Terms of Service

The service

coarse is a free, open-source AI paper review tool. It uses multi-agent AI systems to generate referee-style feedback on academic papers. The service is provided as-is, without warranties of any kind.

Your papers

You retain full ownership and copyright of any papers you upload. Uploaded papers are processed to generate a review and then deleted from our storage. Generated reviews are stored for 90 days so you can retrieve them via your review key.

API keys and costs

You provide your own OpenRouter API key. All LLM inference costs are charged directly to your OpenRouter account. You are solely responsible for these costs. We recommend setting a per-key spending limit on OpenRouter to cap your exposure.

Your API key is used once during processing and never stored.

No warranty

The service is provided “as is” and “as available” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. AI-generated reviews may contain errors, hallucinations, or inaccuracies. Reviews are not a substitute for human peer review.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service, including but not limited to API costs incurred, decisions made based on review content, or temporary unavailability of the service.

Acceptable use

You agree to use the service for legitimate academic and research purposes. You agree not to abuse the service by submitting excessive requests, attempting to extract or reverse-engineer the system, or using it in any way that violates applicable laws.

Open source

coarse is released under the MIT License. You are free to run, modify, and distribute the software. See the GitHub repository for the full source code.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use of the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Contact

David Van Dijcke — GitHub Issues