Terms and Conditions

Your rights and obligations when using Blast Audit.

Last updated: October 28, 2026

Organizations that have not accepted this version remain under the version of October 14, 2026.

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") govern the subscription to and use of Blast Audit, published by NEXT BP, a French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with a share capital of €100, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 920 753 233, whose registered office is at 127 rue de la Tour, 75016 Paris, France ("Next BP", "we"). The "Software" means Blast Audit, within the meaning of the definition in the end-user license agreement (the "EULA", Section 11), which covers all its modules. The "Documentation" means the description of the Software's features published in its help centre, excluding marketing materials. The Data Processing Agreement is referred to as the "DPA".

The Software is offered only to professionals acting for the purposes of their business (the "Client", "you"). The Terms are accepted when the subscription is taken out or the free trial is started.

Contract documents, precedence and entire agreement. The contract relating to the Software consists of, in decreasing order of precedence: any order form or quote signed by both parties; the data processing agreement (DPA); the end-user license agreement (EULA); and the Terms and Conditions. For everything relating to the processing of personal data, the DPA prevails over all other documents, including any order form and quote. These documents constitute the entire agreement of the parties on the Software. They supersede any prior, contemporaneous or subsequent communication that does not take the form of an amendment signed by both parties. Changes made under Sections 2.6 and 14 of the Terms and Conditions, Sections 2.8 and 10.11 of the EULA and Section 11.6 of the DPA form part of the contract without a signed amendment. The following are not part of the contract: the website, the marketing pages, the security page, the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Notice, the help centre content other than the Documentation, and the replies of support, human or automated (Moulinet). The pricing page applies only to the price, term and quotas in force at subscription or renewal.

1. License of Use

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and the EULA, Next BP grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to use the Software for your internal professional purposes, for the term of your subscription or of your free trial.

You agree to comply with all usage restrictions set out in the EULA.

2. Subscription, Payment and Refund

2.1 Subscription, Plan and Free Trial
Full access to the Software requires an active subscription or an active free trial. We currently offer a single subscription plan, billed per user, monthly or yearly. The price, term and quotas are those of the pricing page at subscription or renewal, subject to Section 2.6. The features are those described in the Documentation. Unless terminated, your subscription automatically renews for successive periods of the same duration.
Each organization may use one free trial of 14 days. The trial requires no payment details and nothing is billed during it. At the end of the trial, access ends unless a subscription is taken out.

2.2 Payment via Stripe and VAT
Subscription payments are processed through the Stripe payment platform. By subscribing, you agree that your payments are governed by Stripe’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Prices are exclusive of taxes unless otherwise indicated. VAT and any other applicable taxes are calculated and collected by Stripe based on the information you provide (including your country and VAT number, where applicable).

2.3 Payment Terms, Late Payment and Suspension
Subscriptions are payable in advance, at the start of each billing period. Any amount not paid by its due date automatically bears, without any reminder being necessary:

late-payment penalties at three times the French legal interest rate in force applicable to professional creditors, from the day after the due date until full payment; and
the fixed indemnity of €40 for recovery costs provided for by Article L. 441-10 of the French Commercial Code. Where the recovery costs actually incurred exceed this amount, we may claim additional compensation on proof.

In the event of late payment, rejected payment or failed charge, we may also limit or suspend access to the Software until payment is regularised, and, if the situation persists, terminate your subscription under Section 13.

2.4 Usage Quotas
Your subscription includes monthly usage quotas per user, in Advanced Re-reads and in AI credits, pooled across all members of your organization. Reading the pages of your documents is included in the subscription: for that reading, only Advanced Re-reads are counted. An Advanced Re-read is the reading of a page by our advanced reader with our key, not with an API key saved by your organization; every Advanced Re-read is counted, whatever its cause. The current quotas, and the price of the lots of Advanced Re-reads you can add to your subscription, are stated on our pricing page. When a quota is used up, the features that depend on it may be limited until it renews for the next monthly period or, for Advanced Re-reads, until you buy a lot. We may also implement reasonable technical limitations to prevent abuse, ensure the security of our systems and provide a quality experience for all users.

2.5 Refunds
Except where required by mandatory law and except in the cases where these Terms, the EULA or Section 12.5 of the DPA provide for a pro rata refund, subscription fees paid are non‑refundable. A pro rata refund is the financial consequence of the termination itself: it is not added to damages for the termination alone.
An exceptional refund may be considered only if:

no effective use of the Software has been made (no document processing, no server‑side functionality used); and
this lack of use has not generated any variable costs on our side (for example, costs related to OCR, AI compute or infrastructure).

