The deal, in plain prose.

Adults using their own name.

You need to be at least 18 to subscribe. Seriesly is not for users under 16, and we don't knowingly accept seats for anyone in that age bracket. One human, one license: the app is built around a single person's portfolio of commitments, not a shared workspace.

The email of record is the one Paddle issues your receipt to. That's the email we use to validate your license, to send release notes, and to reach you under these terms. Keep it current; we're not responsible for notices we send to a mailbox you've abandoned.

Yours to use, not yours to resell.

The license we grant you is non-transferable and non-sublicensable. Your subscription is tied to the identity you sign in with — Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google — and that account is the durable handle for your access. Install the app on each Mac you want to use, sign in there to activate it, and sign out anywhere you no longer want it active.

The app stays installed even when your subscription ends. The local database on your disk is yours regardless: cancelling a subscription does not erase your years of meeting memory, and we cannot reach into your machine to take it back.

Paddle is our merchant of record.

All purchases go through Paddle (paddle.com). They handle the card processing, the receipt, and the VAT or sales tax for your jurisdiction. We see the outcome — your license — not the transaction itself.

Subscriptions auto-renew monthly or annually until you cancel. You can cancel from inside Seriesly or from the Paddle receipt email; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. There is a 14-day refund window from the first charge on any plan, no questions asked. VAT and sales tax are included in the price we display where applicable, so the number on the pricing page is the number on the invoice.

The short list of things not to do.

Don't reverse engineer the bundled models or the license server. Don't resell access you bought from us, and don't share your sign-in credentials so multiple people use a single subscription. Don't hammer the license-validation endpoint to probe for behavior we haven't published; it's there to verify you, not to be scraped.

The assistant is metered. Seriesly answers your questions on our keys, and that generosity has a shape: use it for your meetings, your people, your decisions, your research — the work the app is for. Don't turn it into a general-purpose model endpoint, a relay, or a proxy for some other application; don't drive it programmatically from outside the app; and don't slip past the usage limits, the rate limits, or the sign-in that gates them — including by lifting credentials out of the binary to call the backend directly. We may throttle, suspend, or close an account whose usage is abusive or wildly out of proportion to one person's work. The limits are generous on purpose; that is not an invitation to test them.

The macOS app stays under the standard end-user license: install it on machines you control, don't republish the binary, don't strip the code-signing. If you find a security issue, write to support@series-ly.com instead of going public first — we'll respond inside 72 hours.

Borrowed intelligence, on borrowed terms.

The assistant is powered by third-party models — today from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google — reached through our own proxy. When you ask it something, the context needed to answer leaves your device for whichever provider serves the call; the rest of your archive stays local, the way the privacy page describes.

Because we ride on their models, their rules ride along with you. Your use of the assistant is also governed by the acceptable-use and usage policies of whichever provider answers — you agree not to do through Seriesly anything those policies forbid, including generating prohibited content or using the outputs to build a model that competes with them. Where our terms and a provider's disagree about what is allowed, read the stricter one as binding.

The output is generated, not authored. It can be wrong, dated, or confidently mistaken, and it is not legal, financial, medical, or professional advice. Treat it as a fast first draft you remain responsible for checking — especially before you act on a summary, a decision record, or anything the app drafts in your name.

Offered as-is, while we ship.

Seriesly is offered as-is. There is no warranty of fitness for any particular purpose, and we make no promise that the app will always be available, bug-free, or that any specific feature will keep its current shape between versions.

Our liability under these terms is capped at the fees attributable to your subscription in the trailing twelve months, or two hundred US dollars, whichever is greater. Fees paid to Paddle as merchant of record count toward this cap. Nothing in this section disclaims liability for fraud or gross negligence — those exclusions are unenforceable in most jurisdictions anyway, and we have no interest in pretending otherwise.

Either side can stop.

You can cancel any time from inside the app or from the Paddle invoice. We can terminate for material breach of these terms — abuse of the validation endpoints, reselling, anything from Essay IV — with reasonable notice and, where the breach is curable, a chance to cure it.

If we terminate, the local database stays on your disk. You do not lose the year of meeting memory you built. That is the point of being local-first: the company can step away from you and your archive remains intact.