Terms of service.

1Who we are

Kite Slip is a product of Live a Little Enterprises, LLC, a Missouri limited liability company based in Kansas City, Missouri. We are a for-profit company. When these terms say "we," "us," or "Kite Slip," they mean Live a Little Enterprises, LLC. When they say "you," they mean the person outside who opens the account, holds the seat, and pays. You can reach a person at hello@kiteslip.com.

2What Kite Slip is, and is not

Kite Slip gives an incarcerated person searchable access to the public docket on their federal case, the sentencing guidelines on their counts, the records the Bureau of Prisons keeps on their sentence, their facility's own published rules, and published case law. We give you a written answer with citations; you send it to them, from your own account, by whatever means you already use. Kite Slip does not send anything to anyone inside and holds no account with any facility messaging system. Every cited authority is checked against the public court record before you see the answer. Anything we cannot verify is withheld and marked as withheld.

Kite Slip covers federal cases only. We retrieve filings from the federal court record, which does not include state court cases. If the case is in state court, we cannot serve it, and a seat should not be opened for it.

We retrieve the public record ourselves, using our own court access. We will never ask you for your PACER credentials and will never accept designation as a recipient of a court's electronic notices in any case. We use a non-party public account, which can reach only what any member of the public can reach. Sealed filings, restricted documents and the presentence report are outside what that account can retrieve.

Kite Slip is not a law firm. It does not provide legal advice or legal representation, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship with anyone. What comes back is general information — where something appears in the file, what a filed document says, what a published guideline provides, and how a situation like the one described usually works. Answers are generated by software that cannot see your case file, and they are not legal advice about your case. Nothing in an answer should be acted on without a lawyer reviewing your actual situation first.

Nothing sent through Kite Slip is confidential or privileged. Facility messaging systems are monitored by the facility. Kite Slip does not change that and does not claim to. Assume everything sent through a facility system is read.

Verification has a limit, and we state it everywhere: it confirms that a cited case exists in the public court record and says what we quoted. It does not confirm that the case applies to a situation or that it helps a position.

Nobody at this company will tell you a case will be won, reduced, or reopened, and nothing in the product predicts an outcome. A seat does not buy priority in any court, and a deposit does not reserve any outcome in any case.

3Where things stand right now

Accounts are not open yet. The first accounts open in November 2026, one facility at a time, when enough families at a facility are waiting. Until your facility opens, the only things you can buy are a seat hold (section 4), a founding year (section 5), or a sponsorship (section 6). Nothing else is charged before your account opens.

4The deposit

A deposit is $99. It holds your place in your facility's queue and locks the founding rate. When your account opens, the deposit is credited against the seat at $199 — the extra $100 is a founding bonus, not a discount on the list price.

Deposits are held in a separate account and are not used to run the company.

A deposit is refundable in full, at any time, for any reason, until the account it holds is opened. Every receipt email carries a one-click refund link that works without a login, a reason, or a phone call. A reply to the receipt email in a plain sentence does the same thing. Refunds go back to the original payment method, usually within a few business days.

If we have not opened your seat by 31 January 2027, your deposit is refunded automatically. You do not have to ask, notice, or chase us. The money is sent first and the email second. That email also offers the choice to keep waiting instead — but silence means refund, never the reverse.

A deposit never quietly becomes something else. It does not convert to store credit you cannot cash out, and it does not roll into a subscription without you saying yes. When your facility opens we write to you first, and the seat starts only when you answer.

If the person inside is transferred, we offer to move the hold to the new facility's queue. If the new queue is further out, or you would simply rather have the money back, that is a refund without argument. If the person comes home, that is a refund too — or, if you choose, a sponsorship for a family still waiting.

5The founding rate

If you hold a seat before accounts open, the first year is $899 instead of $999, and that rate is locked for as long as the case is open. You pay $99 today as the deposit; the remaining $800 is charged on the day the account opens, and not a day before. When the case closes, the seat moves to the standard rates in section 7 at the next renewal. We will never move a founding seat off its rate while the case is open.

6Sponsored seats

A sponsored seat is $999 one-time, or $99 a month as a continuous sponsorship. Sponsorship money funds seats for families who asked for one and could not pay. Sponsored seats are a fixed share of every facility opening — they are allocated alongside paid seats, not after them.

