LeaseLens is an AI lease analyzer for Ontario renters. It reviews a residential lease against the rules that matter, then turns the dense language into a clear, practical report.
Why LeaseLens
Inside the report
LeaseLens separates the document into the decisions you actually need to make: what looks normal, what needs attention, and what you may want to raise before signing.
LeaseLens groups findings by urgency so you can focus on the clauses worth a conversation.
The report isolates the amount, purpose, and refund language so you can compare the clause with the rules that apply.
LeaseLens puts the custom clause beside a plain-language explanation of the notice rules and their exceptions.
The report highlights the exact restriction and explains why its scope is worth checking before you agree.
A careful workflow combines machine reading with fixed legal checks, then packages the result into a report you can keep.
LeaseLens reads the main form and attached schedules together, so custom clauses do not disappear outside the standard agreement.
Clear-cut rules are handled with deterministic checks. AI reviews the language and context that need a more nuanced reading.
Findings arrive in a prioritized PDF with clause references, plain-English explanations, and questions worth asking next.
A fair question
LeaseLens uses AI too. The difference is everything around it — because a lease is exactly the kind of document where a confident, wrong answer costs you.
Chatbots cite statute sections that don't exist and mix up provinces without telling you. LeaseLens runs fixed checks against the real sections of Ontario's Residential Tenancies Act — the same checks on every lease — and every AI-generated citation is validated before it reaches your report.
A lease carries your name, address, and rent. Pasting it into a chatbot sends all of that to a third party. LeaseLens strips names and addresses on its own server before any AI sees a word — and your document is never stored, full stop.
AI reads the nuance; fixed rules catch the black-and-white violations. When the two disagree, the report says so — instead of handing you whichever answer sounded most confident.
The review looks beyond the headline rent to the obligations, restrictions, and custom language tucked around it.
Identify what is being collected, why, and how each amount is described in the lease.
Surface custom wording about access to the unit, inspections, repairs, and showings.
Pull out limits involving guests, pets, smoking, decorating, and day-to-day use of the home.
Clarify which costs and duties the document assigns to the tenant or the landlord.
Confidence does not come from more pages.It comes from clarity.
LeaseLens is designed to help Ontario renters understand the document in front of them—not to bury the decision under another layer of jargon.
Common questions
Short answers grounded in the Residential Tenancies Act — the same rules LeaseLens checks your lease against. General information, not legal advice.
No. Ontario bans security deposits, key money, and most other move-in fees — see section 134 of the Residential Tenancies Act. The only deposit a landlord can collect is last month's rent, capped at one rent period (section 106), and it must be applied to your final month.
A no-pets clause in an Ontario lease is void and unenforceable under section 14 of the Act — a landlord can't evict you for having a pet because of it. Note this is different from condo corporation rules, which are a separate matter.
No. When a fixed term ends in Ontario, the tenancy automatically continues month-to-month on the same terms (section 38). A clause requiring you to vacate at the end of the term is void.
Generally no — a landlord must give 24 hours' written notice stating the reason and a time window (sections 26–27). Narrow exceptions exist, such as emergencies or where you've consented to entry for a specific purpose.
Yes, the tenancy is still valid. Landlords are required to use the Ontario standard form, but any additional terms still apply as long as they're consistent with the Act — anything that conflicts with it is void.
General chatbots can invent statute references, mix up provinces — and your lease contains your name, address, and rent, which you'd be handing to a third party. LeaseLens checks your lease against fixed Ontario rules, validates every citation, and strips identifying details before any AI sees the text.
One Ontario lease review. Full prescriptive PDF. No account required. Full reports launching soon.