No catch, and there isn't a paid tier waiting behind a paywall. This is a self-funded community project, not a lead-generation funnel in disguise — nobody's selling your contact info to an accessibility consultant after you scan. If you find it genuinely useful, there's an optional way to chip in once the donation option is live, but the scanner itself never requires it and never will.
Exactly three reasons, no others: to send you the full report, to create your private review link so only you — not anyone else who uses this tool — can see your own findings, and as a basic safeguard against the free tool being abused by bots. That's the entire list. Full detail in the privacy policy.
One person, building this in the open, not a company. The code that runs this exact site is public: github.com/pandayv/mad-platform-community. That's not a marketing claim — you can read exactly what it does with your URL and your email before you ever submit either, line by line.
MAD is short for Multi-Agent Defense Platform. Multi-agent because it's genuinely a team of specialized AI agents working together — one decides what to check, one finds issues, one independently verifies them, one takes action — not a single model skimming your site once and guessing. Defense because that's the actual job: catching gaps before they become a legal problem, not just reporting on them after the fact.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines — the standard nearly every digital accessibility law and lawsuit points back to. If your site doesn't meet it, that's the gap that shows up in a demand letter. This tool checks your site against it, so you find out from a scan instead.
It scans the pages on your site that carry the most real risk, checks them with both rule-based and AI-assisted review, independently verifies every finding before it's ever shown to you, and gives you a concrete fix for each confirmed issue — plus a downloadable, tracker-importable list you can hand straight to whoever fixes your site.
It doesn't replace a real accessibility audit or legal review, doesn't check every possible WCAG criterion, and doesn't fix your site for you — it tells you what to fix and how. Being upfront about that boundary is the whole reason the verification step exists: a tool that only ever tells you what you want to hear isn't actually protecting you.
Trust the verification, not blind faith in AI. Every finding this tool shows you has already been independently checked by a second pass before it reaches your report — that's the entire reason it's multi-agent instead of one model guessing once. It still isn't a lawyer, and it says so, repeatedly, on purpose.
Fair, and this tool will tell you the same thing: it can tell you what's wrong technically; it can't tell you what your specific legal exposure is. Talk to a qualified accessibility or ADA attorney for that — this scan is a useful first step toward that conversation, not a substitute for it.