Terms of Service

Last updated: November 2026

1. Acceptance of these terms

RAGSCHOLAR AI SYSTEMS LIMITED (accessible at https://ragscholar.app, referred to as "RAGScholar," "we," or "us") provides a suite of AI-assisted academic drafting tools. Our platform currently includes six products: RAGScholar (full research article generation), RAGProjects (chapter-by-chapter undergraduate project drafting), RAGDissertation (chapter-by-chapter dissertation drafting for PGD and Master's students), RAGCompressor (condensing full projects into journal articles), RAGReviewer (pre-submission review of a manuscript, and responses to journal reviewers), and RAGLectureKits (lecture notes, slides, tests, examinations and marking schemes for lecturers). By using any of these services, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you don't agree with them, please don't use the site.

2. What our platform does

Our tools use AI language models to help you structure and draft academic content based on the inputs you provide:

RAGScholar generates a structured draft research paper (abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, and references) based on your topic and methodology.
RAGProjects generates undergraduate project chapters sequentially, adapting to Nigerian university departmental requirements.
RAGDissertation works like RAGProjects but is written to postgraduate depth, for PGD and Master's students whose departments ask for a dissertation.
RAGCompressor takes an uploaded, complete student project and summarizes it into a 20-page journal article format using only the content provided in the upload.
RAGReviewer reads a manuscript you upload and gives you either a pre-submission review (a readiness rating and a list of fixes) or, in response mode, a point-by-point response letter to your journal reviewers' comments together with a corrected manuscript showing tracked changes.
RAGLectureKits helps a lecturer prepare teaching and assessment material from a course outline: weekly lecture notes with a reading list, optional slides for the weeks you choose, and tests and examinations with marking schemes (the "Tests, Exams & Marking Schemes" page). You choose the course, and may choose the weeks and topics each paper covers.

These are drafting aids, not research services. We do not conduct original research, collect real data on your behalf, or guarantee the accuracy of any generated content.

3. AI-generated content: please verify everything

The content our platform produces is generated by an AI language model and is provided as a starting draft only. Like any AI system, it can:

State things confidently that are inaccurate or outdated
Generate references that look real but may be incomplete, mismatched, or fabricated (unless sourced from our live academic search partners)
Produce statistics, figures, or study results that are illustrative rather than real, when you have not supplied your own data

You are responsible for fact-checking, verifying every reference, and validating any data or statistics before relying on, submitting, or publishing anything we generate. Please don't treat any generated draft as a finished, verified document.

Lecture material and assessments. Lecture notes, slides, reading lists, test and examination questions and marking schemes made by RAGLectureKits are drafts for a qualified lecturer to review. Before you teach from them or set them, you must check that they are correct, fit your course and your institution's standards, and that every question has a sound answer and a fair mark allocation. Examination questions and marking schemes are confidential assessment material: you are responsible for keeping them secure, and for any use you make of them. Course titles, codes and descriptions picked from the CCMAS list are a starting point only; follow your own institution's approved course outline.

Manuscript reviews. RAGReviewer's ratings, comments, responses and tracked changes are an aid for you as author. They are not a peer review, they do not predict whether a journal will accept your paper, and the corrected manuscript may change your wording or meaning. Read every change and decide for yourself what to accept before you send anything to a journal.

4. Academic integrity

Our tools are meant to help you structure and draft your own work faster — not to be submitted as-is in place of your own writing. You're responsible for complying with your institution's, publisher's, or journal's policies on the use of AI tools and for properly attributing your work. Passing off unedited AI output as your own original research may violate academic integrity rules that apply to you; that's between you and your institution, not something we can determine for you.

5. Acceptable use

Please don't use our platform to:

Generate content for illegal purposes, or content that is defamatory, hateful, or harassing
Attempt to overload, scrape, or abuse the service (e.g. automated bulk requests)
Misrepresent AI-generated content as verified, peer-reviewed, or human-authored research when submitting it elsewhere
Upload projects to RAGCompressor, or manuscripts and reviewers' comments to RAGReviewer, that you do not have the right to use, summarize or revise
Let examination questions or marking schemes made for you by RAGLectureKits reach candidates before the assessment, or pass them off as made for a course or institution they were not made for

We may limit or suspend access for anyone misusing the service.