Any exceptional refund decision is at the sole discretion of Next BP.

2.6 Price Changes
Next BP may change the price of the subscription. The new price applies from the next renewal, provided that Next BP has informed the Client by e-mail or in the Software at least thirty (30) days before that renewal. A Client that does not accept the new price may choose not to renew its subscription.

3. Use of the Software

You agree to:

use the Software in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations;
not modify, decompile, disassemble or attempt to discover the source code of the Software, except within the limits allowed by law;
not reproduce, distribute, transfer or commercially exploit the Software beyond the rights granted to you;
not use the Software in any manner that could damage, disable or overload our servers or networks;
not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Software or any related systems.

You remain responsible for the content of the data and documents you submit to the Software, as well as for any decisions you make based on the results provided.

Reading model and use restrictions. To read some pages of scanned documents, the Software runs the Indra OCR model published by Datalab. Next BP uses the weights of that model under the modified AI Pubs OpenRAIL-M license, version 0.1 as modified (the "Weights License"). Next BP is the licensee of those weights: it does not sublicense them to you or hand them over to you, and these terms do not make you a party to the license agreement with Datalab. The model is subject to paragraph 5 of the Weights License, whose Attachment A sets use restrictions. A full copy of the Weights License, including Attachment A, is published on our legal notice page. For your use of the Software, you agree not to use it in breach of applicable law or in infringement of a third party's intellectual property rights, not to reach the weights or the model outside the Software, and not to make them available to a third party. You also agree not to offer, as a separate product or service, text recognition or document extraction that competes with Datalab's offerings. Reading your documents, and delivering your workpapers, workbooks and exports to your clients, is not such an offering.

4. Personal Data

When you submit documents containing personal data to the Software, Next BP processes them as your processor, under the DPA, which forms part of the contract. The personal data that Next BP processes as controller (accounts, billing, support, analytics) are described in our Privacy Policy, which informs the data subjects and does not form part of the contract.

5. Availability, Maintenance and Incidents

We use reasonable means to keep the Software available and working. This is an obligation of means (obligation de moyens). However:

the Software may be temporarily unavailable for planned maintenance operations, which we try to schedule outside business hours;
in the event of a major incident (for example, serious errors, abnormal delays, security incidents), we may block or temporarily restrict access to the Software while we fix the issue.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability or the complete absence of errors.

Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure or delay in performing its obligations due to an event of force majeure. In addition to the cases in Article 1218 of the French Civil Code, an event beyond the reasonable control of the party relying on it, which it cannot overcome by appropriate measures, constitutes a case of force majeure, even if foreseeable: failure of a host, of a cloud provider or of an artificial intelligence provider; cyberattack despite reasonable security measures; decision of an authority. Payment obligations are not suspended.

6. Support

We provide support by e-mail at support [at] blast-audit.com and through the messaging available in the Software for:

reporting bugs or malfunctions;
asking questions about the use of the Software.

Unless otherwise stated, support is provided on business days (excluding French public holidays), and we use reasonable efforts to respond within a reasonable time, without any guaranteed response time. Support replies, human or automated, do not amend the contract and do not constitute professional advice.

7. Intellectual Property, Client Data and Outputs

7.1 Software. The Software and all related intellectual property rights are the exclusive property of Next BP and its licensors. These Terms grant you no ownership rights over the Software, only a right of use as described herein and in the EULA.

7.2 Client Data and outputs. You keep all rights over the documents, files and data that you or your users submit to the Software (the "Client Data") and over the results the Software produces from them: extracted values, extracted document text, the positions of words and lines on the pages (the "boxes"), workpapers, workbooks, answers, classifications and exports (the "Outputs"). Next BP acquires no right over them, other than a non-exclusive right, for the term of the contract and until their deletion provided for by the DPA, to host, process and display them to provide, secure and maintain the Software. The text extracted from the documents, the boxes, the workpapers and the workbooks remain your property, whichever model produced them. Article 6 of the Weights License, under which the licensor claims no right in the model's outputs, transfers none of these to Datalab. Next BP processes the Client Data and the Outputs to provide, secure and maintain the Software, under the conditions of the DPA; it does not sell them and does not use them to train or tune AI models. The Sub-processors that may access them are listed in the DPA; the providers you choose yourself by saving your own API key are not among them (Section 5.7 of the DPA).

7.3 Usage metrics. Next BP may use technical usage metrics that contain no Client Data or Outputs (for example, the number of pages processed) for billing, security and the improvement of the Software.

