Terms of service
Last updated October 7, 2026
These terms cover your GovInbox subscription and the GovInbox ChatGPT plugin. The contracting party is Artifex Innovations LLC (Washington, USA), the operator of getgovinbox.com. By signing up or using the service you agree to these terms. They are written to be read, so please do.
What the service is
GovInbox is software. It watches public federal set-aside notices on SAM.gov, matches them to the filters you set, and writes a plain-English brief with the new matches. You pull briefs on demand when you, or an AI assistant acting for you, ask for them. The brief is not emailed. It saves your watchlists and bookmarks, and answers questions through your AI assistant.
Programs covered: service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVOSB), 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned (WOSB/EDWOSB), VA veteran-owned (VOSB), Buy Indian, general small business set-asides, and local-area set-asides.
GovInbox does not provide consulting, registration or certification assistance, proposal writing, legal advice or any other service performed by a person.
Free tier
GovInbox offers a free tier with no credit card required: up to 3 searches per day, capped at 10 searches per calendar month for anonymous users and 20 searches per calendar month for users with a free account. Limits reset at 00:00 UTC (4:00 PM Pacific). Pro and Team subscriptions are paid from day one. If you do not subscribe, your saved data is deleted 30 days after your last activity. We may refuse or end free access that appears to be abused.
Your subscription and access token
- Each subscription comes with one or more access tokens, depending on the plan. A token is for one person. Keep it secret; anything done with it is treated as done by you.
- Requests made through the API, an MCP client or an AI assistant all count against the same limit: each token may make up to 1,000 requests per UTC day. Requests beyond that are refused until the next day.
- When you cancel, your token keeps working until the end of the period you paid for. Tokens are revoked when the subscription actually ends, or immediately for misuse described below.
- Fair use is 1,000 API requests per day per paid seat, shared across all access tokens on that seat. An access token is the credential your software uses to connect to GovInbox. Creating additional access tokens to multiply your allowance, or distributing requests across tokens to evade limits, is prohibited. You are responsible for all activity under your account whether or not you authorized it; revoke a compromised token immediately. Quota consumed before revocation still counts.
Billing
- Core is $19 per month or $190 per year. Pro is $49 per month or $470 per year. Team is $99 per month or $990 per year. Prices are in U.S. dollars; applicable taxes may be added.
- Plans are billed through Stripe and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time; the subscription stays active until the end of the period already paid for and does not renew after that.
- Fees are non-refundable, even if GovInbox shuts down. If we voluntarily discontinue the service entirely, we will make reasonable efforts to give at least 30 days' notice and keep access running through the end of your paid billing period. "Discontinue" means permanently ceasing the GovInbox service for all users; it does not cover temporary outages, feature changes, acquisitions where the service continues, or shutdowns caused by events outside our control including bankruptcy or court order.
- Prices may change. Any change is announced by email at least 30 days before it applies to you.
ChatGPT plugin
The GovInbox plugin for ChatGPT gives your AI assistant a research toolset for federal contract records: open notices and opportunities, grants, agency feeds, award history, subawards, notice checklists, notice record briefs with version compare, protest-risk checks, recompete tracking, teaming-partner research, FAR clause lookup, and a watchlist with deadline reminders. It is not affiliated with the U.S. government, GSA, or SAM.gov. It does not ask for your SAM.gov credentials and does not write proposals.
- Free tiers. Without a connected GovInbox account: 3 searches per UTC day and 10 per UTC month, both limits applying at once. With a connected free GovInbox account: 20 searches per UTC month, no separate daily limit.
- Counting. One accepted search counts as one use, regardless of how many records are returned. Follow-up calls (opening records, comparing versions, listing awards or subawards) within 30 minutes after a search do not count extra, up to 30 follow-ups per search. Empty results consume the search. A lookup for a record that does not exist is not charged. Invalid arguments and errors never count. Each retry of a search counts as a new search, as does each call for another page of search results. Chat messages, setup, and tool discovery do not count. Requests rejected for invalid authentication or exhausted quota do not count. Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC (4:00 PM Pacific); monthly limits reset on the first of the month. Unused searches do not carry over.
- Receipts. A notice brief returns a receipt that is private to you and expires at the time shown. It cannot be replayed by anyone else.
- Anonymous use. Without a connected account, usage is enforced through a hashed identifier or a shared IP bucket, so callers in the same bucket may share the allowance. See the privacy page for details.
- Data. Results reflect GovInbox's stored data and stated freshness, not a complete live search of federal records. Subaward reports may be incomplete or duplicated; award amounts are not cash paid or obligations. Confirm dates and requirements on the original record at SAM.gov before responding.
- Derived data. We may create de-identified, aggregated records from your use of the service. GovInbox owns these derived records, may license them for any lawful purpose, and will not attempt to re-identify them.
- Abuse. Circumventing the quota, sharing receipts across people, or using the plugin to build a competing data product may end your access without notice.