6. Intellectual property — platform ownership

The RAGScholar platform, including its name, logo, domain (ragscholar.app), website design, source code, underlying prompts, generation architecture, and all associated software, is the exclusive proprietary property of RAGSCHOLAR AI SYSTEMS LIMITED (RC number on file), a company duly registered under the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

All rights are reserved. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right, title, or interest in the platform, its code, its design, or its underlying systems — other than the limited right to use the service as a paying customer for your own personal or professional drafting purposes.

7. Prohibited conduct — cloning, scraping, and reverse engineering

You may not, directly or through any third party:

Copy, reproduce, replicate, or clone any part of the interfaces or generation systems of RAGScholar, RAGProjects, RAGDissertation, RAGCompressor, RAGReviewer, or RAGLectureKits for any purpose
Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to extract the source code, prompts, or logic underlying the service
Scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to extract content, structure, or outputs from the platform at scale
Build a competing product or service that replicates or is substantially derived from our design, functionality, or outputs
Sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, or commercially exploit the platform or any part of it without our express written permission
Use outputs generated by our platform to train, fine-tune, or benchmark any AI or machine learning model without our express written permission

Any unauthorised use of the kind described above constitutes a breach of these Terms and an infringement of RAGSCHOLAR AI SYSTEMS LIMITED's intellectual property rights. We reserve the right to pursue all available legal remedies under Nigerian law and applicable international law.

8. Your content and ownership

You retain ownership of the topic, instructions, uploaded projects, and any data you submit, as well as the drafts we generate for you based on those inputs. We do not claim ownership over your generated papers, lecture notes, slides, questions or reports. However, you grant us a limited licence to process your inputs through our systems for the purpose of generating your draft and delivering it to you. By uploading a manuscript, reviewers' comments or a project, you confirm that you have the right to do so.

Lecture notes, slides, tests, examinations and marking schemes made by RAGLectureKits are kept on our servers for 30 days after they are generated and are then deleted automatically. You are responsible for downloading and keeping a copy of everything you need within that time.

Where you pick a course from the CCMAS list in RAGLectureKits, the course titles, codes and descriptions are adapted from the Nigerian Universities Commission's Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) 2023, Social Sciences, which is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. We have made changes: we reorganised the courses into a searchable list and shortened some descriptions. This is not endorsed by the NUC, and the NUC does not endorse us or our services.

9. Payment, refunds, and access

Our platform is a paid service. Pricing varies depending on the product used: for example a flat rate for RAGScholar and RAGCompressor, per-chapter pricing for RAGProjects and RAGDissertation, a price set by the manuscript's word count for RAGReviewer, and for RAGLectureKits a price for each course (with optional extra charges for slides) and a separate price for each pack of tests or examinations. Some products also have optional paid add-ons, such as plagiarism screening. The price that applies is the one shown on the payment screen before you pay, and we may change prices for future orders. Payments are processed securely by Paystack or Flutterwave.

RAGReviewer and RAGLectureKits do their work only after you have paid: before payment you can see an example and (for RAGLectureKits) your plan and the price, but we do not produce a free sample from your own material. If a run fails after you have paid, you can try it again at no extra charge, and if it keeps failing, contact us and we will resolve it. Once you have completed payment and your document has been unlocked and delivered, the transaction is final and non-refundable. If you experience a technical failure that prevents you from accessing your document after confirmed payment, contact us at support@ragscholar.app and we will resolve it promptly.

10. Third-party services

We send the details you submit to third-party providers in order to deliver the service — including OpenAI (AI generation, including the writing of lecture notes, slides, questions and reviews), Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex (academic literature search and checking that references exist), Copyscape (plagiarism screening, where purchased), Paystack and Flutterwave (payment processing), Resend (transactional email), and Cloudflare (bot protection). We also use Google Analytics to understand site usage. See our Privacy Policy for details. Your use of our platform is also subject to those providers' own terms where applicable.

11. No warranty; limitation of liability

Our platform is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind, including accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, RAGSCHOLAR AI SYSTEMS LIMITED and its directors, officers, and employees are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages, academic consequences, disciplinary outcomes, or losses arising from your use of, or reliance on, content generated by this tool.

12. Changes to the service or these terms

We may update our features, pricing, or these Terms from time to time. Continuing to use the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms. We'll update the "Last updated" date above when we do.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or your use of our platform shall first be referred to good-faith negotiation between the parties. If unresolved within 30 days, it shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the appropriate courts of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us at support@ragscholar.app or visit our Contact page.