DepositBack
An AI legal agent that helps tenants navigate and resolve security deposit disputes with landlords.
About the Project
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.
What I Built
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.
