What it is
A privacy-policy generator pitched at Australian small businesses preparing for the new Privacy Act transparency rules that take effect in December 2026. You walk through a questionnaire, the tool generates a draft policy based on the new requirements, and you take that to your lawyer for review (or skip the lawyer if your risk profile and budget say so).
The point isn't to replace a lawyer. It cuts the cost of getting a privacy policy done by handing your lawyer something already mostly right, or it gives a small operator a credible starting point if a full legal engagement isn't on the cards.
Why I built it
The starting point was selfish. I run The Naturally Clean Co. We collect customer data: addresses, contact details, sometimes access codes for unattended jobs. The Australian Privacy Act is changing in late 2026 and I need to update my own policy. When I went hunting for tools to help, I found the available privacy-policy generators all had one of three problems:
- They didn't know about the new Australian rules
- They were written for the US or the generic global market
- They didn't match the structure of the new transparency requirements
If I need this thing, plenty of other Australian small businesses with handfuls of customer records do too.
The strategy that interested me
Most "generator" tools market directly to the end user. What intrigued me about this one was that the natural channel isn't the small business itself: it's the accountants and lawyers who already have hundreds of small business clients on their books. If you can offer them a tool that lets them roll out compliant privacy policies to their clients in bulk, you reach all those small businesses through one trusted relationship instead of trying to find them one by one.
B2B2B is harder to start, cheaper to grow if it works.
Where I got stuck
The original plan needed a lawyer partner. Someone with credentials who could vouch for the output. That's what the "premium" tier needs, and what makes the accountant and lawyer channel real.
I had a first conversation with a lawyer and the partnership terms didn't land in a way that worked for both sides. That's normal for first attempts at this kind of arrangement and I'm not down on the experience. It just slowed the project enough that other priorities at The Naturally Clean Co pulled focus.
What I'm changing
Instead of waiting on the perfect lawyer partner before shipping anything, I'm scoping back to an MVP that doesn't need one:
- The structural generator: questionnaire, knowledge of the new Australian rules, generated draft policy
- Clear "this is a starting point, get a lawyer to review" framing on the output
- No claim that anything has been legally reviewed
The lawyer-backed premium tier becomes a "coming soon" badge. When the right partnership lands, the same engine powers it. The lawyer just adds the review layer and the credibility.
Smaller surface, ships faster, validates whether real businesses actually use the structural part before I sink more time into the partnership work.
Status
Paused while the MVP scope-down happens. The earlier prototype runs on Next.js, Supabase, and the Anthropic API. Once the new scope is shipped it'll move under privacy.flaux.com.au proper.
