Singularity Terms of Use

Last updated 2 November 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between Legal Machines (“Legal Machines”, “we”, “us”) and the organisation that creates a Singularity account (the “Organisation”). They govern Singularity, Legal Machines’ workspace for legal work, and the account service at legalmachines.org that Singularity signs in with (the “account service”). They apply together with the Software License Agreement, which governs the Singularity software and the models Legal Machines provides for it. The Privacy Notice describes the personal data we process, and the Consent to Personal Data Processing records the consent that the law of some countries requires for it.

1. Acceptance and authority

By creating an Organisation, joining one as a member or signing in to Singularity, you accept these Terms on behalf of the Organisation, and you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and authorised to act for it. The person who creates an Organisation confirms that they may bind it to these Terms and the Software License Agreement. If you do not have that authority, do not create or join the account. A person who creates or joins an Organisation without that authority accepts these Terms personally and is bound by them, including Section 13, as the Organisation would be.

2. Business use only

Singularity and the account service are offered to law firms, legal departments and other organisations for professional use. They are not offered to consumers, and an Organisation account is not an account for a private individual. The Organisation uses them only in the course of its business.

3. The account, its seats and its members

Creating an Organisation issues an Organisation ID and an administrator seat, which signs in with the Organisation Contact Email. The account becomes active once that email is confirmed and the administrator seat is set up. Legal Machines does not verify the existence, identity or registration of an Organisation, or the authority of the people who create or join it, and relies on their confirmations under Sections 1 and 4. Legal Machines may review an Organisation at any time and may close it at its sole discretion.

The administrator seat may invite colleagues. Each joins as a member with a seat of their own, known by their name and their work email at the Organisation, sets their own password and signs in with that email. A seat belongs to one person and is not shared.

The Organisation keeps its seats’ passwords, authenticator apps and recovery codes confidential and safe, tells us promptly at inbox@legalmachines.org if it believes a seat has been compromised, and is responsible for everything done through its seats, including the work its members give to AI colleagues in Singularity. Legal Machines may be unable to restore access to a seat whose sign-in details are lost, and, to the fullest extent the law allows, is not responsible for any loss of access.

4. Account information

The Organisation Contact Email must be a shared, role-based mailbox that the Organisation controls, such as legal@ or admin@ at its own domain. It is used to sign in to the administrator seat, administer the account, receive security and service notices and recover access. The person who creates the Organisation confirms that it is such a mailbox: controlled by the Organisation, used for its business, and not the personal address of any individual.

A member’s seat uses that member’s work email at the Organisation, never a personal address such as a personal Gmail, Outlook or Proton account. Beyond each member’s name and work email, the Organisation must not submit an individual’s personal contact details, such as a home address, a personal phone number or a personal email address, to the account service.

The Organisation is responsible for the accuracy of the account information it submits. If an address does not meet this section, Legal Machines may ask the Organisation to replace it, restrict the functions that depend on it until a compliant address is verified, and delete or isolate the non-compliant information as the Privacy Notice describes.

5. The Organisation’s work stays with the Organisation

Singularity is designed to run on the Organisation’s own computers and to keep Matters, documents, threads and the work of the Organisation’s members and AI colleagues in folders on those computers. When members share a Matter, Singularity is designed to send it sealed end to end, directly between the Organisation’s computers or through a folder the Organisation chooses to share, so that it can be opened only on the Organisation’s computers that hold that Matter’s key and does not pass through, and is not kept on, Legal Machines’ servers.

Content leaves the Organisation’s computers for an AI model provider when a member or an AI colleague gives work to a model the Organisation has connected with its own credentials. Papinian Guard, Singularity’s protection layer, is designed to mask protected values, such as client names and figures, before the request leaves the computer, as the Organisation’s protection settings require, and to send nothing where required protection cannot run. Papinian Guard reduces what a provider sees, but it may not detect every protected value, and Legal Machines does not guarantee that no protected or confidential information reaches a provider. The Organisation’s own agreement with that provider governs the provider’s processing.

The Organisation is the controller of the information it works with in Singularity and is solely responsible for having the rights, consents and lawful basis to process it, including information it chooses to send to a model provider, and for keeping its own backups of its work. Because Legal Machines does not receive that information, it does not process it on the Organisation’s behalf.

6. Professional responsibility

Singularity is software for legal work. Legal Machines is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Nothing in Singularity, and nothing Legal Machines provides, is legal advice from Legal Machines, and using Singularity creates no lawyer–client relationship with Legal Machines.

An AI colleague is an AI system that the Organisation sets up in Singularity. It is not a natural person, a lawyer or a licensed professional, and it is not an employee or agent of Legal Machines. AI colleagues do their work with generative AI models, and results produced with such models vary: the same request can produce a different result each time it is made. A result depends on, among other things, the AI model the Organisation selects, connects or runs on its own computers and the version of that model in use, which its provider may change; the instructions, documents and other inputs given; and the settings of Singularity and of the provider, including the Organisation’s protection settings. Examples of work, whether shown in Singularity’s onboarding, elsewhere in Singularity, on Legal Machines’ websites or in demonstrations, illustrate how Singularity is designed to work. They are not a promise or a prediction of any result, and the Organisation’s own results may differ.

