Terms of Service
Last updated: September 15, 2026
Version: 2026-10-30
These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of Pathom, a decision-support tool at pathom.app. By creating an account or otherwise accessing Pathom, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Pathom.
Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a binding contract to use Pathom. Pathom is currently invite-only; you must have received a valid invitation to register.
Your account
You are responsible for the security of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us at the address at the bottom of these Terms if you become aware of any unauthorized use. You may only maintain one active account.
What Pathom is and isn't
Pathom generates decision-support content - evaluations, drafts, prep documents, coaching language - with the help of a large language model. The output is a starting point that you review, edit, and use at your own discretion.
Pathom is not legal advice, career counseling, employment negotiation representation, or financial advice. We do not guarantee that the output is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for your specific situation. You are the professional; Pathom is one of your tools.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use Pathom to harass, threaten, or defraud anyone (recruiters, employers, other users).
- Present Pathom-generated content to others without review - for example, sending an LLM-generated cover letter unedited if it contains inaccuracies.
- Scrape, crawl, mass-download, or otherwise systematically extract content from Pathom.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of Pathom.
- Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with Pathom's security, rate limiting, or access controls.
- Use Pathom to build a competitive product or to train a machine-learning model.
- Upload content you don't have the right to upload (documents belonging to a former employer under a confidentiality agreement, someone else's resume, etc.).
- Attempt to use Pathom to violate any applicable law or the rights of any third party.
Your content
You retain all rights to the content you enter into Pathom - your resume, stories, opportunity notes, compensation figures, generated artifacts you subsequently edit. You grant Pathom a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to process your content for the sole purpose of providing the service to you (running evaluations, generating drafts, sending prompts to Anthropic per the Privacy Policy). We do not claim ownership of your inputs and we do not use them to train models.
Pathom's content
The Pathom software, interface, prompts, and non-user-specific content (documentation, marketing pages, coaching guidance) are owned by us or licensed to us. You may not copy, distribute, or create derivative works from Pathom's non-user-specific content without our prior written consent.
LLM output disclaimer
Pathom's output is generated by a large language model whose training data has a cutoff date and whose reasoning can be wrong. Language models can fabricate information. You are responsible for verifying anything Pathom generates before acting on it, and for using Pathom's suggestions as a starting point rather than a final answer. We disclaim liability for actions you take based on Pathom's output.
Payments and subscriptions
Pathom is currently invite-only and free of charge. When paid subscription plans become available, additional terms specific to billing will be presented at the point of subscription. Payment processing is handled by third-party vendors (Stripe or Paddle depending on your region); their own terms apply to the payment flow.
Termination
You may terminate your account at any time through the account-wipe action in Settings. We may terminate or suspend your access to Pathom if we determine you have violated these Terms, if your account presents a security or abuse risk, or if we discontinue the service. Suspended or terminated users are notified through their registered email address unless doing so is impracticable (e.g., ongoing fraud investigation).
Disclaimers
Pathom is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, or the accuracy of any generated content. We do not warrant that Pathom will be error-free, that defects will be corrected, that servers will be free of viruses or malware, or that Pathom will meet your specific requirements.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, our aggregate liability arising from or related to your use of Pathom shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any claims, damages, or liabilities (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of Pathom, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any rights of a third party.
Dispute resolution and arbitration
Any dispute arising from or related to these Terms or your use of Pathom shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by JAMS pursuant to its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures. The arbitration shall take place in Charlotte, North Carolina, unless we agree otherwise. You and we waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action. This section does not preclude either party from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction for infringement of intellectual property rights or unauthorized access to Pathom.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be surfaced in the app before they take effect; the version currently in effect is dated at the top of this page. Your continued use of Pathom after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
Contact
Questions about these Terms: reach us at invite@pathom.app.