Our mission

Why Scantra exists

Web compliance — FTC disclosures, ADA accessibility, GDPR consent, ad-policy honesty — is supposed to protect everyone. In practice it protects the websites that can afford lawyers to interpret it. Small online sellers, non-profits, schools, local newsrooms, and one-person side projects either guess (and get sued, banned, or quietly lose customers) or pay consultants more than they earn.

Scantra is the public-good version. We watch your site, ads, and emails for the things that get you in trouble, and we draft the fix. That work is free or close to it for the people who need it most, and funded by paid subscriptions and donations from those who can contribute.

How we operate

Scantra is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN __-_______) governed by an independent board. We publish our annual Form 990 once the first fiscal year closes; until then, our operating principles are:

• No advertising. We do not run ads on the product and we do not sell user data. The only revenue sources are paid plans, donations, and grants — all disclosed in our annual report.
• No equity. Scantra is not owned by anyone and cannot be sold. Any surplus from paid plans is reinvested in scanning more rules, supporting more non-profits at no cost, and keeping the lights on.
• Transparent rules. The compliance rules we check against — FTC, FDA, ADA, GDPR, Meta & Google ad policy, site-health — are documented in plain English in our rule library. We never hide what we're flagging or why.
• No legal advice. Scantra is a software tool that surfaces likely issues and drafts likely fixes. We are not a law firm and our output is not legal advice. For anything material, talk to a lawyer in your jurisdiction.

Where your money goes

Roughly: the LLM that drafts fixes (about a third of every dollar), the infrastructure that runs the scans (another third), and the people who maintain the rule library and answer support (the rest). We publish a detailed cost breakdown each year alongside the 990.

Paid plan payments and one-off donations to Scantra are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by US law. Your receipt from Stripe is sufficient documentation for amounts under $250; we issue formal acknowledgment letters for larger contributions.

Get involved

If you run a non-profit, school, or local public-interest site and the paid plans are out of reach, write us. We keep a generous free tier and we waive limits for mission-aligned organizations.

If you have engineering, legal, or compliance expertise to contribute, our rule library accepts public pull requests and we welcome volunteer reviewers — email hello@scantra.ai.