Orbit is a private-beta AI assistant that can remember context, monitor changes, and take actions through services you connect. It can make mistakes. You remain responsible for what you ask it to do and for reviewing important results and approvals.
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and Kaustubh Bhal, a sole proprietor doing business as Orbit (“Orbit,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of the Orbit assistant, website, account portal, messaging program, connected-service features, and related software (together, the “Service”). “Orbit” is a project and trade name, not a separate legal entity. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, and our SMS Terms contain additional terms for messages sent to your phone.
By accepting these Terms during setup or using the Service, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use Orbit.
1. Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18 years old, located in the United States, and legally able to enter into this agreement. The private beta is invitation-only and is not currently offered outside the United States. You may not transfer an invitation, setup link, account session, or account to another person.
Your account is tied to a verified messaging identity and may include connected third-party accounts. Keep one-time links and signed-in browsers secure, use only accounts you are authorized to connect, and tell us promptly at security@heyorbit.dev if you believe your account has been compromised. You are responsible for activity performed through your account until you notify us.
2. What Orbit does
Orbit receives requests through supported messaging channels, uses the context and tools you authorize, and may provide answers, reminders, monitoring, drafts, proposed actions, and completed actions. Available features, connectors, approval rules, and limits may change during the beta.
Orbit may act proactively when you ask it to monitor something or when your notification settings permit an alert. You can change those settings, cancel reminders and watches, disconnect a provider, or turn off all phone messages by replying STOP.
You may mutually connect your Orbit with another Orbit user. A connection lets either person explicitly send a purpose-scoped request or reply through their assistants; it does not grant access to the other person’s memory, connected accounts, files, or tools. Either person may revoke the connection. You are responsible for having permission to share information about another person and for the content you direct Orbit to send.
3. AI limitations and your responsibility
Orbit uses artificial intelligence. Outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, offensive, or not unique. Orbit may misunderstand a request, overlook relevant context, or propose the wrong action. Review information before relying on it and review approval previews before authorizing an external action.
Orbit is not an emergency service and is not a substitute for a qualified professional. Do not rely on it for emergency response, medical diagnosis or treatment, legal advice, financial or investment advice, or any decision where an error could create a material risk of harm. Call the appropriate emergency service when needed.
You are responsible for your requests, your use of outputs, and ensuring that any action you ask Orbit to take is lawful, accurate, and authorized. Orbit does not become your agent, fiduciary, lawyer, healthcare provider, financial adviser, or representative merely because it assists with a task.
4. Connected services and actions
If you connect Google or another third-party service, you authorize Orbit to access the scopes shown on that provider’s consent screen and to use that access only to provide the features you request. The provider’s own terms and privacy policy also apply. You can revoke provider access from Orbit or the provider, but revocation may not undo an action already completed.
Some low-risk or reversible actions may run without a separate approval. Consequential actions—such as sending an email or changing a calendar event that can notify another person—are subject to Orbit’s approval policy. When Orbit presents an approval, your approval authorizes the exact stored action shown in the preview. It is not open-ended permission to create a different action.
Third-party services may be unavailable, delayed, changed, or wrong. Orbit is not responsible for a provider’s service, content, policies, or conduct. You are responsible for third-party fees, obligations, and relationships resulting from an action you approve.
5. Your content and Orbit’s output
“Input” means information you provide or make available to the Service, including messages, attachments, instructions, feedback, and connected-service data. “Output” means content Orbit generates for you. As between you and Orbit, you retain your rights in Input and, to the extent permitted by law, own Output.
You grant Orbit a limited, worldwide license to host, copy, process, transmit, and display Input only as needed to operate, secure, support, and improve the Service as described in the Privacy Policy. You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed for the Input and requested actions.
Because AI systems can produce similar responses for different users, Output may not be unique and other users may receive similar content. Output may also include or point to third-party material governed by separate rights.
