DepositBack
An AI agent that reads your lease and drafts a demand letter when a landlord keeps your deposit.
The Idea
Tenants lose security deposits because they don’t know their rights and can’t afford a lawyer to find out. DepositBack reads your lease, the landlord’s deduction letter and your move-out photos, then drafts a demand letter that cites the actual statute.
It covers California, New York, Texas, the UK and Pakistan.
Under The Hood
A Python and FastAPI backend paired with a React frontend. The agent combines PDF extraction, vision analysis of move-out photos and per-jurisdiction statute lookup, then generates a court-ready document in about sixty seconds.
Jurisdictions live in JSON statute files, so supporting a new region is a data change rather than a code change. The interface streams the agent’s events as it works, so you watch it reason instead of watching a spinner.
One Important Note
DepositBack is a legal-tech prototype, not legal advice, and I am not a lawyer. It is built to help people understand and assert rights they already have.
