Terms of Service

By visiting this website, or by installing or using any Bevel AI software we make available to you as an early tester, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you don't agree, don't use the website or the software.

Bevel AI is, at this stage, a pre-launch, early-stage software project built and operated by an individual developer. No company has been incorporated to operate Bevel AI yet. Until a corporate entity is formed, these Terms are an agreement between you and that individual, doing business under the name "Bevel AI" (legal entity name: to be determined), and not with any incorporated company. References to "we," "us," "our," or "the Operator" below mean that individual.

If a company is later incorporated to operate Bevel AI, these Terms — and any agreement formed under them — will automatically continue with that company as successor operator, and this section will be updated to name it, consistent with Section 16 below.

Today, "the Service" means this informational marketing website plus, for people we separately grant tester access to, a pre-release build of the Bevel AI desktop application. There are no public installers yet — see /download. Bevel AI is a local-first desktop application that connects messaging accounts you already own (currently Gmail and Microsoft Outlook) via each provider's official API, and stores the resulting data encrypted, on your own device. There is no hosted Bevel AI backend today.

If we give you direct, individual access to a pre-release build outside of a public download (for example, by sending you an installer), that access is also governed by these Terms, plus any additional written tester agreement we ask you to accept — the more specific agreement controls if the two conflict.

You must be at least 18, or the age of legal majority where you live, and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement, to use the website or any tester software. If you are using it on behalf of an employer or other organization, you confirm you're authorized to bind that organization to these Terms.

• Use the website and any tester software only for lawful purposes.
• Only connect messaging accounts you are authorized to access, and comply with each provider's (e.g. Google's, Microsoft's) own terms of service and API policies.
• Do not attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or circumvent security or access controls in the app, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.
• Do not use the website or app to build a competing product, to scrape content, or to send spam, malware, or unlawful content through any connected account.
• Do not misrepresent your identity or impersonate another person or entity when contacting us or when using tester access we grant you.

Any Bevel AI software you receive before general public release — whatever we call it (alpha, beta, foundations release, tester build) — is provided strictly on an "as is" and "as available" basis, for evaluation purposes only. Pre-release software may:

• Contain bugs, crashes, or incomplete features.
• Change substantially, break compatibility, or stop working between updates, without notice.
• Be discontinued, withdrawn, or have your access revoked, at any time and for any reason, at our sole discretion.
• Fail to sync, corrupt, or lose locally stored data — you are solely responsible for backing up anything important.

We make no commitment about the availability, features, or continued existence of any pre-release software, and no commitment that it will ever reach general availability.

The app works by connecting to third-party messaging providers (currently Gmail and Microsoft Outlook/Graph) using their official APIs. Your use of each connected account remains governed by that provider's own terms of service, developer policies, and privacy policy. We don't control those providers, are not responsible for their availability, changes, or outages, and a provider revoking or changing API access could break app functionality for reasons outside our control.

The Bevel AI name, logo, website content, and software (excluding open-source components, which remain governed by their own licenses) are owned by the Operator or its licensors. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use any tester software solely to evaluate it for your own personal or internal use — not to redistribute, sublicense, resell, or publicly demo it without our written permission.

If you believe content on this website infringes your copyright, contact us at the address in Section 20 with enough detail to identify the material and your rights in it; we will review and respond in good faith.

If you send us feedback, bug reports, or suggestions about the website or the app, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use that feedback for any purpose, without any obligation or compensation to you.

Nothing on this website or in any current tester software requires payment, and this website does not process payments or collect payment information. If we introduce paid plans in the future, they'll be described in updated terms presented to you before any charge, and you'll have to affirmatively agree to them.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the website and any tester software are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied. Without limiting that, we do not warrant:

• That the website, the app, or any tester build will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free.
• That any defects will be corrected, or corrected within any particular time.
• That the app, being pre-release software, will not lose, corrupt, or fail to sync your data — back up anything you cannot afford to lose.
• Of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows us to disclaim them.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law: neither the Operator, nor its successors, will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the website or any tester software, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the extent any liability is not excludable, the Operator's total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the website or any tester software will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (which, given Section 10, is currently expected to be zero), or (b) USD 100.

These limitations are a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and the Operator, an unincorporated individual, and reflect the pre-release, no-cost nature of what's currently on offer.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Operator from any claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the website or any tester software, or your violation of any third-party right, including a connected provider's terms of service.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the website or any tester software at any time, with or without cause or notice, including if we believe you've violated these Terms. You may stop using the website or app at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and 16) will survive.

[Placeholder — governing law, venue, and dispute-resolution mechanics (including whether an arbitration clause and class-action waiver apply) will be finalized with counsel and depend on the Operator's country/state of residence or incorporation. Until finalized, treat this section as unset.]

Before filing any formal claim, you agree to first contact us at the address in Section 20 and attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

We may update these Terms as the product changes — particularly as it moves from "tester website" toward a public release, and if/when a company is incorporated to operate it. We'll update the "Last updated" date above when we do, and make reasonable efforts to flag material changes prominently on this site before they take effect. Continuing to use the website or any tester software after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in full effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. These Terms (together with any separate tester agreement referenced in Section 3) are the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the website and any tester software, and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with incorporating a company to operate Bevel AI or a similar reorganization, consistent with Section 2.

Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and the Operator. Each party acts as an independent party in its own capacity.

We won't be liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of a connected provider's API, internet or infrastructure failures, or other circumstances beyond our control.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to [legal contact address to be published — placeholder]. Until a dedicated address is live, treat this page as our current, good-faith statement of terms rather than a fully finalized legal document.