AlphaAssayThese terms govern your use of AlphaAssay — the website, the API at
api.alphaassay.com, the hosted MCP server at mcp.alphaassay.com and any
verdicts or certificates they produce (together, the Service). By using the Service you agree to
them. The operator and its full contact details are on our legal notice.
What AlphaAssay is — and is not
AlphaAssay is an independent statistical assay office for trading signals. It runs a deterministic
battery — deflated Sharpe with cumulative trial accounting, out-of-sample and walk-forward tests,
look-ahead and leakage forensics, placebo tests — and returns a machine-readable verdict
(pass, conditional, fail or insufficient_evidence)
with the reasons attached.
AlphaAssay provides methodology audits — NOT investment advice. There is no order path and no
custody: we never place, route, hold, manage or execute trades or assets, and we hold no client money
or securities. A pass is a statistical trial result, never a promise of returns.
Verdicts are demote-only: evidence can lower a grade, never inflate one. Nothing the Service outputs
is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything.
Accounts and API use
Some features are free and need no account (the demo, golden specimens, the graveyard digest, the calibration record and certificate verification). Paid features may require an account or a payment credential. You are responsible for keeping your account and API keys secure and for all activity under them. You agree not to misuse the Service — no attempts to break, overload, reverse-engineer the hosted engine, or circumvent rate limits or metering. We may suspend access for conduct that threatens the Service or other users.
Payments, credits and refunds
Paid assays are a flat $0.05 per completed call. A signed, exportable certificate is
$9.90. You can pay per call over the x402 protocol (USDC), or prepay with credit packs
($10 / $25 / $50 / $100 / $200; from $100 up we add 5% in credit). Live prices are always machine-readable
at alphaassay.com/pricing and api.alphaassay.com/v1/meta/pricing.
Because an assay is delivered the instant it runs — and every verdict is deterministic and independently replayable — completed assays are non-refundable: you paid for the trial, and you received it, pass or fail. Unused prepaid credits are refundable on request. We do not charge success-contingent or outcome-based fees; pass and fail cost the same.
Fair use and rate limits
Free tiers are rate-limited so they stay available to everyone. We may apply reasonable per-IP, per-account or per-key limits and adjust them to protect the Service. Automated bulk use beyond the published limits needs a paid plan — talk to us at hello@alphaassay.com.
Intellectual property
Your verdicts and certificates are yours. You may store, publish, replay and share any verdict or certificate we issue on your inputs. The Service is ours: the validation engine, models, statistics, software, site, brand and documentation remain the property of the operator and its licensors. Using the Service grants you no rights in the engine beyond using it as offered. You keep all rights in the inputs you submit; see the privacy policy for what we do and do not store.
Certificates and revocation
A certificate attests that a specific verdict was produced by our battery on a specific input at a specific time. It attests statistical validation, never future returns. Consistent with the demote-only design, we may revoke a certificate where evidence warrants it — for example a discovered defect, leakage or integrity issue in the underlying assay. Revocations are public and reasoned, and verification will report a revoked certificate as such.
No warranty
The Service is provided „as is" and „as available", to the fullest extent permitted by Swiss law. We do not warrant that it is uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular trading, investment or commercial purpose. Statistical validation reduces the chance you are fooling yourself; it cannot guarantee any market outcome.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, AlphaAssay and the operator are not liable for any trading, investment or business decision you make, nor for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, loss of profits, or loss of data arising from use of the Service. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under mandatory Swiss law (including for gross negligence or wilful misconduct).
Changes to the Service and to these terms
We may change, suspend or discontinue parts of the Service, and we may update these terms. The current version is dated at the top of this page; material changes take effect when the updated terms are posted here. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Governing law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by the substantive laws of Switzerland, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The exclusive place of jurisdiction is Küssnacht am Rigi, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, subject to any mandatory place of jurisdiction for consumers under applicable law.
Severability
If any provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the remaining provisions stay in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its intended purpose.
Contact
hello@alphaassay.com · operator details on the legal notice.