Binding AI Invoice Arbitration Rules
Plain-language operating rules for a narrow pilot involving voluntary business-to-business disputes.
1. Eligible disputes
The pilot is limited to monetary business-to-business disputes arising from invoices, delivery, or performance under a commercial contract. Consumer, employment, personal-injury, discrimination, fraud, and injunctive claims are excluded.
2. Separate, informed consent
Both parties must consent after the dispute exists. Each party must affirm that no human attorney, judge, or arbitrator will decide the matter and that the automated decision is intended to be final and binding.
3. Common evidence record
Every item considered by the decision system must be available to both parties. Each party receives a reasonable opportunity to object to authenticity, relevance, duplication, or technical readability.
4. Final-offer decision
Each party submits one final monetary outcome within the permitted range. The decision system selects the outcome better supported by the parties’ contract and the locked evidence record. It cannot create a third result or award punitive damages, legal fees, or injunctive relief.
5. Automated reconsideration
A party may request one limited reconsideration for a calculation error, unavailable uploaded file, duplicate evidence, mistaken party identity, or documented system failure. Reconsideration does not permit new merits evidence.
6. Decision and record
The decision states the selected final offer, summarizes the material record, and explains the principal reasons for the selection. The case record preserves consent, submissions, evidence hashes, access history, and system version.
7. Contractual fallback
If a court determines that the automated system cannot legally qualify as an arbitrator, the parties intend the decision to operate as a final and binding contractual expert determination to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.