Free · built by a former federal fraud prosecutor
Paste a website, a company name, or the pitch itself. PitchProof pulls out every claim, shows you where the seller's own fine print contradicts their advertisement, checks the public records, and hands you the questions to ask before you pay anyone.
Give it a web address and it reads the page, then hunts down the terms, disclaimer and refund policy itself. Give it a company name and it runs the public-record checks. Paste the actual pitch and it does everything.
Only needed if the terms sit behind a login or in a PDF. Otherwise it finds them.
— or drop them here. Call transcripts, emails, contracts, PDFs, and screenshots of texts, DMs or ads.
Read on your device — files are not uploaded. If an image is too unclear to read here, it is sent to be read and never stored.
You do not need this. The free built-in AI runs every check in about a second and costs you nothing. Add a key only if you would rather a particular model did the reading. Your key is saved in this browser only and goes directly to the provider you pick — it never reaches pitchproof.org, and this site never uses an AI account of its own on your behalf.
A key kept in a browser can be read by anything that can run script on this page. Use a key scoped to one project with a spend limit, and clear it when you're done. If you would rather not, leave this blank and the site's own AI is used.
How it reads a pitch
This is the sequence a forensic reviewer actually works through, and the order matters — you can't judge whether a promise is achievable until you've written down exactly what was promised. Pass 05 is the one that breaks most cases open.
Every factual promise, separated from the atmosphere around it, quoted in the seller's own words.
What is actually being sold, and what would have to be true for it to work as described.
Do the numbers close? Many pitches that fail, fail here — the math is asserted, never shown.
Two statements in the same pitch that cannot both be true. Often minutes apart, under one follow-up question.
The headline says audited and verified; the footer says illustrative, simulated, prepared with hindsight. Both are theirs. Only one can be doing honest work.
Is the person recommending it paid when you buy — and did they say so without being asked?
Arbitration clauses, class waivers, liability capped at a token sum, refunds conditioned on homework. How hard have they made it to get your money back?
Fees, downside, who holds the money, what happens on the way out. Omissions are load-bearing.
The output isn't a verdict you act on blindly. It's what to ask them, in writing, before money moves.
Read this before you trust the score
A tool that overstates its own certainty is doing the same thing as the pitches it reviews. So, plainly:
It does not search the web, pull corporate filings, check registrations or look up court records. Everything it says comes from what you pasted. Anything needing outside proof lands in Verify independently and Documents to get.
It flags claims that don't add up and disclosures that are missing. Concluding that a named business is dishonest takes evidence this tool doesn't have — and publishing that conclusion carries its own legal risk.
Three lines of ad copy cannot support a strong finding either way. Short input gets a cautious read, not a dramatic one. Paste as much as you have — and always paste the fine print.
Plenty of harmful offers are worded carefully by people who know exactly where the line is. "Nothing obviously wrong in the text" is the most this can ever mean.
It's a reading aid. For anything material — an investment, a tax position, a medical decision, a contract — take its questions to a licensed professional who is not paid by the seller.
Each check uses your own Claude usage and asks your permission the first time. Nothing you paste is stored on a server by this page.
Why this exists
PitchProof was built by a former Assistant United States Attorney who served in the Central District of California from 2012 to 2019, prosecuting health care fraud, tax fraud and securities fraud.
The cases that stayed longest were not the sophisticated ones. They were the ordinary people who read an advertisement, believed it, and had no practical way to check it before the money left their account. By the time a case reached a prosecutor, the money was usually gone — and the questions that would have saved them were questions anyone could have asked, if they had known to ask.
Those three areas are not a coincidence in what this tool checks. A tax pitch promising to erase your liability, a health care offer promising what licensed medicine will not, an investment promising a return with no downside — they fail in the same recognisable ways, and they are all built on the gap between what the advertisement says and what the fine print concedes.
The techniques for testing a pitch are not secret and not complicated. They are mostly tedious: write down every claim, read the disclaimer against the advertisement, check whether the seller is registered anywhere, find out who is actually behind the entity, and ask what happens when it goes wrong. PitchProof does that in about a minute.
It is free, and it stays free. No account, no card, nothing to install, and no AI key of your own required. Charging people to find out whether they are about to be defrauded would defeat the point.
PitchProof is not a law firm, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. It is not legal, tax, financial or medical advice, and it does not investigate or make findings about any business or person. Views expressed here are the author's alone and not those of any former employer or the Department of Justice.
If you've already paid
Reporting matters even when you don't get your money back — these agencies build cases out of patterns, and one more complaint is often what tips an investigation over. Where a contract forces you into individual arbitration, regulators may be the only realistic route left.