Terms of Use

1. Agreement to Terms

By accessing or using the BeforeJD website located at beforejd.ai (the "Site") or any associated services, tools, or features (collectively, the "Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms"). These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and BeforeJD LLC. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must immediately cease all use of the Services.

If you are using the Services on behalf of an organization, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and all references to "you" include that organization.

2. Description of Services

BeforeJD provides a multi-agent document analysis platform that accepts uploaded documents (including but not limited to contracts, agreements, and other legal instruments) and returns structured analytical output ("Analysis Output") generated by a council of large language model APIs operated by third-party providers. The Services include document upload, automated multi-model analysis, confidence scoring, risk flagging, negotiation draft suggestions, and related features as described on the Site.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Services. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement and that you have the legal capacity to form a binding contract. The Services are not directed to minors.

4. Account Registration

Some features of the Services require account registration. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to keep that information updated. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You must notify BeforeJD immediately at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized access to your account. BeforeJD is not liable for any loss resulting from unauthorized use of your credentials.

5. Payments and Refund Policy

5.1 Pay-Per-Scan Model. BeforeJD currently offers Services on a pay-per-scan basis at published rates. Payment is due at the time of scan initiation. All fees are in U.S. dollars.

5.2 No Refunds After Analysis Delivery. Because Analysis Output is delivered immediately upon completion of processing, all fees paid are non-refundable once an Analysis Output has been delivered to you, except as required by applicable law. If a technical error on BeforeJD's part prevents delivery of Analysis Output after a successful charge, BeforeJD will, at its sole discretion, issue a credit or re-run the analysis.

5.3 Payment Processing. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc., a third-party payment processor. By providing payment information, you agree to Stripe's terms of service and privacy policy. BeforeJD does not store your full payment card information.

5.4 Taxes. You are responsible for all applicable taxes associated with your use of the Services. BeforeJD will charge applicable taxes where required by law.

5.5 Price Changes. BeforeJD reserves the right to modify pricing at any time upon notice posted to the Site.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, or abusive. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not:

• Upload documents to which you do not have the legal right to submit for analysis;
• Use the Services to infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party's intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other rights;
• Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or discover the source code, architecture, algorithms, model weights, prompts, rule libraries, or underlying components of the Services, including BeforeJD's patent-pending multi-model council architecture;
• Use automated scripts, bots, or scrapers to access the Services at a volume or rate exceeding normal human use, or to systematically harvest Analysis Output;
• Use Analysis Output to train, fine-tune, benchmark, or develop competing artificial intelligence or document analysis products or services;
• Represent Analysis Output as the work product of a licensed attorney or as legal advice;
• Submit documents containing information that you are legally prohibited from disclosing to third-party AI processing services without appropriate authorization;
• Introduce malware, viruses, or other harmful code into the Services;
• Attempt to circumvent authentication, access controls, rate limits, or security measures;
• Use the Services in any jurisdiction where doing so would violate applicable law.

BeforeJD reserves the right to suspend or terminate access to any user who violates this Section without notice or refund.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1 BeforeJD IP. The Services, including but not limited to BeforeJD's patent-pending multi-model council architecture (Provisional Patent Application Docket BJD-2026-PROV-001), software, source code, algorithms, confidence scoring methodology, flag rule library, domain playbooks, trade names, trademarks, service marks (including "BeforeJD" and associated USPTO applications Serial Nos. 99656272, 99656311, and 99656331), logos, visual design, and all content created or provided by BeforeJD, are the exclusive property of BeforeJD LLC and its licensors. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right, title, or interest in any of the foregoing except for the limited right to use the Services as expressly permitted herein.

7.2 Your Documents. You retain all ownership rights in documents you upload ("Uploaded Documents"). You hereby grant BeforeJD a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process, transmit (including to third-party AI API providers as described in Section 8), and temporarily store your Uploaded Documents solely to provide the Services. This license terminates when the document is deleted or the applicable retention period expires.

7.3 Analysis Output. As between you and BeforeJD, you own the Analysis Output generated from your Uploaded Documents, subject to the limitations in Section 9 and your compliance with these Terms. BeforeJD retains a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to use anonymized, aggregated, and de-identified Analysis Output metadata for quality improvement, confidence calibration, and product development purposes.

7.4 Feedback. If you provide BeforeJD with suggestions, feedback, or ideas regarding the Services ("Feedback"), you grant BeforeJD an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, incorporate, and commercialize that Feedback in any manner without compensation to you.

8. Third-Party AI Processing and Data Transmission

The Services operate by transmitting Uploaded Document text to one or more third-party AI service providers ("AI Processing Partners") to generate Analysis Output. By submitting a document for analysis, you acknowledge and expressly consent to this transmission.

BeforeJD selects and configures AI Processing Partners with reasonable care and enters into data processing agreements with those providers. However, BeforeJD is not responsible for the acts, omissions, policies, or data practices of any AI Processing Partner, and makes no warranty or representation regarding the data handling practices of any third party. To the maximum extent permitted by law, BeforeJD's liability arising out of or related to AI Processing Partner conduct is limited as set forth in Section 10.

