Terms

These terms were drafted by the operator and are not reviewed by counsel. They will be replaced, not amended, when counsel has reviewed them.

What this product does

It reads your own facts, your own documents and the law text we hold, and it answers. Where it reaches a conclusion it says so, marks which part of the answer is checked against a source and which part is the model's own knowledge, and shows each of its four checks — Legal, CA, Finance and OPS — by name, including the ones that did not run. These are the questions it answers, and on each of them it will tell you what it would do:

• What you owe and when: every filing dated, with the section it comes from and what missing it costs.
• The same question for a period you name — “due this month” is a filter on the register, not a turn of phrase.
• Which form of company you are — small company, one person company, or neither — and which lighter regime follows from it.
• Whether a step needs a board or a shareholder consent, and which resolution carries it.
• What you actually agreed to, read back to you out of your own signed documents.
• What a late filing costs now, how the fee runs from here, and what to do about it.
• Whether one of your entities may lend to or invest in another, and under which section.
• How a legal position lands in your books, and when.
• How a thing is actually done, step by step, from the procedure packs.
• A private limited company against an LLP against a one person company — each option costed, and the one we would pick for you, with the reason.
• What a section says and how far it reaches.
• A document assembled from the approved clause library with your own facts filled in and the blanks named rather than guessed, for your professional to review and sign.
• Whether a registration or a licence applies to you — GST, a state label registration, FSSAI — and what obtaining it takes.
• How to incorporate, when there is no company yet.
• Two options side by side, each costed, and a recommendation between them.
• A move you are contemplating — a new state, a raise, the twenty-first employee — projected into the registrations, filings and money it would trigger.
• A notice read back to you: what is claimed, under which instrument, by when you must reply, and what the notice itself says non-compliance costs. We draft the reply; your professional signs and files it.

Every rupee we show carries the rule it is computed from and the source of that rule, and a row we cannot price honestly says so instead of showing a number.

Reserved acts

We prepare. A professional signs. Appearing, pleading or acting before a court is reserved to enrolled advocates by sections 29 and 33 of the Advocates Act, 1961; section 33 gives way where another law says otherwise, which is how chartered accountants and company secretaries come to appear before some tribunals and authorities. The Act does not on its face reserve drafting or non-litigious advisory work; how far "practice of law" reaches beyond appearance was considered by the Supreme Court in Bar Council of India v. A.K. Balaji, (2018) 5 SCC 379, in the context of foreign lawyers and law firms. We do not appear for anyone, we do not hold ourselves out as advocates, and we take the conservative side of that line by design.

Why we recommend and still do not appear. Read together, the three sections that matter describe an act, not a subject. Sections 29 and 33 of the Advocates Act, 1961 reserve appearing; section 288 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and section 116 of the CGST Act, 2017 are the “unless otherwise provided” that section 33 anticipates — each names the persons who may appear for you before those authorities, and each is a list we are not on. None of the three reserves reading a statute, computing a due date, drafting a document or telling you what we would do. So the conservative side of the line is the one we take, and it is drawn at the door of the forum rather than at the point of an opinion: we read, compute, draft, assemble and recommend, and we stop where appearing begins. We never appear, we never sign or file in your name, and we never hold a signature — the professional entitled to do those things does them, in their own name, on their own device.

Expressing an opinion on financial statements, and the attest functions that carry a UDIN, may be performed only by a chartered accountant holding a Certificate of Practice under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949; certifying an annual return (Form MGT-8) and a secretarial audit (Form MR-3) only by a company secretary in practice under the Company Secretaries Act, 1980; measuring gratuity and leave encashment under Ind AS 19 rests on actuarial assumptions — the standard encourages, without requiring, a qualified actuary, and in India that means a member of the Institute of Actuaries of India under the Actuaries Act, 2006; and the financial statements and the Board's Report are signed by the directors under section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013. This platform performs none of those acts. What it produces is a prepared draft, an organised file, a cited note and our own read of what we would do — for a professional to review and sign in their own name, or for you to rely on at your own risk after cross-verifying it.

Of the Acts named here only the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 is in our corpus, so only it is linked: we link the law we hold and nothing we do not.

No privilege

Communications made to an advocate in the course and for the purpose of that advocate's professional employment are protected from disclosure by section 132 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, which replaced section 126 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 on 1 July 2024. We are not an advocate and you do not engage us as one, so nothing you put here carries that protection: assume anything written here could be produced in a dispute or reached by summons.

Your data

Everything you upload stays yours. One-click export of your matters, documents and notes in open formats is a commitment on every tier, including the free one, and it is live: download everything from here or from Settings, in one zip, whenever you like. If the service closes, we publish 90 days' notice before it closes and keep export live for 180 days after it closes.

We do not sell your documents and we do not train models on them. To produce a draft or a note we send the text you give us to our model gateway, OpenRouter, and through it to the provider of the model that runs your request — today Qwen or DeepSeek — and to nobody else. We give 30 days' notice before that list changes. There is no separate data-processing agreement yet; this paragraph is the whole of it until counsel has reviewed one.

We never hold a DSC. A digital signature certificate belongs to the person whose name is on it; holding the key would make us the filer of record for every filing made with it. Filings are signed by you or your professional, on your own device, and we never ask for a portal password.

Terms of use

• The service is free and provided as it is; there is no warranty and no service-level or uptime commitment. It recommends, and a recommendation from software is not a professional's signed opinion: nobody has reviewed what it produces, and where the law requires a professional to sign, certify or appear, you engage one.
• You are responsible for cross-verifying every output against the source we link before you rely on it, and for engaging a professional where the law requires one.
• Our liability is limited to the maximum extent the law permits for a service supplied free of charge.
• You may hold up to three organisations on one account and must be entitled to act for each of them.
• We may suspend an account used to attack the service or other users' data.
• Inviting a second person into an organisation is not built yet: the operator adds members by hand, and we say so rather than showing you a form that does nothing.
• If something here is wrong, tell us through the account you signed up with — that is the only channel we have today. A grievance contact is published with the reviewed terms.