Legal · Terms
Nine clauses between your team and ours. Like the runtime they govern: explicit grants, visible boundaries, and a record you can hold us to.
Settlegate, Inc. licenses the Sentinel runtime: software that lets AI agents operate an electric-vehicle data platform inside a tool policy you define, and that writes an append-only provenance record of everything those agents do. These terms sit between Settlegate and the company whose engineers deploy it (“you”). Someone accepting them for you is telling us they can.
The runtime enforces; it does not decide. Which tools an agent may reach, which triggers fire, which evidence thresholds apply — those choices live in your policy files, and their consequences belong to the team that wrote them. Sentinel guarantees your policy is enforced exactly as written and that the record of what happened cannot be quietly edited afterward. It does not guarantee your policy was wise.
Sentinel deploys into your infrastructure alongside your EV data platform. Your license covers the number of governed runtimes and environments named in your order form, for internal use. Evaluation deployments are licensed for non-production workloads for 60 days and may be extended by asking. You may not resell, sublicense, or operate the runtime as a service for third parties without a separate agreement.
Your telemetry, your incidents, your investigations, and your provenance ledger are yours. We receive only licensing heartbeats and, if you turn it on, de-identified runtime metrics. Agent traffic and vehicle data never leave your boundary through us.
Keep your deployment inside the law that governs your vehicle data — telematics consent regimes included. Do not point governed agents at systems you do not own or lack authority over. Do not use the provenance ledger to launder a human decision into an “agent decision”; the record exists to make accountability legible, not to relocate it. And keep your Sentinel license keys confidential; activity under them is yours until you tell us they leaked.
Fees follow your order form and are invoiced annually in advance, net 30. Late undisputed invoices can suspend support and updates — never the runtime itself, and never your access to your own ledger. Taxes ride on top, except taxes on our income.
We stand behind three specific properties of the runtime for the length of your subscription: capability grants fail closed; the ledger is append-only and tamper-evident; and the software materially matches its documentation. If any of these fail, we fix it fast or refund the remainder of the term. That is the whole warranty — nothing else is promised, expressly or by implication, and outcomes of investigations your agents run are expressly not.
Money damages between us are bounded by the license fees paid for the twelve months before the event in dispute, and neither side answers for the other's consequential or indirect losses. The boundary has exactly three gaps: fees owed, willful misconduct, and either side's duty in T-07. Where an agent under your policy takes an action that hurts a third party, the provenance ledger will show precisely what was granted and what was done — and the granting was yours.
If a third party claims the Sentinel runtime, as shipped, infringes their intellectual property, Settlegate steps in front of that claim and carries what it costs. If a third party is harmed by what your governed agents did under your policy, or by data you fed them, you step in front and carry that. The party defending gets prompt word of the claim, the driver's seat, and honest cooperation from the other.
Subscriptions run their term and renew unless either side declines renewal 30 days out. A material breach that survives 30 days of written notice ends the agreement early. When it ends, the runtime stops receiving updates and license keys stop validating for new deployments — but your provenance ledger is a set of files in your infrastructure, and it stays exactly where it always was: with you.
Colorado law governs, and the state and federal courts of Denver County, Colorado are the only venue either of us may use. Neither side may hand this agreement to someone else without consent, save to a successor in a merger or whole-business sale. If a clause fails, the rest holds. Notices go to legal@settlegate.xyz and to your named contract contact. These terms plus your order form are the entire deal.
Effective June 19, 2026 · questions to legal@settlegate.xyz