You represent and warrant that:

• (a) You have the legal right to submit your Uploaded Document to third-party AI processing services;
• (b) Submitting your Uploaded Document does not violate any confidentiality agreement, non-disclosure obligation, trade secret protection, attorney-client privilege, work product protection, health information privacy law, or any other applicable legal restriction; and
• (c) You have obtained all necessary consents from any third party whose information appears in your Uploaded Document.

BeforeJD does not warrant that AI Processing Partners will not change their policies, and any change in an AI Processing Partner's data handling practices shall not constitute a breach by BeforeJD of these Terms.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL ANALYSIS OUTPUT, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BEFOREJD EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: (A) WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT; (B) WARRANTIES THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, ACCURATE, OR SECURE; AND (C) WARRANTIES THAT ANALYSIS OUTPUT WILL BE COMPLETE, CORRECT, OR LEGALLY SUFFICIENT.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS ARE PROBABILISTIC BY NATURE AND MAY PRODUCE OUTPUT THAT IS INACCURATE, INCOMPLETE, MISLEADING, OUTDATED, OR INAPPLICABLE TO YOUR SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANALYSIS OUTPUT IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, IS NOT REVIEWED BY A LICENSED ATTORNEY, AND SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON AS THE SOLE BASIS FOR ANY LEGAL, FINANCIAL, OR BUSINESS DECISION. ANY RELIANCE ON ANALYSIS OUTPUT IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

(A) BEFOREJD, ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, DAMAGE TO REPUTATION, OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, EVEN IF BEFOREJD HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

(B) BEFOREJD'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (I) THE TOTAL FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO BEFOREJD IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (II) TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($25.00).

(C) THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS APPLY TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION AND THEORIES OF LIABILITY, INCLUDING CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, AND STATUTE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability. In those jurisdictions, BeforeJD's liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless BeforeJD LLC, its members, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Services; (b) your Uploaded Documents, including any claim that your submission violated a third party's rights or any applicable law; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any applicable law or regulation.

12. Document Confidentiality and Security

BeforeJD implements commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect Uploaded Documents and user data, including server-side encryption at rest and encrypted transmission. Document storage in BeforeJD's systems is opt-in only; by default, Uploaded Documents are not retained after analysis completion. If you opt into temporary document storage, documents are automatically deleted after the elected retention period (default: 7 days). You may manually delete stored documents at any time through your account.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Internet transmission or electronic storage system is completely secure. BeforeJD does not guarantee absolute security of Uploaded Documents and is not responsible for unauthorized third-party access resulting from circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

Quality Assurance Monitoring

As part of our commitment to product quality, BeforeJD sends an internal blind copy of each analysis delivery email to an internal review address. This copy is used solely for quality review purposes and is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy, including the 90-day destruction commitment described therein. By using the Service, you consent to this practice. The blind copy does not affect your delivery, your attachments, or any rights you hold in the analyzed document.

13. Termination and Suspension

13.1 By You. You may stop using the Services at any time. You may delete your account through account settings. Fees paid for completed analyses are non-refundable upon account deletion.

13.2 By BeforeJD. BeforeJD reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services, with or without notice, if: (a) you breach these Terms; (b) your use poses a security, legal, or reputational risk to BeforeJD or other users; (c) required by applicable law; or (d) your account has been inactive for more than twelve (12) months and you do not have a pending analysis or stored documents.

13.3 Effect of Termination. Upon termination, your right to access the Services ceases immediately. Sections 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, and 16 survive termination.

14. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

14.1 Informal Resolution. Before initiating any formal legal proceeding, you agree to contact BeforeJD at [email protected] and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for a period of thirty (30) days.

14.2 Mandatory Arbitration. If informal resolution fails, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services (a "Dispute") shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall be conducted in English. The seat of arbitration shall be in the State of Texas. The arbitrator's award shall be final and binding.

14.3 Class Action Waiver. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND BEFOREJD AGREE THAT EACH PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

14.4 Exceptions. Nothing in this Section prevents either party from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights or confidential information, or from bringing claims in small claims court.

14.5 Opt-Out. You may opt out of the arbitration agreement by notifying BeforeJD in writing at [email protected] within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms.

15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. For any Disputes not subject to arbitration under Section 14, you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state or federal courts located in Texas.

16. General Provisions

16.1 Changes to Terms. BeforeJD may modify these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via email or Site notification at least fourteen (14) days before taking effect. Continued use of the Services after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

16.2 Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms applicable to specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and BeforeJD regarding the Services and supersede all prior agreements or understandings.

16.3 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force.

16.4 No Waiver. BeforeJD's failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision.

16.5 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without BeforeJD's prior written consent. BeforeJD may assign these Terms without restriction in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

16.6 Contact. Questions about these Terms should be directed to: BeforeJD LLC, [email protected].