ArticulAI Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern access to and use of ArticulAI, an oral assessment platform for tutors, schools, and students, operated by Inflection Path LLC, d/b/a ArticulAI (“ArticulAI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a Texas limited liability company. By creating an account, accessing, or using ArticulAI, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.

If you are creating an account or using ArticulAI on behalf of a school, district, or other organization, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms. Where a school has a signed Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with ArticulAI, that DPA governs the handling of student data to the extent it conflicts with these Terms; these Terms otherwise continue to govern use of the platform. Where no DPA has been signed, as is the case for most independent tutors, tutoring centres, and private academies, these Terms together with our Privacy Policy are the agreement governing student data, and no separate contract is required to use ArticulAI.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not create an account or use ArticulAI.

ArticulAI is intended for users age 13 and older. We do not knowingly permit account creation by anyone under 13. Every new user creating a direct (non-school) account, regardless of role (student, teacher, or parent) and whether signing up with email and password or through Google Sign-In, must complete a one-time age check confirming they are at least 13 before accessing the platform, as described in our Privacy Policy.

If you are under 18, you represent that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and consented to these Terms on your behalf, and that your use of ArticulAI otherwise has their permission. Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising the use of ArticulAI by minors under their care who access the platform directly rather than through a school. Where a student under 18 is invited by a tutor or teacher, that tutor or teacher is responsible for obtaining the required parental or guardian consent, as set out in Section 4.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. You agree to notify us promptly at [email protected] of any unauthorized use of your account or other suspected breach of security. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, that are inactive as described in our Privacy Policy, or that we reasonably believe pose a security or safety risk.

ArticulAI provides an oral assessment platform through which students respond verbally to assessment prompts. Spoken responses are transcribed to text and evaluated using rubric-based, AI-assisted scoring to generate feedback, scores, and identified misconceptions, as described in our Privacy Policy.

3.1 AI-Assisted Scoring is Not Infallible

Scores, feedback, and misconception identifications generated by ArticulAI are produced with the assistance of third-party AI models and are provided to support, not replace, the professional judgment of teachers. ArticulAI does not guarantee that AI-generated scoring or feedback is accurate, complete, or free of error or bias, and teachers and schools remain responsible for how AI-assisted output is used in grading, instruction, or any decision affecting a student.

ArticulAI is used in three ways: (a) through a school or district that has signed a DPA with ArticulAI, in which case the school controls student accounts and data as described in our Privacy Policy; (b) through an independent tutor, tutoring centre, private school, or other organization that uses ArticulAI without a signed DPA; and (c) through an individual account created directly by a student, teacher, or parent age 13 or older.

Where a student accesses ArticulAI through a school, the school is responsible for obtaining any consents required under applicable law (including, where applicable, parental consent) and for managing that student's account, including requests to access, correct, or delete data, which are handled through the school as described in our Privacy Policy.

4.1 Educator Confirmation (Tutors and Organizations Without a DPA)

If you invite students to ArticulAI as a tutor, teacher, or organization without a signed DPA, you confirm at signup, and again each time you invite a student, that: (a) your use of ArticulAI is authorized by any school or institution you work through, where applicable; (b) you have obtained every consent required under applicable law for each student you invite, including parental or guardian consent for any student under 18; and (c) you will not invite anyone under 13. We record this confirmation, with its date and version, against your account.

You decide what material is assigned, which students are invited, and who may see the results, including whether to share a student's report with a parent or guardian. ArticulAI does not obtain parental consent on your behalf, does not verify it, and does not send student results to a parent or guardian unless you choose to share them. You remain responsible for that confirmation being accurate, and Section 14 (Indemnification) applies to a claim arising from its inaccuracy.

Requests to access, correct, or delete student data are honoured for every student, whichever route they came through. Where there is no school, we verify the request through the student's own account or through you, and act on it directly, as described in our Privacy Policy.

ArticulAI offers a free plan, a paid (“Pro”) subscription plan, and a plan for schools and organizations arranged with us directly. Each plan's price, billing frequency, and included usage (such as assessment minutes or sessions) are stated on our pricing page and at checkout.

5.1 Free Plan and Usage Caps

The free plan does not require payment information and is not billed. It includes a limited allotment of usage. Once that allotment is used, further use of the affected feature is paused until the account is upgraded to a paid plan. No payment method is stored or charged automatically when the free plan's usage limit is reached: continuing requires you to affirmatively complete a checkout for a paid plan, at which point the price is disclosed and you provide payment information.

5.2 Paid Subscriptions and Automatic Renewal

Upgrading to a paid plan requires completing checkout through Stripe, where you provide payment information and authorize the charge shown at checkout. Once subscribed, the paid plan bills on a recurring basis (for example, monthly or annually) at the price shown at checkout, and automatically renews for successive billing periods of the same length at that price until you cancel.

5.3 Payment

Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store your full payment card details. By subscribing to a paid plan, you authorize us to charge your payment method on the recurring basis described above until you cancel.

5.4 Cancellation

You may cancel a subscription at any time through the billing portal in your account settings. Cancellation stops future billing but does not terminate the current billing period already paid for; you retain access to paid features through the end of that period.

5.5 Price Changes

We reserve the right to change pricing or plan features with reasonable advance notice. Price changes take effect at your next renewal; continued use of a paid plan after a price change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new price.

Fees already charged for a current billing period, and credits or usage already allotted, are non-refundable, except where required by applicable law. Canceling a subscription prevents future charges but does not entitle you to a refund of amounts already paid for the current or prior periods.

If you believe you were charged in error, contact [email protected] and we will review the charge in good faith.

