Terms you can read without a lawyer.

Who you're contracting with

Sidecar is a product and service owned and operated by Built By Signal LLC, Ohio limited liability company. “Sidecar” is a brand name, not a separate company — when these terms say “we,” “us,” or “our,” they mean Built By Signal LLC, and your agreement is with Built By Signal LLC.

Built By Signal LLC is a venture-building company operating under the SIGNAL brand. You can find it at BuiltBySignal.com.

What Sidecar is

Sidecar is a business optimization platform. You upload documents — vendor agreements, invoices, reports — and Sidecar analyzes them to produce risk assessments, findings, deadlines, and recommendations for your business. By creating an account or submitting documents, you agree to these terms on behalf of yourself and, if applicable, the organization you represent.

Your account, workspace, and team

You need an account to use Sidecar, and you must be old enough to enter a contract where you live. If you sign up for an organization — which is the normal case — you confirm you're authorized to accept these terms for it. Everything in a workspace belongs to that organization, not to the individual who happened to upload it.

A workspace has roles, and they control what each person can do: an Owner or Administrator can invite people, upload, analyze, and delete; an Executive or Analyst works with agreements and reports; Read only can look but not change. You decide who gets which role, and you're responsible for what the people you invite do with the account. Plans include a set number of seats, published on our pricing page.

Keep your sign-in credentials to yourself and tell us promptly if you think someone else has gotten into your account. If your workspace turns on single sign-on, your identity provider governs who can reach it — we enforce what you configure. New self-registered accounts may wait for approval before a workspace is available.

What Sidecar is not: legal advice

Every analysis Sidecar produces carries a disclaimer to this effect, and it applies to the whole service:

This analysis is provided for informational and business decision support purposes only. It is not legal advice and does not replace review by qualified legal counsel. You should consult an attorney before making legal decisions or signing any agreement with material legal or financial impact.

Sidecar is decision support. It helps you understand what an agreement does and what to ask about — it does not create an attorney-client relationship, and its output should not be your only basis for a legally significant decision. Built By Signal LLC is not a law firm, no one at Sidecar is acting as your attorney, and no attorney-client privilege attaches to anything you upload or to any report we produce.

Sidecar also does not act as your agent or representative. It prepares you to negotiate — talking points, benchmarks, and suggested positions with the clause cited — and you decide what to raise, what to sign, and what to walk away from.

What Sidecar is not: financial, tax, or accounting advice

Sidecar produces savings ranges, pricing comparisons, benchmarks, ROI figures, and estimated impact. These are modeled estimates built from the documents and data you give us. They are not a valuation, an audit, an accounting opinion, or a promise of a result:

Savings estimates, pricing figures, and financial projections shown here are informational estimates for business decision support only. They are not financial, investment, tax, or accounting advice, and they are not a guarantee of savings or outcomes. Verify figures against your own records and consult a qualified financial, tax, or accounting professional before acting on them.

Built By Signal LLC is not a registered investment adviser, a broker-dealer, a CPA firm, or a tax preparer, and nothing in the service is an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial product. Where a figure matters to a filing, a financing, a valuation, or a tax position, have a qualified professional confirm it before you rely on it.

How a review is produced and delivered

A review is AI-assisted and human-checked. Software reads the document and drafts the analysis; a Sidecar reviewer then reads that draft against the document before it is released to you. Nothing reaches your workspace as a finished review until a person has approved it — which is also why a reviewer necessarily reads what you upload.

We aim to release a completed review within one business day, and rush review moves an agreement to the front of that queue. Treat that as the target we hold ourselves to, not a guaranteed delivery time or a refund trigger: holidays, an unreadable document, and unusual volume all move it. If a review is going to be late, we would rather tell you than quietly miss it.

Renewal and deadline monitoring runs on a daily schedule and sends reminders ahead of the dates we've identified. Reminders depend on the dates in the documents you give us and on your email reaching you, so they are a safety net rather than a substitute for your own calendar. We may pause analysis for maintenance or to protect the service, and we may change or discontinue features — we'll give reasonable notice of a change that removes something you rely on.

