Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of TeamingIndex.com, its REST API and its MCP server (the “Service”), operated by HILARTECH, LLC (“we”, “us”). By using the Service you agree to them.

If you use the Service for a company or other organization, you agree on its behalf and confirm that you are authorized to do so. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle information.

TeamingIndex is a business-to-business directory and set of capture tools for federal, defense and aerospace contracting, built on public federal data and information contributed by contractors.

TeamingIndex.com is an independent defense industrial base intelligence platform owned and operated by HILARTECH, LLC and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), or SAM.gov.

We may add, change or remove features, and features may be paused temporarily for maintenance or operational reasons. Plan limits are described on the Pricing page.

You sign in with a link sent to your email. Use a work email address you control, keep access to it secure, and do not share sign-in links. You are responsible for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at security@teamingindex.com if you suspect unauthorized access.

Claim a profile only for an organization you are authorized to represent. Claims from an email on the company’s registered domain complete automatically; other claims are reviewed manually and may need more information.

Information you add must be accurate, current and not misleading, and you must keep it up to date, including compliance facts such as CMMC status, SPRS assessments, clearances and registrations. We may correct or remove content, reverse a claim, or suspend a profile that appears inaccurate or unauthorized.

Never submit Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), classified information, export-controlled technical data (ITAR or EAR), System Security Plans, POA&Ms, DD Form 254s or other controlled documents in any field, message, AI prompt or API request.

The Service rejects text that carries CUI, classification or export-control markings, but that check is a safeguard, not a substitute for your own obligations. You remain responsible for handling controlled information as your contracts and the law require.

You agree not to:

• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the Service outside the documented API and its quotas;
• resell or redistribute directory data as a competing database;
• harvest contact details, or send unsolicited bulk messages through teaming requests, pitches or board posts;
• impersonate another person or company, or misrepresent credentials, clearances or past performance;
• try to discover private SPRS scores or other non-public data, or get around rate limits, access controls or security measures;
• probe or test for vulnerabilities except under our responsible disclosure guidelines;
• upload malicious code, or use the Service in violation of law, including export-control and procurement-integrity rules.

Federal data is shown as published by its sources and may be delayed, incomplete or wrong. Self-attested information comes from contractors and has not been independently checked.

A Verified badge means a TeamingIndex reviewer checked a credential against its authoritative source at a point in time. It is not a certification, an assessment, an endorsement or a guarantee, and TeamingIndex is not a C3PAO or an assessor. Before award or teaming decisions, confirm registration, exclusions, CMMC status, SPRS assessments, clearances and certifications in the authoritative systems. See how verification works.

Match scores, gate checks, the Limitations on Subcontracting calculator, recompete dates and similar tools are planning aids, not legal, contracting or compliance advice. The solicitation, the contract and the contracting officer govern.

AI features generate text with Claude, provided by Anthropic. Outputs can be incomplete or wrong: review them before relying on them or using them in a proposal, and you are responsible for what you submit. Do not include CUI in prompts or pasted text. Analyses count against your plan’s monthly AI credits; organizations that connect their own Anthropic API key are also bound by their own agreement with Anthropic.

If another organization’s exact SPRS score or CMMC certificate ID becomes visible to you because a mutual NDA is recorded, treat it as that organization’s confidential information under your NDA, and use it only to evaluate teaming with them.

Teaming requests, pitches and NDA statuses recorded in the Service do not by themselves create a teaming agreement or an NDA; your separate agreements govern.

Paid plans, one-time products and their limits are described on the Pricing page. Prices are stated in U.S. dollars per organization, billed monthly or annually as you choose, and exclude any applicable taxes, which are shown at checkout before you pay.

Payment. Payments are processed by Stripe on a Stripe-hosted checkout page; we never receive or store your full card number. Only an administrator of a claimed organization can buy or change a plan. Your plan starts when Stripe confirms the payment. Receipts, invoices, payment methods and billing details are available to your organization’s administrators in the billing portal linked from the Billing page of your dashboard. If we arrange a plan with you by invoice instead, the terms on that invoice also apply.

Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each monthly or annual period, at the price you subscribed at, until you cancel. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it and your paid features stay on for a short grace period; if payment still fails, your organization moves to the free plan. If we change a plan’s price, the new price applies to new subscriptions and to plan changes, not to your current subscription while it stays on the same plan and billing interval.

Plan changes. You can upgrade, downgrade or switch between monthly and annual billing from the Billing page. Changes are prorated: we show the exact amount due now and your next invoice before you confirm.

Cancellation. You can cancel anytime in the billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period: you keep your plan until then, it does not renew, and your organization then moves to the free plan. Credentials we have already verified keep their badge until their verification expiry date; new verification requests and renewals require a paid plan.

Refunds. Subscription fees are not refunded for partial periods, including after cancellation or a downgrade. If we do not deliver a one-time product as described (for example, a fast-track verification review that is not completed within its stated window, or an urgent broadcast that is never sent), tell us within 30 days at legal@teamingindex.com and we refund that purchase. Otherwise payments are non-refundable except where the law requires a refund; we may also issue refunds or credits at our discretion.

API keys are confidential and belong to your organization; we store only their hashes and show each key once. Usage is metered against your plan’s monthly quota and rate limits. Do not share keys, embed them in client-side code, or use the API to build a substitute for the Service. We may revoke keys that are misused or exposed.

You keep ownership of the content you submit. You grant HILARTECH, LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, display, index, format and distribute it in order to operate and provide the Service, including on public profile pages, in search, JSON-LD, Markdown twins, the REST API, the MCP server and llms.txt, and to share it with other members as you direct. You confirm that you have the right to submit it.

The Service, its software and design, and the compilation of the directory belong to HILARTECH, LLC and are protected by law. Public federal data remains public: these terms do not restrict your use of it from its original sources.

You may stop using the Service at any time and ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or end access if you breach these terms, if your use creates risk or legal exposure for us or others, or if the law requires it. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that data from federal sources or contractors is accurate or complete.

TeamingIndex is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. NDA templates, teaming guidance, knowledge base articles and AI analyses are general information. Have your own counsel review teaming agreements, NDAs and set-aside eligibility before you rely on them.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HILARTECH, LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, contracts, bids or data, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim arose.

You will defend and indemnify HILARTECH, LLC against third-party claims arising from content you submit, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of these terms or the law.

The governing law and venue for these terms will be stated in the final version, after legal review.

We may update these terms. We will post the new version on this page with a new date and notify account holders of material changes. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept them.

Questions about these terms: legal@teamingindex.com. Security reports: security@teamingindex.com. TeamingIndex.com is operated by HILARTECH, LLC.