Buddy Platform
Licence Agreement.
1. What you get
1.1Subject to your paying the fees and keeping to these terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to install and run ONE (1) INSTANCE of the SOFTWARE on ONE (1) LICENSED MACHINE, for your own internal business purposes, for the TERM.
1.2The INSTANCE, the LICENSED MACHINE, the LICENSEE and the LICENCE KEY are recorded in the INSTANCE RECORD in the NOTICE file delivered with this copy. That record is part of this agreement.
1.3One purchase buys one instance. Additional instances, additional machines, additional buddies and additional named users each require a further purchase and a further LICENCE KEY.
1.4You may make backup copies of the SOFTWARE for your own disaster recovery. A backup copy is not a second INSTANCE and may not be run concurrently with the licensed one. A backup copy carries this licence and the NOTICE file with it.
2. What you may not do
You may not, and you may not permit or assist any other person to:
2.1RUN MORE THAN ONE INSTANCE. Run, host, boot or keep running more than one INSTANCE of the SOFTWARE at a time, or run any INSTANCE on a machine other than the LICENSED MACHINE, without our prior written consent. (For a genuine move of your buddy to a new machine, see section 3.)
2.2REDISTRIBUTE OR RESELL. Sell, resell, licence, sublicense, rent, lease, lend, distribute, publish, transfer, assign, share, gift or otherwise make the SOFTWARE — in whole or in part, in source or in any other form — available to any other person or company.
2.3MAKE FURTHER BUDDIES. Use the SOFTWARE, the birth scripts, the provisioning scripts, the migration scripts, the seat charters, the prompts, the memory schema or any part of them to create, clone, fork, provision, birth or operate any further buddy, agent, assistant or instance, whether for yourself, for a company you control, or for anyone else.
2.4OPERATE IT FOR OTHERS. Use the SOFTWARE to provide a service, bureau, hosting, managed service, consultancy output or agency service to any third party, or allow any person who is not a NAMED USER to use the INSTANCE.
2.5REVERSE ENGINEER THE DESIGN. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive, extract, reconstruct, document, summarise or republish the PROTECTED DESIGN — which includes the prompts, the seat charters and their contents, the agent architecture, the memory format and schema, the ceremonies and runbooks, and the operating doctrine — except to the extent this restriction cannot lawfully be excluded.
2.6TRAIN OR CONFIGURE ANOTHER SYSTEM. Use the SOFTWARE or the PROTECTED DESIGN to train, fine-tune, evaluate, prompt, configure, seed or improve any other AI model, agent, assistant or product, or supply any of it to any person or service for that purpose.
2.7BUILD A COMPETING PRODUCT. Use the SOFTWARE or the PROTECTED DESIGN to develop, market or operate a product or service that is substantially similar to, or competitive with, the Buddy Platform.
2.8STRIP THE NOTICES. Remove, alter, obscure, disable or fail to reproduce any copyright notice, the NOTICE file, the LICENCE file, the INSTANCE RECORD, the LICENCE KEY or any licence-verification or telemetry mechanism in the SOFTWARE.
2.9DEFEAT THE LICENCE CONTROLS. Circumvent, disable, tamper with or falsify the LICENCE KEY check, the instance identifier, the heartbeat, or any mechanism by which the SOFTWARE reports its identity or instance count.
ACCEPTABLE USE — WHAT YOU MAY NOT DO WITH YOUR BUDDY
2.10ACCEPTABLE USE. Sections 2.11 to 2.20 are the ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY. They are the operative text, in full, in this document — you do not have to fetch anything to know what they say. Where we also publish an acceptable-use page at the address named in the NOTICE file, it says the same thing in plainer words; if the two ever differ, these sections govern. We may update this policy on thirty (30) days' written notice, or immediately where a change is required by law or by a PROVIDER POLICY. If you do not accept an update, your remedy is to cancel under section 8.6 with no cancellation fee; continued use after the notice period is acceptance.
You may not use, and may not permit or assist any other person to use, the SOFTWARE or any INSTANCE:
2.11UNLAWFULLY. For anything unlawful, or to facilitate, plan or conceal unlawful activity; in breach of sanctions or export-control law; to commit fraud or launder money; to deal in illicit goods or services; to develop or procure weapons; to create malware; to gain unauthorised access to any system; or to infringe anyone's intellectual property rights.
