Auteur Intelligence — Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-09-22

In plain words. These are the rules for using Auteur Intelligence, whether you install our software on your own computer or use our hosted service. The software is licensed to you, not sold. Your work stays yours; we take only the permissions we need to run the service for you. Some features use provider accounts you connect; any managed provider or local processing option is described in the applicable offer and Privacy Policy. Everything is pre-release right now, so it can change or break, and we say so plainly rather than promising otherwise. If we charge you, it is monthly through Stripe, you can cancel any time, and the refund rules are in a separate short policy. We cap what we owe you if something goes wrong. Nothing here takes away a right your local consumer law gives you.

1. Who these terms are between

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

Saucer Century LLC is a Louisiana limited liability company. Business address: 1048 Williams Ave, Suite A, Natchitoches, LA 71457.

They apply when you install our software, create an account with us, or pay us for anything. If you are accepting on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are allowed to bind it.

During the confidential beta these terms do not stand alone. Every beta participant also accepts the Beta Evaluation Agreement, and every paying founding member also accepts the Founding Beta Terms. Where those documents conflict with these terms, they win for beta participants, and on confidentiality the Beta Evaluation Agreement wins over everything.

2. What we offer

The products. Auteur Story, Auteur Prep, Auteur Film, Auteur Game, Auteur Learning, Auteur Build, Auteur Edit, Auteur Launch, Auteur Conductor, and the Auteur Studio bundle (together, the "Products").

Availability differs by product, market, and time. We intend to make the Products available worldwide where legally and operationally supportable. Some products are open to the founding beta, some are invitation-only or limited to design partners, some are in developer preview, some are delivered as a hands-on engagement rather than as software you sign up for, and the Studio bundle is not yet offered for sale at all. The current status of each product is published on its page on our website, and that published status governs what you are actually entitled to — not a general description in these terms.

Deployment shapes.

• Local. Software you install and run on your own hardware. Project files stay on your machine when you use local-only features; connected providers and optional cloud or hybrid features can transmit selected data as described in the Privacy Policy.
• Hosted ("Auteur Cloud"). An account with us providing sign-in, billing, receipts, entitlement documents, device pairing, and hosted coordination of work, together with whatever project files you choose to upload.

Honest status. Auteur Cloud has a limited staging deployment, but is not a publicly launched or generally available paid service. Hosted capabilities described here apply only when offered to you and enabled for your account.

3. Your account

You need an account for anything hosted, and for licence activation and device pairing on a local install. Keep your credentials safe; you are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us promptly at hello@auteurintelligence.com if you think someone else has got in.

A seat is for one person unless your plan says otherwise. Ordinary independent account holders must be at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract. A minor may participate in Auteur Learning through an account held and supervised by a parent, guardian, or other appropriate adult, subject to the applicable offering and safeguards.

4. Licence to the software

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the Products for your own projects, for as long as your plan or invitation lasts and you keep to these terms.

The software is licensed, not sold. You may not:

• copy, distribute, sublicense, rent, resell, or host the software for others;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it, or try to extract its source or model weights, except to the extent the law says that restriction cannot be enforced;
• remove or obscure any notice;
• use it to build or train a competing product from anything non-public about it; or
• share your access with anyone who has not accepted these terms.

No open-source licence is granted. Nothing in the software, its file headers, its output, or its documentation grants you any open-source licence, and none is implied, for as long as the confidential beta lasts. If we ever publish an explicit open-source grant, that grant will say so in its own terms.

5. Your content

Your work is yours. Your manuscripts, scripts, media, projects, prompts, research, and the outputs you generate belong to you, and nothing here changes that.

You grant us only the permissions we need to run the service you asked for: to host, store, transmit, process, back up, and display your content to you and to people you share it with. That permission ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for backups that have not yet rotated out and records the law requires us to keep.

We do not train on your content, and we do not use it to improve any model.

Export. You can get your work out. Local installations keep your files on your own disk in the first place; the hosted service provides an export. We will not hold your content hostage to a subscription tier.

You are responsible for what you put in. Do not upload content you do not have the right to use, and do not upload other people's personal data unless you are entitled to process it. If your content includes personal data and we are processing it for you, we do so as your processor under our Privacy Policy.

AI output is not guaranteed to be correct, original, or usable. Review it before you rely on it or publish it. We make no claim about who owns, or can own, the output of any third-party model; that is between you, that provider, and the law where you are.

6. Model and media providers

Available processing routes depend on the product and offer. Some features use an AI model or media provider account you connect and pay directly. Other features may use a provider or local compute arranged by us, or an optional hybrid node you control. We will identify the applicable route and charges in the offer or product description before you use it.

• For your connected accounts, you remain responsible for your provider terms and charges.
• Content sent to a provider may be processed by that provider and its upstream hosts under their applicable terms and privacy practices; see the Privacy Policy.
• A local installation does not make every feature local-only. Review the route you select before sending sensitive work.
• If a hosted feature stores your provider key, the Privacy Policy describes the storage and access controls.
• We may disable a connector where we reasonably believe it is being used in breach of a provider's terms or of §7.

