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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why this check refers out rather than concludes
A pricing pattern can have innocent explanations, and proving discrimination is legal work. The honest tool records the pattern and routes it to someone who can test it properly.
Fair-housing and civil-rights organisations routinely assess pricing and screening patterns, and they need observations from real shoppers.
The protocol
- Record the identical product, size, and date at two or more locations.
- Note the location details, distance, and any difference in store format or costs.
- Collect the same observation from someone else if possible, to reduce error.
- Write the comparison without asserting a legal conclusion.
- Send it to a fair-housing or civil-rights organisation or your state attorney general.
What the tool does
Build a price-pattern observation record It runs locally in this browser and sends nothing.
Limit first: This is a record-keeping and comparison aid, not legal or financial advice. It cannot prove that a price was personalised, and it does not know what a company's pricing model does internally.
Open the companion tool →Cost and free path
Cost: Free: one complete run in this browser, no account. Optional $4 one-time unlock allows unlimited runs of this tool on this browser. The free path and safety guidance never require payment.
Rule status (mixed route): Status, 2026-10-03: pricing-discrimination claims proceed under existing civil-rights and consumer-protection law; there is no AI-specific federal pricing statute, which is why the record is referred rather than decided.
Automated decision this documents: location- or demographic-correlated pricing
Free path, in order (no cost):
- National Fair Housing Alliance and local fair-housing centres — free pattern review
- HUD's fair-housing complaint route (free to file)
- Your state attorney general's civil-rights or consumer division
What this cannot do: It cannot prove that a price was personalised, and it does not know what a company's pricing model does internally.
Sources checked 2026-10-03 · source bank reviewed against the live pages listed in metadata.
One human next step
Contact the National Fair Housing Alliance or a local fair-housing centre — they investigate patterns and can tell you whether the observations are usable — and keep your original notes.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. This builder organises the reader's own documents and names an independent source; it does not infer authenticity, eligibility, or legal rights. §6.9/§6.10/§6.11 disclosed in the batch report; §6.12 status line carried in metadata as `status_line`.
§0.5 protection result: category is ai-pricing-transparency; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.