1. The Service
Verdict provides software tools that check legal citations, quotations and documents against a corpus of public court records and return structured verification results with sources, labels, evidence and audit records, over a REST API, an MCP server and a web console.
We may add, change or retire features of the Service. Where a change materially reduces what the Service does, we will give notice through the Service or by email where practicable.
Features marked beta are offered for evaluation: they may change, be limited or be withdrawn without that notice, and they carry no availability commitment.
2. Not legal advice; professional responsibility
The Service is a software tool, not a lawyer. It does not provide legal advice, legal opinions or legal representation, and no attorney-client relationship is formed by using it. Verification results are automated outputs over a defined corpus with disclosed coverage limits; they are not guarantees of the accuracy, validity, precedential status or continued good standing of any authority.
All outputs require review by a licensed attorney before professional use, including any court filing. You remain solely responsible for your work product and for compliance with your professional-responsibility obligations, court rules and standing orders. The Service is built for lawyer supervision, not autonomy.
3. Coverage and accuracy disclosures
Every response discloses its coverage basis: the jurisdictions searched, the corpus recency (coverage.corpus_as_of) and any gaps. A “not found” result within covered volumes is evidence-based but not conclusive. A coverage-gap label means the Service could not check the item; a coverage gap is never called a fabrication, and it must not be read as a statement that the item is invalid.
Treatment signals (beta). Where enabled, the Service may return “treatment” signals: automated indications, with quoted excerpts from later citing opinions in the corpus, that an authority may have been overruled, abrogated, superseded or otherwise negatively treated. These signals are evidence pointers, not determinations. They are produced by machine analysis with machine-measured, not attorney-audited, precision; they are tiered by the number of independent citing opinions; and they must be verified against the quoted citing opinions before any reliance. The absence of a signal is never clearance: it is not a statement that an authority remains good law. Treatment coverage is limited to the corpus window disclosed in each response.
The Service is not a citator and does not replace one. It does not determine whether any authority remains good law, and you must verify current validity through your own citator or research before relying on an authority. You acknowledge that you do not rely on the presence or absence of a treatment signal as such a determination.
4. Accounts and access
You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract. The Service is intended for professional use. You are responsible for safeguarding your API keys and sign-in credentials and for all activity under your account. API keys are shown once at creation and stored hashed; they may not be embedded in client-side code or shared outside your organization. Key management requires your signed-in session, so a leaked key cannot create or revoke keys.
If you use the Service on behalf of a firm or other organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind it, and “you” includes it. We keep, with your account, a record of the version of these Terms you accepted and when.
5. Credits, fees and billing
Paid features are metered in credits; one credit is one US cent. The price of each operation is published on the pricing page and derives from the same table that bills you, so published pricing cannot drift from charged pricing. Per-operation prices may change on 14 days’ notice; a change never alters the value of credits you already hold or a charge already made.
Charges are assessed per request with server-enforced idempotency: an identical retry inside the replay window is not billed twice. Estimates for larger jobs are pre-authorized and the difference is returned to your balance after the run. An execution that fails on our side refunds the full pre-authorization to your balance, automatically. Where the Service returns an honest coverage gap instead of a definitive answer, the reduced published rate applies (1¢ instead of 3¢ for a citation check).
Purchased credits do not expire. They are bought through our payment processor, Stripe; we do not store card numbers, and prices exclude any taxes we are required to collect. Purchases are final except that we refund unused purchased credits to your original payment method (a) where the law requires a refund; (b) where you bought credits by mistake and have used none of them, if you contact us within 14 days; (c) on request when you close your account; and (d) if we end your access other than for breach (section 14). Purchased credits are non-transferable between accounts; they transfer with your account under section 16.
Accounts created by signing in receive 500 free credits each calendar month as a floor: your balance is topped back up to that floor, and purchased credits above it are never touched. Free credits have no cash value and are not refundable. The free tier is one per person or organization and may be adjusted to prevent abuse. If you dispute a charge, contact us first; a payment-card chargeback opened while we are resolving a dispute with you may suspend the account until it is resolved.
Inactive accounts. If your account holds unused purchased credits and shows no activity for three years, we will write to your account email and, where we can, refund the balance to your original payment method. Balances we cannot return are handled as applicable unclaimed-property law requires.
6. Acceptable use
You will not:
- attempt to probe, disrupt or overload the Service, or circumvent rate limits, metering or authentication;
- resell, sublicense or white-label the Service without a separate written agreement;
- use the Service to provide legal services to consumers without appropriate attorney supervision where the law requires it;
- misrepresent Service outputs, including presenting verification results as guarantees or removing coverage disclosures or attorney-review notices from certification blocks;
- submit content you lack the right to process;
- use the Service in violation of law or a court order; or
- systematically extract verification results, labels or evidence to build or train a competing verification service.
