Steadrun Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-09-08 · Draft for review by counsel licensed in Ontario. These Terms follow the structure that has become standard for autonomous-operations platforms and are adapted to how Steadrun actually works. Three positions run through every section and are stated here first because they matter most:

中文要旨（以英文版为准）

1. 所有权归您。 通过 Steadrun 创建、运营的公司归您所有——品牌、内容、代码、网站、数据、客户、收入、以及所有账户（Stripe、域名、托管、仓库、YouTube）都在您名下。Steadrun 只拥有引擎本身。

2. 法律责任归您。 引擎是您的"电子代理"（electronic agent）：在您的授权契约（AUTO / DRAFT / NEVER、日上限、预算、凭据）范围内、以您的名义、为您的利益行事。它所做的一切，在法律上视同您本人所为；您是商户记录方（merchant of record），对内容、沟通、报价、收款、合规承担全部责任。

3. 自动运行与您的参与不矛盾。 自动化不等于您退出。在自动运行的任何时刻，您都有权介入任何一步——查看、批准、取消、推迟、改档、留言、把某条链切成逐步批准、暂停 / 冻结 / 关停、撤销凭据、导出——而引擎继续运行您没有介入的其余部分。您的每一次介入都进入只追加的账本。

Table of Contents

The Services · 2. Eligibility and Accounts · 3. Service Fees · 4. Revenue, Payments and Fees · 5. Ownership and Intellectual Property · 6. Acceptable Use · 7. Privacy and Subprocessors · 8. Disclaimers · 9. Limitation of Liability · 10. Indemnity · 11. Governing Law and Disputes · 12. Suspension and Termination · 13. Additional Provisions

These Terms govern your use of the AI-powered business operations engine offered by Steadrun (a sole proprietorship operating in Ontario, Canada; "Steadrun", "we", "us") through its website, console, account pages, APIs and related tools (the "Services"). By using the Services you agree to these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, the Privacy Policy, the AI Disclosure and, for each Company you enroll, the Ops Hosting Agreement. If you use the Services on behalf of an entity, "you" includes that entity and you confirm you may bind it.

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1. The Services

A. Overview — Your Company is yours. The Services help you create, plan and operate your own business or project (each, "Your Company") under your account. You are the owner and operator of Your Company. Steadrun is a tool and, when it acts, your agent acting on your instructions; it is not your partner, joint venturer, employee, fiduciary, professional adviser, or merchant of record. You may use the Services only for businesses that are lawful where they operate, and you are solely responsible for reviewing and validating that every action taken on behalf of Your Company is lawful and appropriate.

B. AI Features.

i. Agentic Actions. Depending on your configuration, the Services plan tasks, produce content and code, provision infrastructure, publish, send and reply to email, create payment links, reconcile payments, and otherwise interact with third parties on behalf of Your Company (collectively, "Agentic Actions"). Steadrun performs Agentic Actions only at your direction or within the permissions you enable — the authorization tiers (AUTO / DRAFT / NEVER), daily caps, budgets, schedules, credentials and integrations recorded for Your Company (your "Authorization Contract"). When it does so, Steadrun acts as your authorized agent and the software performing the action is an electronic agent within the meaning of Ontario's Electronic Commerce Act, 2000, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act in the United States and comparable laws elsewhere. Agentic Actions taken within your Authorization Contract are attributed to you and bind you as if you had taken them yourself. You are responsible for reviewing and approving what is published, monitoring costs, configuring and limiting permissions and integrations, and supervising Agentic Actions; Section 1.C describes the tools you have for that.

ii. No guarantee of accuracy. AI-generated content and Agentic Actions may be incomplete, misleading, biased, inaccurate or inappropriate even when they appear detailed and confident. Review outputs before publishing, distributing or relying on them. The DRAFT tier exists for exactly this purpose.

iii. No professional services. Steadrun is not a law firm, immigration consultant, accountant, tax adviser, financial adviser, fiduciary, medical provider or other licensed professional. Do not rely on the Services as your sole source of facts or to make legal, immigration, tax, financial, insurance, employment, medical or regulatory decisions without qualified human review. The Services refuse to give regulated advice and you may not route around that refusal.

iv. Third-party materials. The Services use third-party AI models and display or link to third-party content. We do not examine or vouch for third-party materials and accept no liability for them.

v. Advertising content. Advertising content generated by the Services is subject to the advertising platform's policies. You are responsible for its accuracy and compliance.

