The deal, in plain words.

Your work

• The question you send is passed to whichever service answers it and is gone from us the moment the answer comes back. It is never written to our disks on the way through.
• Your conversation with Clint is a different thing and we do keep it, because a conversation you have to restart on every page is not a conversation. It is scrubbed of anything that looks like a key, an address or a card number, it is bounded, and it ages out on its own. The exact clock is in the privacy notice.
• We never train anything on your words, and we never let them decide which AI is any good — that comes only from our own frozen test set, so one person's traffic can never shape another person's answers.
• Work you mark private runs only on machines you own. If none of yours can take it, we refuse and tell you. We never quietly send it somewhere else.
• Some of the AI companies whose free accounts you can connect keep what you send, and at least one learns from it. We publish exactly who does what, generated live from the running service.

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Your account and your keys

• The keys you hand us for your own AI accounts live sealed in a vault, and we use them only for your own work. Your Host.Rodeo keys are kept only as one-way scrambles — a stolen file reveals nothing — and you can revoke any of them at any moment.
• An account is one person's. There is no way to add other people to it; anyone else who wants Host.Rodeo opens their own.
• You can remove a helper, a machine, or the whole account whenever you like, and take your data with you.
• We can never reach into a machine you own. There is no remote shell and no way in: your machine dials out to us, and everything it does is something it chose to accept.

Using Host.Rodeo

• Use it for lawful things. The AI accounts your work runs on are your own: you open each one yourself with that company, you accept its terms directly with it, and you use it the way those terms allow.
• We use those accounts only on your instruction, with the keys you gave us, for your own work and never for anyone else's. They stay yours: stop using Host.Rodeo and they keep working without us.
• We send each request to whichever of your own accounts and machines will answer it best, and move on the moment something stops working. No service is up all the time, and we say so plainly when something is down rather than pretending otherwise.
• The one exception is trying Clint at the front door without an account. Those answers run on Host.Rodeo's own accounts, and only with companies whose terms allow a product like ours to use them.
• You can stop whenever you like. We can suspend an account that abuses the service.

The money

We could not read the current price as this page loaded, and we will not print one from memory into a contract. The pricing page reads the same running service, and a person will tell you if neither will load.

That is the whole bill from us. A paid AI account you connect is yours, and that company bills you for it directly, at its own price. You set one spending limit — the most your own paid accounts may be charged through us in a month — and we stop at it. Until you set one, we never use a paid account at all. What each one cost is itemised on your Trail. We take no share of what you spend and no share of what you save.

The whole cost story

The full documents

• Terms
• Privacy
• Data processing agreement
• Who can receive your data
• Cookies and storage
• Accessibility

Questions

Anything unclear is worth telling us about — if a sentence here reads as a trick, it is not one, and we will rewrite it. Data-protection questions, deletion requests and security reports all reach a real person.

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