Terms of Service

Effective 2026-04-22.

1. Acceptance

Using AI Co-Thinkers means you accept these terms.

2. What this service is

AI Co-Thinkers is a thinking-partner tool for SME owners. It is NOT regulated medical, financial, legal, or psychiatric advice.

3. Age requirement

You must be 18 years of age or older to use this service.

4. Acceptable use

You agree to use this service only for your own business or personal thinking. You must not:

5. Account responsibility

You are responsible for keeping your bearer token confidential. Use email-recovery to keep a backup of your access link.

6. Free tier mechanics

The free tier includes approximately 3 Sonnet conversations per calendar month, with Haiku as a fallback. Your quota resets on UTC midnight at the start of each month. The free tier may be modified or suspended at any time without notice.

7. The 9 specialists are AI, not humans

The specialists you interact with are artificial intelligence. No human is on the other side of the conversation.

8. Crisis-detection limitations

Our crisis-detection system is not a clinical safety net, is not human-monitored in real-time, and may miss content. Do not rely on it as a primary safety mechanism. In a crisis, contact emergency services in your country immediately.

9. Intellectual property and open-source clarification

The AI Co-Thinkers code is licensed under Apache License 2.0 at github.com/parimisankar/ai-co-thinker. This license does NOT grant you rights to:

You may self-host the service from source under the Apache License 2.0. You may not resell access to this hosted service.

10. No reverse engineering or prompt extraction

You agree not to attempt reverse engineering, decompiling, or extracting system prompts or model weights from this service.

11. No commercial resale

You may not resell or sublicense access to this service for commercial purposes.

12. Termination

We may revoke your bearer token at any time, especially in cases of abuse or violation of these terms. You may stop using the service at any time. Token revocation does not delete your session data — see the Privacy Policy for details on data retention and deletion.

13. Limitation of liability

The service is provided "as is" without warranties. Our maximum aggregate liability for any claim is the greater of (a) fees paid in the prior 12 months, or (b) ₹1,000.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless kickstartidea from any claims, damages, or costs arising from your misuse of this service or violation of these terms.

15. Force majeure

We are not liable for service interruptions caused by third-party API failures, including failures of Anthropic, Resend, Cloudflare, or Render infrastructure.

16. Changes to service

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue this service (or any portion of it) at any time without notice.

17. Future paid tiers

Supplemental terms for paid tiers will be communicated to you at the time of upgrade.

18. Severability, entire agreement, and survival

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, that provision will be reformed to the minimum extent necessary. These terms constitute the entire agreement between you and us. Any provisions that by their nature should survive termination will do so.

19. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict of law principles.

20. Notice clause

We may provide notices to you via email to the address associated with your account, or by posting a notice on the service. Email notice is sufficient.

21. English version controls

In the event of any translation or interpretation conflicts, the English version of these terms will control.

22. Changes to terms

We may modify these terms at any time. Material changes will be posted with an effective date. Last updated: 2026-04-22.