Terms of Service

6. Free for Job Seekers

In short: Prelim is free for job seekers. No credit card, no trial.

Prelim's job seeker tools are free. We don't charge you to build, download, or save your resume, to see your matches, or to apply to jobs. There's no trial and no credit card. Prelim makes money from employers that pay for its screening service, and it may earn money from some job listings that pay us when you click them.

7. Your Resume and Information

In short: Tell the truth on your resume. It's yours. You let us use it only to run Prelim, like building your resume and sending it where you tell us to.

Be accurate. Give true information about your work, skills, licenses, and schooling. Don't list jobs, licenses, or degrees you don't have. Only enter your own information, or someone else's with their OK, like when you help a family member build their resume. You're responsible for what's on your resume and what you send to employers.

Your content is yours. You own your answers and your resume. You give CMG Labs a free, non-exclusive license to host, store, copy, process, format, and display them, and to send them where you tell us to. The companies that help us run Prelim, like our hosting and AI providers, may do the same for us. We use this license only to run and improve Prelim. For example, we use your content to build and show your resume, make your PDF, rank jobs for you, and send your resume to an employer when you apply with Prelim. This license ends when you delete your content, except for applications you already sent to employers and backup copies that are overwritten over time.

8. AI Help and Job Matches

In short: AI helps write your resume from your answers, but it can make mistakes, so check it. Matches are suggestions. We can't promise you an interview or a job.

AI can make mistakes. Prelim uses AI to ask questions and turn your answers into resume lines. We built it to use only what you tell us, but it can still get things wrong. Read your resume before you download or send it, and fix anything that isn't right.

Matches are suggestions. Your fit for a job (Strong fit, Good fit, or Stretch) is our best guess from your answers and the job post. It isn't a promise, and it isn't a judgment of you.

No guarantees. We can't promise that you'll get an interview, a job offer, a job, or any certain pay. Employers decide who they interview and hire. Prelim isn't an employment agency and doesn't make hiring decisions.

9. Apply with Prelim

In short: Some employers use Prelim. When you apply to them with Prelim, you send your resume and take their own short interview. The employer decides what happens next.

Some jobs on Prelim come from employers that use Prelim to screen applicants. When you tap Apply with Prelim and start the employer's interview, we send that employer your resume, name, and email, and the employer sees your answers to its interview. The employer's interview is scored with AI for the employer, the same way as for every other applicant, and the employer, not Prelim, decides whether to move forward. After you apply, the employer controls your application, and its own terms and policies apply to it.

10. Job Listings from Other Companies

In short: Most listings come from other companies. We don't control them, some may be paid ads, and other sites have their own terms. Watch out for scams.

We don't control listings. Most jobs on Prelim come from other companies' career pages, job boards, and job ad networks. We don't write these listings and can't check every detail. Pay, hours, requirements, and whether a job is still open may be wrong or out of date. A listing on Prelim doesn't mean we endorse the employer or the job.

Sponsored listings. Some listings may be ads, and we may be paid when you click them. Being paid never changes your fit for a job. When two jobs fit you about the same, we may show a job from an employer that uses Prelim, or a sponsored job, first.

Other sites. When you tap "Apply on their site," you leave Prelim. That site's terms and privacy policy apply to what you do there, not ours.

Watch out for scams. A real employer won't ask you to pay to apply, buy equipment up front, or give bank details before you're hired. If a listing looks wrong, don't apply, and tell us at marcus@prelim.chat. We may remove any listing at any time.

11. Acceptable Use for Job Seekers

In short: Use Prelim to look for work for yourself, or to help someone who asked you to. Be honest, and don't game the apply links or ads.

The rules in Section 5 apply to everyone. When you use Prelim to look for work, you also agree not to:

• Lie about your work, skills, licenses, or schooling, on your resume or in your answers
• Make a resume or apply for someone else, unless they asked you to help
• Use bots or scripts to chat with Prelim, apply to jobs, or tap links
• Tap job ads or apply links you don't plan to use, or pay or ask anyone else to tap them
• Send employers spam, or messages that have nothing to do with the job
• Make a new account to get around being blocked

If you break these rules, we may remove your content or suspend your access (see Section 21).

12. Interview Content and Data

In short: You own the questions you write. You're responsible for telling candidates that AI is part of your screening, and for following privacy laws.

You retain ownership of the interview questions you create. Candidate responses are collected on your behalf, and you are responsible for ensuring that candidates are informed about the AI-powered nature of the screening process. You agree to comply with all applicable data protection and privacy laws when using candidate data.

13. AI-Generated Scores and Recommendations

In short: AI scores help you decide, but they can be wrong. Use your own judgment.

Prelim provides AI-generated scores and recommendations as decision-support tools. These are not intended to be the sole basis for hiring decisions. You acknowledge that AI evaluations may contain errors and agree to exercise independent judgment when making employment decisions.

14. Customer Obligations Regarding Hiring Decisions

In short: A person must review AI results before you turn anyone down. You give any notices your local laws require, and you handle accommodation requests.

"Customer" means the business entity that subscribes to or uses the Service to screen candidates. Customer represents, warrants, and covenants to Prelim that:

(a) Meaningful human review. Customer will conduct meaningful human review of all AI-generated scores, recommendations, and reasoning produced by the Service before taking any adverse employment action (including rejection, deselection, deprioritization, or any other negative employment outcome) against any candidate. Customer acknowledges that AI output from the Service is decision-support only and may not be used as the sole basis for any employment decision.

