Find the clause - see its exact words, highlighted.
Sidenote is a browser extension (Chrome and Firefox) that reads the contract or policy you have open (PDF, Word, SharePoint, Google Docs, scanned agreements via OCR) and answers questions about it, quoting the clause verbatim and scrolling straight to it. It helps you read agreements. It does not give legal advice.
Verbatim quotes only · UK data residency · Read-only access
11.2 This Agreement renews automatically for successive twelve (12) month terms unless either party gives written notice of non-renewal at least sixty (60) days before the end of the then-current term. 11.4 Termination does not affect either party's accrued rights or the clauses expressed to survive it.
Written notice of non-renewal at least sixty (60) days before the end of the current term 1. Note that accrued rights survive termination 2.
In a contract, a paraphrase is not an answer.
The question is never “roughly what does it say” - it's what the words are, exactly, and where they sit. Generic AI tools summarize agreements the way they summarize blog posts: fluently, approximately, and with no way to tell when “may terminate on notice” quietly replaced “sixty (60) days' written notice”.
Sidenote treats the wording as the product: every answer quotes the document verbatim, verified server-side, and one click puts the clause in front of you in its full context.
How Sidenote works on an agreement.
Open the agreement where it lives.
A PDF in the data room, a Word file on SharePoint, a policy in Google Docs, or an upload. Scanned signed copies are OCR'd so even image-only agreements become searchable.
Ask where it says something.
Chat is clause-finding: notice periods, caps, carve-outs, defined terms. Answers quote the exact language rather than describing it.
Click the citation, read the clause.
The citation scrolls the document to the clause and highlights it, in context - so you verify the words themselves before relying on them.
See how verified citations work under the hood, or try chatting with a document. Comparing two drafts? The free document diff tool shows what changed between versions.
The questions every agreement gets asked.
“What's the termination notice period?”
Sidenote finds the termination clause and quotes it word for word, with a click straight to where it sits in the agreement.
“Is there a cap on liability?”
The limitation-of-liability language, quoted verbatim - including the carve-outs sitting two clauses away that change its meaning.
“When does this auto-renew, and how do we stop it?”
Renewal terms and notice windows pulled out and cited, so the diary entry gets made before the window closes.
“How does this document define Confidential Information?”
Defined terms located and quoted exactly - the difference between what a word usually means and what this contract says it means.
“What are our obligations in the first 30 days?”
A cited list of time-bound commitments across the agreement, each one linked to the clause that imposes it.
“What survives termination?”
Survival clauses and their cross-references, quoted and highlighted, instead of hunted for across 60 pages.
Verbatim, verified, and read in confidence.
Every quote in every answer is checked server-side against the document before it reaches you: if the quoted words can't be found in the agreement, the citation is dropped rather than shown. What survives is a quote you can rely on being in the text - and one click away from its context.
And to be plain about the boundary: Sidenote finds and quotes what an agreement says. What it means for your position is legal judgement, and that stays with you and your counsel.
Confidential by architecture.
Document content is stored in a UK (eu-west-2) region behind row-level security, connection tokens are encrypted at rest, and access to your accounts is read-only. Anthropic and Voyage AI run with no-training defaults on the API tiers Sidenote uses; your documents never train anyone's models.
Common questions about Sidenote for legal work.
Read the contract. Quote it exactly.
Add Sidenote to your browser, open a contract or policy, and ask where it says what. Free tier forever, opt-in 7-day Pro trial, no card required.
Reads agreements. Never legal advice. · UK data residency