The SaaS clause founders forget
Suspension rights read like boilerplate until the day you need to switch off a paying customer mid-term.
Read →Legal infrastructure for websites, apps, software and AI.
Whatever you are building, there is a legal layer underneath it: privacy, contracts, IP, compliance. TECHLAWG builds that layer, with free tools to check where yours stands right now.
Websites • Apps • SaaS • AI • Privacy • Contracts • Compliance
Productwhat you ship
Datawhat you collect
Contractswhat you promise
Compliancewhat you can prove
Companywhat you own
5 layers · 1 system mapped per product
The layer underneath
Building technology is hard. The legal layer shouldn't be.
Nobody starts a build thinking about legal infrastructure. You think about the product, the users, the launch and the revenue.
But a website that takes an email address, an app facing store review, software billing a customer and an AI feature producing output all sit on the same layer: contracts, privacy obligations, intellectual property, governance and the documentation that proves it. TECHLAWG builds that layer.
01 Product
What you're building, who uses it, and what it does with their data.
02 Data
Collection, processors, transfers, retention and the record behind them.
03 Contracts
Terms, SaaS agreements, MSAs, DPAs and the documents customers sign.
04 Privacy
Notices, consent, cookies and rights handling that match the product.
05 Compliance
AI governance, security questionnaires and what enterprise buyers ask for.
06 Scale
New markets, new features, new obligations. The layer has to keep up.
Founder Desk by TECHLAWG
Meet Founder Desk.
Practical legal intelligence for the people building it.
Building anything real creates hundreds of legal questions.
- Does my website need a privacy policy?
- Why did the App Store reject my privacy label?
- Can I use this AI feature?
- Who owns the code my developer created?
- What happens when a customer asks for a DPA?
Founder Desk exists to make those questions easier to understand.
Questions
Ask Adam
Send a founder legal question. Selected questions are answered publicly and anonymously.
Weekly
Contract of the Week
One clause, pulled apart: what it means, why it matters, what to look at.
Live
Founder office hours
Open sessions for founders working through their legal layer.
Ask Adam
Have a founder legal question? Ask it.
Send a question about SaaS, AI, privacy, contracts, IP or compliance. Selected questions may be answered publicly and anonymously through Founder Desk.
Answers are general information about how these documents and obligations usually work. They are not advice on your specific matter, and no lawyer-client relationship is created by asking.
“Can I copy another company’s privacy policy?”
→ answered in Founder Desk“Apple rejected my app for a privacy label. What now?”
→ answered in Founder Desk“My developer says he owns the code. What now?”
→ answered in Founder Desk“What should an AI product disclose to users?”
→ answered in Founder DeskIllustrative examples of the questions Founder Desk covers.
Contract of the Week
One clause. One problem. One practical explanation.
9.3 Limitation of liability
Except in respect of the excluded liabilities set out in clause 9.5, the total aggregate liability of each party arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, shall not exceed the total fees paid by the Customer in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
Look hereThe cap is measured backwards from the incident, not forwards from signature. A customer who churns after one month carries a cap of one month’s fees.
The clause
A mutual liability cap set at the fees paid in the twelve months before the claim, with carve-outs held back in a separate clause.
What it means
Whatever goes wrong, neither side can normally recover more than a year of fees, and the carve-out clause is what actually decides how protective the cap is.
Why it matters
On a low-priced plan the cap can be smaller than the cost of a single incident. Enterprise buyers know this and push for a multiplier, a floor, or an uncapped data breach.
What to look at
Is it mutual? Does it run from the claim or from signature? Which liabilities sit outside it? Does it exclude indirect loss twice over?
Technology
Legal technology for modern companies.
TECHLAWG isn't only a professional services business. Two of these are live and free to use right now; the rest are in development and labelled as such.
Live · Free
Policy Checker
Paste a privacy policy or terms of service and get a scored gap report against the disclosures regulators, app stores and enterprise buyers look for. Free, runs in your browser, nothing stored.
