A 1B model isn't smart enough to read a contract. So I never asked it to.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle TL;DR — RedPen is an offline contract reviewer for freelancers. 65 open rules decide what is dangerous; a local Gemma 3 1B model only rewrites that into language you can send. Nothing uploads, nothing costs per review, and $19 once is a survivable price because the model runs on the user's own laptop. What I…
RedPen is an offline contract reviewer designed for freelancers, using a local Gemma 3 1B model to rewrite dangerous contract language into something safer. The software runs entirely on the user's laptop, with no uploads, API keys, or per-review costs. Users simply drop in a contract, and RedPen returns dangerous clauses, quotes the exact language that triggered each issue, provides replacement wording, and drafts a negotiation email.
The model is not responsible for deciding what is dangerous, rather there are 65 open rules governing this process. RedPen has been tested on both synthetic and real-world contracts, with six real documents revealing several bugs that highlight the importance of ongoing rule refinement.
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