The deal, in plain words.

Who we are

41 is a product of Giraffe, LLC, a Montana company ("we," "us"). These terms are the agreement between you and Giraffe, LLC when you use 41 at 41mt.ai, the account pages at app.41mt.ai, or the connector at api.41mt.ai. By creating an account or connecting 41 to an AI assistant, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use 41.

41 is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the State of Montana, Anthropic, or OpenAI.

What 41 is

41 is a connector. Once you add it to Claude or ChatGPT, the assistant can look up Montana public records through it: bills, votes, legislators, statutes, administrative rules, lobbying registrations, and more. You ask questions in your assistant and the assistant calls 41 to get the records it needs.

We are always adding sources and improving the service. Features and coverage will change over time.

Your account and your key

• One seat, one person. Each subscription is for one person. If a team wants 41, each member needs their own seat.
• Your key is yours. Connecting 41 uses a personal key. Keep it private and don't share it or post it anywhere public. If it leaks, replace it from your account page, or write to us and we will.
• Accurate details. Give us a real email address that you can receive mail at. We use it to sign you in and to send billing and service notices.
• You must be at least 18, or be acting for a business that is.

Price, billing, and renewal

• The monthly price is $39 per seat. The annual price is the amount shown at checkout. Prices are in US dollars, and any sales or other taxes that apply are added at checkout.
• Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each month or year, using the payment method you gave, until you cancel.
• If we change the price, we'll email you at least 30 days before it applies to you. It takes effect at your next renewal, and you can cancel before then.
• If a payment fails, we may pause your access until it is fixed.

Cancelling and refunds

You can cancel at any time from your account page. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep full access until the end of the period you've already paid for, and then it ends. If you'd rather not use the account page, email support@41mt.ai from the address on your account and we'll cancel it for you.

Payments are not refundable. Monthly plans aren't prorated: cancel halfway through a month and you keep access to the end of that month, with no further charge. Annual plans are billed once for the year and aren't refundable in whole or in part; if you'd like to try 41 first, start monthly and switch later.

Billing mistakes are a different matter. If we charge you the wrong amount, charge you twice, or charge you after you've cancelled, tell us and we'll refund the mistaken amount, whenever you notice it. Refunds go back to the card you paid with, through Stripe, and usually appear within 5 to 10 business days.

Acceptable use

41 is for personal and business research: looking things up, reading, analyzing, writing about, and understanding Montana's public record, mostly through your own AI assistant. Within that, please:

• Don't resell or share access. No reselling, sublicensing, or sharing 41, your key, or the API behind it, and no building a competing product or service on top of it.
• Don't bulk-extract. No automated scraping, harvesting, or mirroring of the data beyond ordinary personal and business research. If you need a full dataset, the official sources publish it, and you're welcome to ask us about other arrangements.
• Don't strain or attack the service. No attempts to get around limits, break authentication, probe for weaknesses, or overload it.
• Use contact details responsibly. Lobbying registrations include public contact details for registered lobbyists. Using them to reach out for legitimate business is fine. Harassment, spam, or anything that breaks the law is not.
• Don't use 41 for anything unlawful.

If we think you're breaking these rules, we may limit, suspend, or end your access. When it's fixable, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

The data is public record, provided as-is

The records in 41 come from official public sources, such as the Montana Legislature, the Montana Code Annotated, the Administrative Rules of Montana, the Montana Administrative Register, and the Commissioner of Political Practices. We collect them, organize them, and connect them. We do not create them.

• It may be incomplete or late. Sources publish on their own schedules, some records are missing, and some are still being loaded. Where we know coverage is partial, we try to say so.
• It may contain mistakes. Errors can come from the source, or from how we collect and process it. AI assistants can also summarize or interpret records wrongly.
• It is not legal, financial, or professional advice. For anything that matters, check the official source and, where appropriate, ask a professional.

So 41 is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, availability, or fitness for a particular purpose, to the extent the law allows. We don't promise the service will always be up or error-free.

Your AI assistant is separate

Claude and ChatGPT are other companies' products. Your use of them is covered by their terms and privacy policies, not ours, and what the assistant says in its own words is its output, not ours. See our privacy page for what does and doesn't reach 41.

Our limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or lost opportunities, arising from your use of 41, including from a mistake or gap in the data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

Some places don't allow these limits, so they apply only as far as your local law lets them. Nothing here limits liability that can't legally be limited.

If we end things

You can stop using 41 whenever you like. We can end or suspend an account for a serious or repeated breach of these terms, or if we stop offering 41. If we end your account for any reason other than your breach, we'll refund the unused part of what you've prepaid.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For anything that materially affects you, we'll email you at least 30 days ahead. If you keep using 41 after a change takes effect, you accept it. If you don't, you can cancel before then. The date at the top always shows the latest version.

Montana law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Montana, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Montana, and you and we both agree to those courts. Before anyone files anything, we'd like the chance to sort it out by talking: write to us first.

The rest

These terms, together with the privacy page, are the whole agreement between us about 41. If a part of them turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something right away, we haven't given it up.