Open the tool → Live · FreeLaunch Checklist Generator
Answer six questions about what you are building and get the specific document set it needs, with the reason each one is on the list.
Open the tool → In development
Contract intelligence
Tools for surfacing the provisions that carry obligations, money or risk across a company's agreements.
In development
Compliance workflows
Structured privacy, AI and technology compliance workflows with an auditable trail of what was decided and when.
Services
When you need more than information.
From documentation to implementation, TECHLAWG helps you put the legal layer into practice — whether that is one policy for a new site or a full document set for an enterprise sale.
Websites & apps
- Website terms of use
- App EULAs and end user terms
- App store privacy requirements
- Cookie and consent documentation
- Disclaimers and community guidelines
SaaS & software
- Terms and conditions
- SaaS agreements
- MSAs
- DPAs
- Vendor agreements
- Licensing
Privacy & data
- Privacy policies
- Cookie policies
- Data protection documentation
- Privacy compliance
- Data processing documentation
AI
- AI governance
- AI policies
- Responsible AI documentation
- AI contractual provisions
- AI compliance workflows
Corporate & commercial
- NDAs
- Founder agreements
- Commercial agreements
- Employment and contractor documentation
- IP documentation
Not sure what you need?
Most founders arrive with a product, not a shopping list. Describe what you're building and we'll map the layer.
How we work
Four steps, in order, every time.
01
Understand
We understand your product, business model and legal environment before anything is drafted.
02
Identify
We identify the documentation, contractual and compliance infrastructure you actually need.
03
Build
We create or implement the relevant legal and technology systems.
04
Scale
Your infrastructure evolves as your company grows into new features, customers and markets.
Global
Technology is global. Legal rules aren't.
Technology companies operate across borders. Their legal obligations often don't.
TECHLAWG combines technology expertise with jurisdiction-aware legal workflows and, where necessary, collaboration with appropriately admitted counsel.
United StatesCCPA / CPRA · state privacy
United KingdomUK GDPR · PECR
European UnionGDPR · EU AI Act
CanadaPIPEDA · CASL
AustraliaPrivacy Act · APPs
Cross-bordertransfers · SCCs · DPAs
The Founder Legal Brief
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Founder resources
Start with the checklist, not the contract.
01 02 03 04 05 06
SaaS founder legal launch checklist
Everything that has to exist before your first paid customer.
AI startup legal checklist
Disclosure, training data, model terms and governance basics.
Privacy readiness checklist
What to fix before a buyer's security review finds it.
Contract clause library
Clause-by-clause breakdowns in plain language.
Founder legal glossary
DPA, SCC, MSA, EULA, sub-processor. Defined once, properly.
Ask Adam archive
Past founder questions and the answers to them.
Track record
2,300+completed client engagements
Top Ratedseller status on Fiverr and Upwork
5.0rating on Clutch
PublishedAmazon bestselling AI for Lawyers series
Figures reflect work completed by Adam Jabbar and TECHLAWG across freelance and direct engagements.
Meet Adam
A technology lawyer and legal-tech entrepreneur.
Adam Jabbar works at the intersection of technology, AI and law. He built TECHLAWG to do one thing well: put the legal layer under a website, app, software product or AI feature without turning it into a six-month project.
Most of that work is documentation, contracts, privacy and AI governance for companies that are shipping now and selling to buyers who ask hard questions.
- Advocate of the High Courts — admitted practitioner
- LLB, University of London · BBA, Heriot-Watt University
- Author — the AI for Lawyers series, including ChatGPT for Lawyers and Claude for Lawyers
- Founder — AI for Lawyers Academy, teaching legal AI to practitioners
Three ways in
Where do you want to start?
I have a question
Founder Desk
Ask it and get a plain explanation. Free, and often published anonymously.
Ask a question → I need something builtServices
Tell us what you're building and we'll map and build the legal layer under it.
Start a conversation → I want to check somethingFree tools
Score your policy in seconds, or generate the document set your build needs.
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