2.12TO HARASS OR HARM PEOPLE. For threats, intimidation, harassment, stalking, doxxing, defamation, or hate-based content or targeting; to promote or facilitate suicide, self-harm or disordered eating; for sexual violence or non-consensual intimate content; or to generate sexually explicit content.
2.13TO SEND SPAM. For bulk unsolicited commercial messaging; for automated cold outreach at volume; to vary message content or sender identity in order to evade spam filtering; to mail purchased or scraped lists; or in breach of a receiving platform's anti-spam rules or of applicable anti-spam law. Sending to people who have asked to hear from you is not spam and is not restricted by this clause.
2.14TO SCRAPE OR TO CIRCUMVENT ANOTHER SERVICE'S TERMS. To scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-extract from any site or service in breach of that service's terms, robots directives, rate limits or technical controls; to circumvent a paywall, authentication, CAPTCHA or access control; to hold or operate an account in another person's name; or to evade a ban or block.
2.15IN BREACH OF A MODEL PROVIDER'S OWN USAGE POLICY. You must comply with the PROVIDER POLICIES of every model provider whose account you connect under section 5, as they stand from time to time, and you are responsible for reading them. Those policies are that provider's, not ours: they may prohibit things this licence does not mention, they may change without our involvement, and a breach of them may cost you the account your INSTANCE depends on. Nothing we say about them is a representation of their content; the acceptable-use page named in the NOTICE file lists each policy we have read and the date we read it, and names any provider whose terms we have not read.
2.16IN ANY WAY THAT TOUCHES CHILDREN. The SOFTWARE is for business use by adults and may not be used by anyone under eighteen (18). You may not knowingly place a child's personal data into an INSTANCE's memory, files or channels; direct an INSTANCE at children as an audience; or use an INSTANCE in any product or service aimed at children. You may never use it for content that exploits, endangers or sexualises a minor, including child sexual abuse material whether or not AI-generated. A breach of this clause is a severe breach under section 9.6.
2.17TO GIVE REGULATED ADVICE WITHOUT A LICENCE. A buddy is a BUSINESS BUILDER. It is not a lawyer, doctor, accountant, tax adviser, financial or investment adviser, insurance or credit broker, or therapist, and you may not hold it out as one. You may not use an INSTANCE to provide tailored professional advice that requires a licence — legal, medical, mental-health, financial, investment, tax, insurance or credit — to any third party unless a suitably licensed professional is genuinely involved in reviewing and issuing that advice and you hold every licence that use requires. You may not present an INSTANCE's output to a third party as professional advice, and you must disclose the use of AI where law or a professional duty requires it. You may not automate high-stakes decisions about people — credit, employment, housing, insurance, education, healthcare, essential services, law enforcement or migration — without meaningful human review. Section 11.1 is the same point from the other side: AI systems produce incorrect output and you are responsible for reviewing it.
2.18TO IMPERSONATE OR DECEIVE. To impersonate any person or organisation, including us; to send messages that falsely appear to come from someone else; to use a person's likeness, image or voice without their consent in a way that could confuse authenticity; or to present an INSTANCE's output as written by a named person who neither wrote nor reviewed it, where that would mislead. An INSTANCE must not deny being an AI system to a person who asks it.
2.19TO RESELL, CLONE, OR TRAIN ANOTHER AI. Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7 already prohibit resale, further buddies, operating it for others, training or configuring another system, and building a competing product; section 5.2 prohibits reselling or intermediating model capacity. For the avoidance of doubt, you may not supply the prompts, seat charters, memory schema or any part of the PROTECTED DESIGN to any AI system as training data, context, retrieval corpus, evaluation set or prompt — including by entering them into another assistant — whether or not any model is thereby trained.
2.20AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU TELL IT TO DO. An INSTANCE acts on instruction. You are responsible for the instructions you and your NAMED USERS give it, and for the outputs you act on or send onward, as if you had done those things yourself. If you become aware that an INSTANCE has been used in breach of this section — by a NAMED USER, by an intruder or otherwise — you must tell us promptly at the abuse address in the NOTICE file.
3. Moving your buddy
3.1You may move your INSTANCE to a replacement machine (hardware failure, upgrade, provider change) by telling us in writing before or within five (5) business days after the move, giving the new hostname and IP address. We will re-issue or re-bind the LICENCE KEY. The old copy must be destroyed within five (5) business days of the move.
3.2At no point may both copies be running. A move is a move, not a copy.
