Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and SciRise, Inc. ("SciRise," "we," "us," or "our") covering your use of the SciRise website at scirise.ai and the SciRise platform (together, the "Service"). If you use the Service for an organization, you agree to these Terms for that organization and confirm you have authority to do so. In that case, "you" means both you and your organization.

1. Accepting These Terms

You accept these Terms when you check the box at sign-up, or when you use the Service. You must be at least 18 years old. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information.

2. What the Service Provides

SciRise analyzes public funding records to help nonprofits, foundations, consultants, impact investors, and other mission-driven organizations understand who funds what. Depending on your subscription, the Service includes:

• Workspaces where you run and keep analyses
• Funder mapping, peer benchmarking, due diligence, and prospect analyses, with written summaries
• Profiles of foundations, nonprofits, and their grants
• Views of funding networks
• Exports of analyses as Word and Excel files
• The SciRise Reports library of published research
• For accounts where we enable it, a connection to an AI assistant (Section 7)

We may add, change, or remove features. If we remove a feature that is a material part of your subscription, we will give you notice.

3. Accounts and Access

Accounts are set up for customers, usually after a demo, and access depends on your trial or subscription. You agree to give accurate information when you register, keep your password confidential, and tell us promptly at support@scirise.ai if you suspect unauthorized use. Each account is for one person. You are responsible for activity under your account.

4. Trials, Subscriptions, and Billing

• Free trials: we sometimes offer a short free trial. The length is set when the trial starts. A trial ends automatically, and you are never charged unless you choose a paid subscription.
• Subscriptions: paid subscriptions are billed monthly through our payment processor, Stripe, for a committed term, usually 6 or 12 months. Your price and term are set out in your order or at checkout. You agree to pay the monthly fee for the full term.
• After the term: unless your order says otherwise, your subscription continues month to month at the same monthly price once the term ends, until you cancel.
• Cancelling: to cancel, email support@scirise.ai. If you cancel during your committed term, the cancellation takes effect at the end of the term. If you cancel after the term, it takes effect at the end of the current month. You keep access until then. Fees already paid are not refunded, except where required by law.
• Price changes: your price does not change during a committed term. We will tell you about any price change before it applies after your term ends.
• Usage limits: each subscription has limits, such as the number of saved funders and analyses per day. When you reach a limit, the related feature pauses until the limit resets or you change your subscription.
• Custom work: pilots, custom analyses, reports, and advisory work are governed by the agreement for that work. Where there is no separate agreement, these Terms apply.

5. Where the Data Comes From

The Service is built on public records, including IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF, U.S. federal award and contract records, international development funding records published under the IATI standard, and related audit disclosures. SciRise links these records to the right organizations, connects them into a funding network, and applies statistical methods to produce rankings, benchmarks, and analyses.

• Public records can contain errors made by the filer, and new filings reach the Service months or years after the period they cover.
• Funder rankings and predictions are calculated with statistical methods, not AI. They reflect past grant patterns and do not guarantee future funding.
• People named in these records, such as officers, directors, and foundation contacts, are generally not users of the Service. You agree to use information about them lawfully and respectfully, and not to use the Service to harass anyone or send unsolicited bulk messages.

6. AI-Assisted Features

Some features use AI models provided by OpenAI. AI is used to interpret the questions you type, find organizations similar to a workspace thesis, and write summaries and memos of calculated results. The Privacy Policy explains what information these features send to OpenAI.

AI-generated content can be wrong or incomplete. Review it and check important facts before you rely on it, especially for funding, hiring, or investment decisions. SciRise does not guarantee the accuracy of AI-generated content.

7. Connected AI Assistants

For accounts where we enable it, you can connect a third-party AI assistant, such as Anthropic's Claude, to your SciRise account. A connected assistant acts on your behalf with your account's access, and these Terms, including Section 10, apply to what it does. The assistant's provider handles your data under its own terms and privacy policy. You can disconnect by removing SciRise from the assistant's connector settings or by asking us to revoke access.

8. Your Content

"Your Content" means what you put into the Service, such as workspace names and descriptions, questions, and saved funders. You keep ownership of Your Content. You give SciRise permission to store, process, and display Your Content to provide the Service to you, to keep it secure, and to improve it. We may use information about how the Service is used, with personal details removed, to improve the Service. We will not share Your Content with other customers.

9. Using What the Service Produces

• Analyses and exports: you may use analyses, exports, and other results from the Service for your organization's own work. This includes sharing them with your board, your advisors, and, if you are a consultant, the client you prepared them for.
• SciRise Reports: you may read, share, and quote published SciRise Reports with credit to SciRise. You may not sell them or present altered versions as SciRise's work.

10. Rules for Using the Service

You may not:

• Break any law, or use the Service to harass, spam, or discriminate against anyone
• Try to access accounts, data, or systems you are not permitted to access
• Use bots, scrapers, crawlers, or automated scripts to access or extract data from the Service, except through a connected AI assistant used as described in Section 7
• Copy data from the Service in bulk, or use it to build or add to another database, dataset, product, or service
• Resell, license, or publish data from the Service as a dataset, or offer the Service's results as your own data product
• Use the Service or its data to build, train, or improve a competing product, including an AI model
• Reverse engineer the Service, or try to work out its source code, algorithms, scoring models, or data structures
• Share your login or let more than one person use an account
• Get around usage limits, or disrupt or overload the Service

11. Intellectual Property

SciRise, Inc. and its licensors own the Service, including:

• The software, algorithms, and scoring models
• The system that links records to the right organizations, including curated organization names and cross-references
• The funding network, peer models, and statistical models built from public data
• The structured datasets SciRise produces from raw public filings, which are original compilations
• The Service's design, interface, documentation, and brand

The underlying tax filings and government records are public. SciRise's work to clean, structure, and link them, and the analyses built on them, are SciRise's property. SciRise's funding-network technology is the subject of one or more pending patent applications.

We give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service as these Terms allow. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without any obligation to you.

12. Third-Party Services

The Service works with services we do not control, including Stripe for payments, Google for sign-in, OpenAI for AI features, and any AI assistant you connect. Their own terms apply to your use of them, and we are not responsible for them.

13. Disclaimers

• As is: the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
• Data: we do not promise that data or results are complete, accurate, or current (see Section 5).
• Not professional advice: the Service does not give legal, tax, financial, investment, or fundraising advice. Consult qualified professionals before making decisions.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, SciRise, Inc. and its affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, funding, or data, arising from the Service or these Terms. SciRise's total liability for all claims relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the fees you paid SciRise in the 12 months before the claim arose, or $100.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold harmless SciRise, Inc. from claims, damages, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, that arise from your misuse of the Service, Your Content, or your breach of these Terms.

16. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service and ask us to delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms, if your use creates a security or legal risk, or if required by law. Where reasonable, we will tell you first. Sections 8, 11, and 13 through 19 continue to apply after your access ends.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version on this page with a new effective date. If we make a material change, we will notify account holders by email or through a notice in the Service before the change takes effect. If you keep using the Service after that, you accept the updated Terms.

18. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

19. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any order form or other agreement you sign with us, are the entire agreement between you and SciRise about the Service. If a signed agreement conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement controls. If any part of these Terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither party is responsible for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

20. Contact

For questions, support, or accessibility feedback, email support@scirise.ai or write to SciRise, Inc., 3600 North Duke St, STE 1 #1009, Durham, NC 27704. We aim to make the Service accessible to everyone and welcome reports of any barriers you find.