6. Orbit intellectual property and public materials
Except for Input, Output owned by a user under Section 5, and third-party materials, the Service and all original materials created for or published by Orbit—including the website, Journal articles, engineering explanations, documentation, text, graphics, designs, interfaces, logos, product names, software, and the selection and arrangement of those materials (collectively, “Orbit Materials”)—are owned exclusively by Kaustubh Bhal, a sole proprietor doing business as Orbit. Orbit Materials are protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other intellectual-property laws. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.
Subject to these Terms, you receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use Orbit Materials for your personal, non-commercial, informational, and evaluation purposes. You may link to public Orbit pages and quote brief excerpts from public Journal articles with clear attribution to Orbit.
Without prior written permission, you may not reproduce, republish, distribute, publicly display, modify, translate, create derivative works from, sell, license, commercially exploit, or systematically extract Orbit Materials. You also may not use Orbit Materials to create a dataset or to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, or improve an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning system. This restriction does not prohibit the ordinary indexing of public pages by general-purpose search engines that honor applicable technical directives.
Nothing in these Terms restricts quotation, fair use, reverse engineering for interoperability, or another right, but only to the extent applicable law does not permit us to limit it. Third-party names, marks, code, and other materials remain the property of their respective owners and may be governed by separate terms.
7. Acceptable use
You may not use the Service to:
- break the law, violate another person’s rights, or facilitate fraud, deception, harassment, abuse, or exploitation;
- access, monitor, or act on an account, system, conversation, or data source without authorization;
- send spam, unlawful marketing, malware, or content intended to manipulate or evade safety systems;
- make high-impact decisions about another person in employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, legal services, or healthcare without lawful authority and meaningful human review;
- probe, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or bypass the Service or its security and rate limits, except where applicable law expressly permits it; or
- resell, share, or provide access to the private beta without our written permission.
8. Feedback
If you choose to send feedback, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it to improve Orbit without identifying you publicly. Do not include another person’s confidential information in feedback. This does not give us ownership of your messages, connected-service data, or private account content.
9. Private beta; changes and availability
The Service is experimental and provided for evaluation. Features may be added, removed, limited, reset, or discontinued. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, delivery of every message, preservation of every beta artifact, or that a feature will become generally available.
The private beta is currently offered without charge. If we introduce a paid service, we will disclose the price and obtain any agreement required before charging you.
10. Suspension and termination
You may stop using Orbit at any time and may delete your account from the portal. We may limit, suspend, or terminate access if reasonably necessary to protect users or the Service, comply with law, respond to misuse, or end the beta. Where practical, we will provide notice and a chance to export data before a non-urgent termination.
Terms that by their nature should survive termination—including ownership, disclaimers, limits of liability, and dispute provisions—will survive.
11. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all Output are provided “as is” and “as available.” Orbit disclaims all express, implied, and statutory warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, and that data will not be lost. Nothing in these Terms limits a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be waived.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Orbit will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, use, or data, arising from or related to the Service—even if we were told such damages were possible.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Orbit’s total liability arising from or related to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid Orbit for the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or (b) US $100. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
13. Resolving concerns
Before filing a formal claim, you and Orbit agree to try in good faith to resolve the concern informally for 30 days. Send a description of the issue and the relief requested to legal@heyorbit.dev. This informal process does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or using a small-claims process where available, and it does not extend a legal deadline unless the law permits.
14. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as Orbit changes. We will post the updated version and effective date. If a change materially reduces your rights or materially expands how the Service uses your data, we will provide additional notice and request renewed consent where required. Changes apply prospectively. Your continued use after an update takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.
15. General terms
If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. A delay in enforcing a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, or transfer of the Service, subject to applicable law and the Privacy Policy. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the SMS Terms, and any feature-specific terms presented to you are the entire agreement about the Service.
16. Contact
Operator: Kaustubh Bhal, sole proprietor doing business as Orbit.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to legal@heyorbit.dev. Support requests can be sent to support@heyorbit.dev.