4. Who owns what
4.1OURS. We own, and retain, all right, title and interest in the SOFTWARE and the PROTECTED DESIGN, including all intellectual property rights in the source code, the prompts, the seat charters, the memory format and schema, the migrations, the scripts, the runbooks, the documentation, and all improvements to any of them. Nothing in this agreement transfers ownership of any of it to you.
4.2YOURS. You own, and retain, all right, title and interest in YOUR DATA: your conversations with the buddy, the CONTENT of its memory about you and your business, the files you place in its home, the documents it produces for you, and your business records. We claim no ownership of YOUR DATA. The distinction is content versus container: the words are yours, the format that holds them is ours.
4.3OUTPUTS. Work product the buddy produces for you in the ordinary course — documents, code written for your business, analyses, correspondence — is yours, subject to the rights of the model providers whose services produced it under your own agreements with them, and subject to section 4.1 (that work product does not carry with it any right in the PROTECTED DESIGN).
4.4FEEDBACK. If you give us feedback, bug reports or suggestions, we may use them without restriction and without obligation to you. We will not use YOUR DATA to do so.
4.5THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS. The components listed in the NOTICE file are owned by their own authors and licensed to you under their own terms, which override this agreement to the extent of any conflict for those components.
5. Model provider accounts are yours
5.1The SOFTWARE is sold WITHOUT model capacity. It requires accounts with AI model providers (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google) to function.
5.2You must open, hold, pay for and maintain those accounts in YOUR OWN name, directly with each provider, and you are bound by each provider's terms. We do not resell, intermediate, provide, share or pay for access to any model provider's service on your behalf, and we do not permit you to use any credential of ours.
5.3You must run each provider's client software unmodified and must not remove, disable or restrict any authentication method built into it.
5.4If a provider suspends, rate-limits, prices or terminates your account, or changes its terms, that is a matter between you and that provider. The SOFTWARE may not function without it and we are not liable for it.
5.5HOW MANY ACCOUNTS. A working INSTANCE requires, at minimum, TWO (2) Claude accounts and ONE (1) ChatGPT account, each opened and paid for by you in your own name. Anthropic states that the advertised usage limits of its Pro and Max plans assume ordinary, individual use; you are responsible for holding your accounts on plans that permit your intended use, and for asking your providers if you are unsure.
5.6HOW YOU SIGN IN. You sign each account in yourself, on the LICENSED MACHINE, through that provider's own authentication flow, using the provider's own unmodified client. We do not ask for, receive, collect, store, transmit or intermediate your provider credentials, API keys, OAuth tokens or session tokens, and you must not give them to us. Those credentials stay on the LICENSED MACHINE, which is yours.
6. Confidentiality
6.1The SOFTWARE and the PROTECTED DESIGN are our confidential information and trade secrets. You must keep them confidential, protect them with at least the care you use for your own confidential information (and no less than reasonable care), and disclose them to no one.
6.2You may give access to the INSTANCE only to NAMED USERS who are bound by confidentiality obligations at least as protective as these, and you remain responsible for their acts and omissions as if they were your own.
6.3These obligations survive the end of this agreement and continue for so long as the information remains confidential.
7. Verification and audit
7.1The SOFTWARE may report its instance identifier, LICENCE KEY, hostname and version to us for licence verification. You must not block or falsify this.
7.2On not less than five (5) business days' written notice, no more than twice in any twelve (12) month period (and without that limit where we reasonably suspect a breach), you will permit us or an independent auditor bound by confidentiality to verify your compliance with sections 1, 2, 3 and 5. You will give reasonable access to the LICENSED MACHINE, to relevant records, and to a list of every machine on which the SOFTWARE has been installed.
7.3Audits will be conducted in business hours with minimum disruption. We bear the cost, UNLESS the audit shows unlicensed instances or any breach of section 2, in which case you bear the reasonable cost of the audit and must immediately pay the licence fees that would have been due for every unlicensed instance for the whole period it existed — without prejudice to any other remedy.
8. Fees, delivery and what happens if either of us is late
8.1THE FEES. Unless your order form says otherwise, the fees for one INSTANCE are:
(a)a ONE-TIME FEE of seven thousand five hundred US dollars (US$7,500), payable in full on the PURCHASE DATE; and
(b)a MONTHLY FEE of one thousand five hundred US dollars (US$1,500), charged automatically every month thereafter.
Both are stated exclusive of any sales tax, VAT, GST or withholding, which you pay in addition where it applies. Both are charged to the payment method you give at checkout.
