Auteur Intelligence™ — Public Beta Terms of Service

Version 2026-11-05.2

In plain words

These Terms govern your use of Auteur Intelligence products and services. Auteur Intelligence is a public-beta product. It is real software intended for real work, but it is still being actively developed. Features may change, bugs may occur, integrations may break, and automated workflows may sometimes behave differently from what you expect.

Your work remains yours. Keep your own independent copy of important work. Hosted Auteur workspaces are working environments, not backup or archival services.

Some Auteur features connect to third-party services that you own or control, including AI and media providers, APIs, OAuth connections, command-line tools, MCP servers, local applications, subscriptions, and credit-based services. Those third-party accounts remain your responsibility. You are responsible for their terms, limits, usage, credits, subscriptions, and charges.

Automated software can consume third-party resources quickly. You must monitor your accounts and use provider-side hard spending limits, quotas, approvals, or other controls whenever available. Auteur may provide additional estimates, warnings, or limits, but unless expressly stated otherwise, they are safeguards rather than billing guarantees.

If a bug, retry loop, runaway task, delayed stop signal, inaccurate estimate, integration error, or other defect in Auteur causes or contributes to additional third-party usage, you remain responsible for the resulting third-party charges and consumed credits. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate and correct reported material bugs promptly, but we do not reimburse third-party charges or restore third-party credits.

Nothing in these Terms removes rights that applicable law does not allow you to waive.

1. Who these Terms are between

These Terms are an agreement between Saucer Century LLC, trading as Auteur Intelligence ("Auteur Intelligence," "Auteur," "we," "us," or "our"), and you or the organization you represent ("you").

Saucer Century LLC is a Louisiana limited liability company.

If you use the Products on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

These Terms apply when you create an account, install or use our software, access a hosted service, purchase a subscription, accept an invitation, or otherwise use an Auteur Intelligence product or service.

2. The Products

"Auteur Products" or the "Products" include Auteur Story, Auteur Prep, Auteur Film, Auteur Game, Auteur Learning, Auteur Build, Auteur Edit, Auteur Launch, Auteur Conductor, Auteur Studio, and related Auteur Intelligence software, services, connectors, local nodes, hosted services, tools, and features that we make available.

Products may operate in one or more of these ways:

Local. Software runs on hardware you control. Local-only features generally keep project files on your machine, although connected providers, activation, synchronization, and optional cloud or hybrid features may transmit selected data.

Hosted. Auteur Cloud or another hosted Auteur service provides account access, project workspaces, storage, coordination, billing, receipts, generation routing, and other enabled features.

Hybrid. Some features combine a hosted Auteur service with software, files, applications, models, or hardware running on a device or system you control.

The route used by a particular feature may affect where data is sent, which third-party terms apply, and which costs you incur. Review your selected route before sending sensitive material or enabling automated work.

3. Public-beta status

The Products are offered as public-beta software.

Public beta means the Products are functional and intended for customer use, but they remain under active development. Features may be incomplete, may contain errors, may change, and may occasionally be interrupted or withdrawn.

Bugs can include ordinary software errors as well as errors in automated systems, integrations, provider routing, task scheduling, retry behavior, usage reporting, cost estimation, stopping conditions, agent decisions, or communication between systems.

You agree to use appropriate judgment, supervision, backups, approval gates, provider-side controls, and spending limits for the importance and cost of the work you perform.

If you report a material reproducible bug, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate and correct it promptly. We do not promise that every bug can be reproduced or corrected immediately, and we do not provide a service-level agreement unless a separate written agreement expressly says otherwise.

Scheduled maintenance and updates. From time to time, we may need to update, maintain, restart, migrate, repair, or otherwise service Auteur Cloud or related infrastructure. This may cause temporary interruptions or reduced availability. When reasonably practical, we will try to schedule maintenance to minimize disruption and notify affected users in advance by email or through the Product. Emergency, security, provider, or infrastructure issues may sometimes require maintenance without advance notice. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to restore normal service as promptly as practical.

4. Your account

You need an account for hosted features and may need one for licence activation, entitlement verification, device pairing, or other Product functions.

Keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity performed through your account except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise.

A seat is for one person unless your plan expressly provides otherwise.

Ordinary independent account holders must be at least 18 and legally able to enter into a contract. Minors may use the Products only under the supervision of a parent, guardian, teacher, or other responsible adult, and may not hold an ordinary independent account.

Tell us promptly at hello@auteurintelligence.com if you believe your Auteur account has been compromised.

