The short version: MedStatica is a research-planning aid, not professional advice. Use good judgment, don't paste patient records, and verify everything before you rely on it.
Please read this first. MedStatica helps you plan and interpret research methods. It is not a substitute for a qualified statistician, your IRB, or clinical, statistical, regulatory, or legal judgment, and it is not a medical device. Everything it produces is a starting point you are responsible for checking. By using MedStatica you agree to these Terms.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of MedStatica (the "Service") at medstatica.com. By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to accept these Terms for it.
The Service turns a plain-language study description into a biostatistics consult: a recommended analysis, a power-analysis approach, an editable causal diagram, a methods paragraph, illustrative tables and figures, a background and literature scan, code snippets, and a read on likely research oversight. These outputs are educational and planning aids.
The Service does not provide professional statistical, medical, regulatory, or legal advice, and does not create any professional relationship. It is not a substitute for a qualified biostatistician, your Institutional Review Board (IRB) or ethics committee, or independent review. You are solely responsible for the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of your research, and for obtaining the appropriate approvals.
Outputs are generated by an automated AI model and may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong — including recommended tests, sample-size figures, code, citations, and oversight reads. Illustrative tables, figures, and worked numbers use invented placeholder data for format only. The literature scan is an automated relevance search, not a systematic review. Verify every output against primary sources and qualified human review before relying on or publishing it. If you use AI-assisted content in a manuscript or protocol, disclose it per the relevant journal, funder, and institutional policies.
Do not submit protected health information (PHI) or otherwise identifiable patient data to the Service. Describe your study in de-identified terms — populations and variables, not names or records. You are responsible for ensuring your inputs comply with HIPAA, GDPR, your data-use agreements, and any other law or policy that applies to you.
You can use the free tier without an account. If you create one, authentication is handled by Clerk, and you are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity under your account. You must provide accurate information and be able to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction.
MedStatica never sees or stores your card number — Stripe processes payments directly under its own terms.
You agree not to: use the Service unlawfully or to submit unlawful content; submit PHI or identifiable patient data; attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse-engineer, scrape, or circumvent rate limits or access controls; resell or misrepresent the Service; or present its outputs as peer-reviewed, validated, or as professional advice. We may suspend or terminate access for misuse.
You retain ownership of the study descriptions you enter and of the plans generated for you, and you are free to use them in your own research, proposals, and publications, subject to these Terms. MedStatica and its name, design, and software remain the property of its operator; these Terms grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service, and no other rights.
| Anthropic | Generates plans from your consult text. |
| Clerk | Handles sign-in and account identity (if you create an account). |
| Stripe | Processes Pro subscription payments. |
| Netlify | Hosts the site and serverless functions. |
| NCBI / PubMed | Provides the literature-search results shown in the background section. |
Your use of these services through MedStatica is also subject to each provider's own terms. We are not responsible for third-party services.
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that outputs are correct or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, MedStatica and its operator will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your reliance on the Service or its outputs — including research decisions, analyses, submissions, or publications. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim or US $50.
We may modify the Service or these Terms. If we make material changes to these Terms, we will update the effective date above; continued use after a change means you accept the revised Terms. We may suspend or end the Service, or your access to it, at any time.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located there, except where applicable law provides otherwise.
Questions about these Terms? Email hello@medstatica.com.