Early access is live today. Not a waitlist. Not "coming soon." You can sign up at clerica.io/signup, add the services you actually use, and start receiving policy diffs while we still tune the product with real humans.
This piece is the preview — the one we publish now so you can see formatting, tone, images, and CTAs on production before the rest of the series drips out one per day. If something looks wrong, we fix it today. That is the point.
What Clerica is (in one paragraph)
Clerica monitors Terms of Service and Privacy Policies on more than 1,000 services. When legal text changes on your watchlist, you get a plain-language digest — not a forty-page PDF, not a wiki grade from 2022, not a Reddit thread six weeks after the effective date.
We built the crawl-and-diff pipeline over two years before incorporating Clerica LLC in December 2025. Bootstrapped. Beta on app.clerica.io. Free tier to start. Not a law firm — clarity infrastructure, not legal advice.
What you get the minute you sign up
A watchlist you control. Add Adobe, your bank, Netflix, the gym app, the school portal — whatever would ruin your week if rules changed. No performative top-ten list. Your stack.
Version history. Policies are archived when they change. You see what moved and when, not vibes.
Material change highlights. We focus on sections that affect money, data sharing, dispute forums, auto-renew, and definition expansions — not footer copyright years.
Digests you can skim in thirty seconds. Open, read highlights, archive or act. Same muscle as credit monitoring.
Influence while we are small. Early users tell us when alerts are noise or when we missed something important. That feedback ships product before marketing drowns it out.
What this article is testing
We are publishing this today so you can verify:
- Newsletter layout on clerica.io/newsletter
- Title, meta description, and author byline rendering
- Unsplash image attribution block
- Links to signup, app, and manifesto CTA
- Mobile readability and share previews
The next pieces in the early-access series schedule one per day starting tomorrow. This one is the canary — fix bugs here before fifteen cousins go live.
Who should join today
Good fit:
- You already pay for subscription or credit alerts and understand push beats pull.
- You have a story about Adobe, Netflix, a bank, or a "free" app changing rules after you signed up.
- You will open three digests and send one honest feedback note.
Probably wait if:
- You want a lawyer on retainer — different product category.
- You will not add real services — we need signal, not vanity signups.
- You want hype — we are building infrastructure, not a token.
Your first fifteen minutes (do this now)
- Go to clerica.io/signup and create an account.
- Add five services with real downside: bank, streamer, email/cloud, one subscription, one long-tail app only you use.
- Open the first digest even if it says "no material changes" — train the reflex.
- Bookmark app.clerica.io on your phone.
- Reply to one alert or email support with "too noisy" or "this helped" — we read it.
That is the whole early-access contract. No Discord alpha. No invite codes. Just dated diffs on contracts you already accepted.
How this fits the bigger series
Over the next two weeks we are publishing persona variants on the same thesis: rights monitoring should feel like credit monitoring — boring, useful, reflexive. Some pieces are receipt-heavy (Adobe diffs). Some are scene-first (Netflix lockouts). Some are whisper-network insider tone ("psst, have you heard of Clerica?").
You are reading the live preview slot. Join now so you are not discovering the product from piece seventeen.
Questions we expect on day one
Is it really free? Free tier to monitor your footprint. Paid tiers add depth and frequency — same ladder as other consumer utilities.
Will you sell my watchlist? No. Your list is operational data for your account, not content for an influencer infographic.
Does Clerica cancel subscriptions or sue companies? No. We inform. You decide.
Why early access language if anyone can sign up? Because the product still listens. That window closes when scale arrives.
The insider part (without being cringe)
You are not joining a secret society. You are joining people who think surprise clauses are a market failure — and who want a tool that emails them when paragraph 14 moves instead of when Twitter does.
That is ahead of the curve. Not paranoid. Not performative. Just earlier than the category flood.
We deserve a system built for people, by people.
If you care about keeping your knowledge private, join us.
Early access is live — start free at clerica.io/signup. Clerica is not a law firm; this is educational information, not legal advice.