§ OUR MISSION

Companies with a legal team get every contract read before they sign. Why doesn’t everyone else?

Stipulex is a contract intelligence engine, building toward launch, for jurisdictional contract compliance grounded in governing law. It checks each provision of an agreement such as an offer letter, lease or loan against the state and federal law of its jurisdiction, and surfaces risk, fairness and compliance gaps before you sign. You get a Fairness Score, an annotated copy of your contract and a plain-English summary within minutes. Stipulex does not provide legal advice.

Individuals, freelancers and small businesses sign agreements every week that were written by someone else’s lawyers, and they can’t afford their own for each one.

Stipulex gives them the same clause-by-clause scrutiny a corporate legal team delivers, at a price they can afford every time they sign, so no one gets burned by a promise they didn’t understand.

02 · ABOUT STIPULEX

Fine print, finally on your side.

Not legal advice. Just the most logical precursor to it.

Every contract has two sides, and usually only one of them had a lawyer in the room. The other side gets a PDF, a deadline and a big friendly button that says Sign.

So you skim, you scroll, and you hope page eleven isn’t hiding anything. Page eleven is always hiding something. Don’t take our word for it. Here’s page eleven.

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AGREEMENTPAGE 11 OF 14

11.2 Non-Competition. For a period of Flag 1, high: twenty-four (24) months following termination for any reason, Contractor shall not, directly or indirectly, provide services to any business that competes with Company anywhere in the United States.

11.3 Work Product. All work product, inventions and ideas conceived by Contractor during the Term, Flag 2, high: whether or not during working hours or using Company resources, shall be the sole and exclusive property of Company.

11.4 Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, and any dispute shall be resolved Flag 3, moderate: exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

OFFER EXPIRES IN09:59

TRY IT · THE SIGNING SCREEN

Go ahead. Click Sign. Everyone does.

A countdown, a box that was checked for you, and three paragraphs nobody has time for. This is the moment Stipulex is built for. Sign it, or click any line you’d actually like to understand.

14 PAGES1 BUTTON0 LAWYERS ON YOUR SIDE

Every line read before you sign. No legal team required.

Stipulex is building the reader you’d want next to you at that moment. It goes through your agreement clause by clause, shows what each one actually does, flags where it leans against you, and points out terms worth a closer look under the rules where you live. Plain English throughout, no Latin.

We hold it to one standard: every flag points to the exact clause behind it, every concern says why it matters, and when something needs a lawyer, it says so instead of guessing. That’s how software gets built in fields where a wrong answer has real consequences, and it’s the only way we know how to build.

Contract intelligence, not legal advice.

03 · HEADQUARTERS

Come say hi in Redwood City.

We work remote most days, but you’ll catch us in the office now and then. Want to stop by? Call first so someone’s there to open the door.

We’re on the shoreline side of Redwood City, a few minutes off the 101 and roughly equidistant from every contract in Silicon Valley. The coffee is decent when our Miele machine is working. The fine print is excellent.

Stipulex HQ

303 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065
(650) 778-2778

Call ahead before you visit.

Get directions

04 · THE PARTIES

The people reading the fine print so you don’t have to.

Medical devices, telecom, compliance software and machine learning. Different industries, same habit: check it twice, then ship it. Each exhibit below comes sealed. Unbox them. Collect the set.

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EXHIBIT A

Tony Sodano

FOUNDER & CEO

/s/ Tony Sodano

Built the first FDA-cleared home hearing screener. Now he’s coming for the fine print.

PRIVATE PILOTTAHOE & SNOWBIRDGUS THE MALTIPOO

Tony started Stipulex for everyone who can’t put a lawyer on retainer every time they sign something that matters. Big companies get every clause read before the ink hits paper. Freelancers, small businesses and regular people get a scroll bar. Tony runs the company and still writes code with the team, so don’t be shocked to catch him reviewing a pull request between investor meetings.

He’s done this before, just with ears. Tony joined iHEAR Medical almost at the start and stayed to the end, working his way up from software engineer to CIO and growing the engineering team from 3 to 15. iHEAR began with a simple question: if a laptop costs $400, why does a hearing aid cost $2,000 to $4,000, plus a parade of audiologist visits?

Tony took the answer from a whiteboard sketch to the first FDA-cleared home hearing screener, a $60 test you could take at your kitchen table. Paired with $300 to $500 hearing aids you could program yourself from the results, it made the audiologist visit optional, years before the FDA even had an over-the-counter hearing aid category. By the end, iHEAR Trio hearing aids were on CVS end caps nationwide.

Then, as VP of Technology at InnerScope Hearing Technologies, he took self-service hearing screening kiosks from zero to more than 2,000 Walmart, CVS, Hy-Vee and Giant Eagle locations across 30+ states, every one meeting FDA, HIPAA and ISO 13485 requirements. Stipulex is the same idea pointed at contracts: understanding what you’re signing shouldn’t cost $700 to $900 an hour.

§ OFF THE CLOCK

Tony is a private pilot, so he reads every checklist line by line. He reads contracts the same way. On the ground he’s skiing Tahoe or Snowbird, gaming on his PC, or dragging his son to a new restaurant they’ll end up going back to three more times. Gus, his two-year-old Maltipoo, supervises the gaming and is convinced he’s the world’s cutest rubber duck debugger. He’s right, minus the rubber duck part. Want the longer version? Ask. He will absolutely tell you.

EXHIBIT B

Tami Le

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING

/s/ Tami Le

Had security locked down before anyone thought to ask about it.

5G DIAGNOSTICSARTIST & PODCASTERTWO CORGIS
EXHIBIT C

Wen Zhang

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT OPERATIONS

/s/ Wen Zhang

If a task has no owner and no due date, give him ten minutes.

SIX SIGMA GREEN BELTSCRUM MASTERNORTHWESTERN
EXHIBIT D

John-Paul Krowicki

MLOPS ENGINEER

/s/ John-Paul Krowicki

The reason a report says the same thing on Tuesday that it said on Monday.

160+ MODELSEN · ES · KOTOKI PONA MODEL
EXHIBIT E

Brendan O’Connor

CYBERSECURITY ANALYST

/s/ Brendan O’Connor

Think like the attacker. Defend like an owner.

MAGNA CUM LAUDEICE CREAM CAPITAL ALUMREPORTS PHISHING ON SIGHT
EXHIBIT F · NON-HUMAN

Gus

RUBBER DUCK DEBUGGER

/s/ Gus, his mark

Two-year-old Maltipoo. Valued team member. Job description still under review.

OFFICE MORALEHALLWAY INSPECTIONSSNACK ADVOCACY

Gus’s primary role is Rubber Duck Debugger, a position he takes very seriously. When a problem gets complicated, he listens patiently, tilts his head thoughtfully, and occasionally walks away at the exact moment you think you’ve finally figured it out.

He specializes in high-priority work: office morale, spontaneous hallway inspections, sitting in on important meetings, and reminding everyone that sometimes the best solution is a snack and a short walk. He brings curiosity, a questionable attention span and an impressive ability to make people smile. He may not contribute much to the codebase, but he has reviewed plenty of it from a very comfortable position nearby.

§ ORG CHART, UNOFFICIAL

We’re pretty sure he thinks he’s the boss.
We’re also pretty sure he’s right.

TREATS APPROVED: 0Currently reviewing your code.

05 · PREFLIGHT CHECKLIST

Built the way regulated software has to be.

Our founder is a private pilot, so naturally this section is a checklist. Go ahead, run it.

PREFLIGHT0 OF 4 CHECKED