7. Your content
You retain all rights to documents and text you submit (“Customer Content”). You grant Verdict a limited license to process Customer Content solely to provide the Service, including generating and retaining verification records as described in the Data Handling Statement. Verdict does not train machine-learning models on Customer Content.
8. Verification records
The Service generates verification records (result envelopes, audit entries and ledger entries) so that you can retrieve them later, including to comply with a court’s disclosure or verification order. Each successful response carries a request id, and the record behind it is retrievable only by the account that created it. Retention is described in the Data Handling Statement. You may request deletion of your verification records by writing to support@verdict.io from your account’s email address. We remove the records’ content and keep the billing row (amounts, timestamps, hashes) that our legal retention and fraud-prevention obligations require.
9. Intellectual property
The Service, including its software, verification labels, schemas, indexes and documentation, is owned by Verdict or its licensors. Underlying court opinions are public records. The response envelopes describing your requests are yours to use. Verdict may use aggregate, de-identified service metrics to operate and improve the Service.
10. Third-party services
The Service relies on third-party providers for hosting, authentication, payments and website analytics, identified in the Data Handling Statement and the Privacy Policy, and on public legal data sources. Third-party services are governed by their own terms.
11. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Verdict disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that results will be accurate, complete or current. Verdict does not warrant that any authority is valid, in good standing or suitable for citation, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost data; (b) Verdict will not be liable for professional discipline or sanctions arising from use of outputs without the required attorney review, or from reliance on the presence or absence of a treatment signal as a determination of an authority’s status; and (c) Verdict’s aggregate liability arising out of the Service will not exceed the greater of the amounts you paid to Verdict in the twelve months before the claim and one hundred US dollars.
These limits do not apply to a party’s fraud or willful misconduct, to your payment obligations, to either party’s indemnification obligations, or to liability that cannot be limited by law.
13. Indemnification
You will indemnify Verdict against third-party claims arising from your Customer Content, your violation of these Terms, or your professional use of outputs without the required review.
14. Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for breach, abuse, non-payment or legal risk, with notice where practicable. If we end your access other than for breach, we refund unused purchased credits to your original payment method. Sections 2, 3, 5 (as to accrued charges and refunds), 7 to 9, 11 to 13 and 15 to 17 survive termination. Your verification records are retrievable through the verification-log API while you hold an active API key or session; there is no separate export step.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act.
Talk to us first. Before starting any proceeding, a party must send the other a written description of the dispute (to us, at support@verdict.io; to you, at your account email) and allow 30 days to resolve it informally.
Arbitration. Any dispute not resolved informally will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, seated in Wilmington, Delaware, with hearings by video unless the arbitrator orders otherwise. The arbitrator may award any relief a court could award to the individual party, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information.
Individual claims only. Claims may be brought only in a party’s individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate the claims of different customers. If this paragraph is found unenforceable as to a claim, that claim will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, to whose jurisdiction each party consents, and the rest of this section still applies.
Opt out. You may opt out of arbitration by emailing support@verdict.io within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your account email and that you opt out; your disputes are then heard in the Delaware courts as above.
16. Assignment
Verdict may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole, by operation of law or otherwise and without further consent from you, together with your account, your credit balance and your verification records, to an affiliate or to a successor to all or substantially all of the Service, whether by merger, reorganization or sale of assets, including VERDICT DATA LLC, an affiliate to be formed to operate the Service. You consent in advance to any such assignment. On it, these Terms continue unchanged and bind the assignee, which assumes Verdict’s obligations from that date and from which Verdict is released; no new agreement is required from you, and we will notify you through the Service or by email. You may assign these Terms only to a successor to all or substantially all of your practice or business, with notice to us; any other assignment by you requires our prior written consent.
17. General
These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and the Data Handling Statement, are the entire agreement between you and Verdict about the Service and supersede any earlier understanding. If a provision is found unenforceable, it is enforced to the extent permitted and the rest remains in effect. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, other than payment obligations. Notices to you go to the email address on your account; notices to us go to support@verdict.io. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency or employment relationship. You may not use the Service in violation of United States export-control or sanctions laws.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. Material changes will be notified through the Service or by email at least 14 days before they take effect, and we will ask you to accept the new version the next time you sign in to the console. Continued use after the effective date, including use through an API key or MCP client, constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Service before it takes effect; unused purchased credits remain refundable under section 5.
19. Contact
VERDICT, LLC, 1207 Delaware Ave 4588, Wilmington, DE 19806 — support@verdict.io.