0. Product-specific Trial Terms
The Terms below describe the general framework under which RocSite operates. If you are using a 30-day product trial, the product-specific Trial Terms control over the general terms below for any conflict relating to that trial:
- RocSite Caliper Trial Terms — pharma R&D hypothesis validation, propensity-score matching, cross-dataset replication.
- RocSite Discovery Trial Terms — contradiction surfacing between published clinical literature and observed outcomes.
- RocSite AI Governor Trial Terms — investigational, governance-only audit of clinical AI model outputs. Not for use on real patients.
Each product Trial requires affirmative checkbox acceptance of its Trial Terms before access is granted. Findings generated during a Trial are owned by RocSite under the product-specific Trial Terms; for confidential or exclusive engagements, contact [email protected] before uploading data.
1. What RocSite Discovery is
RocSite Discovery is an automated methodology audit service. When you submit a paper, pre-registration document, or analysis plan, our software, the RocSite Discovery Engine, applies a published falsification protocol and returns a machine-generated rating with rule-by-rule feedback.
What RocSite Discovery is not:
- Not medical advice. Nothing on this site, in our reports, or in any chat with our assistant is a substitute for clinical judgment.
- Not regulatory clearance. A favorable rating is not FDA approval, IRB approval, journal acceptance, or accreditation of any kind.
- Not an endorsement of your conclusions. A rating reflects how a submission performs against our protocol's methodological criteria. It does not assert that the underlying claims are true, that the data was collected appropriately, or that other reviewers will agree.
- Not peer review. We do not replace peer review and we do not certify that we have. Journals, regulators, and academic institutions remain the appropriate venues for those processes.
2. What you agree to when you submit
By submitting work to RocSite Discovery you agree that:
- The engine will analyze your submission according to the protocol version stamped on your rating output.
- The rating is the engine's output. It is not Adam Dickens's personal opinion. It is not a human reviewer's judgment. It is the deterministic result of running your input through a published methodology.
- You have the right to submit the work. If the work is not yours, you have permission from those who hold the rights, and you have the authority to bind them to these terms.
- The submitted content does not contain personal health information (PHI), patient identifiers, or any other regulated personal data unless you have already redacted it consistent with the applicable data-protection regime (HIPAA Safe Harbor, GDPR pseudonymization, etc.).
3. Liability and use of ratings
Validation reports are research deliverables. They are not professional advice, regulatory submissions, or legal opinions.
- You decide how to use a rating. Whether you cite it in a manuscript, attach it to a regulatory filing, share it with investors, or keep it private is entirely your decision.
- RocSite is not liable for downstream decisions made on the basis of a rating. That includes, without limitation, clinical decisions, investment decisions, regulatory submissions, contracting decisions, peer-review recommendations, and editorial decisions.
- Ratings are not warranties. We do not warrant that your work is correct, that your conclusions will replicate, that the engine has caught every flaw, or that an unfavorable rating means the work is wrong. We warrant only that the engine ran the published protocol against your submission and produced its standard output.
- Aggregate liability is limited to fees paid. For free pre-registration submissions, our aggregate liability is capped at $0. For paid tiers, our aggregate liability for any claim is capped at the fees you paid us for the engagement giving rise to the claim.
4. Confidentiality of submissions
- Default: private. The content you submit, full text, methodology, attachments, internal notes, is private to you. We do not share it, sell it, or use it to train other models.
- Aggregate metadata: ours. The rating value, the protocol version used, the date of review, and the broad domain category may appear in aggregate statistics about engine usage. We will not identify you in those statistics without permission.
- Public ratings: opt-in. If you choose to publish your rating in our public registry, your rating record becomes public. The underlying content stays private unless you explicitly attach it.
- Subpoena and legal process. We will comply with valid legal process. If we receive a subpoena or court order demanding disclosure of your submission, we will, where legally permitted, notify you before complying so you can seek a protective order.
5. Right of reply
If you believe a rating is wrong, you may invoke the right of reply.
- Submit a written dispute to [email protected] within 60 days of receiving the rating. Identify the rating record by its permanent URL and explain, specifically, which rule or finding you contest and why.
- We will review your dispute. The review may include re-running the engine on a corrected submission, examining whether a protocol gate was misapplied, or, if you believe the engine itself has a defect, opening a methodology bug report against our public protocol.
- If we made an error (engine bug, mis-stamped protocol version, processing fault), we will reissue the rating, mark the original as superseded, and link the corrected version from the original record. The reissue is free.
- If we did not make an error and you still disagree, you may publish your dispute alongside the rating. We will not censor a good-faith methodology critique of our own work.
6. Submission requirements
- Format: PDF or DOCX. Plain text and Markdown are accepted for short pre-registration filings.
- Size: under 50 MB per file. For larger submissions or zipped portfolios, contact us first.
- No PHI unless redacted. Identifiable patient data must be removed or pseudonymized before submission. We do not accept raw clinical data.
- Rights: you warrant that you own the submitted work, are an author of it, or have the rights-holder's permission to submit.
- Honesty: you represent that you are not submitting work you have already submitted under a different identity to game ratings, and that you will disclose any prior RocSite ratings of the same work.
7. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If we do, we will:
- Post the updated terms with a new effective date.
- Notify active customers via the email address on file at least 30 days before the new terms take effect.
- Continue to apply the prior version of the terms to ratings that were already issued. A rating you received under terms version X remains a rating issued under terms version X regardless of later changes.
8. Governing law and forum
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or to a rating shall be brought in a state or federal court of competent jurisdiction in Delaware, and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts.
9. Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected] · (919) 867-6636.