Before You Sign

Inspiration

Users are lazy to read entire document , hence they tend to skip important information
large passages of rules and terms in documentations are often skipped while agreeing to or signing them
Its difficult for individuals to keep up with all the rules and regulations due to new laws coming out

What it does

Before you sign is an AI-based chrome extension that can help you with legal issues, creation, and guidance in handling documents with ease 📄. It can help you to:

Identify important information in legal documents: \ Before you sign can highlight essential information in legal documents, making it easy to read and understand them 🔍.
Get legal advice from experts: \ Before you sign can provide you with legal advice from expert AI, so you can make informed decisions about whether or not to sign a legal document 💡.
Generate legal documents with ease: \ Before you sign can help you to generate legal documents, such as wills, contracts, and power of attorney documents, with ease 📝.

How we built it

Frontend:

Developed using React for a user-friendly interface.
Styled with Tailwind CSS for a clean and responsive design.

Backend:

Powered by FastAPI for efficient API handling.
Deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for scalability and reliability.

Containerization:

Docker is used for containerization, ensuring consistent deployment across environments.

Challenges we ran into

Working with extension which has very strict and minimal permissions and bad documentation
Session management and context management for concurrent accesses to the extension
Rate Limits to the various GPT APIs which delayed our development process

- Requests to/from extension often contain images in them making the payload quite heavy

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successful communications between DOM and chrome extension
Built a robust backend

What we learned

Building chrome extension and interactively communicating with the DOM
We have learnt how to use chat completion feature of GPT3.5

What's next for Before You Sign

shifting from chrome extension to injected buttons
Currently the application is only accessible when we click on the extension icon , though we have made attempts to auto pop during required instances , we still require something better
Injecting the buttons and UI into the Dropbox sign website itself would make the user interaction simpler
We could expand the generated document for a lot more endpoints than current support.
Improve response times for all core components