8. Confidentiality

8.1 Confidential information. "Confidential Information" means any non-public information that a party discloses to the other in connection with the contract, in any form, and in all cases the Client Data and the Outputs.

8.2 Obligations. Each party uses the other party’s Confidential Information only to perform the contract, protects it with at least the care it gives its own confidential information, and discloses it only to its personnel, sub-processors and advisers who need it for that purpose and are bound by an equivalent obligation of confidentiality.

8.3 Professional secrecy. Next BP acknowledges that the Client may be bound by professional secrecy, statutory auditors under Article L. 821-35 of the French Commercial Code and chartered accountants under Article 21 of Ordinance No. 45-2138 of 19 September 1945. Documents entrusted to the Software may be covered by it. Next BP accesses them only to the extent strictly necessary to provide the Software, answer a support request or handle an incident, and subjects its personnel and sub-processors to a confidentiality obligation. This Section does not make Next BP a person legally entrusted with that secrecy.

8.4 Exceptions. These obligations do not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, that the receiving party already lawfully held, that it developed independently, or that it lawfully received from a third party not bound by confidentiality.

8.5 Disclosure required by law. If a party is required by law or by an authority to disclose Confidential Information, it informs the other party beforehand where the law allows it, and discloses only what is required.

8.6 Duration. These obligations apply for the term of the contract and for five (5) years after its end, and, for Client Data, for as long as Next BP holds them.

9. Reversibility and Account Deletion

9.1 Your workbooks. Workbooks remain in your own Excel files and are not affected by the end of the subscription.

9.2 Export. Before deleting your account or terminating your subscription, you are responsible for retrieving and exporting the data and results that you wish to keep and that the Software still holds (for example, engagements of the engagement agent, settings, the list of users).

9.3 Deletion. At the end of the subscription, the return and deletion of the Client Data that Next BP still holds follow Section 7 of the DPA. Next BP provides a certificate of deletion on request. Account and billing data, for which Next BP is the controller, are outside this Section; invoices are kept for the period the law requires.

9.4 After deletion. Once the periods in Section 7 of the DPA have elapsed, backups included, Next BP no longer holds a copy of the Client Data covered by that Section to return; the copies that a provider keeps under Section 5.4 of the DPA cannot be recovered by Next BP.

10. Warranties

10.1 Commitments of Next BP. Next BP undertakes to provide the Software substantially in accordance with its Documentation and endeavours to correct, within a reasonable time, the reproducible and significant defects that you report to it.

10.2 Results. The Software uses optical character recognition and artificial intelligence models, whose results may contain errors. Next BP does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of each result. Where possible, each extracted value is linked to its source in the document so that you can check it.

10.3 No professional opinion. The Software is an assistive tool for analysis and audit and does not constitute an audit, accounting or legal opinion. You remain responsible for checking the results and for the conclusions you draw from them.

10.4 Other warranties. Except for the commitments in this Section and the mandatory provisions of law, Next BP gives no other warranty, in particular that the Software meets a need that is not described in its Documentation.

11. Liability

11.1 Principle. Each party is liable for the direct and foreseeable damage that it causes to the other through a breach of its obligations. Next BP is not liable for indirect damage, such as loss of profit, turnover, clientele or business opportunity. Nor is it liable for the Client's professional opinions, views, conclusions and decisions, or for a loss caused by the Client. Compensation for a loss of Client Data is limited to the reasonable cost of restoring or reconstituting it, within the limit of the cap in Section 11.2. Next BP does not indemnify claims by the Client's clients or by the entities the Client audits or advises, based on the Client's engagements, opinions or deliverables.

11.2 Single cap. Subject to Section 11.4, the total liability of Next BP towards the Client, for all claims arising during the same period of twelve (12) months, for all causes combined, under these Terms, the EULA and the DPA, personal data protection and confidentiality included, is limited to the higher of the following two amounts: the amounts excluding tax paid or payable by the Client for the Software in respect of the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the first claim; the price excluding tax of twelve (12) months of the subscription taken out or, during a free trial, of the trial subscription.

11.3 Allocation. Damages due under these Terms, the EULA and the DPA, and credit notes, are charged against this cap once only. The pro rata refund of a subscription paid in advance is a restitution: it is not charged against the cap. If a provision of this Section is deemed unwritten, the others remain.

