Clerica Kickstarter Campaign 2026: Personalized Consumer Rights Intelligence

Something changes while you sleep

A streaming service rewrites its arbitration clause. A social app quietly expands what it can sell about you. A payment platform slips in a class action waiver before you wake up. You agreed to the old version months ago. You never saw the update. By the time it goes viral on Reddit, the change is already binding.

This is not an accident. Companies have spent years refining consent in their favor. Most of us click "I agree" because we have to — not because we understand what we just accepted. When terms change again, nobody expects us to read every line. Consent becomes a trick, not a conversation.

Clerica exists because everyday people lose rights simply because they cannot track every policy in their lives — not because they do not care, but because the system was designed so caring would never be enough.

What Clerica is

Clerica is personalized consumer rights intelligence. We start with the services you already use — streaming, social, payments, productivity tools — and monitor their public Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages. When something changes, we do not just ping you. We analyze what changed: line-by-line diffs, version history, and plain-language summaries weighted by what you told us you care about (privacy, hidden costs, data security, and more).

Policy monitoring is our wedge. The mission is a consumer rights platform that helps everyday people understand, protect, and act on their rights online — the kind of protections institutions and corporations already buy for themselves.

We are not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice. We close the information gap so you can decide for yourself.

What's live today (early MVPs)

Clerica is real software you can use now — early MVPs in active development, not a finished product. A small group of early testers is helping us improve reliability and UX every week.

If you back this campaign, you are backing working software — and the work still ahead to make it reliable enough for everyone who needs it.

What this campaign funds

Our funding goal is $26,400. That is the minimum we need to deliver every Kickstarter reward and keep building through 2027. It is not a ceiling — if we exceed 100%, every extra dollar goes toward the same mission after reward obligations are covered.

• Production infrastructure — 12 months of elevated cloud capacity so monitoring stays fast and stable as backers join
• Data services — AI analysis APIs, settlement data sources, and email delivery at higher volume
• Settlement discovery depth — moving our claims discovery layer from local development toward production-grade alerts and UX
• Browser extension (alpha) — real-time policy awareness while you browse; skeleton exists today
• Campaign production — video, assets, and outreach so more people hear about consumer rights tools
• Reward fulfillment — Kickstarter-exclusive access codes, provisioning, and support for every backer tier
• Founder project labor — 12 months of full-time development, support, and fulfillment (solo founder, Los Angeles, CA)

Project budget

Transparency matters. The Kickstarter project budget breaks down how pledges map to infrastructure, settlement discovery, extension alpha, campaign production, reward fulfillment, and founder labor. Graphic total from the project spreadsheet: $22,940 across phases before the $26,400 all-or-nothing goal (includes taxes and fees).

Roadmap — honest labels

We label everything clearly so you know what exists today, what we are building now, and what is planned for later.

Why Kickstarter — and why back now

Consumer rights tools should not depend on one person's savings and spare hours. Kickstarter lets us build with the people who need this — not for an investor deck.

The MVPs exist. You can try them before you pledge. This campaign funds making them trustworthy at scale, not starting from zero.

December 2026 is our launch window — a moment when many people resolve to take control of their digital lives. Backing now helps us ship reliability fixes and settlement depth before that wave of attention.

Every backer proves that everyday people do care about their rights — and that a sustainable path toward a more consumer-friendly internet is possible.

Risks and challenges

How we use AI (transparency)

Clerica uses AI as a tool, not a replacement for human judgment or legal counsel.

In the product: large language models help generate plain-language summaries of policy changes, weighted by your Care Priorities. Outputs can be incomplete or inaccurate — always verify against original policy documents. Long term, we want a combination of AI and real human review for accuracy as Clerica scales.

In development: AI acts as a second brain for the solo founder — brainstorming, finding answers, speeding up routine work. All development is done by one person; there is no hidden team.

About the creator

Kevin Lopez is a solo founder based in Los Angeles, California. He started exploring consumer rights tooling more than two years ago and has worked on Clerica full-time since incorporating in December 2025.

He builds the product end-to-end — backend, frontend, monitoring pipeline, billing, and the settlement discovery layer — because he wanted these tools for himself first: tired of companies treating consent as a trick, tired of watching people lose rights because nobody could track every update.

Every backer is proof that this is needed. People are fed up with fine print, bait-and-switch terms, and feeling powerless. Clerica is built to help everyday people, not extract from them.