Terms of Service

Effective 30 August 2026.

Acceptance

These terms are a contract between you and the operator of Sarathi, which operates Sarathi · सारथी ("Sarathi", "we"). By creating an account, linking the Telegram bot, or posting an alert to your webhook, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

What Sarathi is and is not

Sarathi is a tool. It receives the alerts your own TradingView strategies post to a webhook URL that belongs to you, turns each one into an order card, and waits for you to tap Confirm or Skip. It also offers a Strategy Studio where an AI model helps you write and revise Pine Script.

Sarathi is not:

A broker, exchange, or intermediary. We never hold your funds or securities.
An investment adviser or research analyst. We are not registered with SEBI in any capacity.
A source of buy or sell calls. We describe what a signal contains and what a strategy did. We never tell you what to trade.
A replacement for TradingView. You need your own TradingView plan with webhook alerts. We do not resell or discount it.

Nothing on the site, in the bot, in the Studio, or in the house strategy library is investment advice or a recommendation.

Demo and paper trading

Sarathi is at a demo stage. Today only the paper broker executes orders. A paper fill is a simulated record in your journal. No money moves.

You can enter Dhan or Zerodha credentials in Settings. They are stored encrypted, but no order is sent to a live broker yet. Confirming a signal routed to a live broker is rejected.

If and when a live broker route ships, it will work the same way: an order reaches your broker only after you tap Confirm on that specific order card. There is no autonomous mode and there will not be one. Signals that are not decided within the expiry window are marked Expired and can never execute.

Your account

You must be 18 or older and legally able to trade derivatives in India.
Give accurate details and keep them current.
One account per person. Do not share it.
Your webhook URL, your Telegram link, and your login are yours to protect. Rotate the webhook URL from Settings if you think it has leaked. Anything posted to your webhook or tapped from your linked Telegram is treated as coming from you.
Broker credentials you connect must be your own, for an account in your name.

Your alerts and strategies

You own the Pine Script, strategy names, tester results, chat prompts and alert payloads you bring to Sarathi or create in the Studio.

You grant us a licence to store, process, display and transmit that material as needed to run the service for you. That includes sending Studio prompts and the strategy source in a conversation to OpenRouter and the model provider it routes to. We do not use your material to train models. The licence ends when you delete the material or your account, except for copies in backups and records we must keep.

The 13 house strategies are ours. You may use and modify them for your own trading. You may not resell or republish them as your own.

AI output can be wrong. A script the Studio writes may not compile, may contain logic errors, or may behave differently on live data than in the tester. Review every line before you use it, and paper trade it first. Tester results are approximations and do not predict future results.

Credits, tiers and payments

Credits are prepaid. One credit is one US cent. Packs are priced in US dollars, tax not included. Payment is taken by Stripe. We never see your card number.
Credits do not expire. A pack is a balance, not a period. There is no subscription.
Buying a pack sets your tier to the highest pack you have ever bought. The tier does not lapse.
Studio chat on paid models is charged at two times what the model provider charges us, per request. Order cards beyond your monthly free allowance cost 2 credits each. Confirm and Skip taps, expiries, fills, the journal and the paper route are never charged. The current allowances and prices are on the pricing page and apply as shown when you buy.
We may change pack prices and allowances for future purchases. Credits you already hold keep their value.
When your balance hits zero, Studio chat pauses. Card delivery continues on grace down to minus 100 credits or 7 trading days, then new cards are held. Held cards are journaled but not delivered and are not re-sent after a top-up.
Refunds. Unspent credits are refunded to the same payment method if you ask within 14 days of the purchase. Credits already spent on model calls or delivered cards are not refunded. Write to hello@sarathi.sivaram.dev.
GST and invoices. Stripe emails a receipt for every purchase and your billing page lists it in the ledger. We do not issue GST invoices automatically yet. If your accounts need one, write to us and we will send a manual one.
Chargebacks. If you dispute a charge with your bank instead of asking us for a refund, we may suspend the account until it is resolved and deduct the disputed credits.

Acceptable use

Do not:

Post to a webhook URL that is not yours, or attempt to guess one.
Flood your own webhook with alerts to probe or overload the service.
Scrape the site, the API, or the Studio, or access them by any means other than the web app, the bot, and your own TradingView alerts.
Reverse engineer, copy, or resell the service or the house strategies.
Use the service for market manipulation, front running, insider trading, or any activity that is unlawful under Indian securities law or the rules of any exchange or broker.
Connect broker credentials that are not yours, or use the service on behalf of others without our written agreement.
Put someone else's personal data into a Studio chat.

We may throttle, hold, or reject alerts and requests that look abusive.

Availability

Sarathi is a demo. We do not promise any uptime. We may take the service down for maintenance, change or remove features, or change the tradable universe without notice.

Alerts can be delayed or lost between TradingView, our server, Telegram, and your device. Signals expire on a clock, currently 15 minutes after arrival. A signal that expires because a message was late, or because you did not see it, is not our liability. Do not rely on Sarathi as your only way to manage an open position.

Risk disclosure

Trading futures and options carries a substantial risk of loss. You can lose more than your initial margin. Every order you confirm is your decision, and its outcome is yours. Sarathi does not check whether an order is a good idea; it checks only that it is well formed and that you tapped Confirm.

Backtests, tester results and the house strategy library describe past behaviour under stated assumptions. Past performance does not indicate future results. Costs, slippage, liquidity and fills in a live account differ from any simulation.

You are responsible for your own compliance with your broker's terms, exchange rules, position limits, and tax obligations.

Termination

You can stop using Sarathi at any time. Unlink Telegram and disconnect brokers from Settings. To delete your account, email us. Unspent credits within the 14-day window are refundable as above; otherwise credits are forfeited on deletion.

We may suspend or close your account if you break these terms, if we are required to by law, or if we shut the service down. If we shut the service down, we will give account holders notice by email and refund unspent credits.

Limitation of liability and indemnity

To the fullest extent Indian law allows:

Sarathi is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, including fitness for trading.
We are not liable for trading losses, missed or delayed signals, expired signals, incorrect AI output, broker rejections, or loss of data.
Our total liability to you for any claim arising from the service is capped at the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
You will indemnify us against claims by third parties, including your broker or a regulator, that arise from your trading activity, your alerts, or your breach of these terms.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under Indian law.

Changes to the terms

We may update these terms as the product changes. The effective date at the top will move. For material changes, including any live broker route or a change to the refund policy, we will email account holders before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes go to the competent courts in India. Before going to court, write to us and we will try to sort it out within 30 days.

Contact

Operator: the operator of Sarathi, India. Email: hello@sarathi.sivaram.dev