Terms of Use
Last updated: October 15, 2026
These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and BioLifeSciences LLC, a Delaware limited liability company doing business as Vellum AI ("Vellum," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your use of joinvellum.com and any related pages, estimators, forms, emails and calls (together, the "Site").
By using the Site you agree to these Terms. If you use the Site on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorized to do so, and "you" includes that business. If you do not agree, do not use the Site. You must be at least 18 years old to use the Site.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information and forms part of these Terms.
1. What Vellum does
Vellum helps businesses license de-identified copies of their own work records to AI developers and the data vendors that supply them. The Site explains that service, estimates what a business's records might be worth, and lets businesses, referrers and prospective buyers contact us.
The Site itself does not license, buy or sell any data. Any license of a business's records, any engagement to prepare them, any purchase by a buyer and any referral arrangement is governed only by a separate written agreement signed by both parties (a "Signed Agreement"). If a Signed Agreement conflicts with these Terms, the Signed Agreement controls for that subject.
2. Estimates are not offers
The estimator, the qualification questions, the example business profiles and any figures we discuss with you are illustrative only. They are based on assumptions and averages, not quoted prices.
No estimate is an offer, a valuation, a commitment to find a buyer, or a guarantee of any sale, payment or amount. Whether a license happens, and on what terms, depends on buyer demand, the state of your systems, the rights you can grant and a Signed Agreement.
3. Information you submit
When you fill in a form, answer the qualification questions or talk with us, you may give us information about yourself and a business, such as its size, industry, age, systems and how it keeps records ("Submitted Information").
- Only what we ask for. Do not send us underlying business records, customer or employee personal information, passwords, credentials or access to any system through the Site. We do not need them to assess fit, and nothing should move until a Signed Agreement is in place.
- Accuracy and authority. You confirm that Submitted Information is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you are allowed to share it. If you refer another business, you confirm you have a genuine relationship with it and are allowed to share the contact details you provide.
- How we use it. You allow us to use Submitted Information to assess whether a licensing opportunity may exist, prepare an estimate, contact you about it, and operate and improve the Site, as described in our Privacy Policy.
- Confidentiality. We will not tell a prospective buyer the name of a business that submitted information to us without that business's permission.
- No license to your records. Submitting information does not give Vellum or anyone else any right to access, copy, license or train on a business's records. Those rights come only from a Signed Agreement.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- submit false or misleading information, or information you are not allowed to share;
- submit information on behalf of a business you are not authorized to represent;
- scrape, crawl or copy the Site or its content by automated means, or use it to build a competing estimator or service;
- use the Site or its content to train or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model;
- probe, scan or test the Site's security, interfere with its operation, or try to access any part of it you are not meant to;
- automate form submissions or referrals, or submit them in bulk;
- impersonate any person or business; or
- use the Site in violation of any law.
We may refuse, delete or ignore any submission, and may suspend access to the Site, at our discretion.
5. Ownership
The Site, including its text, design, estimator, examples, graphics and code, is owned by Vellum or its licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms, we give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to view and use the Site for its intended purpose.
"Vellum AI" and our logos are our marks. You may not use them without our written permission.
If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or payment to you.
6. Third-party services
The Site may link to or use third-party services, such as scheduling, email and analytics tools. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices. Your use of them is subject to their own terms.
7. No professional advice
Nothing on the Site or in our communications is legal, tax, accounting, privacy, financial or investment advice. In particular, nothing we say is advice about whether you or your business are legally or contractually permitted to license any records. Talk to your own advisors before signing any agreement. We encourage businesses to have their own counsel review any Signed Agreement.
8. Disclaimers
THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, VELLUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY ESTIMATE WILL MATCH ANY ACTUAL OFFER OR PAYMENT.
9. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, VELLUM AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100).
This section applies only to the Site. Liability under any Signed Agreement is governed by that agreement. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.
10. Indemnity
To the fullest extent the law allows, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Vellum and its members, managers, employees and agents from third-party claims, and related losses and reasonable legal fees, arising from information you submitted that you were not entitled to share, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third party's rights.
11. Suspension and termination
We may suspend or end your access to the Site at any time, including if we believe you have breached these Terms. Sections 3 (No license to your records), 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 14 survive.
12. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Before starting any legal proceeding, the party raising a dispute will send the other a written description of it, and both will try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days. Notices to us go to the email address in Section 15.
If the dispute is not resolved, it will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court where eligible, and either may seek urgent injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or confidential information.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms by posting a new version with a new "Last updated" date. Changes apply from that date. If you keep using the Site after a change, you accept the updated Terms. Changes do not affect any Signed Agreement.
14. General
These Terms, with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Vellum about the Site. If any provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent allowed and the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, sale or reorganization. You consent to receive communications from us electronically.
15. Contact
BioLifeSciences LLC, doing business as Vellum AI