C. Automation and Your Right to Intervene.

i. Prior general approval. By enabling a Company you authorize the Services to run on their schedule — hourly execution, nightly planning, morning and weekly reports — and to perform every action set to AUTO in your Authorization Contract without per-execution approval. Actions set to DRAFT are prepared and held until you approve them; actions set to NEVER are not available to the Services at all. New Companies start with every action that spends money, goes public, contacts a third party or moves the Company into a spending stage set to DRAFT.

ii. Standing right to intervene. Automation does not exclude you. At any moment while the Services are running you may, through your account page, the console or written notice:

(a) inspect every role, every step of every delivery chain, every output and its evidence, and every fee;

(b) approve, cancel or defer any individual task, including one already queued by the Services;

(d) switch any delivery chain to step-by-step approval, or back to automatic;

(e) leave written instructions for the decision agent, which it reads at its next planning cycle;

(f) pause, freeze or shut down Your Company;

(g) revoke any credential you have granted; and

(h) export all of Your Company's data.

iii. Effect of an intervention. Interventions take effect immediately for actions not yet started. A step already in flight completes, but if you have paused, frozen or shut down Your Company its result is discarded and nothing further is derived from it. The Services continue to operate everything you did not intervene in; an intervention narrows or redirects the automation, it does not end it unless you choose to stop the Company.

iv. Ledger. Every Agentic Action and every intervention is recorded in an append-only event ledger for Your Company that you can inspect and export at any time.

v. Supervision. The right to intervene is also your means of supervision. The Services will do what your Authorization Contract permits until you change it; the absence of an intervention is not a defect in the Services.

D. Public pages and hosted content. Landing pages and other public pages the Services generate for Your Company are deployed into your hosting account under your domain or subdomain. You control their visibility and are responsible for everything they display, including any legally required notices to your visitors and customers (terms, privacy notices, consents and a notice that automated systems may generate content or take actions affecting them). We provide templates; you publish them.

E. Advertising. If you enable advertising and set a budget, you authorize the Services to create and manage campaigns and creatives in your own advertising accounts up to that budget, and to pause campaigns automatically if a payment fails or a platform raises a policy issue. The Services never exceed your configured daily budget.

F. Outbound communications. If you enable email features, the Services may send messages on Your Company's behalf using AI-generated content. You are responsible for having a lawful basis to contact each recipient (in Canada, CASL: express consent, implied consent or an inbound inquiry; elsewhere, the applicable anti-spam and privacy laws). Every message identifies the sender and offers an opt-out; the Services refuse to send outbound commercial email without a recorded consent basis and you may not fabricate one.

G. Connected accounts and authorization. All third-party services the Services use for Your Company — payment processing, hosting, domains, code repositories, video and social platforms, email delivery and mailboxes ("Connected Services") — are your own accounts, opened by you, in your name. Steadrun does not operate shared or Steadrun-owned accounts on your behalf and does not take custody of your accounts or funds. You grant the Services scoped access tokens, which are stored per Company in a restricted directory and used only within your Authorization Contract; you may revoke any token at any time, which stops the affected actions. Opening accounts, entering payment credentials, and giving first OAuth consent are always done by you personally.

H. Infrastructure provisioning. Where you enable it, the Services create resources for Your Company — databases, repositories, landing pages, payment catalog objects, hosting projects — inside your accounts. They belong to you from the moment they are created and remain yours if you stop using the Services.

I. Evidence. The Services mark a task complete only with verifiable evidence (a URL, file, receipt or transaction reference). A task without evidence is treated as failed.

J. Daily limits and deferral. Each Company has daily caps on API spend and per action. When a cap or an external quota is reached the Services defer the task to the next reset rather than exceeding the cap.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18. You are solely responsible for all activity under your account, including Agentic Actions the Services take on behalf of Your Company, and for keeping your account credentials and each Company's access code confidential. Notify us immediately at the support address below if you suspect unauthorized use. You may not create a new account after we have terminated one for breach without our written consent.