8.2WHAT EACH FEE BUYS. The ONE-TIME FEE buys the licence grant in section 1 and the setup, installation and handover of your INSTANCE. The MONTHLY FEE buys the continuation of that licence for the following month, together with the updates, patches and support stated in your order form. Neither fee buys model capacity — see section 5 and section 8.8.
8.3THIS IS AN AUTOMATICALLY RENEWING SUBSCRIPTION. The first MONTHLY FEE is charged thirty (30) days after the PURCHASE DATE, subject to section 8.5. After that, the MONTHLY FEE is charged on the same day of each month, and the licence renews for a further month each time it is paid, WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE TO YOU AND UNTIL YOU CANCEL. Before you pay, we will show you — separately from the rest of the terms, in plain language, and next to the box you tick to agree — the amount of each charge, how often it recurs, the date of the first monthly charge, the fact that it renews until you cancel, and how to cancel. We keep the record of that consent. Immediately after purchase we send you an acknowledgement repeating all of it and the cancellation instructions.
8.4WE INSTALL WITHIN ONE WEEK. We will set up, install and hand over a working INSTANCE within SEVEN (7) DAYS of the PURCHASE DATE. To do that we need from you: the LICENSED MACHINE (or your authority for us to provision one), access to it, and you yourself, present at the handover, to sign in to your own model provider accounts under section 5. We will tell you exactly what we need on the PURCHASE DATE. If you are not ready, the seven days are extended day for day by your delay, and section 8.5 is measured from the extended date.
8.5IF WE ARE LATE, THE CLOCK WAITS FOR US. The MONTHLY FEE is for a working buddy, so:
(a)If we have not handed over a working INSTANCE by the end of the period in section 8.4, the first MONTHLY FEE is deferred day for day by the length of our delay. You are never charged a MONTHLY FEE for a month in which you had no INSTANCE because we had not installed it.
(b)If we have not handed over a working INSTANCE within THIRTY (30) DAYS of the PURCHASE DATE for reasons within our control, you may cancel by written notice and we will refund the ONE-TIME FEE IN FULL, and any MONTHLY FEE already charged, within ten (10) business days. That is your remedy for late delivery and, other than any right you have at law that cannot be excluded, it is your only one.
8.6CANCELLING. You may cancel at any time and for any reason, with no cancellation fee: online through the subscription-management link in your purchase acknowledgement, which cancels immediately and takes no more steps than buying did, or by writing to the address in your order form. We may offer you an alternative before you go, but the button that cancels immediately will always be on the same page. Cancellation stops all future MONTHLY FEES and ends the licence at the end of the month you have already paid for. Part-months are not refunded. The ONE-TIME FEE is not refundable except under section 8.5(b).
8.7IF YOU DO NOT PAY. If a charge fails or a fee is unpaid, we will tell you in writing and you have TEN (10) DAYS from that notice to put it right. If it is still unpaid after those ten days, we may SUSPEND the INSTANCE: the SOFTWARE stops running, YOUR DATA stays where it is and stays yours, and we restore service on payment. If it is still unpaid THIRTY (30) DAYS after the original notice, we may terminate under section 9.2, and section 9.4 gives you thirty (30) days from termination to export YOUR DATA. We will not withhold, delete or hold YOUR DATA hostage over an unpaid invoice, and we will not delete it before that export window has run.
8.8MODEL CAPACITY IS NOT INCLUDED IN ANY FEE. Neither fee includes, subsidises or resells any AI model provider's service. You pay Anthropic, OpenAI and any other provider directly, under your own agreements with them, for the accounts required by section 5. Those charges are yours, they are separate from and additional to our fees, and they continue whether or not you cancel this licence. We never pay for, resell or intermediate that usage.
8.9PRICE CHANGES. We may change the MONTHLY FEE on not less than thirty (30) days' written notice before the charge it applies to. If you do not accept the new price, cancel under section 8.6 before that charge falls; using the INSTANCE after it takes effect is acceptance. The ONE-TIME FEE, once paid, is not revisited.
9. Term and termination
9.1This licence starts on the PURCHASE DATE and continues for the TERM — that is, month to month for as long as the MONTHLY FEE is paid — unless ended earlier under this section or cancelled under section 8.6.