5. Licence to use Auteur software

Subject to these Terms and your applicable plan, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the proprietary Auteur Products for your own authorized projects while your access remains active.

Unless applicable law says otherwise, you may not:

• copy, distribute, sublicense, rent, resell, or operate the proprietary Auteur Products as a service for others without our written permission;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to extract non-public source code, prompts, model weights, security mechanisms, or other protected components;
• remove or obscure proprietary notices;
• use non-public Auteur materials to build or train a competing product; or
• share access in a manner that exceeds the seats or permissions in your plan.

Third-party and open-source software

Auteur Products may include, connect to, call, or depend on software, libraries, models, tools, services, or components supplied by third parties.

Third-party and open-source components remain subject to their applicable licences and provider terms. Nothing in these Terms restricts rights granted to you directly under an applicable open-source licence.

Third-party providers may update their software, licences, policies, service terms, technical requirements, or permitted uses. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with the terms that apply to third-party software or services you choose to use with Auteur and for confirming whether those terms have changed.

6. Your content and your work

As between you and Auteur Intelligence, we claim no ownership of your manuscripts, scripts, media, prompts, research, project files, customer-supplied data, or generated outputs.

Your rights in generated outputs may also depend on applicable law and on the terms of the model, media service, or other provider that generated them. We do not promise that any particular AI-generated output is copyrightable, exclusive, non-infringing, original, or owned by you.

You grant us the limited permissions reasonably necessary to provide the services you request, including permission to host, store, transmit, process, display, and create temporary or disaster-recovery technical copies of content where required to operate the applicable feature.

Auteur Intelligence does not use your content to train our own models.

Third-party providers you choose to connect may process, retain, or use information according to their own terms, settings, privacy policies, and service configuration.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the rights and permissions necessary for content you upload, process, transform, publish, or transmit through the Products.

ReadYourPet: photos of people

Photos of people. If you upload a photo that shows a person, including yourself, you confirm that you are that person or have their permission to upload it and to have it used to create your reading, and that the person is 18 or older or you are their parent or guardian. We use the photo only to create the reading you asked for. We do not use it to identify anyone, we do not create face templates or other biometric identifiers from it, and we do not use it to train AI models. The photo is stored with your reading and deleted when you delete the reading or your account. You can use ReadYourPet without uploading any photo of a person.

7. Your copy, hosted working copies, export, and deletion

Keep your own independent copy of anything important.

Auteur Cloud is a working environment, not a backup, archival, or permanent-storage service. We store hosted project data so the Products can work for you, but you should not treat the hosted copy as the only copy of valuable material.

The Products provide export functions so you can take your work with you. Use them regularly and before closing your account.

If your subscription ends, you cancel, or your account otherwise closes, your hosted workspace will remain available for export for 90 days after your paid or authorized access ends.

After that 90-day export period, we may delete hosted project content from active systems. Residual technical copies may remain temporarily as part of ordinary security, disaster-recovery, or backup rotation and will be handled according to the Privacy Policy.

We do not promise to recover content that you delete, content deleted after the 90-day export period, or content that is lost or corrupted. You are responsible for maintaining your own master copies and independent backups.

8. Third-party services and connected accounts

Some Products can connect to accounts, services, software, models, applications, APIs, OAuth services, command-line interfaces, MCP servers, subscriptions, credit plans, gateways, local applications, publishing platforms, creative tools, or other resources supplied by third parties ("Third-Party Services").

Examples may include AI model providers, image, video, audio and media services, coding providers, creative applications, game engines, publishing services, social platforms, storage providers, and locally installed software.

When you connect a Third-Party Service, you authorize Auteur to use that connection at your direction to perform the functions you request.

Your accounts remain your responsibility

You remain responsible for:

• maintaining the Third-Party Service account and any required subscription, licence, credits, API access, entitlement, or authorization;
• determining whether your intended use and selected connection method are permitted by the third party's current terms, policies, licence conditions, account rules, and usage restrictions;
• monitoring activity, usage, credits, limits, and charges;
• setting provider-side hard budgets, spending caps, quotas, rate limits, approval requirements, or other controls when the provider offers them;
• protecting, rotating, revoking, and otherwise managing credentials and authorizations where those controls are available; and
• paying all amounts charged directly by the Third-Party Service.

A connector appearing in an Auteur Product does not mean that the third party has endorsed, certified, approved, or guaranteed that connector or your particular use of it.