3. Service Fees

A. Ops hosting. USD $49 per Company per month, billed in advance through Stripe. Failure to pay suspends the Services for the affected Company after a 7-day grace period. The monthly fee is credited against that month's revenue share and advertising platform fee (Ops Hosting Agreement §9.4): it is a floor, not a stack.

B. Renewals and cancellation. Subscriptions renew monthly at the then-current rate until you cancel through the billing portal. You keep access through the end of the paid period.

C. No subscription refunds except as stated in the Refund Policy.

D. Advertising platform fee. 10% of advertising spend the Services manage for Your Company, billed monthly. The advertising spend itself is paid by you to the advertising platform from your own account; we never collect it.

E. Changes. We may change fees prospectively with 30 days' notice.

F. No credits, no per-task charges. We never bill by task, run, token or credit. Tasks that fail, are cancelled or are discarded after you intervene produce no charge; our own API and infrastructure costs are ours and are listed on each statement under "not billed". Shutting down a Company stops billing at that instant, with a final statement issued for the period up to then.

4. Revenue, Payments and Fees

A. Our role. Steadrun is a technology provider. It is not a bank, money-services business, payment processor or merchant of record. You are the merchant of record for every sale to your customers. Your customers pay into your own payment-processor account (currently Stripe, under Stripe's terms). Steadrun never receives, holds, settles or delays your customers' funds; there is no Steadrun balance, no settlement hold and no withdrawal limit, because the money is yours from the moment it arrives.

B. Limited authorization. By enabling payment features you authorize the Services to (i) create products, prices and payment links in your processor account, tagged with attribution metadata, and (ii) read transactions for reconciliation and reporting. The Services never issue refunds, initiate transfers or payouts, change your payout settings, or sign anything on your behalf; those actions are yours.

C. Revenue share. 15% of revenue attributable to the Services — payments received through links, offers or channels the Services created or operate for Your Company, identified by attribution metadata — computed from your own payment records, itemised transaction by transaction in your ledger, and invoiced monthly together with the advertising platform fee. Revenue that is not attributable to the Services is not shared. No revenue, no share.

D. Recurring subscriptions. If Your Company sells subscriptions, you are responsible for auto-renewal disclosures and cancellation mechanisms required by law.

E. Refunds, chargebacks and disputes with your customers are handled by you in your processor account. Where a shared revenue is later refunded or charged back, the corresponding share is credited on the next invoice.

F. Taxes. You are solely responsible for reporting and remitting taxes on Your Company's income. We do not provide tax advice.

G. Processor fees charged by your payment processor apply in addition to our fees.

5. Ownership and Intellectual Property

A. Ownership — everything of Your Company is yours. As between you and Steadrun, you own: the information you provide ("Your Inputs"); everything the Services generate for Your Company ("Your Outputs") — text, video, images, code, websites, landing pages, proposals, replies, brand assets, names and logos generated for Your Company; Your Company's data — leads, customers, messages, metrics, transactions and ledgers; and every account, domain, repository, hosting project and payment-catalog object created for Your Company. We claim no ownership interest in Your Company, Your Inputs, Your Outputs or Your Company's data, and no share of Your Company's equity.

5.A 中文：属于您的公司的一切都归您所有——您提供的输入、引擎为您生成的全部产出（文字、视频、图片、代码、网站、提案、回信、品牌资产、名称与标志）、您公司的数据（线索、客户、消息、指标、交易与账本）、以及为您公司创建的每一个账户、域名、仓库、托管项目与收款目录对象。Steadrun 不主张对您公司、您的输入、您的产出或您公司数据的任何所有权，也不持有您公司的任何股权。

B. Our intellectual property. Steadrun owns the Services — the engine software, orchestration, prompts, templates, documentation, and the Steadrun name, logo and marks. Templates incorporated into Your Outputs are licensed to you perpetually for Your Company's use. You may not copy, resell, sublicense or reverse-engineer the Services except as permitted by law.

C. License to us. You grant Steadrun a limited, non-exclusive, revocable license to access, store, process, reproduce and transmit Your Inputs, Your Outputs and Your Company's data solely to operate the Services for Your Company and as you direct (for example, to publish a page you approved or to reply to a message). We do not use Your Inputs, Your Outputs or Your Company's data to train or fine-tune AI models, and we do not disclose them to anyone except the subprocessors needed to operate the Services and as required by law. The license ends when the data is deleted from our systems.

