The terms for using SLATE

Effective November 2, 2026

SLATE is a Chrome extension and dashboard that helps recruiting teams score LinkedIn profiles against their own role definition and example candidates, and send outreach from their own Gmail and LinkedIn accounts. These terms are an agreement between SLATE, run by Phoenix ("SLATE", "we"), and the organization that uses it ("your team", "you"), and they apply to everyone your team invites. By using SLATE you agree to them. If you're accepting for an organization, you confirm you can bind it.

1. Accounts and workspaces

SLATE is by invitation only. Your team's admin invites each member by email, and nobody can create an account on their own. Your team's data lives in one or more workspaces, usually one for each client you recruit for. Admins decide who is in each workspace and what they can do there, and can invite people from a client's side as guests, who see only their own workspace.

Keep your password to yourself, and don't share an account. Each person needs their own. Your team is responsible for what its members and guests do in SLATE, and should remove people who no longer need access. Tell us straight away at phoenix@slate.you if you think an account has been compromised.

2. What SLATE does

SLATE reads the LinkedIn profile, people search and Recruiter pages you view, and scores profiles against your team's role and example candidates. It keeps your team's roles, scores and saved people in a shared workspace. It sends email sequences from Gmail accounts your team members connect, and LinkedIn invitations and messages from LinkedIn accounts they connect, and it tracks replies. We keep improving SLATE, so features may change. If we remove something your team relies on, we'll tell your admins first.

3. Your outreach

Every email and LinkedIn message sent through SLATE is sent by your team, from your team's accounts, with words your team wrote or approved. SLATE is the tool, not the sender. Your team is responsible for its outreach, including that:

• It's lawful where the person is. That includes anti-spam and privacy laws such as the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, Canada's CASL, and the GDPR and UK GDPR. Where a law requires consent or a lawful basis to contact someone, your team needs it before enrolling them.
• It's honest. The sender, the "From" name and the subject line must be accurate and not misleading. Don't pretend to be someone you aren't.
• People can opt out. Give people a clear way to ask not to be contacted again, honor that promptly (within 10 business days at the latest, as CAN-SPAM requires), and don't contact them again. Include a physical postal address where the law requires one. SLATE stops a sequence for someone when they reply, unless your team turns that off; your team must still stop them on any other request to stop.
• It respects the platforms. Your use of Gmail must follow Google's terms, and your use of LinkedIn must follow LinkedIn's User Agreement. That includes their limits on how many invitations and messages you send. Platforms may limit or suspend an account that breaks their rules, and SLATE can't prevent that.
• Sending on someone's behalf is approved. When a teammate, such as a hiring manager, is the sender of a sequence, SLATE sends from their account only after they approve the message and who it goes to. Don't ask anyone to approve something they haven't read.

4. Gmail

Each person connects their own Gmail account through Google's sign-in, and can disconnect it in SLATE or at myaccount.google.com/permissions at any time. SLATE uses it only to send that person's sequence emails and the ones they approve, and to find replies and bounces from the people SLATE emailed. It doesn't read the rest of the inbox.

SLATE's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Gmail data is never used to train AI or machine-learning models, never used for advertising, and never sold. The only Gmail data sent to an AI provider is the start of a reply to one of your sequence emails, sent to Anthropic to tag it for your team. The privacy policy has the details.

5. AI scores and reply tags

SLATE uses AI from Anthropic to read profiles, score them against your role, and tag replies as interested, not interested or neutral. Anthropic processes that content under its commercial terms, which don't allow it to train models on it. AI can be wrong, incomplete or inconsistent, so treat a score or a tag as a starting point, not a decision.

Your team decides whom to contact, interview or hire. Don't use SLATE as the only basis for a hiring decision, and don't use it in a way that discriminates on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Your team is responsible for following the employment and anti-discrimination laws that apply to it, including any rules on automated tools in hiring.

6. LinkedIn and Unipile

SLATE isn't affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn. The extension reads only LinkedIn pages you open yourself, and only what's already on your screen. When a team member connects their LinkedIn account, SLATE works with it through Unipile, a service provider that connects to LinkedIn on that member's behalf. SLATE uses that connection to read the profiles your team imports, to send the invitations and messages in your team's sequences, and to notice replies to them. The member can disconnect LinkedIn in SLATE at any time.

Information about the people your team finds on LinkedIn is your team's to use responsibly: only for recruiting, only as LinkedIn's terms and the law allow, and never sold or shared outside that purpose.

7. Acceptable use

Don't use SLATE, or let anyone else use it, to:

• send spam, bulk unsolicited messages, or outreach to people who've asked you to stop;
• harass, threaten, deceive or discriminate against anyone;
• collect or use personal information unlawfully, or for anything other than recruiting;
• send anything illegal, defamatory or infringing, or malware or phishing;
• get around SLATE's limits, a platform's limits, or someone's opt-out;
• copy, resell or rebuild SLATE, or reverse engineer it except where the law allows it;
• probe or test SLATE's security without our written permission, or get at accounts or data that aren't yours;
• overload or disrupt SLATE or the services it relies on.

8. Your data

Your team owns the content it puts into SLATE: roles, example profiles, notes, sequences, and the people it saves and contacts. You give us permission to store, process and send that content only as needed to run SLATE for your team, to keep it secure, and as the law requires. For the people your team scores or contacts, your team decides why and how their information is used and is responsible for having a lawful basis for it. We handle it on your team's behalf, as the privacy policy describes, and we'll help your team answer requests from those people to see or delete it.

We may use records that contain no profile or message content, such as how many requests were made and what they cost, to run, secure and improve SLATE.

9. Fees

If your team pays for SLATE, the price and billing terms are the ones in your order or written agreement with us, which take precedence over these terms where they differ. Your team's plan may include a monthly AI allowance; SLATE pauses AI features once it's used up, until the next month or until the allowance is raised.

10. Ending or suspending access

Your team can stop using SLATE at any time and ask us to close its account. We may suspend an account or a team, or stop sending from a mailbox or LinkedIn account, if we reasonably believe these terms are being broken, that someone's sending is putting people or SLATE at risk, or that the law requires it. Where we can, we'll tell your admins first and give them a chance to fix the problem. We may also end these terms with 30 days' notice to your admins.

When an account is closed, sending stops, and we delete the team's data from our servers within 30 days unless the law requires us to keep it. Ask before then if you want a copy.

11. Disclaimers

SLATE is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these terms: not that SLATE will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every email or message will be delivered, that scores or tags will be accurate, or that Gmail, LinkedIn, Unipile, Anthropic or any other service SLATE relies on will keep working the way it does today.

12. Liability

To the extent the law allows, neither side is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue or data, and each side's total liability under these terms is limited to the greater of the fees your team paid SLATE in the 12 months before the claim and US$100. These limits don't apply to your team's responsibility for its outreach and its use of the information it collects, or where the law doesn't allow them.

Your team will cover SLATE's reasonable costs, including legal fees, from any claim by a third party arising from the messages your team sent through SLATE or from your team breaking these terms.

13. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, we'll update the date at the top. For changes that matter, we'll tell team admins by email before they take effect. Using SLATE after a change takes effect means accepting it.

14. Contact

Questions, support or anything about these terms: phoenix@slate.you.