Work done in Singularity, by members or by AI colleagues, may be inaccurate or incomplete and may contain errors, omissions, wrong citations or out-of-date law, as any work may. The Organisation decides who reviews and accepts each result, and in which role. The Organisation and its lawyers remain responsible, as the professional rules that apply to them require, for reviewing each result before it is delivered to a client or relied on. The Organisation is solely responsible for the work it delivers to its clients or relies on, for every decision it makes with that work, and for its compliance with the professional rules that apply to it and to its members.

7. Acceptable use

The Organisation and its members must not use Singularity or the account service to:

• break the law, infringe the rights of others or breach a duty of confidentiality;
• gain, or try to gain, unauthorised access to Singularity, the account service, Legal Machines’ model catalog or the systems behind them;
• interfere with, overload or disrupt those systems, or circumvent their rate limits, access controls or authentication;
• create accounts by automated means, or create an Organisation for an organisation they do not represent; or
• act in breach of the export control and economic sanctions laws that apply to the Organisation or to Legal Machines.

The Organisation represents that neither it nor any of its members is the subject of sanctions administered by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom or the United Nations, or is owned or controlled by a person who is, and that it will not use Singularity in or for a country, region or person subject to comprehensive sanctions. Singularity is not designed for, and must not be used in, any activity in which its failure could lead to death, personal injury or severe physical or environmental damage.

8. Communications

Legal Machines sends the emails that keep the account working and secure: verification of the Organisation Contact Email, members’ invitations, sign-in codes, account recovery, security notices and service notices, including notice of changes to these Terms and the other documents. They cannot be turned off while the account exists.

Emails about new Legal Machines products, major releases and company news are sent only to an Organisation that has opted in to Product Updates. Accepting these Terms or any other document is never that opt-in, and an Organisation can withdraw at any time through the link in every such email.

Singularity may also show service, security, product and company notices within the software, whether or not the Organisation has opted in to Product Updates email.

9. No charge

Singularity and the account service are currently provided free of charge, and nothing is payable under these Terms. If Legal Machines offers paid licenses to its models or other paid services, they are agreed separately and in advance.

10. Availability, suspension and termination

Legal Machines has no obligation to keep Singularity or the account service available, or to support, maintain or update them. It may change, suspend or discontinue either of them, or any feature, in whole or in part, at any time, with or without notice, and without liability. Features described as beta, preview or experimental may not work as described and may be withdrawn.

The Organisation may stop using Singularity at any time and may ask at inbox@legalmachines.org for its account to be closed. Legal Machines may suspend or close a seat or an Organisation at any time, with or without notice and for any reason, including a breach of these Terms or the Software License Agreement, a risk to the service or to others, or a requirement of law. Closing an account does not delete the Organisation’s work, which stays in folders on its own computers. Sections 5, 6 and 11 to 17 continue to apply after an account is closed.

11. Disclaimers

Singularity, the account service, Legal Machines’ models and everything else Legal Machines provides are provided “as is”, “as available” and with all faults, and the Organisation uses them at its own risk. To the fullest extent the law allows, Legal Machines disclaims all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy and quiet enjoyment, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade.

Legal Machines does not warrant that Singularity or the account service will be uninterrupted, timely or secure, or free of errors, harmful components or loss of data; that any work or result produced in Singularity, by members or by AI colleagues, will be accurate, complete, current, original or suitable for any matter, will not infringe the rights of others, will differ from results produced for others, or will be the same as an earlier result for the same request or as any example or demonstration; that Papinian Guard will detect or mask every protected value; that sealing will prevent every unauthorised access; or that any defect will be corrected. Legal Machines does not promise any particular result. Descriptions and examples of how Singularity works, in these Terms, the other documents, Singularity itself, Legal Machines’ websites or elsewhere, describe and illustrate its design and are not warranties. No advice or information from Legal Machines creates a warranty.

Legal Machines is not responsible for any third-party service or software, including AI model providers, Hugging Face, Microsoft Office, Google reCAPTCHA, STUN servers and the providers that host Legal Machines’ services, or for the Organisation’s own computers, networks and shared folders, or for any loss of, or damage to, data kept on any of them.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Legal Machines is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, clients, goodwill, anticipated savings or data, any cost of substitute services, or any claim against the Organisation by its clients or anyone else, including a claim of professional negligence, arising out of or relating to Singularity, the account service, Legal Machines’ models, these Terms or the Software License Agreement, however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, tort (including claims arising from Legal Machines’ own ordinary negligence), strict liability, statute or otherwise, even if Legal Machines was told that such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Legal Machines’ total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to Singularity, the account service, Legal Machines’ models, these Terms or the Software License Agreement, including claims arising from Legal Machines’ own ordinary negligence, is limited to the amounts the Organisation actually paid Legal Machines in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. If the Organisation paid Legal Machines nothing during that period, Legal Machines’ total liability is zero.

These limits apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. They are an essential basis of the bargain: Legal Machines provides Singularity and the account service free of charge only on these terms. Where applicable law does not allow liability to be excluded or limited, including in cases of fraud where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited, Legal Machines’ liability is excluded or limited to the fullest extent permitted by law. These limits protect Legal Machines, its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and contractors.