Connection methods

Third-Party Services may allow access through API keys, OAuth, subscription authentication, official command-line tools, MCP, local applications, device authorization, service accounts, or other methods.

Permission to use a service directly does not necessarily mean the provider permits every authentication method to be used through third-party software.

You are responsible for complying with the rules applicable to the method you choose. Auteur may disable, remove, restrict, or modify a connector if we believe its use may violate a provider rule, if authorization becomes unclear, if a provider requests a change, if a provider changes its technology, or if continued operation creates a legal, account, security, or service risk.

Third-party terms and availability can change

Third-Party Services are controlled by their providers, not by Auteur.

A provider may change its prices, terms of service, acceptable-use policies, subscription rules, licence terms, credit system, authentication methods, model availability, quotas, rate limits, technical requirements, or access policies at any time.

A provider may restrict, suspend, downgrade, terminate, or refuse to renew your account, subscription, API access, OAuth authorization, CLI access, MCP access, credits, licence, or other relationship with that provider.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Auteur Intelligence is not responsible for those third-party changes or decisions, including a provider's decision to restrict or terminate an account because of the provider's rules or its interpretation of how its service was accessed or used with an Auteur Product.

You connect and use Third-Party Services at your own account and commercial risk.

9. Third-party usage, credits, automation, and charges

Third-party charges are not Auteur charges.

Any fee, credit consumption, quota consumption, subscription usage, overage, token use, compute charge, image charge, video charge, audio charge, storage charge, bandwidth charge, API charge, request charge, or other amount imposed by a Third-Party Service on an account you own or control is your responsibility.

Automated workflows may make many calls

A single instruction can result in multiple operations, including model calls, retries, evaluations, tool calls, searches, generations, transformations, uploads, downloads, polling, routing, verification, or other automated actions.

Depending on the workflow and the connected provider, those actions may consume paid credits or create charges.

You are responsible for determining how much automated activity is appropriate for the accounts you connect.

Auteur controls are safeguards, not billing guarantees

Auteur may provide estimated costs, usage counters, warnings, spending targets, soft limits, rate limits, approval gates, stop conditions, or other controls.

Unless a feature is expressly identified as a guaranteed hard billing limit, these controls are convenience and risk-reduction features only. They are not a guarantee that a provider will not charge more than an amount displayed, estimated, selected, or expected.

Provider usage information may be delayed, incomplete, changed, unavailable, or calculated differently from Auteur estimates.

Whenever a Third-Party Service offers its own hard spending limit, quota, prepaid balance control, credit limit, project budget, or similar mechanism, you should use that provider-side control if unexpected usage would create a material financial risk for you.

Bugs and runaway usage

Because the Products are public beta, errors can occur.

A software error, retry loop, repeated generation, runaway task, agent mistake, delayed cancellation, delayed stop signal, duplicated request, inaccurate usage estimate, provider timeout, failed acknowledgement, integration defect, queue error, or other bug may cause more Third-Party Service activity than you intended.

You expressly accept that risk when you connect a Third-Party Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Third-Party Service charges and consumed credits remain your responsibility even when an error, defect, or bug in an Auteur Product caused or contributed to the third-party usage.

Auteur Intelligence does not reimburse third-party charges, purchase replacement credits, restore consumed credits, or compensate you for the loss of a third-party subscription allowance merely because usage exceeded your expectation or because an Auteur error or bug caused or contributed to that usage.

This rule applies whether the third party bills by token, request, second, generation, job, credit, compute unit, storage, bandwidth, subscription allowance, or any other unit.

Our refund and cancellation policy applies only to amounts paid to Auteur Intelligence. It does not reimburse charges imposed by a Third-Party Service.

If you believe a Product is consuming a Third-Party Service unexpectedly, stop the affected workflow if possible, disconnect or revoke the affected provider credential when appropriate, use the provider's own account controls, and notify us. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to investigate and correct a reported material defect promptly.

10. Disconnecting a Third-Party Service

Removing a connection from Auteur stops future authorized use by Auteur to the extent supported by that connection.

Disconnecting from Auteur does not necessarily:

• cancel your third-party subscription;
• close the third-party account;
• reverse charges;
• restore credits;
• cancel jobs already accepted by the provider;
• delete information retained by the provider; or
• revoke every credential or authorization maintained by the provider.

Use the provider's own account controls when you want to cancel a subscription, revoke authorization, rotate credentials, set spending limits, request a provider refund, or close the provider account.