We do not guarantee that any provider will stay available, keep its prices, or keep its model line-up. When a provider changes something, that is a change in your supply, not a failure of ours.

7. Acceptable use

Our Acceptable Use Policy (ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY.md) is part of these terms. In short: no unlawful use, no infringing or abusive content, no attacking the service or other customers, no reselling, and no using the Products to work around another company's terms. We may throttle, suspend, or disable access for a breach, with notice where that is practical and immediately where it is not.

8. Plans, fees, and billing

No self-serve checkout exists today. Nothing on our website charges you. Founding-beta seats are priced and agreed in conversation when a seat is offered, and no price has been approved for general sale.

When we do charge you:

• Fees are those agreed with you in writing or shown at checkout, whichever applies.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not see or store your card number.
• Fees are stated exclusive of tax. You are responsible for any sales, use, VAT, GST, or similar tax, and we will add it where we are required to collect it.
• Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period until cancelled.
• Fees may change for future periods with notice.
• If a payment fails we may suspend access until it is resolved.

Cancellation and refunds are governed by the Refund and Cancellation Policy (REFUND_AND_CANCELLATION_POLICY.md), which forms part of these terms.

Storage and usage limits are features of a plan. We enforce them going forward, with notice, and content over a limit stays exportable.

9. Third-party services

The Products connect to things we do not control: AI model and media providers, DaVinci Resolve, ComfyUI, AI coding harnesses, game engines, publishing and social platforms, our community platform, and others. Those services are supplied under their own terms by their own companies, and you may need your own licences and subscriptions for them — including, for the Resolve lane, a DaVinci Resolve Studio licence you buy yourself.

We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, their pricing, or what they do with what you send them. Naming a third-party product does not imply any endorsement by, or affiliation with, its owner; all trademarks belong to their owners.

10. Our intellectual property

The Products, the underlying engine, our software, our documentation, our benchmarks, our receipt formats, our website, and the Auteur Intelligence name and marks are ours or our licensors'. You get the licence in §4 and nothing else.

We have filed patent applications covering parts of this technology.

Feedback. If you send us ideas, suggestions, or bug reports, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use and commercialize them without restriction or payment. Feedback is not your confidential information.

11. Confidentiality and pre-release features

Everything we currently offer is pre-release. Features may change, be limited, or be withdrawn, and some are offered only to invited participants under the Beta Evaluation Agreement.

If you are in the confidential beta, the Beta Evaluation Agreement's confidentiality obligations apply to everything non-public you see, and they survive the end of your participation. Paying us does not loosen them.

12. Warranties and what we are not promising

To the maximum extent the law allows:

THE PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the Products will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of data loss, or that any output will be accurate, original, lawful in your jurisdiction, or fit for your purpose. We do not offer a service-level commitment.

Security is a posture, not a guarantee. We describe the controls we have built and we do not claim they catch everything.

Nothing in this section limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be excluded by contract.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent the law allows:

• Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, or data, even if told such damages were possible.
• Any contractual liability cap will be stated in the applicable accepted order or agreement; otherwise applicable law governs.

These limits do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else the law does not let us limit. They do not apply to your breach of §4, §7, or the Beta Evaluation Agreement's confidentiality obligations.

Backups are your responsibility too. Keep your own copies of work that matters.

14. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims arising from your content, your use of the Products in breach of these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or your use of a third-party provider in breach of its terms.

15. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Products or close your account at any time. Export your work first.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if we are required to, or if your use creates a risk to the service or to other customers. Where it is practical we will give notice and a reasonable chance to fix the problem first.

We may also end the beta programme itself. If we do, see the Refund and Cancellation Policy for what happens to prepaid time.

After termination: your licence ends and you stop using the software. We aim to keep the hosted export available for 30 days where the product's data architecture supports it and law permits, then delete on the schedule in the Privacy Policy. Sections 4 (restrictions), 5 (your content rights), 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 17 survive.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For material changes affecting existing customers we will give notice first. If you do not accept a material change, you may cancel before it takes effect.

17. Law, disputes, and general

• Governing law: Louisiana law, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, subject to non-excludable rights in your jurisdiction.
• Venue: state and federal courts in Louisiana, subject to non-excludable rights in your jurisdiction.
• Arbitration and class waiver: these beta terms do not require arbitration or waive class proceedings.
• Copyright complaints: send reports to hello@auteurintelligence.com with the work and material at issue.
• Export and sanctions: you confirm you are not barred from receiving our software under applicable export-control or sanctions law.
• Assignment: you may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them to a successor in a merger or sale of the business.
• Entire agreement: these terms, plus the Acceptable Use Policy, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, the Privacy Policy, and (for beta participants) the Beta Evaluation Agreement and Founding Beta Terms, are the whole agreement about their subject.
• Severability and waiver: if a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands; not enforcing something once does not waive it.
• Notices: to you, at the email on your account; to us, at hello@auteurintelligence.com.

18. Contact

hello@auteurintelligence.com

Saucer Century LLC, trading as Auteur Intelligence Business address: 1048 Williams Ave, Suite A, Natchitoches, LA 71457