9.2We may terminate this licence immediately on written notice if you breach section 2 (prohibited acts), section 5 (provider accounts) or section 6 (confidentiality); for non-payment, on the timetable in section 8.7; and on thirty (30) days' written notice for any other breach you have not cured within those thirty days.
9.3On termination you must stop all use of the SOFTWARE immediately, and within ten (10) business days of the close of the export window in section 9.4: delete or destroy every copy of the SOFTWARE and of the PROTECTED DESIGN in your possession or control, including backups and images; and certify in writing signed by an officer that you have done so.
9.4YOUR DATA SURVIVES. For THIRTY (30) DAYS after termination or expiry, for whatever reason and including non-payment, you may export YOUR DATA, and we will help you do so on reasonable request. Termination of this licence does not affect your ownership of YOUR DATA. We will not hold YOUR DATA hostage to a licence dispute or an unpaid invoice.
9.5Sections 2.5-2.7, 4, 6, 7, 8.7, 9.3, 9.8, 9.9, 10, 11 and 12 survive termination.
9.6SUSPENSION FOR A SEVERE ACCEPTABLE-USE BREACH. We may suspend the INSTANCE immediately and without prior notice where we reasonably believe there is a breach of sections 2.10 to 2.20 involving unlawful activity, children (section 2.16), a credible risk of harm to a person, an attack on any third party's systems, or conduct that puts our accounts, a model provider's accounts or another customer at risk. Suspension means the SOFTWARE stops running; YOUR DATA stays where it is and stays yours, exactly as under section 8.7. We will tell you what we suspended and why within two (2) business days unless the law forbids it.
9.7NOTICE AND TEN DAYS FOR ANY OTHER ACCEPTABLE-USE BREACH. For a breach of sections 2.10 to 2.20 that is not severe within the meaning of section 9.6, we will give you written notice describing it and TEN (10) DAYS to put it right, and we will not terminate under section 9.2 for that breach before those ten days have run. If you put it right, the matter ends. If you do not, we may suspend under section 9.6 and terminate under section 9.2. Sections 9.6 and 9.7 apply to sections 2.10 to 2.20 only: our right under section 9.2 to terminate immediately for a breach of sections 2.1 to 2.9, section 5 or section 6 is unaffected.
9.8YOUR DATA SURVIVES THIS TOO. Section 9.4's THIRTY (30) DAY export window applies to a termination under sections 9.6 or 9.7 in exactly the same way as to any other, including a termination for unlawful use. We will not delete YOUR DATA before that window has run. Two exceptions, and only two: content we are legally required to remove or to preserve (where preservation is required we will preserve rather than delete, and tell you if we are permitted to), and child sexual abuse material, which is reported and dealt with under law and is never returned.
WE DO NOT MONITOR YOUR CONTENT. There is no content monitoring in the SOFTWARE. Your conversations, memory and files are yours (section 4.2) and the verification in section 7.1 reports instance identity, not content. We act on reports, on model providers' notices, on legal demands, and on what you tell us.
9.9REPORTING AND APPEAL. Anyone may report abuse of an INSTANCE to the abuse address in the NOTICE file; we will acknowledge a report within two (2) business days. If we suspend or terminate you under sections 9.6 or 9.7 you may dispute it in writing. A named person, not an AI system, will review it and answer within five (5) business days. If we were wrong we will restore the INSTANCE, the licence continues as if it had never been suspended, and we will credit any MONTHLY FEE charged for the suspended period.
10. Remedies
10.1You acknowledge that a breach of section 2 or section 6 would cause us harm that money alone cannot adequately remedy, and that we are entitled to seek injunctive relief and specific performance without proving actual damage and without any requirement to post a bond or security, in addition to every other remedy available at law or in equity.
10.2Our remedies are cumulative, not exclusive.
11. Warranty and liability
11.1THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. AI SYSTEMS PRODUCE INCORRECT OUTPUT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWING WHAT THE BUDDY PRODUCES BEFORE RELYING ON IT.
11.2To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or loss of profit, revenue, data or goodwill.
11.3To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability under this agreement is limited to the fees you paid us for the SOFTWARE under section 8 in the twelve (12) months before the claim arose. This does not limit the refund we owe under section 8.5(b).
11.4Sections 11.2 and 11.3 do NOT limit: your liability under sections 2, 5, 6, 7 or 8; either party's liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
12. General
12.1NON-TRANSFERABLE. You may not assign, novate or transfer this agreement or any right under it, by operation of law, change of control, merger, sale of assets or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Any purported transfer without consent is void. We may assign freely.
