These terms govern your use of Plani, the text-message billing assistant owned and operated by HonKao Enterprises ("Plani," "we," "us"). Plani includes the text-message interface, the billing dashboard, and the optional feature that connects Plani to a billing system so it can enter your time on your behalf.
By texting Plani or using the dashboard, you agree to these terms. If you connect Plani to a billing system, you separately confirm your agreement at the connection screen before you save your credentials. If you don't agree, don't use Plani.
Plani logs the time you text, sorts it by client and category, keeps a timestamped record of what you logged, and prepares that time for billing. Depending on the client, that means a spreadsheet you submit yourself, or time entered into a billing system you've connected. Plani works for appointed work such as CPCS and CJA matters and for private-client billing.
Plani is a tool that helps you bill. It is not legal, accounting, or tax advice. You are the attorney. The billing you submit is your work and your responsibility.
Plani keeps a timestamped record of every entry you log, stored for at least the period your applicable rules require you to retain billing records. You can use that record to support your own recordkeeping obligations, whether you bill appointed work or private clients.
This only works if you log your time as you do the work. A record is contemporaneous because of when you create it, not because of where it is stored. If you batch a week of entries at once, Plani's timestamps will show when you sent them, not when the work happened. You are responsible for logging in a way that meets your own obligations under the rules that apply to you, including the CPCS Assigned Counsel Manual or CJA requirements where relevant.
Plani is provided on an "as published" basis: it does what it currently does, and nothing more is promised. Features may change, behave differently than you expect, or be removed at any time. We don't promise that Plani will be accurate, complete, or available, or that it is fit for any particular purpose. You take the service as it is.
This section applies only if you choose to connect Plani to a billing system, such as CPCS Ebill or a CJA billing system, so that Plani can enter time for you.
If you connect a billing system, you give Plani the username and password for that system and you authorize Plani to sign in as you and enter time for the clients you have logged. You understand and agree that:
When Plani is connected to a billing system, Plani enters time into it. Plani does not submit your bills. Submission is always your action, taken by you in that system.
Many billing systems treat submission as a sworn attestation. When you submit, you may be attesting, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that the work was performed as billed and that you maintain the records your rules require. That attestation is yours alone. Before you submit, review every entry. Plani can misread, mis-categorize, or miss an entry, and Plani only enters the time you logged. It does not add hours, descriptions, or detail you did not provide.
We protect stored credentials using reasonable security measures. No system is perfectly secure, and we don't guarantee against unauthorized access. If you suspect your credentials have been compromised, change your password in the affected system and notify us promptly. You agree to give any breach notice your own agreements require.
You agree to:
Plani is free to use right now. We may change our commercial terms at any time, including introducing fees, subscriptions, or usage limits. If we start charging, we'll tell you before any charge applies to you, and you're free to stop using Plani if you don't want to pay.
Plani's replies and billing categorizations are generated by an AI model. AI output can be wrong. Treat Plani as an assistant whose work you check, not an authority you defer to.
Plani is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that Plani will meet your needs or operate without interruption or error, or that sign-in to any connected system will succeed or that entries will be recorded correctly.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, HonKao Enterprises will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, lost data, or billing that is rejected, delayed, underpaid, or incorrectly entered, arising out of or related to your use of Plani, including any billing-system connection, a failed or stale sign-in, or any entry Plani makes or misses, even if we've been advised of the possibility. Our total liability for any claim relating to Plani will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for Plani in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).
We may change, suspend, limit, or discontinue Plani, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice. Plani is an early-stage service and may pause or shut down. We may also suspend or end your access if you misuse the service or break these terms. You can stop using Plani at any time.
We may update these terms at any time, at our discretion. The "Last updated" date above reflects the most recent version. If you keep using Plani after we post a change, you accept the updated terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware.