I built a tool that scans your codebase before generating your Privacy Policy

Tal — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:16:34 +0000

As developers, we spend a lot of time shipping features.

Authentication.
Payments.
Analytics.
AI APIs.
Third-party SDKs.
Cookies.
New integrations.

But there is one part of launching a SaaS that I kept finding surprisingly painful:

Figuring out what actually needs to go into the legal documentation.

When you add a new analytics provider or payment gateway, your application changes.

But your Privacy Policy doesn't automatically know that.

Usually, someone has to manually figure out:

What personal data does the application collect?
Which third-party services are being used?
Are there analytics or tracking scripts?
Are cookies being used?
Is there authentication?
Are users uploading files or images?
Is payment information involved?
Which technologies are running in the backend?
Which services are processing user data?

And for developers who are building quickly — especially with AI, no-code, or "vibe coding" — this can become an easy thing to overlook.

So I built Poliogo

Poliogo is a compliance engine that connects the technical side of your application with your legal documentation.

Instead of asking a developer to manually describe their entire application, Poliogo starts from the application itself.

It can analyze the codebase and website to identify things such as:

Authentication
Analytics
Cookies
Payment providers
Third-party SDKs
APIs
Hosting
Databases
User-generated content
Personal data signals
Tracking technologies

The goal is simple:

The application should provide the evidence for the documentation.

One thing I really wanted to avoid: AI guessing

When I started building this, I didn't want to create another system that simply sends everything to an LLM and asks:

"Write me a Privacy Policy."

That creates a serious problem.

If the system doesn't know something, it shouldn't invent it.

So Poliogo separates findings into different levels of evidence:

Detected

Something we can actually find in the project.

Inferred

Something that can reasonably be derived from multiple signals.

Needs confirmation

Something we don't have enough evidence to determine automatically.

This is important because I would rather ask a developer one additional question than generate a confident but incorrect legal document.

The bigger idea

I'm building Poliogo around a simple principle:

Your compliance documentation should reflect your actual application — not what you remember telling a questionnaire.

If your application changes, the compliance profile should be able to change with it.

And eventually, the documentation should be able to stay synchronized with those changes.

If you're interested, you can try it here:

👉 https://poliogo.com

We're also currently live on Product Hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/poliogo

DEV Community: Tal

I built a tool that scans your codebase before generating your Privacy Policy