Fees, payment, refunds, and cancellation

Prices are the ones published on our pricing page or quoted to you in writing. Fees are stated in US dollars and exclude any sales or use tax, which is added where it applies. If you and Built By Signal LLC sign an order or accept a written quote, that document controls where it conflicts with this page.

What a plan includes

Each plan includes a set number of full reviews per month and a seat count, both published on the pricing page. Reviews are metered — once a period's allowance is used, further reviews need a credit or a plan change. Renewal and deadline monitoring is not metered on any plan: every agreement in your workspace stays watched, including on the free tier.

Single reviews

A single review is a one-time charge for one agreement — it is not a subscription and does not renew. Paying for one adds a review credit to your workspace, which is spent when that analysis runs. Credits buy a review; they do not upgrade your plan or unlock plan features. Credits belong to the workspace they were issued to and can't be transferred between workspaces or cashed out.

Refunds: you can cancel a single review for a full refund any time before the report is released to you. Once a reviewed report has been delivered, that review is non-refundable — but if it didn't surface anything useful, tell us and we'll make it right.

Subscriptions

Subscription plans bill monthly in advance. There is no long-term commitment and no cancellation penalty: cancel at any time and the plan stays active through the end of the cycle you have already paid for. We don't pro-rate partial months, and we don't auto-escalate your price — if a plan's price changes, we tell you before it applies to you.

Paid plans are set up by the Sidecar team and invoiced directly. Where card payment is offered at checkout, it is processed by Stripe; we never see or store your full card details. Unpaid invoices can pause analysis on the workspace — you keep read access to everything already delivered.

Billing questions go to hello@sidecarpartner.com.

Your content

Documents you upload, and the analyses generated from them, belong to your organization. You grant us the limited rights needed to store and process them in order to provide the service — nothing more. We do not use your documents to train AI models. How we handle your data is described in the Privacy Policy, which is part of these terms.

“The limited rights needed” means, concretely: storing your files, extracting their text, sending that text to our AI provider to produce the analysis, and letting an authorized Sidecar reviewer read the document and the draft as part of the human review described above. A small number of authorized staff may also access your workspace to provide support or operate the service; that access is logged, and you'll see a banner in the app while it is happening.

Aggregated statistics. When a review is released, we keep one de-identified record of the agreement's shape — its type, term length, whether it auto-renews, the notice window, how price increases and liability were handled, and how many findings there were. It carries no organization, no vendor or customer name, no amounts, no dates, and no text from your document. You grant us a perpetual right to create and use statistics like these, including after you stop using Sidecar, so we can tell customers whether a term is unusual for its kind of agreement. We will not publish anything from this that identifies you or your counterparty.

Sharing, exports, and co-branding

Sidecar lets you share a report by link, hand someone a print-ready review packet, subscribe to a calendar feed of your deadlines, and export your workspace data. Those links are the key: anyone who has one can open what it points to, without signing in. That's deliberate — it's how you forward a review to an attorney, a partner, or a co-owner — but it means you're responsible for who you send them to. You can revoke a share link at any time, and we can revoke one that's being abused.

If a report carries a partner's name alongside ours, that co-branding is display only. It doesn't make that firm a party to these terms, doesn't give them access to your workspace, and isn't an endorsement of the analysis by them or of them by us.

Third-party services and connections

Running Sidecar means using other companies' infrastructure: cloud hosting and storage, an AI provider that produces the analysis, an email provider that delivers notifications, a payment processor where card payment is offered, and analytics on our marketing site. The Privacy Policy names them and is the page we update when that list changes.

If you connect an outside account to Sidecar — a file store, a messaging tool — you authorize us to access it as you've scoped it, and that provider's own terms keep applying to your use of their service. You can disconnect at any time. We aren't responsible for a third-party service's availability or for what it does with data you keep there.

Acceptable use

Don't use Sidecar to:

• →Upload documents you don't have the right to share or process.
• →Attempt to access another organization's workspace, probe or circumvent access controls, or disrupt the service.
• →Resell or redistribute the service or its analyses as your own product without our written agreement.
• →Break the law, or use the output to help someone else break it.