D. Open-source components. Outputs may include open-source software or non-unique elements. You are responsible for compliance with open-source licence terms in code you deploy.

E. Your representations. You have the rights necessary to provide Your Inputs and to grant the license in 5.C, and you will not use Your Outputs or Agentic Actions to infringe third-party rights.

F. Feedback. If you give us feedback about the Services you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual license to use it; you keep ownership of it.

G. Infringement notices. Notices under Canada's notice-and-notice regime or the U.S. DMCA may be sent to the legal address below with the information those regimes require. We may disable content or terminate repeat infringers.

6. Acceptable Use

The Acceptable Use Policy is incorporated by reference.

7. Privacy and Subprocessors

Our data practices are described in the Privacy Policy. Subprocessors currently used to operate the Services: Anthropic (AI models), Stripe (billing and, in your own account, payments), Google/YouTube (in your own account), Cloudflare (in your own account), Resend (email delivery, in your own account) and GitHub (in your own account). We will update the list with notice.

8. Disclaimers

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STEADRUN AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. STEADRUN DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY OUTPUT OR AGENTIC ACTION WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, LAWFUL, ACCEPTED BY THIRD PARTIES OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSE, THAT YOUR COMPANY WILL BE PROFITABLE, OR THAT THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS, MODELS OR INFRASTRUCTURE WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE OR UNCHANGED. STEADRUN ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR INPUTS, YOUR OUTPUTS, AGENTIC ACTIONS TAKEN WITHIN YOUR AUTHORIZATION CONTRACT, ADVERTISING SPEND, THIRD-PARTY RESOURCE COSTS, OR DISPUTES, REFUNDS OR CHARGEBACKS WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS; IN THAT CASE THEY APPLY ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STEADRUN WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY. STEADRUN'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID STEADRUN FOR THE AFFECTED COMPANY IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR (B) CAD $1,000. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW, INCLUDING RIGHTS UNDER ONTARIO'S CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 2002 WHERE IT APPLIES.

10. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold Steadrun harmless from claims, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of Your Company's business; Your Inputs, Your Outputs and Agentic Actions taken within your Authorization Contract; your violation of these Terms, applicable law or third-party terms; or your negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud — except to the extent caused by Steadrun's breach of these Terms.

11. Governing Law and Disputes

A. Informal resolution first. Before starting any proceeding, a party will notify the other in writing and both will try in good faith to resolve the dispute for 30 days.

B. Law and courts. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. The courts of Ontario sitting in Toronto have exclusive jurisdiction, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any competent court. The parties may agree in writing to refer a dispute to arbitration under the ADR Institute of Canada rules instead.

C. Consumers. Nothing in this Section limits rights you have as a consumer under mandatory law in your place of residence. (Counsel: confirm enforceability of any class-action waiver for consumer clients; none is included in this draft.)

12. Suspension and Termination

A. By you. You may pause, freeze or shut down any Company at any time from its account page, revoke any token, or cancel your subscription. Shutting down a Company is irreversible for that Company's operations but not for its data or assets.

B. By us. We may suspend or terminate a Company or your account for non-payment, breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or if continuing would create legal, security or operational risk. Where practical we will give notice and an opportunity to cure.

C. Effect. On termination: scheduled operations for the Company stop; a final statement is issued and no fee accrues afterwards (Section 3.F); the Services delete the tokens you granted; all accounts, resources, content and data created for Your Company remain in your accounts and under your control, unaffected; you may export Your Company's operational records from us for 30 days, after which we delete our copy except where retention is required by law. Sections that by their nature survive (4, 5, 8–11, 13) survive termination.

13. Additional Provisions

These Terms, together with the documents incorporated by reference, are the entire agreement about the Services. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them to a successor. No waiver is implied from delay. Notices go by email to the address on your account and to the addresses below. The English version controls over any translation or summary. We may update these Terms with notice; material changes are emailed and take effect on the date stated, and continued use after that date is acceptance.

Contact. General: support@steadrun.com · Legal notices: legal@steadrun.com · (until the domain is live: steadrun@aurora-studio.net) · Steadrun, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Policy version: 2026-09-08