13. Indemnity

The Organisation will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Legal Machines, its affiliates and the people who work for it or on its behalf against every claim, demand or proceeding by a third party, including the Organisation’s clients and members, a model provider or an authority, and against all losses, damages, fines, penalties, settlements, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) the work the Organisation, its members or its AI colleagues deliver to its clients or rely on; (b) information the Organisation processes in Singularity or sends to a model provider or anyone else; (c) the Organisation’s use of Singularity, the account service or Legal Machines’ models; or (d) the Organisation’s breach of these Terms, the Software License Agreement or the law.

Legal Machines may take part in the defence of such a claim, or take it over, with counsel of its choice and at the Organisation’s expense. The Organisation must not settle such a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on Legal Machines or admits anything on its behalf without Legal Machines’ prior written consent.

14. Changes to these Terms

Legal Machines may change these Terms at any time. A change takes effect when the changed Terms are published at legalmachines.org/singularity/legal, or on a later date they state, and the date at the top of this page shows when they last changed. Legal Machines gives notice of a material change by email to the Organisation Contact Email or within Singularity before it takes effect. Continued use of Singularity or the account service after a change takes effect is acceptance of it; an Organisation that does not accept a change must stop using Singularity and may close its account.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms, the Software License Agreement, and any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to them, to Singularity or to the account service, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

The state and federal courts located in the State of Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute, and each party consents to their personal jurisdiction and to venue there. Legal Machines may nevertheless seek an injunction or other urgent relief in any court of competent jurisdiction, including to protect its intellectual property, its systems or its confidential information.

To the fullest extent the law allows, any claim against Legal Machines arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Software License Agreement, Singularity or the account service must be brought within one year after it arose, or it is permanently barred, and may be brought only on the Organisation’s own behalf, not as a plaintiff or a member of a class in any class, collective or representative proceeding.

EACH PARTY KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUCH DISPUTE.

This section does not take away any right that, under the law that applies to an individual, cannot be waived by agreement, including rights under data protection law.

16. General

• These Terms and the Software License Agreement are the entire agreement between the Organisation and Legal Machines about Singularity and the account service, and replace any earlier understanding about them. The Privacy Notice informs about personal data, and the Consent to Personal Data Processing records a consent under data protection law; neither is part of that agreement. Where these Terms and the Software License Agreement conflict, the Software License Agreement governs the software and the models, and these Terms govern everything else, subject in each case to Section 17.
• The Organisation may not transfer these Terms without Legal Machines’ written consent, except to a successor to its whole business. Legal Machines may transfer them, in whole or in part, including to a company it forms or one that takes over its business, by notice to the Organisation.
• If a provision is held unenforceable, it is enforced to the extent possible and the others remain in effect. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Legal Machines is not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• If the Organisation or its members send Legal Machines feedback or suggestions, Legal Machines may use them freely and without any obligation.
• These Terms are made in English. If they are translated, the English version prevails.
• Accepting these Terms or the other documents by checking a box, pressing a button or using Singularity is an electronic signature, and Legal Machines’ records of an acceptance are evidence of it.
• Notices to Legal Machines go to inbox@legalmachines.org. Notices to the Organisation go to the Organisation Contact Email or appear in Singularity.
• These Terms do not make the parties partners, agents or joint venturers. No one other than the parties, and the people Sections 12 and 13 protect, has rights under them.

17. Source-available and open-source components, and brand

Singularity and Legal Machines’ websites may include, distribute or link to software made available by Legal Machines under the Legal Machines Singularity License, a source-available license, or by Legal Machines or third parties under open-source licenses, including MIT, Apache-2.0 and LGPL-3.0, as identified in the applicable repositories or accompanying license and notice files (each, an “applicable license”).

Each such component is governed by its applicable license. Nothing in these Terms or the Software License Agreement limits any rights granted under such a license or imposes additional conditions on the exercise of those rights, including rights to copy, modify, distribute or reverse engineer the component to the extent permitted by that license. In the event of a conflict concerning such a component, the applicable license shall prevail.

Suspension or closure of an account, or termination of the Software License Agreement, does not terminate rights independently granted under an applicable license. Such rights remain subject to that license’s own terms and termination provisions.

Sections 11 to 15 govern the parties’ rights and obligations under these Terms and the Software License Agreement and do not amend, supersede or impose additional conditions on any applicable license.

Nothing in these Terms or the Software License Agreement grants any license to use the names “Legal Machines”, “Singularity”, “Papinian”, “Papinian Guard” or “Agent Family”, the names of the Agent Family characters, or their associated logos. No rights to reproduce, modify or distribute the Agent Family characters, illustrations, animations or related artwork are granted by these Terms or the Software License Agreement, except as expressly licensed or permitted by applicable law. Legal Machines and the applicable rights holders reserve all other rights in these materials.

Except as expressly authorised in writing or permitted by applicable law, the Organisation must not use Legal Machines’ names, trademarks, logos or other brand identifiers in any manner that falsely suggests affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from Legal Machines.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to inbox@legalmachines.org.