11.4 Exceptions. The limits in this Section do not apply in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, death or personal injury, or where a mandatory rule prohibits limiting liability. They cannot be relied on against data subjects exercising their rights under Article 82 of the GDPR. Between the parties, they apply, including to the recourse action provided for in Article 82(5) of the GDPR. Each party bears the administrative fines imposed on it.

11.5 Time limit for bringing claims. Any liability claim between the parties under the contract is time-barred one (1) year from the day on which the party bringing it knew or should have known the facts enabling it to bring it. This period does not apply to actions for payment of the sums due under the subscription, or to actions for compensation of personal injury.

12. Indemnification

12.1 By the Client. You indemnify Next BP against any claim by a third party or an authority, and the costs it causes, including reasonable defense costs, resulting from: (a) Client Data that you did not have the right to submit to the Software; (b) a use of the Software in breach of these Terms or the EULA; (c) a breach of your obligations as controller, in particular as to the legal basis for the processing and the information of data subjects, including the resulting claims of data subjects and authorities; (d) your professional engagements, opinions, views, conclusions or deliverables, including claims by your own clients and by the entities you audit or advise, except gross negligence or wilful misconduct by Next BP. Next BP promptly notifies you of the claim and lets you conduct the defense; it cooperates with you, at your reasonable expense. You may not enter into any settlement that places an obligation or an admission of liability on Next BP without its written consent.

12.2 By Next BP. Next BP defends you against any claim by a third party alleging that the Software, as provided by Next BP and used in accordance with these Terms, infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, under the conditions of the EULA.

13. Term and Termination

13.1 Term. These Terms take effect when the subscription is taken out or the free trial is started, and remain in force as long as the subscription or the trial lasts.

13.2 Termination by the Client. You may terminate your subscription at any time from your account area; termination takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

13.3 Termination for breach. Either party may terminate the contract if the other party commits a material breach of its obligations that is not remedied within thirty (30) days after a notice sent by e-mail or registered letter describing the breach. Where the Client terminates under this Section for a breach by Next BP, Next BP refunds the portion of the fees paid in advance that covers the period remaining after the effective date of termination, calculated pro rata by the number of days, within thirty (30) days and to the payment method used. This refund is the financial consequence of the termination itself; it is not added to damages for the termination alone.

13.4 Suspension or termination by Next BP. Next BP may suspend or terminate access in the event of non-payment (Section 2.3). It may also suspend all or part of the access, immediately where urgency requires: (a) where a use of the Software endangers the security of the service or of other users; (b) in the event of a breach of the use restrictions of the contract, including those of the reading model (Section 3); (c) to comply with an order of an authority or a court decision; (d) in the event of a serious legal risk linked to the use of the Software; (e) where an essential provider interrupts a service on which the Software depends. The suspension is limited to the time and scope necessary. Next BP informs the Client of it, beforehand where possible.

13.5 Survival. Sections 2.3, 2.5, 7 to 12, 13.3, 13.6 and 15 remain in force after the end of the contract for the time needed to apply them.

13.6 End of a service by Next BP. Next BP may end a subscription, or stop providing the Software or one of its modules, on ninety (90) days' notice sent by e-mail or in the Software. A module is an element named in the definition of the Software (Section 11 of the EULA). Where Next BP ends the subscription or stops providing the Software, it refunds the Client the portion of the fees paid in advance that covers the period remaining after the effective date, calculated pro rata, under the conditions of Section 13.3. Where the stop concerns only one module, the Client may terminate its subscription before the effective date, with the same refund. The withdrawal of an essential feature follows Section 10.10 of the EULA.

14. Changes to the Terms

Next BP may amend these Terms. The amended version takes effect on its publication or, where Next BP submits it for acceptance in the Software, on its acceptance. Next BP informs the Client by e-mail or in the Software no later than that date. If a material change, unfavourable to the Client, does not suit it, it may terminate its subscription free of charge, in writing, within thirty (30) days after that notice; Next BP then refunds the portion of the fees paid in advance that covers the period remaining after the effective date of termination, calculated pro rata, under the conditions of Section 13.3. The DPA is amended under its own rules (Section 11.6 of the DPA).

15. Governing Law, Language and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by French law. They are published in French, English and Spanish; in the event of a discrepancy, the French version prevails. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or their performance shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Economic Activities Court of Paris (Tribunal des activités économiques de Paris), or the commercial court that succeeds it, or, if that court has no jurisdiction over the dispute, of the Judicial Court of Paris (Tribunal judiciaire de Paris), including in the event of multiple defendants or third-party proceedings.

16. Contact

For any questions regarding these Terms, please contact us at:

contact [at] blast-audit.com