I built VerrixAI solo over about a month. It is a tool that takes a contract or lease, runs it through Claude, and gives you back a plain-English breakdown with risk flags. I am not a lawyer. I wanted something I could hand to my parents when they ask me what their lease actually says.

This post is the honest version. The parts I got wrong, the bugs that took days to find, the security audit I almost forgot to do, and the numbers behind the unit economics. It is long because the interesting stuff is in the details.

What the product actually does

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