Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

Ortheos is a service of Capital Projects, LLC (“Ortheos”, “we” or “us”). These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and Capital Projects, LLC.

By accessing or using the Ortheos platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site.

You must be at least 18 years old to use Ortheos.

These Terms are versioned. The version shown at the top of this page is the one in force. When you create an account you accept the current version, and the version you accepted and when are recorded with your account. When the Terms change you will be asked to accept the new version before continuing to use the service.

2. Permitted Use

Subject to these Terms and to payment of any fees that apply to your plan, Ortheos grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the service for your own legislative tracking, analysis and advocacy work.

A seat is one named person. You may not share, resell, sublicense or transfer your credentials, and you may not allow anyone else to reach the service through your account. Accounts registered to a role, a team, a shared mailbox or a distribution list are not permitted; each person who uses Ortheos takes their own seat.

Group licenses are available. If more than one person in your organization needs access, that is what the Enterprise plan is for: it covers multiple named users under a single agreement. Enterprise is quoted per organization and invoiced directly rather than purchased through checkout — contact sales@ortheos.ai.

You may not make the service itself, or a systematic copy of the data within it, available to anyone who does not hold a seat.

Your own internal tools. You may build and use software inside your own organization for your own legislative work, including tools that consume the reports and the explicitly approved exports you generate here. That is permitted even where it overlaps with what Ortheos does. It stops being permitted if you use Ortheos data, taxonomies, methodologies or AI outputs as training, seed or benchmark material for a model or dataset; reproduce, re-implement or embed our taxonomies, classifications, scoring or analytical methods, or use them as the structure or starting point for your own; make the tool itself available to anyone outside your organization; or use it to give anyone without a seat a working substitute for the service — a searchable, queryable or continuously updated view of Ortheos content.

Reports are what this is for, and they are the exception to everything above. Ortheos is built to produce reports that you supply to your clients, and doing so in the ordinary course of your own work is part of what your subscription is for. You may circulate the reports and the explicitly approved exports listed in these Terms of Service — the bill briefs and compiled reports the product itself produces through its own report and export functions, and nothing obtained any other way, all of which remain subject to these Terms and Conditions in the hands of everyone who receives them — freely, inside your organization and to your clients, and nothing else in this section restricts that. They are finished documents, and they carry our attribution and the account they were prepared for. What a seat buys is the live service: the data, the search, the analysis and the AI. That is what may not be handed to someone who does not hold one.

That permission carries one condition: the Ortheos attribution must stay on the document. Every report and export we produce carries the Ortheos seal and the words “Powered by Ortheos.ai” in its footer, along with the account it was prepared for. Removing, obscuring, cropping, replacing or altering that footer, or reproducing the content of a report in an unbranded document, is a breach of these Terms and ends the permission set out above.

3. Prohibited Use

You may not, and may not permit or enable anyone else to:

• scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, bulk-export or otherwise collect data from the service by automated means, or in volumes or at a frequency beyond what the product's own export and reporting functions provide;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or attempt to derive the source code, structure, models, prompts or methods of the service, except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the service, or breach or circumvent any authentication, rate limit, export ceiling, tier gate or other technical measure;
• use the service, its data, its taxonomies, its classifications, its derived datasets, its analyses or its AI outputs as training, seed, benchmark or validation material for any model or dataset, or as the basis, structure, schema or source for any other software. This applies whether the result is supplied to anyone else or is used only inside your own organization. Our taxonomies and classifications are the product of our own work and are not raw material for yours;
• build, evaluate or improve any product or service that is offered, licensed or supplied to anyone outside your organization using anything obtained from Ortheos. Software your organization builds for its own internal legislative work is permitted, but only on every condition set out in section 2;
• resell, sublicense, rent, lease, syndicate or otherwise redistribute the service or access to it, or supply Ortheos content to a third party as a standing data feed, subscription or product. This does not restrict delivering your own work product to your own clients under section 2;
• access or use the service as, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a Competitor as defined in section 4;
• remove, obscure, crop, replace or alter the Ortheos seal, the “Powered by Ortheos.ai” attribution, the account identifier or any other watermark or notice carried by the service or by anything exported from it, or reproduce the content of a report in an unbranded document;
• use the service in any way that violates applicable law, or any registration or disclosure requirement that applies to lobbying or advocacy in the jurisdictions where you operate.

4. Competitors

“Competitor” means any person or entity that offers, is developing, or funds the development of software or data services for legislative tracking, bill analysis, vote or voting-record analysis, legislator or committee intelligence, or advocacy management, for license, sale, subscription or other supply to third parties — together with its employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, and anyone acting on its behalf or at its direction.