AI assistants and connectors
You may use your token from any AI assistant, agent or script, including Meta Muse, Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. The assistant provider is a separate company with its own terms; GovInbox is not responsible for how an assistant phrases, summarizes or acts on GovInbox results, and the assistant provider is not responsible for GovInbox.
Store your token in the assistant's secure credential store, not in chat text. An assistant using your token can create and delete your watchlists and bookmarks; anything it does with your token counts as done by you. Confirm before letting an assistant clear or delete watchlists.
Acceptable use
Use the service for your own business development. You may use GovInbox to perform work for your own clients, and you may include individual results in finished reports or deliverables you create for them, with a written credit naming GovInbox as the source (for example, "Source: GovInbox" in a footnote, caption, or sources section). Anyone performing the work, including your employees and subcontractors, must use their own assigned seat and may not share logins or access tokens.
You may not: resell or share access to the service, including through a client-facing dashboard, portal, or feed that lets the client query GovInbox data; hand over raw exports, bulk downloads, or API feeds as standalone files; present GovInbox output as your own proprietary research with our name removed; use GovInbox data to train AI/SI models or build a competing product; share a token between people; or attempt to circumvent request limits. Doing so may end your subscription without refund.
About the data
Opportunity notices come from the public SAM.gov Contract Opportunities API and are refreshed every 4 hours. Notices may be posted, amended or withdrawn between refreshes, and briefs are automated summaries of what the notice says. Confirm dates, requirements and eligibility on the original notice at SAM.gov before responding.
Exclusion checks match names by text and can return low-confidence matches; a flagged result is a prompt to check SAM.gov, not a finding. Size-standard results are calculations from figures you supply. Agency goal data is from the prior fiscal year. Recompete and incumbent guesses are predictions from award records. GAO protest data lags the docket. None of this is legal, procurement or eligibility advice.
Regulatory text (FAR clause lookups, Federal Register notices) is an informational reference only, not legal advice. Regulations change; the clause version in your signed contract and solicitation controls, not the copy shown by GovInbox. Every clause lookup shows the source version date and links the official eCFR section page: verify the current text there before acting.
A subscription buys software access, not guaranteed opportunities, awards or certification. GovInbox is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. General Services Administration, the Small Business Administration, SAM.gov, Meta, Anthropic or OpenAI.
Warranties and liability
The service is provided as is. There is no warranty that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or that it will surface every relevant notice. To the extent the law allows, GovInbox is not liable for indirect or consequential damages, or for lost bids, lost profits, lost data, emotional distress or reputational harm, even if advised of the possibility.
Total liability for any claim connected to the service is limited to $100 or the fees you paid in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is more. This is one combined limit for all claims together, This is one combined limit for the operator and its owners, officers, employees, agents and service providers, not a separate limit per claim or per person sued. These limits are essential to this agreement; the service could not be offered at these prices without them.
If someone makes a claim because of how you used GovInbox
To the extent the law allows, you will defend us and pay our losses and legal fees for claims about your use of the service, your token, or your breach or alleged breach of these terms. We may handle the defense ourselves. This does not apply to claims caused by our own negligence or fraud.
Disputes
Talk first. Before filing a claim, email [email protected] describing the dispute and what you want. Both sides will try in good faith to fix it for 60 days after we receive your email. The one-year filing deadline below is paused during those 60 days.
Arbitration. If we cannot fix it, either side may start binding individual arbitration, run by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. You pay only the AAA consumer filing fee; we pay all other AAA and arbitrator fees. Hearings happen by video, or in person in your home county if you prefer.
No class actions, no jury, in any forum. Disputes go forward only as individual claims, whether in arbitration or in court. No class actions, no group cases, no jury trial, anywhere. If this waiver cannot be enforced, disputes go to court as individual cases only, not as a class. Nothing here waives your right to seek public injunctive relief where the law protects that right.
Small claims. Either side may use small claims court instead, including the small claims courts in Clark County, Washington.
Urgent relief. Either side may ask a court for urgent temporary relief, such as stopping ongoing misuse, without waiting out the 60 days or arbitrating first.
Opt out. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days of starting your subscription by emailing [email protected] with your name and a statement that you opt out. If you opt out, disputes go to the state courts in Clark County, Washington, or the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Mass filings. If 25 or more similar claims are filed or noticed within 90 days by the same or coordinated lawyers, AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules apply. AAA decides which claims count as similar. Claims waiting in later batches have their filing deadlines paused until their batch starts.
Fallback. If this arbitration section cannot be enforced, disputes go to the state courts in Clark County, Washington, or the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, unless the law gives you a different right.
Filing deadline. Any claim must be filed within two years after it arose, or it is permanently barred. If the law requires a longer deadline for a particular claim, that longer deadline applies.
Ending the agreement
You may end it by cancelling. GovInbox may end it for a breach of these terms, or by discontinuing the service with at least 30 days' notice and a pro-rated refund of any prepaid period.
Changes to these terms
Material changes are announced by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept them.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.