The law is public. Understanding it should be too.
Clausebook exists because the documents that shape ordinary lives — tenancy agreements, car sales, powers of attorney — are priced like secrets and written like riddles. We think that’s a choice. We made a different one.
Paperwork is where trust between people gets written down. It shouldn’t need a translator.
Most people meet the legal system perhaps ten times in a life — a tenancy, a sale, a job, a just-in-case.
Each of those moments comes with a document. And each document comes with a choice: pay a lawyer for an hour you can’t afford, download something anonymous from page four of a search, or shake hands and hope.
We build the fourth option: documents checked against current law before release, kept current when the law moves, and explained in words you could read aloud to the person signing across the table from you — at a price that’s on the button, not in a quote.
Four clauses we can be measured against.
We version everything. Including ourselves.
The idea
Every legal document should come with a margin note that says what it actually means. Clausebook starts in Copenhagen as a set of design prototypes built around that one rule.
Prototypes approved
Ten pages, one metaphor: the product is a library of law and every page is a typeset document. First for Denmark, with Danish documents.
The site you are reading
Australia gets its own library, starting with Queensland: four documents written for the law of Queensland — two of them in the Queensland Government’s own words — not translated from Danish. Every legal fact was read in the legislation and on the Queensland and Australian Government sites in October 2026.
Launch
A Queensland lawyer’s review of the documents and the terms, the GST registration, real company details, live payments.
Signed by the person who builds it.
No stock photos of us pointing at whiteboards. In our world, you are your signature — so here is ours.
Builds the product, writes the plain-English notes and answers the contact form himself.
Read us where it counts: in the fine print.
Our own terms carry the same plain-English notes as everything we sell. That’s the whole idea, applied to ourselves.