone.
As of 26 July 2026, across 465 canonical published policies, mandatory arbitration matched in about one in five reviews. Here is a dated prevalence snapshot—with honest caveats—and where to read each pattern in plain English.
Verbaterm now explains common policy clauses in plain English, chips them on findings, and maps matches on a clause radar, so you can recognize the pattern without leaving the review.
You do not need to read forty pages cover to cover. Start with auto-renewal, mandatory arbitration, and broad data sharing—three patterns that show up again and again, and that Verbaterm names in plain English with citations.
You will not finish forty pages in the checkout modal. Use a short checklist—auto-renewal, dispute rights, data sharing, and how terms can change—then open a cited review or paste the document yourself.
Verbaterm policy risk rankings now add points for cited protections, not only deduct for concerns. Here is why score-method v4 changed, and how the new math works.