11. Acceptable use

You may not use the Products to violate applicable law, infringe another person's rights, attack or interfere with systems, circumvent quotas or access controls, distribute malware, unlawfully impersonate another person, create prohibited exploitative material, or use Auteur to evade the rules of a connected provider.

You may not use credentials you are not authorized to use.

You may not use the Products to bypass a provider's usage policy, account restriction, rate limit, or technical restriction.

We may warn, throttle, restrict, disable a feature or connector, suspend an account, or terminate access when reasonably necessary to address misuse, security risk, legal requirements, provider requirements, or material violations of these Terms.

The current Acceptable Use Policy forms part of these Terms.

12. Plans, fees, billing, cancellation, and refunds

Fees are the amounts displayed at checkout or otherwise agreed with you in writing.

Payments to Auteur are processed through our designated payment provider. We do not store your complete payment-card number.

7-day trial. When an offer includes a 7-day trial, we collect your payment method at signup but do not charge the subscription fee at signup. Our payment processor may perform a temporary authorization or verification of the payment method.

Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the paid subscription begins immediately when the 7-day trial ends and the payment method on file is automatically charged the subscription price disclosed at signup, plus applicable taxes. Cancelling during the trial prevents that first subscription charge.

After the trial converts to a paid subscription, subscriptions renew automatically for the applicable billing period until cancelled.

You may cancel according to the cancellation method made available in your account or by contacting us.

Cancellation ordinarily takes effect at the end of the period already paid for unless your applicable offer states otherwise.

Our Refund and Cancellation Policy forms part of these Terms.

Auteur refund rules apply only to amounts paid to Auteur. They do not cover amounts paid directly to Third-Party Services, consumed third-party credits, provider subscription usage, provider overages, or other third-party costs, including costs arising from the circumstances described in Section 9.

Taxes will be handled as required by applicable law.

Auteur Credits

1. What credits are. Auteur Credits ("Credits") are prepaid units you can use to pay for AI processing performed through Auteur on providers we support (for example, text, chat and image generation). One Credit equals one US dollar of usage priced at the provider's published list price at the time of use. We do not add a markup to provider prices, and we pay card processing fees ourselves.
2. Credit packs. Credits bought as a one-time pack do not expire while your account remains open. Pack bonuses, where offered, are added to your balance at the time of purchase and are spent like other Credits.
3. Monthly credits. Credits included with a subscription plan or a monthly credit tier are granted at the start of each billing period, are spent before pack Credits, and do not roll over: any unused monthly Credits end at the close of that billing period.
4. Use and pricing. Before a paid action runs, Auteur shows its estimated cost and reserves the estimated Credits; you are charged the actual cost when it completes, and any unused reservation is returned. Provider list prices can change; the price that applies is the one in effect when the action runs. If an action fails before the provider charges for it, no Credits are deducted. If a provider charges for a failed or partial result, those Credits are deducted and shown on your receipt.
5. No cash value; not transferable. Credits are a prepaid service balance, not money, a deposit or a stored-value account. They have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for cash except as required by law or as stated in these Terms, and cannot be sold, transferred or shared between accounts.
6. Refunds. Credits are non-refundable and non-exchangeable, except where required by law, if we discontinue the service, or if we close your account for a reason other than your breach of these Terms, in which case we will refund your unused pack Credits. Monthly credits are part of your subscription and follow the subscription terms. If you are in the EU or UK: by completing your purchase you ask us to make Credits available immediately and acknowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal once Credits are delivered to your account.
7. Account closure. If you close your account, unused Credits are forfeited unless refunded under section 6. If your account is suspended for breach of these Terms, Credits cannot be used during the suspension.
8. Your own keys and local models. If you use your own provider keys or run models on your own hardware through Auteur Bridge, those actions are billed by your provider (or cost nothing for local models) and do not use Credits. You are responsible for your provider's charges and terms.
9. Changes. We may change Credit pack options, bonuses or monthly tiers for future purchases. Changes do not reduce Credits you have already bought.

13. Our intellectual property

Except for your content and third-party components governed by their own licences, the proprietary Products, underlying Auteur software and systems, documentation, interfaces, workflows, non-public benchmarks, receipt formats, website materials, and Auteur Intelligence names and marks are owned by us or our licensors.

You receive only the rights expressly granted by these Terms or by an applicable third-party licence.

Feedback

If you voluntarily send us ideas, suggestions, recommendations, bug reports, or other feedback about the Products, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, modify, incorporate, and commercialize that feedback without payment or restriction.

This does not transfer ownership of your projects or creative content to us.

