Corobate LLC · North Carolina, USA
APPROVED AND ADOPTED BY THE PRINCIPAL — 10 August 2026
Adopted by the principal, who is pro se and takes responsibility for what he files and publishes.
No lawyer guarantees enforceability, completeness or correct formation either — what a second reader adds is a second reading. So this document is not held back pending a credential. What it is held back on is named, and the list is short: the clauses at the foot of this document that are not yet written. Those are specific and checkable, which is the only kind of "not finished" this estate accepts.
It exists because the product currently collects acceptance of terms that do not exist. A draft that states honestly what the software does is a better starting point for a practitioner than a blank page, and a far better one than a template describing a different product.
Every clause below is a statement about how the software actually behaves, checked against the code, and cited where it matters. A clause a practitioner deletes costs nothing. A promise the software cannot keep costs everything, in a product whose argument is that its promises can be checked.
Corobate seals a decision as a tamper-evident record. The record carries the evidence relied on, the rules applied, and the reasoning — in a form that a third party can recompute independently.
It records how a decision was reached. It does not decide whether the decision was right.
We do not promise an outcome. A sealed record attests to a process and its inputs at a point in time. It is not a warranty of value, fitness, safety, legality, or of anything that happens afterward.
We do not provide financial, legal, medical, or professional advice. Nothing this software produces is advice.
We do not certify a supplier, a shipment, an asset, or a person. We record what evidence was presented and what a rule you supplied made of it.
A refusal is not an accusation. Where the software declines to seal, or records that a requirement is uncovered, that is a statement about the evidence before it — never a finding about any party.
We cannot verify what we were not given. Where an input's origin cannot be established, the record says so and the software refuses to treat it as though it were established. This is the intended behaviour.
Anyone may verify a receipt at no cost, without an account, and without installing our software. This is not a promotional term. It is the product: a record you can only check by paying us is not a record you can check.
A counterparty's re-run is free. If someone hands you our receipt, you may verify it without any relationship with us.
We will not introduce a charge for verification. If this service ends, the verification method remains published and a receipt remains checkable by anyone implementing it.
The rules are yours. Thresholds, requirements, and what may be waived are authored by you or by a regulator you name. We supply the machinery, not the policy.
The evidence is yours. You are responsible for what you submit and for having the right to submit it.
Your keys are yours. A private key you control signs your records. If you lose it, we cannot recover it and cannot re-sign on your behalf. That is a property of the design and not a limitation of our support.
An acceptance of risk is yours. Where a named person in your organisation accepts a priced risk, that acceptance is theirs and is recorded under their name.
We will keep the verification method published and implementable. We will not alter a sealed record. We will not alter the arithmetic that produced a past record in a way that changes what it re-derives to.
We will tell you when we are wrong. Defects in this software are logged publicly, including defects found by us and defects that were ours.
Support reads the record. Support cannot change a verdict, waive a requirement, or re-seal a record to a different result. Escalation changes who is reading; it does not change what the record says. This is a deliberate limit: a verdict a support agent could change on request is a verdict nobody should rely on.
We do not promise uninterrupted service. Verification does not depend on our availability — a receipt is checkable by any implementation of the published method, whether or not this service is running.
(Cross-reference: the Privacy Policy, which is a separate document and also a draft.)
Redaction is an operation on the record, not a hole in it. Where content is redacted, the record continues to verify and states that redaction occurred. We cannot make a sealed record un-happen, because a chain that can be edited is not a chain.
Where a fee applies it is stated before the charge. Verification is not chargeable — see §3.
You may stop using the service at any time and export your records. Records you exported remain verifiable after you leave, without our participation.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COROBATE LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We do warrant one thing, and it is the product: that a receipt sealed by this service will re-derive under the published verification procedure, and that we will not alter the procedure in a way that changes what a previously sealed receipt re-derives to. Where a receipt we sealed does not re-derive under the published procedure, tell us and we will correct the procedure or the record and publish what was wrong.
Nothing in this section excludes liability for fraud, for fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything that cannot lawfully be excluded.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COROBATE LLC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST BUSINESS, OR LOSS OF DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.
Aggregate liability is capped at the greater of (a) the fees you paid in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) one hundred United States dollars.
A specific exclusion, stated plainly because it is the one that will arise. We are not liable for a decision you made, or declined to make, on the strength of a record this service produced. The record attests to a process and its inputs. It does not assert that the decision was correct, and §2 says so before you ever reach this section.
This section does not limit liability for fraud, for fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything that cannot lawfully be limited.
You will indemnify and hold harmless Corobate LLC against third-party claims, and reasonable legal costs, arising from (a) evidence you submitted that you had no right to submit, (b) your use of the service in breach of these terms or of law, or (c) a representation you made to a third party about what a record means that goes beyond what the record says.
We will indemnify you against a third-party claim that the service as supplied by us infringes that party's intellectual property, provided you tell us promptly and let us control the defence. This does not apply where the claim arises from your combination of the service with something else, or from your modification of it.
We may change these terms. Material changes take effect thirty days after we publish them, and we will publish the previous version alongside the new one so the change is visible rather than asserted.
Two things will not change to your detriment while you are a customer: that verification is free (§3), and that support cannot alter a verdict (§6). If we ever intend to change either, we will say so and you may terminate immediately with a pro-rata refund.
We may suspend or terminate for non-payment after notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure, or immediately for use that is unlawful or that endangers the service or other customers.
On termination for any reason you keep your records and they keep verifying. We will not withhold an export as leverage in a payment dispute.
You will not use the service in breach of applicable export control or sanctions law, and you represent that you are not a person with whom we are prohibited from dealing.
Before filing, tell us what is wrong and give us thirty days to resolve it. Most disputes about a record are resolved by reading the record together.
If that fails, the courts of the State of North Carolina and the federal courts sitting in that State have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and we submit to them. We are not requiring arbitration and we are not waiving your right to a jury, because a service whose argument is that its records can be examined in the open should not route disputes about them into a closed forum.
Nothing here prevents either of us seeking urgent injunctive relief anywhere.
These terms, with the Privacy Policy and the Licence Notice, are the whole agreement. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. You may not assign without our consent; we may assign to a successor to the business, and any successor is bound by §3 and §6.
These terms are governed by the law of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
Corobate LLC, Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA.
§3 and §6 are load-bearing product commitments, not boilerplate. They describe behaviour the software enforces and a build gate protects. §14 and §18 carry them forward through a change of terms and a change of owner, because a promise that survives only while the current management feels like it is not a promise.
§4's key-loss clause is a real property of the design, not a liability shield. There is no recovery path and there cannot be one.
§12's specific exclusion is the claim that will actually arise — someone who acted on a record and lost money. It is excluded in §12 and the reason is given in §2, before the reader reaches the limitation.
One item remains open and it is a business decision, not a drafting one: whether redaction satisfies a statutory erasure right in a given jurisdiction. See the Privacy Policy §4. It is answered by choosing which jurisdictions to serve, not by wording.
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