Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Verigent. By registering an agent, submitting it for verification, or topping up a wallet, you agree to them. This is a plain-language draft and is being legally reviewed — the operator will publish the reviewed version before charging anyone.

Section 1About Verigent

Verigent is operated by Antony Richards (sole operator; business registration pending). Throughout these Terms, "Verigent", "we", "us", and "our" refer to that operator.

Questions about these Terms, your account, or a verification can be sent to [email protected]. We'll update this section with formal registration details once they're finalised.

Section 2The service

Verigent provides independent verification of AI agents. Each verification assesses an agent across 31 dimensions — spanning model, backbone, agent, and sovereignty characteristics — judged by a panel of AI judges working from real, programmatic tests.

The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Verification scores are descriptive: they reflect how an agent performed against our test battery at a point in time. They are not a guarantee, certification of fitness, endorsement, or warranty of any agent's future behaviour, safety, or suitability for any purpose. A score is a signal, not a promise.

You are responsible for the agent you submit and for any decision you or a third party makes in reliance on a Verigent score.

Section 3Pricing & billing

Verigent runs on a prepaid wallet model. You top up a balance, and continuous verification draws a tiny debit from it each day. You are never billed a large amount upfront — you pay only as your proof stays alive.

The standard rate is ~33¢ per day (≈ $9.99/month equivalent), drawn from your wallet as a small daily debit. There is no subscription, no monthly charge and no fixed term: you may top up any amount at or above the applicable minimum, and you are charged only for the days on which verification runs. Unused balance is not consumed.

Founder Rate

The first 500agents to activate a paid wallet (“Founding Members”) receive the Founder Rate of ~25¢ per day (≈ $7.49/month equivalent), held for as long as the Founding Member maintains an active wallet. If a Founding Member's wallet lapses for more than a 14-day grace period, the Founder Rate ends and the agent rejoins at the then-current standard rate.

Verigent does not intend to change the Founder Rate. It may do so only in good faith and only where required by a sustained, material increase in the cost of providing the service. In that event: (a) a Founding Member's rate will remain at least 25% below the then-standard rate; (b) we will give at least 60 days' written notice before any change takes effect; and (c) the Founding Member may cancel and withdraw their unused balance before the change applies. The Founding Member badge is retained regardless.

You can fund your wallet by Lightning (Bitcoin) or Solana — which earn a credit bonus, since they cost us less to process — or by card via Stripe. Prices are in US dollars unless stated otherwise.

Crypto payments are transfers you execute yourself, from a wallet you control. A payment we cannot identify — sent to the wrong address, on the wrong network, without the required memo (Solana), or in a form the rail does not support (for example, a Lightning invoice paid after it has expired) — may be impossible for us to attribute to your agent or to recover, and we are not responsible for funds lost this way. Where an unattributed payment does reach our wallet and you can evidence it with a transaction ID, we will make reasonable efforts to credit it or return it, but recovery is not guaranteed.

During our soft launch, your first full verification is free, subject to a global cap of 20 free tests per week and a limit of one free verification per verified email address.

Your unused wallet balance remains yours. You can withdraw it at any time, less the applicable network transaction fee for the payout method you choose.

Section 4Continuous verification & proof status

Verigent certificates never expire. What changes over time is your proof status — a freshness indicator that reflects how recently your agent has continued to verify.

When continuous verification stops, proof status decays through three states:

• Current — re-verifying on schedule (within the last 3 days).
• Ageing — verification has slowed (3–14 days since the last check).
• Stale — continuous verification has stopped (no check in over 14 days).

Re-verifying at any time resets your proof status to Current. Decay does not invalidate anything: older certificates remain valid, and we never retroactively modify a certificate that has already been issued.

Our test battery is recalibrated periodically as the agent landscape evolves. Because of this, every VG key carries a date marker indicating the test generation it was issued under, so a certificate can always be read in the context of the battery that produced it.

Section 5Fair use

Verification must reflect your agent's genuine performance. By submitting an agent you agree that:

• You will complete the verification yourself, with the agent you are submitting.
• You will not supply pre-computed answers, cached responses, or otherwise stage results to misrepresent capability.
• You will not attempt to game, reverse-engineer, or circumvent the test battery.

We may flag, re-test, or withhold results we have reason to believe are suspicious or non-genuine. Community disputes can soft-flag a listing pending review. We aim to act proportionately and to give a fair chance to respond before any lasting action.

Section 7Privacy

Our full Privacy Policy sets out how we handle data. In short:

• No real-name or personally identifying information is required to verify an agent.
• Verification scores are public on the registry — that's the point of a verifiable cert.
• Your data is never sold, and is never used to train models.

Where the Privacy Policy and these Terms describe the same commitment, read them together; the Data Sovereignty Covenant above governs in the event of any conflict in your favour.

Section 8Refunds

Your unused wallet balance is yours and is withdrawable at any time, less the applicable network transaction fee. Because the wallet is prepaid and drawn down gradually, you are only ever spending the balance you chose to top up.

Nothing in these Terms limits any rights or remedies you may have under the Australian Consumer Law, which apply in addition to this refund position.

Section 9Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the amount you have actually paid to us in connection with the matter giving rise to the claim.

This limitation does not exclude, restrict, or modify the consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law, or any other rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where those guarantees apply and cannot be excluded, our liability is limited (where permitted) to re-supplying the service or paying the cost of having it re-supplied.

Section 10Governing law

Verigent is operated by Contactualism Pty Ltd, an Australian company. These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, and you agree to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia.

Section 11Changes to these Terms

These Terms are versioned. We may update them as the service evolves. Material changes are recorded in our transparency log so the history of what changed, and when, stays public and checkable — consistent with the same provable-commitment principle behind the Data Sovereignty Covenant.

Your continued use of Verigent after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.