ClauseClear

Why ClauseClear exists

UK consumers have lost an estimated £2.2 billion a year to unclear, hidden, or unfair clauses buried in the Terms & Conditions they sign without reading. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) gave the Competition and Markets Authority strong powers to fine merchants who break the consumer-protection rules — but it did not give shoppers a way to tell, at the moment of purchase, whose terms are clean and whose are not.

ClauseClear is that signal. We translate every paying merchant’s T&Cs into Simpler Terms, audit them against the DMCC Act and connected statute, and render a public Verified badge on their checkout when they pass — with a daily monitor that auto-downgrades the badge if the underlying terms change. Shoppers see it. The CMA can see it. Merchants who want to prove they take consumer-protection seriously have a way to do so without claiming it themselves.

What ClauseClear actually does

Three things, all driven by one paid merchant subscription:

  1. Audits the merchant’s published Terms & Conditions using a deterministic rules engine mapped to specific DMCC Act sections, the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and connected consumer-protection statute. Returns red, amber, or green findings with the exact statute reference for each.
  2. Translates the same T&Cs into Simpler Terms using AI — readable bullet points covering the specific topics shoppers care about: cancellation, renewals, fees, and refunds. Approved by the merchant before going public.
  3. Renders a Verified badge via a single line of JavaScript on the merchant’s checkout page, visible to every shopper. The badge auto-downgrades to “not currently verified” if our daily change-detection sees the underlying terms drift from the audited version. No quiet drift.

What ClauseClear is NOT

We’re honest about scope — the trust signal is only useful if the limits are clear:

  • Not a firm of solicitors. ClauseClear is not authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and does not provide legal advice. If a merchant needs a legal opinion or sign-off, they should instruct their own solicitor.
  • Not a substitute for the merchant’s own legal team. Our audit identifies likely DMCC issues; the merchant is responsible for fixing them and for the legal effect of their final T&Cs.
  • Not a regulator. We don’t enforce anything. The Competition and Markets Authority does. ClauseClear is infrastructure for a market that wants to self-police; it doesn’t replace the regulator’s role.
  • Not a comparison site. We don’t rank merchants against each other. A merchant either passes their own audit or they don’t.

The company behind ClauseClear

ClauseClear is a trading brand of PJ Consulting Group Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales under company number 13298258. Registered office is on file at Companies House.

PJ Consulting Group also operates PJ Legal, a specialist legal-recruitment business serving UK law firms. ClauseClear was founded in 2026 to address the consumer-protection gap exposed by the DMCC Act. The two businesses are operationally independent but share governance and the same commitment to regulated-profession-grade rigour.

Data hosted on Supabase in Frankfurt; AI inference by Anthropic; transactional email by Resend in Dublin. Full subprocessor list and security posture are published openly at /subprocessors and /security.

The team

ClauseClear is built by a small UK team. The Managing Director is Shiv Singh, who also leads PJ Legal. Engineering is kept deliberately lean so we can move quickly on regulatory and product changes — for example, the daily change-detection monitor was built from scratch in a single product cycle.

Get in touch

For sales enquiries, partnerships, or press — email hello@clauseclear.co.uk.

Want to be notified when ClauseClear opens to wider signups? Add your email at clauseclear.co.uk/coming-soon.