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FreelanceShield is a small set of free tools for people who invoice their own clients. It is built and maintained by one person, and it is funded by advertising rather than by subscriptions or by anything to do with your data.
I am Kartikeya Mishra, a software engineer in Prayagraj, India. I built these tools because I invoice international clients myself and kept running into the same problems: generators that watermark the PDF unless you pay, tools that want an account before they will let you download anything, and guidance written for one country presented as though it applied everywhere.
It is one person, not a team. Where a guide describes something I have done myself — Indian GST, LUTs, FIRCs, invoicing US and UK clients from India — I say so. Where it does not, it rests on the sources cited at the bottom of the page, and you should weigh it accordingly.
Being specific here matters more than sounding impressive, so:
A form and a PDF library, both running in your browser. The PDF is drawn as real text rather than as a screenshot of the page, so it is selectable, searchable, and readable by the accounts-payable systems that parse incoming invoices.
Pattern matching, not a language model. It looks for the wording of twelve clause types and tells you what each kind of clause generally does and what to check in yours. It also tells you which freelancer-protective provisions it could not find, which is usually the more useful half. It does not read your contract and it knows nothing about the law that governs it. The full list of what it checks is published.
Nowhere. There is no code in either tool that sends your content to a server, because there is no server to send it to. One point of precision: your invoice draft is saved to your browser's local storage, which is on disk, so a refresh does not lose your work. It is stored in plain form and it is not encrypted — treat it the way you would treat a file on your desktop. You can erase it from the privacy page or from the tool itself.
Advertising, served by Google. Ads are labelled "Advertisement", styled so they do not resemble the tools' own controls, and are never placed inside the invoice form or the scanner workflow. If anything on this site looks like one of my buttons but turns out to be an ad, tell me and I will move it.
Nothing about the tools depends on advertising. If every ad disappeared tomorrow, both would work identically.
Not a law firm and not an accountancy practice. The scanner does not review contracts and the generator does not decide your tax position. For an agreement or a filing that matters, get advice from a qualified professional in the jurisdiction that applies to you.