12.2ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This licence (including the ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY at sections 2.10 to 2.20), the NOTICE file, your order form and the checkout record of your purchase (including the automatic-renewal terms and the acceptable-use summary you consented to at checkout) are the whole agreement between us about the SOFTWARE. Where your signed order form and this licence conflict, the order form governs.
12.3SEVERABILITY. If any provision is unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed to be enforceable, or severed, and the rest stands.
12.4NO WAIVER. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
12.5GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION. [TO BE COMPLETED — governing law and the courts of exclusive jurisdiction. This must be filled in before signature; it depends on the contracting entity and the customer's location, and it is for the parties' attorneys to settle.]
12.6CONTRACTING ENTITY. [TO BE COMPLETED — the legal name and registered address of the licensor.]
13. Definitions
"SOFTWARE" — the Buddy Platform in any form: the gateway, services, workers, scripts, prompts, seat charters, memory schema, migrations, systemd units, documentation and configuration delivered to you, and any update, patch or successor version we supply.
"PROTECTED DESIGN" — the prompts, the seat charters and their contents, the agent and seat architecture, the memory format and schema, the ceremonies, runbooks and operating doctrine, and the structure, sequence and organisation of the SOFTWARE, whether or not expressed in code.
"INSTANCE" — one installed, runnable copy of the SOFTWARE with its own identity, home directory and memory.
"LICENSED MACHINE" — the single physical or virtual machine identified by hostname and IP address in the INSTANCE RECORD, or a replacement notified and re-bound under section 3.
"LICENCE KEY" — the unique key we issue per INSTANCE, recorded in the INSTANCE RECORD.
"NAMED USER" — a person named in your order form, or an employee or contractor of the LICENSEE acting in the course of the LICENSEE's own business, in each case bound by confidentiality obligations.
"YOUR DATA" — the content you supply to or generate through the INSTANCE: conversations, memory content, files, documents and business records. It does not include the SOFTWARE or the PROTECTED DESIGN.
"TERM" — the licence period: from the PURCHASE DATE, month to month, renewing each time the MONTHLY FEE is paid, until cancelled or terminated.
"PURCHASE DATE" — the date the ONE-TIME FEE is successfully charged, as recorded by our payment processor. It is the date from which the seven (7) day delivery period in section 8.4 and the thirty (30) day first-charge anchor in section 8.3 are measured.
"ONE-TIME FEE" and "MONTHLY FEE" — the amounts in section 8.1, or the amounts in your order form if it states different ones.
"NOTICE" — the NOTICE file delivered with this copy, including the INSTANCE RECORD and the third-party component list.
"ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY" — sections 2.11 to 2.20 of this licence, as updated under section 2.10, together with any acceptable-use page we publish at the address named in the NOTICE file. The sections govern.
"PROVIDER POLICIES" — the usage policies, acceptable-use policies and terms of each model provider whose account you connect under section 5, as they stand from time to time — including Anthropic's Usage Policy at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup and OpenAI's Usage Policies at https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/ — together with any further policy a provider applies to your account.
"BUSINESS BUILDER" — what a buddy is sold as and what it is: a system for building and running your own business. It is not a licensed professional of any kind, and section 2.17 says what follows from that.
This licence is a commercial document, not legal advice, and has not been reviewed by a licensed attorney as at the version date above. Sections 12.5 and 12.6 must be completed, and the whole document should be reviewed by a licensed attorney in the licensor's jurisdiction, before it is relied on in a dispute. Section 8 creates an automatically renewing subscription. Automatic-renewal law differs by state and country, some of it reaches business buyers and sole traders, and section 8.3 and 8.6 are drafted to the strictest standard we found rather than to a legal opinion. Both the clauses and the checkout page that carries them must be reviewed by an attorney in the customer's jurisdiction. Version 1.2 adds acceptable use (sections 2.10-2.20) and its enforcement (sections 9.6-9.9); section 8's numbering is unchanged from version 1.1. Four further points in those sections are on the same attorney list and have not been settled: whether suspension without prior notice under section 9.6 is enforceable as drafted; whether we owe any duty to report a customer's breach to a model provider; the two carve-outs from the thirty-day export window in section 9.8; and whether section 2.16 is sufficient without age assurance. The statements in section 2.15 about model providers' policies describe policies read on 27 August 2026; two of the four providers' terms could not be retrieved that day and are named as unread rather than summarised.