An organization is not a Competitor merely because it builds or uses software for its own internal legislative work. Internal tooling is permitted under section 2 and sits outside this definition, so long as it is not supplied to anyone outside that organization.

When you create an account, and each time you accept a new version of these Terms, you represent that you are not a Competitor and that you are not accessing or using the service on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a Competitor. That representation is a condition of your right to use the service. If it stops being true, you must stop using the service and tell us at support@ortheos.ai.

We may decline to open, and may suspend or terminate, any account we reasonably believe is held by or for a Competitor.

5. Ownership

As between you and Ortheos, you own what you upload — your documents, notes, positions and materials. You grant us only the rights we need in order to run the service for you: to host, process, transmit and display that content, and to produce the analyses you ask for.

Ortheos owns the service and what it produces: the software and interfaces; the legislative datasets as compiled, structured and enriched by us; the taxonomies and classifications; the scoring and insight methodologies; the reports; and the AI-generated summaries, analyses and outputs. These are licensed to you under section 2, not sold. The underlying public records belong to no one; our compilation, structuring and enrichment of them is ours.

No license is granted by implication, estoppel or otherwise. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

6. Confidentiality

Non-public aspects of the service — unreleased features, the pricing offered to you, our methodologies, and the AI outputs generated for your account — are confidential. You may use them for your own work under section 2. You may not disclose them to a Competitor, or publish them as a comparison, benchmark or evaluation of the service, without our prior written consent.

This does not restrict anything that is or becomes public through no act of yours, that you already held without a duty of confidence, or that you are required to disclose by law or by a court — where, if you are permitted to, you tell us first so we can respond.

7. Remedies

If you breach section 2, 3, 4 or 6 we may suspend or terminate your access immediately and without notice, and without refund of fees already paid.

You acknowledge that a breach of those sections would cause Ortheos harm that money cannot adequately repair, and you agree that Ortheos may seek injunctive or other equitable relief without being required to post a bond, in addition to any other remedy available to it. You remain liable for the damages your breach causes and, to the extent permitted by law, for the reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of enforcing these Terms.

Sections 3 through 7 survive the termination of your account, however it ends.

8. Use License

Permission is granted to temporarily access the materials on the Ortheos platform for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title.

9. Subscription and Billing

Certain features of Ortheos require a paid subscription. Billing is handled through Stripe. Subscriptions are billed annually in advance and renew automatically.

Refunds. You may request a full refund within 7 days of your first payment to Ortheos by contacting support@ortheos.ai. This applies once per customer. Renewals and later subscriptions are not refundable. To avoid a renewal charge, cancel before your renewal date (see Cancellation below).

Cancellation. You may cancel at any time from your account settings. Cancellation stops the next renewal; your access continues until the end of the period you have paid for.

Sponsor plan eligibility. The Sponsor plan is available only to sitting members of a state legislature whose seat Ortheos has verified. It is priced for that role, and your eligibility for it continues only while you hold office.

If you leave office, your eligibility ends on the day you leave, and we will notify you at the email address registered to your account. You keep the Sponsor plan for a grace period that begins on the day you left office. The grace period is four months less the number of full months you had been subscribed when you left, and never less than one month: for example, three months if you had been subscribed for one month, and one month if you had been subscribed for three months or more. The grace period never extends beyond the end of the period you have already paid for, and the Sponsor plan will not renew after you have left office.

During the grace period you may move to the Monitor or Engage plan, and the unused portion of your Sponsor payment will be credited toward the new plan. If you have not changed plans by the end of the grace period, your Sponsor subscription ends and your account moves to the free plan. Your account and its contents are kept. The remainder of the Sponsor fee is not refunded, except as provided under Refunds above.

10. Data Accuracy

Ortheos provides legislative data and AI-powered analysis for informational purposes. While we strive for accuracy, we do not guarantee that all information is complete, current, or error-free.

11. Privacy

Your use of Ortheos is also governed by our Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy to understand our practices regarding your personal data.

12. Limitations

Ortheos shall not be held liable for any damages arising from the use or inability to use the materials on the platform.

13. Notifications

14. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and Ortheos submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia for any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the service, and each waives any objection to venue in those courts.

15. Modifications

These Terms are versioned. The version in force is shown at the top of this page, and the version you accepted is recorded against your account. When we publish a new version we ask you to accept it before you continue to use the service, and we record that acceptance — the version, the time, and the network address and browser you accepted from. Continued use after acceptance binds you to the new version. A new version is not applied to you retroactively without that acceptance.

16. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms of Service or about the notifications we send, please contact us at support@ortheos.ai, or write to Capital Projects, LLC, 126 Millstone Manor Ct., Woodstock, GA 30188.