We may suspend accounts that violate these rules. We'll tell you why.

Because we can't know what rights you hold in a document before you send it to us, that judgment is yours: you'll cover us against claims arising from documents you uploaded without the right to, and from your own use or sharing of the output — including a decision you made after reading a report. This doesn't apply to anything caused by our own fraud, willful misconduct, or gross negligence, and we'll tell you promptly about any claim and let you control the defense of it.

No warranty

Sidecar is provided as-is. AI-generated analysis can be wrong or incomplete — that's why findings carry confidence levels and cite their sources, and why you should verify anything you're about to act on. We don't promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any analysis is complete or correct.

Two specifics worth stating plainly. Very long documents are truncated before analysis, and where that happens the report says so — but it means a finding can be missed. And a deadline we surface is only as good as the document it came from: if a date is ambiguous, handwritten, or in an amendment you didn't upload, we may not catch it. Keep your own record of the dates that matter.

Limits on our liability

In plain terms: we are not liable for business decisions you make based on Sidecar's output, for indirect or consequential losses (lost profits, lost contracts, lost data), or for amounts beyond what you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim.

That includes a renewal you didn't catch, a notice window that closed, or a missed reminder. Monitoring is a safety net we work hard at, not a guarantee, and it doesn't transfer your contractual obligations to us.

This limit does not apply to our own fraud, willful misconduct, or gross negligence, or to anything a limitation of liability cannot lawfully cover. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations or exclusions, in which case these apply to the fullest extent permitted and the rest stays in force. Each of these limits applies regardless of the legal theory behind the claim, and applies even if a remedy fails its essential purpose.

These terms were drafted in plain language in good faith and have not yet been through outside counsel review. They are the operative terms until we replace them, and we'll update this page and the date at the top when we do.

Suspension and termination

You can stop using Sidecar at any time. You can delete individual agreements, reports, and files yourself, and deleting an agreement deletes the analyses that came from it. Deleting an entire workspace is something we do for you on request — email privacy@sidecarpartner.com and we'll confirm when it's done. See the Privacy Policy for how deletion works in detail.

We may suspend a workspace for a violation of these terms, for unpaid invoices, or where we need to protect the service or someone else — and we'll tell you why. A suspension for nonpayment leaves your delivered reports readable. Before you go, use the workspace export to take your data with you; after termination we'll keep your content only as long as we need to for the wind-down, then delete it on request. The sections that are meant to outlive the account — fees you already owe, the aggregated-statistics right, liability limits, and dispute resolution — survive it.

Governing law and disputes

Built By Signal LLC is Ohio limited liability company. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, and the courts located in Ohio, United States are the venue for any dispute arising out of them.

Before either of us files a claim, we talk. Send a written description of the dispute and the resolution you want to Built By Signal LLC at legal@builtbysignal.com, and we have 30 days to work it out directly. We'll do the same before bringing a claim against you. Either party can still go to court immediately for injunctive relief or to protect intellectual property, and nothing here stops you from bringing a matter in small claims court if it qualifies.

We do not require arbitration and we do not ask you to waive a jury trial or your right to participate in a class action. If that ever changes, we'll post the new terms here and give existing customers notice before they take effect.

Like the liability section above, this dispute-resolution process is interim language drafted in plain English and not yet reviewed by outside counsel. It is what governs today.

Changes and contact

If these terms change materially, we'll update this page and the date at the top, and we'll ask you to accept the new version the next time you open Sidecar. You can keep using the product once you've accepted; work already in your workspace isn't affected either way. We keep a record of which version you accepted and when.

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the service, apart from any order or written quote you have signed. If one part turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in force. You can't transfer your agreement without our consent; we may transfer ours to an affiliate or in connection with a sale of the business.

Questions about any of this? Contact us or email hello@sidecarpartner.com.

Formal legal notices should go to Built By Signal LLC at legal@builtbysignal.com. We send notices to you by email, at the address on your account — keep it current.