scid.ai Public Offer

1. Document status

1.1. This document is an offer by ARTICLE LLC (ООО «АРТИКЛ») to enter into a paid digital-access agreement for scid.ai on the terms set out here and displayed before payment.

1.2. The Offer is addressed to legally capable individuals and duly authorised representatives of organisations. Mandatory protections under Russian law apply to consumers.

1.3. This Offer applies together with the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. For a particular order, the conditions confirmed before payment apply where they do not reduce mandatory User rights.

2. Definitions

2.1. Service means scid.ai and its available research, AI, library, graph, communication and related features.

2.2. Plan means published access terms, including the period, credit pool and price displayed before order confirmation.

2.3. Subscription means paid access under a selected plan for a billing period and may include automatic renewal where the User expressly agrees.

2.4. Credit means an internal accounting unit used to measure actual use of resource-intensive features.

2.5. Top-up means a separate purchase of an additional credit pool where such a product is available in the interface. A top-up is not itself a subscription.

2.6. Order means the selected plan, top-up or other paid product together with its displayed price, volume and conditions.

3. Subject of the agreement

3.1. The Operator provides remote access to the Service within the paid Order, and the User pays for the Order and follows this Offer and the Terms of Use.

3.2. Features may include scientific search, AI answers and documents, literature reviews, source comparison, graphs, file library, favourites, work history, export, digests and other functions displayed in the interface.

3.3. Each Order is defined by the conditions displayed before payment. Advertising and overview pages do not replace the final Order screen.

4. Contract formation and activation

4.1. Before payment, the User can review the selected product, price, credit pool, billing period, renewal conditions and other material Order terms.

4.2. The Offer is accepted for an Order by payment or another clearly identified confirmation action followed by a successful-order notice from scid.ai.

4.3. The agreement is formed for the confirmed Order. Paid access or an additional pool is activated after the Service receives successful payment confirmation.

4.4. If payment is not confirmed, the Operator may withhold activation. The User may check the account or contact info@scid.ai.

5. Credit model

5.1. Credits are debited according to actual computational use. The debit may depend on input size, generated output, number of sources, selected mode, models and other processing parameters.

5.2. An estimate shown before an operation, if available, may differ from the final debit. The post-operation balance reflects processing actually completed by the Service.

One-time Free pool

A newly activated Free account receives 700 credits once. This pool is not a paid Order.

Pool for the paid period

After payment is confirmed, the published pool for the selected plan is credited; its amount and access period are shown before payment.

Top-up

Where available, the pool size and price appear on the final Order screen. This Offer creates no hidden or assumed packages.

Balance

Credits are accounted for in the account, may be used only for scid.ai and cannot be exchanged for money or transferred between accounts.

5.3. The Service may decline to start an operation if the balance is insufficient. If an operation is underway, further processing may be restricted after available credits are exhausted.

5.4. Credit-pool duration and use are defined by the relevant Order and account information. If a condition is not displayed, the User should not infer expiry, rollover or debit priority solely from a product name.

6. Price and payment

6.1. The price, currency, Order composition and billing period are displayed before payment. The Operator does not apply a price that was not shown to the User.

6.2. Payment is made by an available checkout method. Payment details are processed by the provider identified in the form, including YooKassa where applicable; the Operator does not receive full bank-card details.

6.3. A receipt or other payment confirmation is issued and retained as required by applicable law and the payment infrastructure.

6.4. Bank fees, currency conversion and payment-method limits may depend on the User's bank or provider and are not set by the Operator.

7. Subscription renewal and cancellation

7.1. If the User selects automatic renewal before payment, the Operator may initiate payment for the next period on the terms displayed at checkout and available in the account.

7.2. The User may disable further renewal through the billing method made available. Once cancellation or refusal to use a previously supplied payment method is properly recorded, the Operator will not initiate subsequent recurring charges using it.

7.3. Turning off renewal does not void an already confirmed Order: the paid period remains available until its paid end date unless the User obtains a refund or law requires otherwise. The Operator does not initiate future recurring charges after cancellation; use of any remaining credit pool follows the terms displayed for the paid product.

8. Plan changes and balance adjustment

8.1. Where plan changes are available, the new plan and price or additional payment are displayed before confirmation. Supported change directions and credit-balance treatment follow the offer actually made available.

8.2. By confirming a plan change, the User accepts the displayed terms. After successful payment, the current plan, access period and credit balance are reflected in the account.

8.3. The existence of another plan on a pricing page does not itself guarantee an immediate switch. Available change directions and terms are defined in the account interface.

9. Quality, AI outputs and liability

9.1. The Operator provides the Service within its current technical capability and takes reasonable measures to maintain operation.

9.2. AI answers, documents, reviews, classifications, graph relationships and references may be inaccurate. The User must verify material conclusions against primary sources.

9.3. The Operator is not responsible for independent scientific databases, publishers, payment systems, model providers, communications networks or other third-party services.

9.4. Liability limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law and do not remove mandatory consumer rights.

10. Requests, charge errors and refunds

10.1. Questions about a payment, debit, access or credit balance may be sent to info@scid.ai with the account and available transaction reference, but without full card details.

10.2. Cancellation, refund and adjustment requests are reviewed according to the Order circumstances, access actually provided, credits used and mandatory Russian law.

10.3. This Offer does not establish a universal refund formula and does not limit rights granted to the User by law.

10.4. A claim may be sent to info@scid.ai. The parties may attempt to resolve a dispute through negotiation and exchange of claims, without limiting mandatory remedies available to the User.

11. Effective period, amendments and details

11.1. The Offer applies from its stated effective date. Amendments apply to new Orders from publication unless a later date is specified. A confirmed Order remains governed by its accepted terms and mandatory law.

11.2. Russian law governs the parties' relationship. Disputes are resolved under mandatory jurisdiction and consumer-protection rules applicable to the User.