Sponsors are told the facility and the month a seat was placed. Never a name, a case, or a story. We do not tell a sponsored family who funded their seat, and we do not tell a sponsor whose seat they funded.

Live a Little Enterprises, LLC is a for-profit company. A sponsorship is not a charitable contribution and is not tax-deductible.

If you change your mind before your sponsorship has been placed against a seat, write to us and we will refund it.

7The seat, once accounts open

A seat is $99 a month, or $999 a year. One seat covers one person inside and one account outside. Every seat — paid or sponsored — includes the same product:

• The public docket on the case, retrieved by us and monitored
• Every motion and order explained as it lands, with the deadlines it starts
• The sentence computation, checked line by line against the statutes
• Credit, placement and program eligibility, tied to the counts
• The facility's handbook, policies, forms and the clocks they start
• Published case law, statutes and the guidelines as amended
• Answers metered in credits, with the monthly allowance stated on your plan
• Every authority checked before you see the answer

Records you send us yourself are limited to the categories in section 8 and to 500 pages per case. If you have more than that within those categories, write to us before you send anything and we will sort it out with you.

You can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the period you already paid for. If we ever change the list price, existing subscribers get at least 30 days' written notice, and founding seats keep their locked rate under section 5 regardless.

Getting the answer to your person is your side of this, through whatever channel you already use. That is deliberate: it means no facility's messaging vendor can switch off your access to Kite Slip, and it means we are not a condition of your ability to write to them. If you cannot reach them, that is between you and the facility, and we will still answer your questions.

8What you may send us, and what you may not

You must be 18 or older to open an account. Most of what a seat runs on, we retrieve ourselves. The only records you send us are the ones that are not in the public court record, and the list is closed.

You may send:

• The Bureau of Prisons sentence computation sheet
• Good conduct time and First Step Act earned time credit statements
• Disciplinary records and incident reports
• Program participation, PATTERN scoring and custody classification records
• Medical records for the person the seat covers
• A timeline or account written by you or by the person inside

You may not send, and we will not accept:

• Anything the prosecution produced in discovery — police reports, witness statements, investigative reports, laboratory results, device extractions, recordings
• The presentence report, in whole or in part
• Any material covered by a protective order in any case
• Photographs, video, audio, or forensic device extractions
• Documents from a case other than the one your seat covers

You confirm that anything you do send falls inside the first list, is from the case of the person your seat covers, and that you have the right to have it and to share it with us. We screen what arrives and hold anything that appears to fall outside these lists, with an explanation, rather than quietly indexing it. Repeatedly sending excluded material is grounds for us to close the account under section 9.

An acknowledgement is not the protection here and we will not pretend otherwise. You cannot agree your way out of a court's protective order, and neither can we. The protection is that there is nowhere in Kite Slip for this material to go.

What you do send stays yours. You keep every right to it. You give us only the limited permission we need to store, index, and search it in order to run your seat, and for nothing else. We do not use it to train AI models, and our privacy policy — kiteslip.com/privacy — says exactly who can see it and when.

9What the service may not be used for

The seat is for the person it covers. Do not use it to route questions for other people's cases, resell access, harass anyone, or send anything that violates the facility's rules for its messaging system. Do not probe, scrape, or interfere with the service. If an account is used this way we may suspend it — and if we do, we refund the unused part of anything prepaid. We do not keep money for service we are not providing.

10The honest limits

We build carefully and check every citation, but no service is perfect and no index is a lawyer. The service is provided as-is, and to the extent Missouri law allows, we disclaim warranties beyond what these terms state, and our total liability to you is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in this section limits liability that the law does not allow us to limit, and nothing in it touches your refund rights in sections 4, 6, 7 and 9 — those stand on their own.

11Disagreements

These terms are governed by Missouri law. If we have a dispute, write to us first — a person reads that inbox and most things are fixable in one exchange. If it cannot be fixed, disputes belong to the state or federal courts in Jackson County, Missouri, and nothing in these terms stops you from using your local small claims court if it has jurisdiction.

12Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will email the account holder at least 30 days before the change takes effect, and the email will say what changed in plain language. We will never change section 4's refund promises for a deposit already held — the terms in force when you paid are the terms your deposit keeps.

13Questions

hello@kiteslip.com. A person reads it and a person answers it.