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Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-05-01

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of SpecStep ("the Service"), operated at specstep.com by SpecStep ("we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Plain-language summary

This summary is a non-binding overview. The full terms below control.

  • You can use SpecStep to generate documentation packages for your software projects.
  • You retain all rights to the packages you generate. We do not claim ownership of your inputs or outputs.
  • Don't use SpecStep to generate content that's illegal, harmful, infringes someone else's rights, or attacks the Service itself.
  • The Service is provided "as is." Generated packages are starting points, not legal or compliance guarantees.
  • The Free tier has monthly usage caps. Paid tiers have higher caps and access to richer review profiles.
  • You can delete your account at any time and we'll delete your data within 30 days.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If you are using the Service on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms. One human or machine identity per account; do not share credentials.

3. Accounts

Sign-in is delegated to a third-party identity provider (Google, GitHub, or Microsoft). You are responsible for maintaining the security of the underlying provider account. Notify us at hello@specstep.com if you suspect unauthorized access. We may disable accounts engaged in abuse, fraud, or violations of these Terms; affected users are notified at the email on file.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Use the Service to generate content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, obscene, infringing, or that depicts the sexual abuse of minors.
  • Generate content intended to facilitate harm to people, property, infrastructure, or animals.
  • Attempt to reverse-engineer the Service, bypass quotas, scrape rate-limited endpoints, or interfere with other users' access.
  • Submit content for which you do not hold the necessary rights, or that violates the rights of others (intellectual property, privacy, publicity).
  • Submit personal information about identifiable third parties without lawful basis to do so.
  • Use the Service to develop a competing product, train an LLM on our outputs, or systematically extract our prompts, rubrics, or templates.
  • Use the Service in connection with high-risk activities where failure could cause death, personal injury, or severe environmental damage (e.g., life-support, nuclear facilities, critical infrastructure control).

5. Your content and our content

5.1 Your content

"Your Content" means everything you submit to the Service: interview answers, reference documents, source-control configuration, role assignments. You retain all rights to Your Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, transmit, and display Your Content solely for the purpose of operating the Service for you.

5.2 Generated packages

The documentation packages produced by the Service ("Generated Output") belong to you. We do not claim ownership of Generated Output. You are responsible for reviewing Generated Output before relying on it. Generated Output is produced in part by large language models, which may produce inaccurate, biased, or incomplete results.

5.3 Our IP

The SpecStep platform, the Web UI, the REST API, the MCP server, the agent prompts, the rubrics, the templates, and the brand are our intellectual property. You receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service per these Terms. Nothing in these Terms grants you any other rights in our intellectual property.

6. Subscription and billing

  • Tiers: SpecStep offers a Free tier and paid tiers (Pro, Team). Each tier has a monthly cap on generations, a concurrent-generation cap, and a set of available review profiles. The current tier matrix is available on the Pricing page.
  • Billing: paid subscriptions are billed in advance through Stripe. By starting a paid subscription, you authorize recurring charges on your selected payment method until you cancel.
  • Cancellation: you may cancel at any time via the Stripe Customer Portal accessible from Settings → Billing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you retain access until then.
  • Failed payments: if a charge fails, we may downgrade you to Free tier or suspend the account after a reasonable grace period.
  • No refunds: subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law. We may, at our discretion, offer credit for service outages.
  • Tax: prices do not include applicable taxes; you are responsible for any taxes that apply in your jurisdiction.

7. Free tier

The Free tier is provided as a courtesy and may change or be discontinued with reasonable notice. We reserve the right to apply additional rate limits or content restrictions to the Free tier.

8. LLM provider terms

The Service routes Your Content to large language model providers (currently Anthropic and OpenAI) to produce Generated Output. Your use of the Service is also subject to the applicable provider's acceptable use policy. We pass through generation requests; we do not modify Your Content beyond redacting obvious secrets before transmission.

9. Service level

We aim for high availability but make no formal uptime commitment for any tier. We may perform maintenance with reasonable advance notice and unscheduled emergency maintenance without notice. We are not liable for delays caused by upstream providers (LLM APIs, identity providers, DNS, payment processors).

10. Termination

You may terminate your account at any time via Settings → Delete account. We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially violate these Terms, if your subscription becomes delinquent, if your identity provider revokes our access, or if we are required to do so by law. On termination, we will delete Your Content within 30 days, except information we are required to retain for accounting, legal, or audit purposes.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted availability. Generated Output is informational and is not legal, financial, medical, security, or compliance advice. You are responsible for evaluating its suitability for your purposes.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will SpecStep, its affiliates, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenues, data, business opportunities, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability, or any other legal theory, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total cumulative liability arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SpecStep from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (i) Your Content, (ii) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law, or (iii) your infringement of any third-party right.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas. You waive any objection to venue in those courts. If you reside in a jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection rules that override this clause, those rules apply to the extent required by law.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the current version. Material changes will be announced via email to your account address at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

16. Miscellaneous

  • Entire agreement: these Terms together with the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and SpecStep regarding the Service.
  • Severability: if any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect.
  • Waiver: our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
  • Assignment: you may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
  • Notices: legal notices to us must be sent to hello@specstep.com. Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your account.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms: hello@specstep.com.