Terms of Service

Orblite is an AI guidance tool for high school students. It provides a quarter-by-quarter roadmap, a weekly Positioning Score, periodic check-ins, a set of study and planning tools, and an AI counselor you can talk to.

Orblite is an artificial intelligence, not a person. No human reads your conversations as they happen and no human supervises them in real time.

It is a guidance tool and nothing more. It is not a therapist, doctor, lawyer, or financial adviser, and it does not replace your school counselor, who handles transcripts, official deadlines, course overrides, and school-specific logistics. It is not an emergency service.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Orblite. Most of our students are between 14 and 18. We do not knowingly permit accounts for anyone under 13, and we delete any we find.

If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must give consent before you can use the Service at all. This happens when the account is created, not when anyone pays — every account needs it, including free ones. If you select "I'm 18 or older" at account creation, you are contracting for yourself.

Where a student is under 18, the contracting party is the parent or legal guardian. They agree to these Terms on the student's behalf and are responsible for any charges on the account.

Age is self-declared. We rely on what you tell us and do not require identity documents from teenagers, because collecting government ID from minors would create a far larger risk than it removes.

If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must confirm that they are your parent or legal guardian, that they are 18 or older, and that they agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy on your behalf. We rely on that confirmation and do not independently verify the family relationship.

Consent is collected at account creation, before we ask you any personal questions, and is separate from payment. A free account requires consent exactly as a paid one does.

Consent is given per student. A guardian with more than one student on Orblite consents separately for each.

A guardian may withdraw consent at any time by emailing us, which closes the student's account. A guardian may also review, correct, or request deletion of their student's information — see the Privacy Policy for what a guardian can and cannot see.

There are two plans. Free costs nothing and includes 30 AI messages a month. Premium is $25 a month or $250 a year and includes 400 AI messages a month; the annual plan is billed once a year, but the message allowance still applies monthly within that year rather than all at once.

Both plans show the same thing: the complete four-year roadmap structure — every year's theme, every quarter's focus, and how many tasks each holds — plus the task titles for the quarter you are in and the one after it, the weekly Positioning Score, the quarterly check-in, the Calendar, and most Tools. Task titles further ahead than the next quarter are not shown in advance on either plan; each quarter opens as you reach it, and paying does not open it sooner. Premium additionally unlocks the roughly 45% of your current quarter's tasks marked as requiring it, which means opening those tasks' AI chat; a Free student can always read what a locked task is and do it themselves. Premium also unlocks live web search on tasks that use it, your own custom Projects, AI recommendations when you open a flagged task, the Resume Builder, and higher Document Vault and flashcard limits.

Scoring quality, the quarterly check-in, and every safety and wellbeing feature — including crisis response — are identical on both plans and are never limited by what you pay.

Message allowances reset on a rolling 30-day window from your own signup or billing date rather than a fixed calendar date. A quiet daily ceiling applies on both plans purely as an abuse safeguard; ordinary use will not reach it. Messages generated by the system itself — weekly scoring, check-in prompts, your welcome message — do not count against your allowance.

Premium's list price is $39 a month or $390 a year. We are currently offering an introductory rate of $25 a month or $250 a year during a stated launch window. Where a price is shown struck through on our site, the struck-through figure is the real list price that applies once that window closes — not a comparison price we invented.

If you subscribe during the launch window, you keep the introductory rate for as long as your subscription stays active and uninterrupted. If you cancel and resubscribe after the window has closed, the then-current price applies.

Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax that may apply. Payment is processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.

Premium is an automatically renewing subscription. Read this section before you subscribe — we also show these terms on the payment screen and ask you to agree to them separately from the purchase itself, and we keep a record of that agreement.

Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. A monthly plan renews every month and is charged $25 each time; an annual plan renews every 12 months and is charged $250 each time — or the price you subscribed at, if you are on an introductory rate you have kept. The charge is taken on the anniversary of your original purchase, to the payment method on file.

You may cancel at any time, and you can do it yourself from the billing screen in your account in the same number of steps it took to subscribe. There is no phone call, no email required, and no retention conversation to sit through. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for; access continues until then.

To avoid being charged for the next period, cancel before the current period ends. A cancellation made after a renewal has been taken applies to the following period.

For annual plans, we will email you a reminder before each renewal, telling you the date and the amount. If a price is ever going to change, we will tell you before it does and you will have the chance to cancel first.

Cancelling Premium does not delete anything. Your account returns to the Free tier with your profile, roadmap progress, chat history, check-ins and score history intact, and resubscribing later picks up where you left off. What you lose is the Premium message allowance and access to the roadmap tasks that require Premium.

