Legal Document Bloat Analyzer
Your form is too long. This shows you exactly where.
What it does
Every attorney who works from forms knows the feeling: the document is twice the length it needs to be, and paring it down by hand means guessing which words are load-bearing. The generic advice, "write plainly", is useless without a map of where the length actually sits.
This tool is the map. Drop in a document you already have, in Word format or as text, and it measures: the legal doublets and how many words they account for, the defined terms nobody uses again, the sentences past the ninetieth percentile quoted in full, and the sections that dwarf the document’s own median. It also catches two outright defects that hide in inherited forms: capitalised terms used as if defined but never declared, and cross-references pointing at sections that do not exist.
It runs entirely in your browser and makes zero network requests after the page loads, which you can verify in your own developer tools. Wills and trusts carrying client names and asset values are exactly what it is for, and exactly why nothing can be uploaded: there is no server to upload to.
One thing it will never do is rewrite. Whether "give, devise and bequeath" can safely become "give" in a dispositive instrument is a judgement about that document in that jurisdiction, and it is yours. The tool counts; the attorney decides.
What it measures
- Legal doublets and triplets, archaic legalese, and wordy connectives, each quoted in context and ranked by the words it accounts for
- Defined terms that are never used again, the largest silent bloat source in an inherited form, plus terms used as if defined but never declared
- Cross-references to sections that do not exist, which is exactly what breaks when a form is pared down by hand
- Near-duplicate passages, section-length outliers against the document’s own median, and the longest sentences quoted in full
- Compare mode: feed it the original and your pared-down edit, and it reports what the edit removed and which cross-references it broke
How it works
- 01
Drop in a .docx or paste the text. It loads into your browser only; nothing is transmitted.
- 02
Read the findings, defects first: broken references and undefined terms are problems whether or not the document is long.
- 03
Download the self-contained report, generated in your browser like everything else.
Didn't like what the tool found?
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