Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these terms

Hilltelligence (the “Service”) is operated by First Contact Strategies, LLC (“we,” “us”). By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. The Service

Hilltelligence provides information about federal legislation. Some content is sourced from public records (for example, Congress.gov, Senate.gov, the House Statement of Disbursements, and lobbying disclosure filings). Other content — including plain-English bill summaries, passage-probability estimates, potential-cosponsor and alignment analysis, caucus and committee analytics, and the Pomeroy bill assistant (collectively, the “Hilltelligence Analysis”) — is generated by us and is made available to signed-in users.

3. Proprietary rights

The Hilltelligence Analysis, together with the Service’s software, design, text, and the selection, arrangement, and presentation of all content, is the proprietary property of First Contact Strategies, LLC and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Underlying public records are not owned by us; our analysis, derivations, scoring, rankings, and compilations are.

4. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to:

• scrape, crawl, harvest, or use automated means to access, extract, or copy content from the Service, except as expressly permitted by us in writing;
• bulk-download, reproduce, republish, resell, sublicense, or otherwise commercially exploit the Hilltelligence Analysis or any substantial portion of the Service;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the methodology, models, weights, or source code underlying the Hilltelligence Analysis;
• circumvent, disable, or interfere with access controls, rate limits, or security features of the Service;
• use the Service to build, train, or improve a competing product or dataset.

5. Accounts

Some features require an account. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure.

6. No professional advice; no warranty

The Service is provided for informational purposes only and is not legal, financial, lobbying, or professional advice. The Hilltelligence Analysis, including probability estimates and AI-generated summaries, may contain errors or omissions and should not be relied upon as a sole basis for any decision. The Service is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, First Contact Strategies, LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service.

8. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

9. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be directed to First Contact Strategies, LLC, Alexandria, Virginia.