You agree not to:

• Use ArticulAI for any unlawful purpose or in a manner that infringes the rights of others.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, system, or network connected to ArticulAI.
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the platform, including through malware, scraping, or excessive automated requests.
• Upload or transmit content that is unlawful, harmful, harassing, defamatory, or that infringes a third party's intellectual property or privacy rights.
• Use another person's account, or misrepresent your identity, grade level, or role (student, teacher, or administrator) on the platform.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the underlying models, prompts, or source code used to operate ArticulAI.
• Use ArticulAI to build a competing product or service.

We reserve the right to remove content, suspend accounts, or take other action we reasonably believe necessary to enforce this section or to protect the safety of students on the platform.

As between you and ArticulAI, you (or, where applicable, the school) retain ownership of the content submitted through the platform, including spoken responses, resulting transcripts, and any materials uploaded by teachers or administrators (“User Content”).

By submitting User Content, you grant ArticulAI a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display that content solely to operate, maintain, and improve the platform for the account or school it was submitted through. This license does not permit ArticulAI to sell User Content, use it for advertising, or use student data to train ArticulAI's own models, consistent with our Privacy Policy.

AI-generated scores, feedback, and misconception summaries produced from a student's response are made available to that student and their teachers or school as part of the service, subject to the access and retention terms described in our Privacy Policy.

If you believe content available through ArticulAI infringes your copyright, you may send a notice to our designated agent that includes: (1) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (2) identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location on the platform; (3) your contact information; (4) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (5) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner; and (6) your physical or electronic signature.

Notices should be sent to: Inflection Path LLC, d/b/a ArticulAI, Attn: DMCA Agent, [email protected].

We will respond to properly submitted notices in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which may include removing or disabling access to the identified material and, in appropriate circumstances, terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.

ArticulAI's platform, including its software, design, logos, rubric frameworks, and other materials we create (excluding User Content), is owned by Inflection Path LLC and protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Except for the limited right to use the platform as intended, we grant you no license to our intellectual property, and you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from the platform without our prior written permission.

ArticulAI relies on third-party service providers to operate the platform, including for speech-to-text transcription, AI-based scoring, hosting, payment processing, and analytics, as described in our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the independent acts or omissions of these providers outside the scope of their engagement with us, but we require them to protect data they process on our behalf.

ArticulAI is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the platform will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that transcription or AI-assisted scoring will be accurate, or that defects will be corrected. You use ArticulAI, and rely on any AI-generated output, at your own discretion.

ArticulAI is currently in an early pilot stage, as disclosed in our Privacy Policy. The platform does not yet hold third-party security certifications such as SOC 2, and we do not represent otherwise. Our breach-notification commitment to all users is set out in Section 6 of the Privacy Policy; schools with a signed Data Processing Agreement are additionally covered by the terms of that agreement. Schools, organizations, and users should evaluate ArticulAI accordingly ahead of broader deployment.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ArticulAI and its officers, employees, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, revenue, or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of the platform, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or ArticulAI will not exceed the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months preceding the claim, or $100 if you have not made any payments to us.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify and hold ArticulAI harmless from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your violation of these Terms, your User Content, or your misuse of the platform, except to the extent caused by ArticulAI's own breach of these Terms or violation of law.

These Terms remain in effect for as long as you use ArticulAI. You may stop using the platform and, where applicable, delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the platform, in which case we will provide reasonable notice where practicable.

For school accounts, termination of a school's agreement or DPA with ArticulAI governs the timing of data deletion as described in our Privacy Policy. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 18) will survive.

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights and requires most disputes to be resolved through individual, binding arbitration rather than in court.

16.1 Informal Resolution First

Before filing a claim, you agree to first contact us at [email protected] and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

16.2 Agreement to Arbitrate

If a dispute is not resolved informally, you and ArticulAI agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of ArticulAI will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except as set out below. Arbitration will be conducted in the county where you reside, or another mutually agreed location, and may be conducted by telephone, video conference, or on the basis of written submissions where permitted by AAA's rules.

For any claim of $10,000 or less, ArticulAI will pay all AAA filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees on your behalf, unless the arbitrator determines your claim is frivolous. Each party otherwise bears its own attorneys' fees and costs, except as the arbitrator may award under applicable law.

16.3 Class Action Waiver

You and ArticulAI agree that any arbitration or claim will be conducted on an individual basis only, and not as a class, collective, or representative action. The arbitrator has no authority to consolidate claims or preside over any form of class or representative proceeding.

16.4 Claims Involving Minors

Neither the agreement to arbitrate in Section 16.2 nor the class action waiver in Section 16.3 applies to any claim brought by, or arising from the use of ArticulAI by, a person who was under 18 years of age at the time the claim arose. Such claims may instead be brought in the courts described in Section 17 (Governing Law), including, where applicable, as part of a class or representative action to the extent permitted by law. This exclusion exists because a minor's agreement to arbitrate is not reliably enforceable without independent consent from a parent or legal guardian.

16.5 Other Exceptions

• Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration, if the claim qualifies.
• Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to prevent misuse of intellectual property or unauthorized access to the platform.

16.6 Opt-Out

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing [email protected] with your name and a clear statement that you wish to opt out, within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms. If you opt out, disputes will instead be resolved as described in Section 17 (Governing Law).

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. For any dispute not subject to arbitration under Section 16 (including small claims and equitable relief), you and ArticulAI agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Texas.

18.1 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

18.2 Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and, where applicable, a school's Data Processing Agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and ArticulAI regarding the platform and supersede any prior agreements on the subject.

18.3 No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

18.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.

18.5 Force Majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside our reasonable control, including natural disasters, internet or infrastructure outages, or acts of government.

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our platform or legal requirements. We will update the effective date below and, for material changes, provide reasonable notice via the platform or email. Continued use of ArticulAI after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

Questions about these Terms can be directed to:

• Inflection Path LLC, d/b/a ArticulAI
• Email: [email protected]