Terms of Service

DocketRouter ("DocketRouter", "we", "us") is operated by [Company legal name, Texas]founder: confirm. "You" or "customer" means the person or entity that creates an account or holds an API key. These terms are between you and us; they do not create any relationship between you and OpenRouter or any model provider beyond what their own terms establish.

DocketRouter is an API and web app that routes requests to third-party AI models through OpenRouter, and adds a legal-grounding layer around that call: retrieving controlling rules, statutes, and opinions from our own library before the model answers, checking the citations in its answer against that library, and asking the model to correct or remove anything that does not check out. Full detail on the pipeline is at grounding and on what we log and send upstream at How we operate.

DocketRouter is not a law firm, does not practice law, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Nothing the service outputs is legal advice.

The service reduces, but does not eliminate, the risk of a fabricated citation or a wrong statement of law, and citation verification is checked against our library, not against a live legal-research service, so a citation can be verified as real and still be inapposite, superseded, or misapplied to your facts. Every output must be reviewed by a licensed attorney before you rely on it or file it. You are solely responsible for that review and for any use you make of the service's output.

You are responsible for the credentials, API keys, spend caps, and provider settings on your account, and for all activity under your keys, whether by you, your employees, or anyone you give a key to. Keys are capped at a hard spend limit you set (or the beta default), but that cap does not limit your responsibility for the content of requests sent under it. Rotate or disable a key immediately if it is exposed; we are not liable for use of a compromised key before you disable it.

You agree not to:

• use the service for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that violates the rights of others;
• attempt to extract, scrape, or reconstruct our library, corpus, or benchmark data, or use the service to build a competing corpus or benchmark;
• resell raw model access through the service, or hold the service out as your own AI product without our written agreement;
• circumvent, probe, or abuse rate limits or spend caps, including by spreading requests across multiple keys or accounts to exceed a limit placed on one;
• upload, submit, or process data you do not have the rights or permission to submit, including client data submitted without the authority to do so;
• run automated red-teaming, jailbreak testing, or adversarial probing against the upstream models without our prior written approval, since that traffic is billed to your key and routed under our provider agreements.

We may suspend or terminate a key or account for a violation of this section, with or without notice depending on severity.

Model access is provided through OpenRouter. Your use of any model routed through the service is subject to OpenRouter's Terms of Service and to the terms of the specific model provider that serves your request (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, or another provider on the allowlist), as those terms are published by OpenRouter and the provider from time to time. By using the service you agree to be bound by those terms as they apply to your use, in addition to these terms. If a conflict arises between these terms and OpenRouter's or a provider's terms as to the use of a given model, the upstream terms control as to that use.

What we send upstream, the provider allowlist, retention defaults, and what we log are described in full at How we operate; that page is incorporated into these terms by reference. In short: every key routes with a default deny on provider training and retention, prompts and answers are logged only when a key turns that on, and case files are encrypted at rest where that feature is enabled on the host you are using. We do not train any model on your prompts, your case files, or your outputs.

Usage is billed at the rates published in the model catalog at the time of the request. The service is prepaid: you add credits to your balance, and your keys are capped so that spend cannot exceed the credits or per-key cap in effect. Consumed usage is not refundable. Unused prepaid credits founder: confirm [are / are not refundable on request; expiration policy, if any]. You are responsible for any taxes applicable to your use of the service, other than taxes on our net income.

The service is in beta. We do not currently offer a service-level agreement or uptime guarantee. We may change, suspend, deprecate, or discontinue any feature, model, or endpoint at any time, and we will try to give notice of a breaking change where practical but do not guarantee advance notice during beta.

As between you and us, you own the inputs you submit and the outputs you receive, to the extent that ownership is available to you under the applicable model provider's terms (some providers' terms condition or limit output ownership; those terms control where they are more restrictive than this sentence). We own the service itself, including the grounding pipeline, the verification system, our library and its compilation and selection, the benchmark (Humanity's Last Lawsuit) and its methodology and results, and all software, designs, and documentation that make up DocketRouter. Nothing in these terms grants you rights in any of that beyond using the service as permitted here.

The service and its output are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that citations will always verify correctly, that outputs will be accurate or complete, or that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the service. Our total liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service is capped at the fees you actually paid us in the three months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law founder: confirm [add any Texas-specific carve-outs counsel wants, e.g. gross negligence or willful misconduct].

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your unlawful use of the service, your violation of these terms, or content you submit that you did not have the right to submit.

You may stop using the service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access for a breach of these terms, non-payment, or a legal or security concern, with notice where practical. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (fees owed, IP, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law) survive.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising from these terms or the service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in [County]founder: confirm, Texas, and you consent to that venue and jurisdiction.

We may update these terms from time to time. We will post the revised terms here with an updated effective date, and for material changes we will make reasonable efforts to notify account holders founder: confirm [email vs. in-app notice, and notice period]. Continued use of the service after a change takes effect is acceptance of the revised terms.

Questions about these terms: hello@docketrouter.ai.