Terms of use, in words you can read once.

Terms · 2026-08-04

Using Verbatim means agreeing to what follows. It is short on purpose. Terms nobody can read protect nobody.

Verbatim reads successive versions of a regulatory proceeding and works out what changed. Every claim it makes carries a citation, and it withholds any claim whose citation does not match the stored source.

Two things this build does not yet do, said here rather than left to be found. It does not map a change to the obligations it touches: the code for that has no caller, and no change in the demonstration is bound to an obligation. And there is no way to put a document in through the product — no upload screen, no file field, and no button on any screen that fetches one. Documents are loaded from files on the machine by whoever runs it. Where the rest of this page says "upload", read it as putting a document into the service by any means, including that one.

That is the whole of it. Nothing else is promised.

This matters more here than anywhere else on the page, so read it twice.

Verbatim is a reading aid. It is not a lawyer, not counsel, and not a regulator. Nothing it outputs is legal advice, a legal opinion, or a determination about what any rule requires of you. It does not decide whether you comply with anything.

• A claim the product shows is a statement backed by a quotation it checked. It is not a ruling on what that quotation means for your business.
• A claim the product withholds means it could not substantiate one. It does not mean nothing changed, and it never means you have nothing to do.
• A date, a threshold or an obligation shown on a screen is a reading of a document, not a deadline anyone owes you.

Check the source and take professional advice before you act, file, or decide not to. You remain responsible for every filing you make and every deadline you meet or miss.

You keep every right you had in whatever you upload. Nothing here transfers ownership, and nothing here takes a licence beyond what running the service needs.

What the operator may do with your documents: store them, cut them into passages, compare versions of them, re-read them to check a citation, and show them back to you and to the people in your company who hold an account.

What the operator may not do: train a model on them. Sell them. Use them for any purpose other than running the service for you. Share them with anyone outside your company, apart from the one vendor named next.

Something does leave the machine. The assistant panel sits on every screen, and each turn goes to Anthropic's API: the question you typed, your name, your company's name, the permission codes you hold, and whatever the assistant looked up — which can include filing text either side of a change. With no ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set nothing is sent and the panel says it is unavailable. The privacy page and the sub-processors page list what goes and what is held back. This page said no model call happened at all, and went on saying it after one did.

You are responsible for what you upload. Do not put in documents you have no right to put in.

The service is provided as it stands, with no warranty of any kind: not that it will be available, not that it will be correct, not that it will be fit for your purpose. It is an unfinished build.

It may lose data. It has no backups. It may be taken offline. Its behaviour may change between one day and the next without notice.

Nobody here accepts liability for a decision you take on what the product showed you, for a deadline you miss, or for a filing you make or fail to make. That is not a lawyer's flourish — it follows from the section above. A tool that is explicitly not a determination cannot carry the risk of one.

An account belongs to one person. Keep your password to yourself, and say so promptly if you think somebody else has it. Every action you take is written to a trail that names your account, your session and the address you came from, and that trail cannot be edited or removed.

Do not:

• upload material you have no right to upload;
• upload sealed, protected or confidential filings into a build that has no controls for them — the security page lists what is missing;
• attack, overload or probe the service, or try to reach another company's data;
• use it to break a law, or to mislead a regulator.

You may stop using Verbatim at any time and ask for your account to be closed. Access can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason, including none — it is a pre-production build and it may simply be switched off.

Closing an account does not remove the audit rows it caused. The trail is append-only by design, and a deleted row would break the chain that makes the rest of it evidence. The privacy page sets out that tension in full rather than hiding it here.

These terms change when the product changes. The date at the top moves with them. Using the service after a change means accepting the version then published.

Questions to jsahasi@gmail.com.