Tidbix Terms of Service

Version 0.1 · Effective July 12, 2026 · This version is a working draft under review by counsel; any updates will follow the notice process in Section 17.

1. Acceptance and eligibility

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Tidbix LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("Tidbix," "we," "us"), governing your use of the Tidbix platform, websites, and services (the "Service").

You accept these Terms by checking the acceptance box and creating an account, or by clicking a button presented with a link to these Terms. We record the version you accepted and when. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. The Service is built for adult founders and is not directed to anyone under 18. By creating an account you represent that you are 18 or older. If we learn that an account holder is under 18, we will close the account and delete its data as described in the Privacy Policy.

If you use the Service on behalf of a company, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes that company.

2. Definitions

"Your Content" — anything you submit to the Service: worksheet and interview responses, venture ideas and descriptions, artifacts and evidence, mission briefs, profile information, posts, and messages.
"Tidbix Materials" — the Service itself and everything we provide through it: software, playbooks, programs, tools, frameworks, text, graphics, and the Tid character.
"AI Features" — parts of the Service that use artificial-intelligence models to process Your Content and generate drafts, analyses, scores, reviews, matches, or suggestions.
"Subscription" — a paid plan that renews automatically until canceled, as described in the Subscription & Refund Policy.

3. The Service and your license to use it

Tidbix is a venture-building platform: guided playbooks, self-discovery tools, an idea workspace, a paced evidence sprint, founder matching, and AI-assisted drafting and review.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own venture-building purposes, subject to these Terms and your plan's entitlements. We may modify the Service; if a change materially reduces a paid feature you rely on, your remedy is described in the Subscription & Refund Policy.

4. Accounts, security, and your responsibilities

You are responsible for your account credentials and for activity under your account. Keep your sign-in method (password, Google account, or email link) secure and notify us at legal@tidbix.com of any unauthorized use. You agree to provide accurate information and keep it current. We may suspend accounts that show evidence of compromise.

5. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Service lawfully and in line with our Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of these Terms. In short: no unlawful content or conduct, no harassment of other members, no scraping or bulk extraction, no probing or breaking security or rate limits, no impersonation, and no use of the Service to build a competing dataset. We may remove content or suspend accounts that violate it.

6. Your Content: ownership, license, publishing, and moderation

Your Content is yours. Tidbix claims no ownership of your ideas, ventures, plans, or work product.

License to operate. So we can run the Service, you grant Tidbix a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, display, and transmit Your Content — solely to provide, secure, and support the Service, including processing by the AI Features and our service providers. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for content you have published (below, until unpublished), copies in routine backups for a limited period, and records we must keep by law.

We never sell Your Content or your personal data. This commitment also appears in our Privacy Policy.

No AI training on Your Content. We do not use Your Content to train artificial-intelligence models — ours or anyone else's. Our AI providers process Your Content only to return results to you. If we ever propose a program that uses aggregated or de-identified insights differently, we will update these Terms and the Privacy Policy and give you notice and choice first (Section 17).

Aggregated and de-identified data. We may create and use aggregated or de-identified data (for example, "what share of ideas pass an evidence gate") that does not identify you and cannot reasonably be re-identified, to improve the Service and publish insights.

Publishing is opt-in. Sharing a mission brief or founder credential publicly is your explicit choice, off by default. Published pages (including your name on a credential) are visible to anyone on the internet and may be cached by search engines and link previews; unpublishing removes the page but may not purge third-party caches.

Member-visible content. Profile cards, matching, community posts, and messages are visible to other members according to your settings; profiles are private by default and matching requires your opt-in.

Moderation. We may review, restrict, or remove content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or the law, and we provide in-product reporting and blocking. We do not pre-screen private content and are not obligated to monitor.

Copyright. We respond to copyright notices under our DMCA & Copyright Policy, including terminating repeat infringers.

7. Payments, Subscriptions, renewal, and cancellation

Paid plans and one-time purchases are listed at checkout and in the Subscription & Refund Policy (incorporated into these Terms): Evidence Sprint ($129 one-time), Builder ($29/month or $290/year), and Operator ($79/month or $790/year). Prices may change prospectively with notice; changes never apply retroactively to a period you already paid for.

Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price until you cancel. Before you buy, we show the price, the renewal cadence, and how to cancel.

Cancellation. Cancel anytime in the billing portal (Profile → Manage billing). Cancellation stops future renewals; access continues through the period you already paid for.

Refunds. As stated in the Subscription & Refund Policy. Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not receive or store your full card details.

8. Third-party services

The Service is built on third-party providers (hosting, database, payments, analytics, and AI processing — currently including Supabase, Stripe, PostHog, Google sign-in, and OpenAI, as listed in the Privacy Policy). We choose them carefully, but we are not responsible for their services beyond our obligations in the Privacy Policy, and links from the Service to external sites are not endorsements.

9. Intellectual property and feedback

Tidbix Materials are owned by Tidbix LLC or its licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the license in Section 3, no rights are granted. You may not copy, resell, or create derivative products from the playbooks, programs, or the Founder Energy Map instrument. If you send us feedback or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.

10. AI Features

The AI Features generate drafts, analyses, scores, reviews, and matches from Your Content, using third-party AI providers as our processors.

AI output can be wrong. It may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuited to your situation. Review everything before relying on it.
Not professional advice. The Service — including anything the AI Features produce about markets, money, regulation, or strategy — is informational and does not constitute legal, financial, investment, tax, or other professional advice. Decisions about your venture are yours; consult a licensed professional where it matters.
No training. Per Section 6, Your Content is not used to train AI models.
Fair-use limits. Free-plan AI runs are limited; abusing run limits or attempting to extract model behavior violates Section 5.

11. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what we collect, why, who processes it, and your rights, and is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where the Privacy Policy conflicts with these Terms on a privacy matter, the Privacy Policy controls.

12. Disclaimers of warranties

THE SERVICE AND ALL TIDBIX MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TIDBIX DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT VENTURES BUILT WITH IT WILL SUCCEED. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers; where they don't, they apply to the fullest extent permitted (see Section 15 for consumer carve-outs).

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (a) TIDBIX WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY; AND (b) TIDBIX'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (ii) $100. These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, including our gross negligence, willful misconduct, or (for consumers in some jurisdictions) statutory consumer rights.

14. Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify Tidbix and its officers, members, and employees from third-party claims and reasonable costs (including attorneys' fees) arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or the law — except to the extent caused by Tidbix's own breach or misconduct. We will notify you promptly of any such claim and may participate with our own counsel.

15. Governing law, venue, and consumer carve-outs

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Except as provided below, all disputes will be resolved exclusively in the state and federal courts located in Tarrant County, Texas, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction there.

Small-claims carve-out. Either party may bring a qualifying individual claim in small claims court in its home jurisdiction (for Tidbix: Tarrant County, Texas) instead.

Consumer carve-out. If you are a consumer in the European Union, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose law gives you non-waivable rights — including the right to sue in your home courts or the protection of your home consumer law — nothing in these Terms takes those rights away, and the venue and choice-of-law above apply only to the extent permitted.

There is no arbitration clause in these Terms.

16. Term, suspension, and termination

These Terms apply while you use the Service. You may stop at any time and may delete your account in-app (Profile → Privacy & Data → Delete account); deletion permanently removes your data as described in the Privacy Policy, and any active Subscription stops renewing. We may suspend or terminate your access for material breach (with notice and a chance to respond where practicable), for legal risk, or if we discontinue the Service (with reasonable notice and a pro-rata refund of prepaid, undelivered periods). Sections that by their nature survive (6-ownership, 9, 12–15, 18) survive termination.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Each version carries a version number and effective date. For material changes we will give at least 14 days' notice by email or in-product notice before the new version takes effect; continued use after the effective date is acceptance. If a change materially reduces your rights (including any future change to the AI-training or data-sale commitments in Section 6), we will seek your affirmative consent rather than rely on continued use. Prior versions remain available on request.

18. General

Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, with notice. Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Subscription & Refund Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and DMCA & Copyright Policy, are the entire agreement and supersede prior agreements about the Service. Notices. We send notices to your account email; send legal notices to legal@tidbix.com.

19. Contact

Tidbix LLC · Tarrant County, Texas · legal@tidbix.com