Terms of Service

LienBuild is software for construction payment paperwork. The free generators produce lien waivers, demand letters, and pay applications in the AIA-style G702/G703 format — an independently developed equivalent of the industry-standard layout, not the official AIA forms; LienBuild is not affiliated with the American Institute of Architects. Each is built from the information you enter and from statutory facts recorded for the state you select. The Recovery Plan is a paid, per-project workflow for one unpaid final invoice: it builds the reminder, demand, and notice documents from your facts, walks a three-step action path with the verified state rules for your project, and keeps the delivery record of what was sent — recipient, status, document version, and time — on one permanent, uneditable timeline.

LienBuild is not a law firm. It does not provide legal services, it does not act as your lawyer, and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. Nothing in the service is legal advice. The full notice is on the Disclaimer page, which forms part of these terms.

Three limits are built into how the product works:

• The service does not sign for you. Every document leaves the signature line blank, and you sign it yourself.
• The service does not choose your legal description. Where a document calls for the property's legal description, it is the description you enter or select, and you confirm it is the right one.
• The service does not decide which document applies to your job. It records the statutory facts for the state you select and generates the document you choose.

County recording fees are paid by you directly to the county. We do not charge them, collect them, or pass them through.

A Recovery Plan costs $39 for one project. It is a single, one-time charge: there is no subscription, no automatic renewal, and nothing to cancel. The $39 is the whole price — no setup fee and no fee added at checkout.

One plan covers one unpaid project. The verified notice rules at the plan's formal-notice step cover California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina; the plan only shows notice content for a state whose rule pack has completed review, and where your project state has no approved rule pack the notice step tells you so instead of showing generic wording.

You must be at least 18 years old to buy a Recovery Plan. Payment is processed by our payment processor on its own secure pages; we never see, store, or process your card details. The listed price does not include any applicable sales or digital services taxes; if such a tax applies to your purchase, you are responsible for it.

Refund policy, in one place: if no step email has been sent on your plan, you can request a full refund by emailing support@lienbuild.com. Once any step email has been sent, the service has been delivered and the $39 is not refundable — including when the plan does not result in payment, because whether the customer pays is outside what we control or promise.

Two exceptions are refunded regardless of usage: a duplicate charge (you paid more than once for the same project — we refund the duplicate), and a confirmed technical delivery failure (you paid and your plan was never unlocked — we refund the charge).

You are responsible for the accuracy of what you enter: names, amounts, dates, addresses, invoice numbers, and any legal description. The service does not check your entries against your contract, your invoice, or the county record.

You are responsible for reviewing each document before you use it, and for the decision to use it. You confirm the facts in it — including the unpaid amount — are true, and you send every step yourself: nothing is emailed to your customer until you personally confirm the recipient and the send. The only automatic emails a plan can generate are reminders about your own plan, addressed to you.

You complete the steps the software cannot do for you: signing, having a document notarized where your state requires it, recording a document with the county, and serving a notice on the person and at the address the statute names. An email the plan sends is an email — it is never legal service, and the plan never marks a step as served.

Dates and deadlines shown in the service are calculated from the dates you enter and the rule data for the state you select; suggested dates in a Recovery Plan are workflow suggestions, not statutory deadlines. Confirm the current statute for your state before you rely on a date.

The documents you generate are yours, and so is the information you enter to produce them. We claim no ownership of either. For a Recovery Plan, the project record — the steps, the send status of each, and the times — stays accessible in your workspace and exports as a plain-text file for as long as your account exists, and what a sent step said lives in the email you sent.

We give you permission to use our templates and the documents the service generates for any project you or your company works on, and to hand copies to your own customers, lawyer, or surety. You may not resell the templates, redistribute them as a set, publish them, or use them to run a document-generation service for other people.

You give us the permission we need to process what you enter in order to build the documents you asked for and to keep the project record a Recovery Plan exists to keep.

LienBuild prepares documents; filing and service are yours. A mechanics lien is recorded with the county recorder or clerk, a notice is served on the person the statute names, and some states require the document to be sworn or notarized. Those steps happen outside the service, and you carry them out.

Some states impose penalties or damages for a lien that is recorded without a basis, or for a document that is false. Do not record a lien you are not entitled to record. LienBuild shows the statutory rules for the state you select; whether a lien applies on your job is a determination you make.

Templates and state rule packs are added state by state, after the requirements for a state have been checked. Where a template or a verified rule pack does not exist for your state, the service does not offer one and says so.

Do not use the service to:

• create, alter, or serve a document you know to be false;
• claim a lien or a right you are not entitled to claim;
• sign a document in another person's name, or arrange for someone to sign on your behalf where the law requires you to sign;
• impersonate a person, company, collection agency, law firm, or attorney;
• threaten criminal prosecution, arrest, or immigration consequences over a debt, or contact someone in a way that amounts to harassment;
• use the plan's step emails for marketing or any message the recipient did not ask for;
• resell or redistribute our templates;
• break, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the service.

If you break these terms we may suspend or end your access, and we may remove content that breaks them.

You sign your documents; the service does not. Signature lines are left blank for you to complete, and you print and sign by hand or sign with your own electronic signature method.

A document signed electronically has the same effect as one signed by hand under the federal ESIGN Act (15 U.S.C. §7001 et seq.) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as adopted in your state. Where the service asks you to acknowledge something in the app, that acknowledgment is your own confirmation in the workspace; the durable record a plan keeps is each email you send, with its version and time.

LienBuild is a document tool. It does not give legal advice, it does not guarantee that any document, notice, or plan will result in payment, and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. The Disclaimer page states this in full, and it forms part of these terms. The Privacy Policy describes what we do with the information you enter.

The service is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. We do not warrant that a document is valid, timely, or enforceable under the law of your state, that a deadline we calculate matches the current statute, that a county will accept a filing, or that a customer will pay.

To the extent the law allows: our total liability for a claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us for the service the claim relates to — $39 for a Recovery Plan, and nothing for the free tools; we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits or lost payments; and we are not liable for what a county recorder, a court, a recipient, or any other third party does with a document.

You agree to cover us for third-party claims that arise from your breaking these terms, from a document or message you send that is false or unlawful, or from a filing you make without a basis.

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

If these terms change, the date at the top of the page changes with it. For a material change, we publish it on this page before it takes effect. Using the service after a change takes effect means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by the law of the state in which LienBuild is organized, and a dispute about the service is brought in the courts of that state.

If a provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Disclaimer, are the whole agreement between you and LienBuild about the service.

Questions about these terms: support@lienbuild.com.