Terms of Service

Effective date: 2026-06-09 Last updated: 2026-04-29

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Versus, available at tryversus.app (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

The Service is operated by Francis Bissonnette, a sole proprietor based in Quebec, Canada ("we", "us"). Contact: info@tryversus.app.

If you don't agree with anything below, don't use the Service.

1. Who can use the Service

You must be at least 16 years old. If you're using the Service on behalf of a company, team, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and "you" refers to that entity.

You're responsible for everything that happens under your account. Keep your password and OAuth credentials secure. Tell us at info@tryversus.app if you suspect unauthorized access.

2. What the Service does

Versus is a multi-agent AI debate tool. You configure two or more language-model agents, ask a question, and the Service orchestrates a debate among them, producing a transcript, a synthesis, and analysis.

The Service is bring-your-own-key (BYOK): you supply API keys for the AI providers you want to use (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints). The Service does not proxy your traffic through our keys; calls go from your browser (or, for some operations, our edge functions) to the provider, using your key.

3. Your responsibilities as a BYOK user

You are responsible for:

Provider terms: complying with each AI provider's terms of service and acceptable-use policy. Their rules apply to every prompt you send them through the Service.
Provider costs: paying your providers directly for the tokens you consume. We do not bill you for tokens. The Service surfaces a live cost estimate and a hard-stop budget per debate, but the authoritative bill comes from the provider.
Key security: rotating compromised keys promptly. If you opt in to server-stored keys, you accept the encryption-at-rest and access model described in the Privacy Policy.
Local-model setup: if you connect Ollama or a custom endpoint, you're responsible for the infrastructure, network, and CORS configuration. We provide guidance in the FAQ but we don't operate your local stack.

4. Acceptable use

Your use of the Service is subject to the Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of these Terms. In short: don't use the Service to break the law, harm people, or generate content that violates the AUP. We may remove content, hide share links, or suspend accounts that violate the AUP.

The Service lets you publish a debate as a tokenized URL with three privacy states (private, unlisted, public). When you make a debate unlisted or public:

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and distribute the debate as published, only as needed to operate the share-link feature.
You represent that you have the rights necessary to publish the question and any content you contributed (titles, notes, agent configurations, custom roles).
You're responsible for ensuring the debate doesn't violate the Acceptable Use Policy, third-party copyright, or anyone's privacy.

We may take down a public share at our discretion, including when it receives multiple takedown reports, when it violates the AUP, or when we believe doing so is necessary to comply with law.

You can delete a share link from your dashboard at any time. The public page becomes inaccessible immediately. Anyone — including non-users — can submit a takedown report from the public page; three valid reports auto-hide the share pending review.

If your account is suspended, your public shares are auto-flagged as taken down for the duration of the suspension. If you downgrade from Pro to Free, public shares above the Free-tier limit auto-hide after a 7-day grace period.

We rate-limit share-link creation (currently 5 public shares per user per 24 hours) to deter abuse.

6. Subscriptions and billing

The Service offers a Free tier and paid Pro and Team tiers. Current pricing is on the pricing page.

Payment: paid plans are billed through Stripe. By subscribing, you authorize Stripe and us to charge your selected payment method on the schedule shown at checkout.
Renewal: subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. You can cancel from the customer portal at any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
Refunds: Quebec consumer-protection law applies. Beyond what the law requires, we offer refunds at our discretion when something genuinely broke. Email info@tryversus.app.
Taxes: prices may exclude applicable taxes (GST/QST/VAT). Stripe collects and remits where required.
Free tier downgrade: if you cancel a paid plan, your account drops to Free at the end of the period. Pro-only features stop being available; public shares above the Free limit auto-hide after a 7-day grace period; nothing is deleted.
Failed payments: we may downgrade or suspend a paid account after repeated failed payments, after at least one warning email.

Team subscriptions are billed to the workspace owner and grant entitlements to all members of the workspace. The owner is responsible for the bill.

7. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if:

you materially breach these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy;
your account is implicated in fraud, abuse, or attempted exploitation of the Service;
we are legally required to;
you fail to pay for a paid plan after notice.

We will tell you why, except where doing so would compromise an investigation or be unlawful. You can appeal a suspension by writing to info@tryversus.app.

You may close your account at any time from Settings. Closure deletes your debates, server-stored keys, and personal information from active systems, subject to the retention rules in the Privacy Policy.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination (intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law) survive.

8. Intellectual property

Your content: you retain ownership of the questions, notes, configurations, and any content you contribute. You grant us the limited license described in section 5 for share links, plus whatever's necessary to host and display your private debates back to you.
Provider output: the text generated by AI providers is governed by each provider's terms. We don't claim ownership of model output. Your rights to use that output depend on the provider's terms and applicable law.
Our content: the Service itself, including code, design, brand, copy, and the synthesis/analysis prompts we author, is owned by Francis Bissonnette and protected by copyright. You may not copy, redistribute, or build a competing service from it.
Feedback: if you send us suggestions, we may use them without obligation or compensation.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We don't warrant that:

AI providers will be available or accurate;
debate outputs will be correct, unbiased, complete, or fit for any particular purpose;
the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure against every threat;
a synthesis is a substitute for professional advice (legal, medical, financial, engineering, or otherwise).

Treat AI output as a starting point, not a conclusion. You are responsible for the decisions you make using the Service.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event will Francis Bissonnette, operating Versus, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of the Service.

Our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, or (b) CAD 100.

This limitation does not apply where prohibited by Quebec consumer-protection law or other applicable mandatory law.

11. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Francis Bissonnette from any third-party claim arising out of (a) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, (b) content you publish via share links, or (c) your violation of any third party's rights, including any AI provider's terms.

12. Changes to the Service and Terms

We may change the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time; material changes will be announced by email and the "Last updated" date at the top will change. Continued use after a change is acceptance. If you don't agree, stop using the Service.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec, Canada, and the federal laws of Canada that apply. The courts of Quebec, Canada, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute that isn't required by mandatory law to be brought elsewhere.

If you're a consumer, mandatory consumer-protection rules of your place of residence still apply where they grant stronger protection than these Terms.

14. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement: these Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us regarding the Service.
Severability: if any clause is unenforceable, the rest still applies.
No waiver: if we don't enforce a clause once, we haven't given it up forever.
Assignment: you may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a sale or transfer of the Service, with notice to you.
Notices: by email to the address on your account, or to info@tryversus.app for notices to us.

15. Contact

Versus Quebec, Canada info@tryversus.app