Refunds: if you were charged for a renewal you did not intend, email us within 30 days of the charge and we will refund it. Beyond that we do not generally give refunds for partial periods, but we would rather sort out a genuine problem than argue about it — write to us. Nothing here limits any refund right you have under the law of your state.

To delete your account entirely, use the Danger Zone in Settings. That is self-serve, immediate, and permanent. Deleting your account is the only thing that deletes your data; we do not delete it on our own after a period of inactivity or cancellation.

Orblite does not guarantee admission to any college, university, program, or scholarship, and does not guarantee any specific academic, extracurricular, or personal outcome. Following the roadmap improves how you are positioned; it does not promise a result, and the Service is instructed never to imply otherwise.

The Positioning Score measures profile strength relative to your own grade and chosen track. It is not a prediction of any admissions decision and must not be relied on as one.

Orblite will brainstorm with you, ask questions, give structural feedback, and point out what is working or missing in your writing. It will not write passages you would submit as your own words.

You are responsible for the integrity of anything you submit to a school, program, or scholarship, and for complying with that institution's rules about the use of AI. Those rules differ, they change, and they are yours to check.

The Service is powered by a large language model and may occasionally be wrong. It is instructed not to invent deadlines, program names, statistics, or admissions requirements, and to tell you when it is uncertain — but you should independently verify anything consequential, particularly dates, costs, and application requirements.

Do not rely on Orblite as your only source for a deadline. Deadlines change, and a missed one is not something we can undo.

Do not use the Service to harass or harm anyone; to attempt to extract, copy, resell or reverse-engineer the underlying model, the roadmap content, or the scoring methodology; to scrape or bulk-download content; to circumvent usage limits or access controls; to impersonate anyone; to upload malware; or for any unlawful purpose.

Do not create an account for someone else without their guardian's consent, and do not share your login.

We may suspend or close accounts that do these things, and we may do it without notice where the conduct is serious.

What you write and the information you provide about yourself remain yours. Documents you upload to the Vault remain yours.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, process, transmit and display your content solely in order to operate the Service for you — for example, to show a document back to you, to include relevant profile context in a request to our AI providers, or to back up the database. The licence exists for that purpose and ends when you delete the content or your account. We do not use your content to train AI models and we do not use it for marketing.

You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload. Do not upload anything that infringes someone else's copyright, and do not upload other people's personal information.

If you believe something on the Service infringes your copyright, email us with enough detail to identify the work and where it appears, and we will remove it where the claim is substantiated. Repeat infringers lose their accounts.

The Service — including the roadmap content, the scoring methodology, the interface, the Orblite name and mark, and everything else we made — is ours and is protected by copyright and trademark law. Your account gives you a personal, non-transferable right to use it, and nothing more.

The roadmap task library in particular is not licensed for redistribution. Do not republish it, resell it, or use it to build a competing product.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that any defect will be corrected, or that the information it produces is accurate, complete, or current.

Some states do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where that is so, this section applies to the extent the law allows and no further.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost data, or any admissions, scholarship, or academic outcome — whether or not we were told such damages were possible.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or $100.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some states do not allow certain limitations; where that is so, this section applies to the extent the law allows and no further.

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or content you upload that infringes someone else's rights. This does not apply to a minor beyond what the law permits, and where the account belongs to a student under 18 it is the consenting guardian who gives this undertaking.

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches section 11, that we are required to close by law, or that poses a genuine risk to another person. Where we can give notice first, we will, and where an account is closed for a reason other than serious misconduct we will refund any unused paid period.

We may also discontinue the Service. If we ever do, we will give at least 30 days' notice, refund any unused paid period, and provide a way to export your data before it closes.

Sections 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 19 survive termination.

If something goes wrong, email hello@orblite.ai first and give us 60 days to sort it out. Most problems are a misunderstanding and are cheaper for everyone to fix in an email than anywhere else. We will do the same before bringing any claim against you.

If that does not resolve it, these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Georgia. Either of us may still bring a qualifying claim in small claims court.

Nothing here prevents you from contacting your state Attorney General or any other regulator, and nothing here waives any right you have that cannot be waived under the law of your state.

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest continues in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.

You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, on notice to you.

We are not liable for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Safety & AI disclosure page, are the entire agreement between us about the Service.

We may update these Terms. The date at the top always reflects the current version. If a change materially affects your rights, we will notify you by email at least 14 days before it takes effect, and continuing to use the Service after that constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept a change, you may cancel and we will refund any unused paid period.

Questions about these Terms: hello@orblite.ai.

We will add a postal address here before launch; until then email is the fastest route and is monitored.