The deal, in full.

1. Who this is between

These terms are between you — or the organisation you are acting for — and Host.Rodeo, operated by Scaled Minds. Using the service means accepting them. If you are accepting for a company, you are confirming you are allowed to. Scaled Minds' registered office for legal notices is 4030 Wake Forest Rd Ste 349, Raleigh, NC 27609. Contracts: [email protected]. Data-protection questions: [email protected].

2. What the service is

You point an app at one address. We decide where each request should go among what you have connected — your own free accounts with AI companies, machines you own, and your own paid accounts last — and return the answer with a signed receipt naming what handled it and what it cost. Everything your work runs on is yours: Clint helps you open each account, but you open it yourself, with that company, on its terms. The one exception is trying Clint at the front door without an account, which runs on Host.Rodeo's own accounts, and only with companies whose terms allow a product like ours to use them.

You never choose a model and you are never asked to. Choosing is the work this service exists to do, and a request that names a model is still served: we read what the request actually needs and route it.

3. Your account

• Give us a real email address and keep your password to yourself.
• Your API keys are bearer keys: anyone holding one can spend on your behalf. Treat them like cash, and revoke one from your account page the moment it leaks.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• An account is one person's. You cannot add other people to it, and anyone else who wants to use Host.Rodeo opens their own.
• You must be 16 or older.

4. What you may not do

• Anything unlawful, or anything that infringes someone else's rights.
• Use your own AI accounts through us in a way their terms forbid — hammering them, or working around their limits, including by opening several free accounts with one company. Those terms are between you and each company, and you accepted them directly.
• Try to break, overload, or find your way into parts of the service that are not yours.
• Sell other people raw access to Host.Rodeo, or let someone else use your account. Building your own app on it for your own users is fine; whether a company's terms allow that use of your account with it is between you and that company.
• Route someone else's consumer subscription session through us, or ask us to help you do it. We win by being a good tenant of the services we use, out loud.

We may suspend an account that does these things. Where it is safe and sensible we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

5. Your content, and ours

You keep everything you send and everything that comes back. We claim no ownership and no licence beyond what is needed to route your request and return the answer, and we do not train on it. The privacy notice says exactly what we keep and for how long; the sub-processor list says who else is involved.

You are responsible for having the right to send what you send, and for what you do with what comes back. AI output can be wrong, and it can be confidently wrong. Clint is an AI and says so; check anything that matters before it matters.

6. Your own accounts and machines

Every AI account your work runs on is your own. You open it yourself with that company and accept its terms directly with it; those terms govern the requests sent there, and anything it charges is between you and it. Before your first one you confirm once that the accounts are yours. You give us a key or a sign-in for each, and we use it only to send your own work there, on your instruction — never anyone else's work, and never for anything else. Remove it here and we stop; your account with that company carries on without us.

If you connect your own machine it stays yours, and here is exactly what that means rather than a blanket claim. We hold no remote shell and no inbound route: your machine dials out to us and nothing can dial in. Over that outbound channel it accepts a small, fixed set of signed instructions — take a piece of work, report what hardware and models it has, report that it is healthy, load or stop a model it already holds, and stop accepting work. It cannot be made to run arbitrary code, read your files, or install anything you did not install.

You can pause it, stop it or remove it from the machine itself at any time, and that is always your action rather than something we do to it. If it is switched off or unreachable we route around it; nothing waits on it.

7. 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.

• The trial needs no card. We ask for one only when you decide to carry on, and never before.
• Your free accounts and machines you own never add anything to that bill. If your access here ends they stop answering through Host.Rodeo, and we tell you before that happens, not after — but they are yours, not ours, and keep working directly with each company and on your own machines.
• Paid AI accounts are yours too, and each company bills you for its own directly, at its own price — never through us, and never with anything added. You set one spending limit: the most your own paid accounts may be charged through Host.Rodeo in a month. We stop at it and warn you before you reach it. Until you set a limit we never send work to a paid account, and a limit of zero means never.
• We will never invoice you for a number we cannot show you the arithmetic for.
• Accounts opened before a price change stay exactly as they were until you explicitly accept the new one. Nobody is moved onto a charge without saying yes.

The amounts above are read from the running service when this page loads. They are the same numbers the checkout will ask you for, because there is only one place they exist.

8. What we promise, and what we do not

We try hard to always have an answer for you and we route around failures automatically. But we depend on other people's services and nothing is up all the time. We do not promise uptime. When something is down we say so plainly on the status page rather than pretending otherwise.

The service is provided as-is. To the extent the law allows we exclude implied warranties. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

9. Limits on liability

Neither side is liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue or data. Our total liability in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in that period, or 100 US dollars. If something goes wrong that limit is genuinely small — weigh that before putting critical work through here without your own fallback.

10. Businesses and data protection

If you send personal data through the service on behalf of your own users, you are the controller and we are the processor. The processing agreement covers that, including sub-processors, international transfers, breach notification and audits.

The processing agreement

11. Leaving

Two different things, and we keep them apart on purpose because a customer who does one and expects both ends up paying for a service they cannot reach.

• Stopping the plan ends future charges. Do it from your account page. You keep everything for the rest of the period you have already paid for, and nothing is deleted.
• Closing the account removes the account itself and revokes every key immediately. There is no notice period and no exit fee.
• Neither one touches your accounts with AI companies or your own machines. They are yours and keep working without us; closing destroys the keys for them that you gave us, and nothing else about them changes.

If you want both, stop the plan first and then close the account, and the page will say so as you go. If you have already closed an account and are unsure whether a charge is still running, write to us and we will check and stop it — you will not be charged for a service you cannot reach.

We may end an account for a serious or repeated breach of section 4, or with 30 days' notice for any other reason.

There is no lock-in by design: the API is the same shape as the one most AI apps already speak, so pointing your app somewhere else is a one-line change. That is the right way to earn the business.

12. Changes to these terms

We post any new version here with a new version number and date, and the previous version stays listed. We email account holders at least 30 days before a change that materially reduces your rights. Carrying on after that means you accept it; if you do not, close the account.

13. The boring end

If a clause is unenforceable, the rest still stands. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. You cannot transfer these terms without our consent; we can transfer them to a successor of the business. These terms and the ones they link to are the whole agreement. English law applies and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction — unless the law where you live gives you the right to your own courts, in which case you keep it.