(b) Jurisdiction-specific candidate notices. Customer is solely responsible for providing all jurisdiction-specific candidate notices, disclosures, bias audits, and other compliance actions required by applicable law in the jurisdictions where Customer operates and where Customer's candidates reside, including but not limited to: New York City Local Law 144 (Automated Employment Decision Tool bias audit and the 10-business-day candidate notice requirement); Illinois Public Act 103-0804 / HB 3773 (notice of AI use in employment decisions, effective January 1, 2026); California FEHA regulations governing Automated Decision Systems (CCR Title 2 § 11008, effective October 1, 2025); and any other federal, state, local, or foreign laws or regulations governing the use of automated decision tools in employment. Prelim makes notice templates and a public compliance summary available for Customer's use, but Prelim does not provide legal advice and is not responsible for Customer's compliance with such laws.

(c) Accommodations. Customer is solely responsible for receiving, processing, and granting candidate requests for reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and analogous state laws, including by offering an alternative screening process to any candidate who cannot effectively use Prelim's chat-based interview format. Prelim displays an accommodation-request link to candidates that directs them to the contact email Customer designates in the Service's settings; Customer is responsible for maintaining a valid contact and for timely responding to accommodation requests.

15. Listing Jobs on the Prelim Job Board

In short: If you list a job on the Prelim job board, it's public and you're responsible for what it says. Job seekers who apply take your interview like anyone else.

If Customer turns on "List this job on the Prelim job board" for a job, Customer allows Prelim to show the job's title, company name, description, location, and pay on prelim.chat, to share it with search engines such as Google for Jobs, and to suggest it to job seekers. Customer is responsible for making sure each listing is accurate, current, and lawful, including laws on pay transparency and discrimination.

Job seekers who apply with Prelim send the resume they choose and take the job's interview like any other applicant, and those interviews count toward Customer's plan the same way. Prelim does not share a job seeker's Prelim fit, other matches, or job preferences with Customer. Customer can turn listing off at any time, and Prelim may hide or remove any listing.

16. Indemnification

In short: If someone brings a claim against Prelim because of an employer's hiring decisions or legal duties, that employer covers it.

Customer shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Prelim, CMG Labs, and their officers, directors, employees, agents, and contractors (collectively, the "Prelim Parties") from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, actions, investigations, losses, damages, liabilities, settlements, judgments, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) arising out of or relating to: (i) any employment or hiring decision made by Customer, including any claim of unlawful discrimination, disparate impact, disparate treatment, or failure to accommodate; (ii) Customer's failure to provide any required candidate notice, disclosure, or accommodation, or to conduct any required bias audit; (iii) Customer's breach of the representations, warranties, or covenants in Section 14; or (iv) Customer's violation of any applicable employment, anti-discrimination, or data-protection law. Prelim will promptly notify Customer of any claim subject to indemnification and reasonably cooperate in the defense. Customer shall not settle any such claim in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on a Prelim Party without that Prelim Party's prior written consent.

17. Pricing and Payment

In short: Job seekers pay nothing. Employers can use a free plan or pay for more. Paid plans are billed in advance.

Prelim is free for job seekers (see Section 6). For employers, Prelim offers free and paid plans. Pricing details are available on our website. We reserve the right to modify pricing with reasonable notice. Paid subscriptions are billed in advance and are non-refundable except as required by law.

18. Intellectual Property

In short: Prelim's software and design belong to CMG Labs. Your resume and answers belong to you.

The Service, including its design, features, AI models, and underlying technology, is owned by CMG Labs and protected by intellectual property laws. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive license to use the Service in accordance with these terms. Job listings belong to the companies that posted them, and your resume and answers belong to you (see Section 7).

19. Disclaimers

In short: We work hard to make Prelim useful and accurate, but we can't promise it will always work or always be right.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent the law allows, CMG Labs disclaims all warranties not stated in these terms, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't promise that the Service will always be available or error free, or that job listings, matches, AI-written text, or scores will be accurate or complete.

20. Limitation of Liability

In short: If something goes wrong, our responsibility is limited as far as the law allows.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Prelim and CMG Labs shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, or business opportunities, arising from your use of the Service.

21. Termination

In short: You can stop using Prelim any time. Job seekers can delete their data from their account page. We can suspend accounts that break these terms.

We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these terms. You may delete your account at any time. Job seekers can delete their data at any time from their account page (see our Privacy Policy). Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases, and we may delete your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

22. Changes to Terms

In short: We may update these terms. We'll let you know about big changes.

We may update these terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via email or through the Service. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

What changed on October 18, 2026. We added the job seeker sections (Sections 6 to 11), a minimum age and a rule for signing up on behalf of a business (Section 3), the Prelim job board section for employers (Section 15), and Disclaimers (Section 19). We also added job seeker details to Sections 1, 2, 4, 17, 18, and 21, and new rules for everyone to Section 5. Everything else in the employer terms is unchanged, apart from new section numbers.

23. Governing Law

In short: California law applies. Disputes go to the courts in Santa Clara County, California.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any disputes shall be resolved in the courts located in Santa Clara County, California.

24. Contact

In short: Questions? Email us.

Questions about these Terms of Service? Contact us at marcus@prelim.chat.