Terms of Service

Last updated: August 29, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern access to and use of the APIs, data, and related services (the "Service") made available at api.edifiedlab.com and any successor or related endpoint (collectively, "Edified Lab," "we," "us," or "our"), operated by Revelations Consulting Inc ("Operator").

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By accessing or using the Service in any way — including issuing a single API request, whether or not that request results in a completed payment — you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are accessing the Service on behalf of an organization, a principal, or an automated agent under your control or direction, you represent that you have authority to bind that party to these Terms, and "you" refers to both you and that party. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the Service.

These Terms take effect, for you, at the moment of your first access to or use of the Service, and continue to apply to every subsequent access or use, whether or not you re-read them.

2. The Service; no content repository

The Service provides machine-callable HTTP APIs, priced and paid per call using the x402 protocol (HTTP 402 Payment Required) and settled in USDC on Base. The Service is intended for programmatic / automated (agent) callers as well as direct human/developer use. The specific resources offered, their prices, and their input/output contracts are published at api.edifiedlab.com/openapi.json and may change at any time without prior notice.

The Service does not operate a content repository, hosting platform, or user-facing publication surface. Content you submit (a document, a URL, a query) is processed transiently, for the sole purpose of returning a response to you, and is not stored, indexed, displayed, made searchable, or made available to any other person. The Operator does not create, select, edit, endorse, or exercise editorial control over any content you submit or any content the Service returns to you — see Section 5.

Some resources may be fulfilled, in whole or in part, using third-party data-processing or infrastructure providers selected and operated at the Operator's discretion. The identity of any such provider is not part of the Service's public contract and may change without notice; your relationship for purposes of these Terms is with the Operator only, regardless of what infrastructure is used to fulfill a given request.

3. Payment; No Refunds; Credit Balances

Each paid call requires a valid, settled on-chain payment matching the price quoted in the corresponding 402 response, or a sufficient balance under the Service's credit-purchase mechanism. All payments are final. Blockchain transactions are irreversible by their nature; the Operator does not maintain a mechanism to reverse, cancel, or refund a settled payment, including where the underlying request subsequently fails, times out, or returns an error, except where the Service's own published behavior states a specific credit or retry is granted for that failure mode.

A purchased credit balance is redeemable only against the Service and has no cash value, is non-transferable, and is not refundable or redeemable for fiat currency or any other cryptocurrency.

You are solely responsible for the security of any wallet, private key, or credential you use to interact with the Service. The Operator never has custody of, and cannot recover, funds lost due to your own error, key compromise, or use of an incorrect network or address.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third party's rights, including intellectual property, privacy, or data-protection rights;
• Access, request, or process content or data that you do not have the right to access, request, or process, including by using the Service to circumvent access controls, authentication, rate limits, or terms of service belonging to a third-party website or system;
• Transmit or generate fraudulent, deceptive, or unsolicited content (including spam), malware, or content intended to facilitate fraud;
• Interfere with, degrade, or attempt unauthorized access to the Service, its infrastructure, or other users' use of it;
• Use the Service in connection with weapons, adult content, illegal gambling, or any use case prohibited by the acceptable-use policy of any third-party provider the Operator uses to fulfill a given resource.

You are solely responsible for your use of the Service, including for any content, URL, document, or query you submit to it and for any consequence of the Service processing that input on your behalf. The Operator does not review, and cannot practically review, the substance of individual requests before they are processed.

5. Not a publisher; no obligation to monitor

The Service acts solely as a technical intermediary that processes requests and returns output at your direction and instruction. The Operator does not author, select, review, approve, or exercise editorial control over content submitted by you or any other user, and does not undertake, and has no obligation to undertake, general monitoring of the content processed through the Service. To the extent applicable law (including 47 U.S.C. § 230 or comparable provisions of other jurisdictions) treats a provider of an interactive computer service as not the publisher or speaker of information provided by another party, the Operator relies on and does not waive the benefit of any such provision. Nothing in this Section limits Section 4 (Acceptable Use) or Section 7 (Indemnification).

6. Automated monitoring; reporting abuse

The Operator uses automated, non-content-based signals — including source IP address, request rate, and payment/settlement patterns — to detect abuse, fraud, and compromised or anomalous callers, and may throttle, suspend, or block traffic on that basis without prior notice. This monitoring does not involve inspection of the substance of your submitted content and does not create an obligation on the Operator to review content generally. If you believe the Service has been used to process content that infringes your rights or violates applicable law, contact us using the details in Section 14; we will review reports made in good faith, though — per Section 2 — the underlying content is not retained by the Service beyond the original request.

7. Indemnification — liability for your use shifts to you

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator, its officers, employees, and service providers from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to:

1. your access to or use of the Service;
2. any content, URL, document, instruction, or data you submit to the Service, or any third party's claim that such content, URL, document, instruction, or data, or the Service's processing of it at your direction, infringes that third party's rights or violates applicable law; and
3. your breach of these Terms or of any representation you make under them.

The Operator will promptly notify you in writing of any such claim, and you will have control of the defense and settlement of the claim, provided that the Operator may participate in the defense with counsel of its own choosing at its own expense, and no settlement that imposes any obligation on the Operator may be entered into without the Operator's prior written consent. This indemnification obligation does not apply to the extent a claim arises solely from the Operator's own breach of these Terms.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE, AND ANY DATA OR OUTPUT IT RETURNS, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE. Market, financial, and informational data returned by the Service — including anything described as a market "signal" or "insight" — is provided for informational purposes only, is not investment, financial, legal, or trading advice, and must not be relied upon as the sole basis for any financial or trading decision.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE OPERATOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER WHATEVER THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF THE OPERATOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

General cap. Except as provided below, the Operator's total aggregate liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service is limited to the total amount you actually paid to the Operator for use of the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Security-incident cap. For a claim arising specifically from a security vulnerability in the Operator's own systems (as opposed to compromise of your own wallet, private key, or credentials, which is your responsibility under Section 3) that directly and proximately causes the misdirection or loss of a payment you made to the Service, the Operator's aggregate liability for that claim is limited to the greater of (a) the amount described in the General cap above, or (b) the actual amount of the specific payment misdirected or lost as a direct result of that vulnerability. This carve-out does not expand liability for any other category of claim, including lost profits, business interruption, or consequential damages, which remain excluded above.

10. Dispute resolution; binding arbitration; class action waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO FILE A LAWSUIT IN COURT.

You and the Operator agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual action in small claims court. You and the Operator each waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative action — any arbitration or proceeding will be conducted only on an individual basis and not consolidated with any other party's claim.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending written notice to the contact address in Section 14 within thirty (30) days of the date you first became bound by these Terms (or, for an amendment adding or changing this Section, within thirty (30) days of that amendment's effective date); if you opt out, this Section does not apply to you, but every other provision of these Terms still does.

11. Termination; Suspension

The Operator may suspend or refuse any request, or block any address or source of traffic, at any time and without prior notice, including where the Operator believes in good faith that doing so is necessary to comply with law, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to protect the Service, the Operator, or any third party. These Terms survive any termination of your access with respect to obligations that by their nature should survive, including Sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

12. Changes to these Terms

The Operator may modify these Terms at any time by posting the revised Terms at this URL with an updated "Last updated" date. Continued access to or use of the Service after a revision takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

13. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Indiana, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, except to the extent the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 10.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: joey@revelations.consulting.

See also our Privacy Policy.