14. AI-assisted output and automated decisions

AI-assisted output can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, inappropriate, non-original, or legally unusable.

You are responsible for reviewing material before relying on it, publishing it, delivering it to a client, incorporating it into a production, or using it to make a consequential decision.

Auteur does not provide legal, medical, financial, accounting, or other regulated professional advice merely because a Product can generate text or analysis about those subjects.

15. Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Products are provided "as is" and "as available."

We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement to the extent those warranties may lawfully be disclaimed.

We do not warrant that the Products will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against every threat, free from data loss, compatible with every third-party service, or capable of producing accurate, original, lawful, or fit-for-purpose output.

Temporary service interruptions may also occur during scheduled or emergency maintenance, upgrades, migrations, security work, provider changes, or infrastructure changes.

We do not guarantee that a third-party provider will continue to make a model, account type, API, subscription, connector, authentication method, licence, price, or service available.

Security controls reduce risk but do not eliminate it.

Nothing in this section limits rights that applicable law does not allow us to exclude.

16. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:

Neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business opportunities, loss of goodwill, or loss of data, even if the possibility of those damages was known.

Third-party charges, consumed credits, subscription allowances, overages, or other costs allocated to you under Sections 8 and 9 are your responsibility and are not amounts that Auteur is required to reimburse as damages, including when a Product bug or defect caused or contributed to that usage.

Auteur Intelligence's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Products or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) US $100 or (b) the amount you paid directly to Auteur Intelligence for the Products during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

The limitations in these Terms do not apply to liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable law requires liability.

17. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you will defend and indemnify Auteur Intelligence, Saucer Century LLC, and their officers, employees, contractors, and agents against third-party claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from:

• content you provide or publish through the Products;
• your violation of another person's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights;
• your unlawful use of the Products;
• your material breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy; or
• your use of a Third-Party Service in violation of the terms that govern your account or use of that service.

This section does not require you to indemnify us for our own fraud or willful misconduct.

18. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Products or close your account at any time, subject to the billing and cancellation rules applicable to your plan.

We may suspend or terminate access if:

• you materially breach these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy;
• payment remains unpaid;
• we are legally required to do so;
• your account creates a material security or service risk;
• a connected provider requires us to stop or modify a connection; or
• continuing the affected service is no longer reasonably possible.

Where practical, we will provide notice and an opportunity to address a curable problem.

When your access ends, your licence to use proprietary Auteur software ends to the extent the licence depended on active access.

Your hosted workspace remains available for export for 90 days after authorized access ends. After that period, hosted content may be deleted as described in Section 7 and the Privacy Policy.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including ownership, licence restrictions, payment obligations already incurred, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, dispute provisions, and provisions concerning third-party charges, continue to apply.

19. Changes to the Products and these Terms

Auteur is an actively developed public-beta platform. We may add, remove, replace, restrict, or change features as the Products evolve.

Third-party integrations can also change or disappear because of provider decisions outside our control.

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If a change materially affects existing paying customers, we will provide reasonable notice before the change takes effect where required by law.

If you do not agree to a material change, you may stop using the affected Product and cancel future renewal before the change takes effect, subject to applicable law and the Refund and Cancellation Policy.

20. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, where selected data may be processed, how provider credentials are handled, applicable retention practices, and how to contact us about privacy requests.

When you choose to send content to a connected Third-Party Service, that provider's privacy practices also apply to the data it receives.

21. Law, disputes, and general terms

Governing law. These Terms are governed by Louisiana law, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, subject to non-excludable rights that apply where you live.

Venue. Subject to any non-excludable rights in your jurisdiction, disputes may be brought in the state or federal courts located in Louisiana.

No mandatory arbitration or class-action waiver. These Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration or a contractual class-action waiver.

Export controls and sanctions. You may not use or receive the Products in violation of applicable export-control or sanctions laws.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganization, financing, sale of assets, sale of the business, or transfer to a successor.

Severability. If part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect to the extent permitted by law.

Waiver. Failure to enforce a provision once does not waive the right to enforce it later.

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, and any written order or offer expressly incorporated into them constitute the agreement concerning your use of the Products.

Order of precedence. If a specific written order or enterprise agreement expressly states that one of its provisions overrides these Terms, that provision controls for the subject it addresses.

Notices. We may send notices to the email associated with your account or through the Product. Notices to us may be sent to hello@auteurintelligence.com.

22. Contact

Auteur Intelligence™
Saucer Century LLC

hello@auteurintelligence.com