Terms of Service

Axiom is a public beta operated by one individual. It is provided as-is, with no warranty and no service-level guarantee. You own what you build; you give us broad permission to host it, run it, and learn from it so the platform gets better. We never touch your secrets, we never use your app's end-user data for anything but running your app, and we never publish or sell your work. Do not use Axiom to break the law, to attack other tenants, or to abuse the free capacity. Everything below is the longer form of that.

Axiom is operated by Christian George Lucas, an individual — not a company. There is no incorporated entity behind the service today, and nothing on this site should be read as implying one. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean that individual. Contact for anything at all: christiangeorgelucas@gmail.com.

Axiom is under active development and is explicitly not for production use. The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, and non-infringement.

• There is no uptime commitment and no support commitment.
• Data may be wiped at any time — beta environments get reset. Keep your own copy of anything you care about.
• Features can change or be removed without notice, and APIs are not yet stable.
• We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any defect will be corrected.

You need an account to publish or invoke. Keep your credentials and API keys to yourself — anything done with your key is treated as done by you, and you can revoke a key from the console at any time. One human, one account; do not share an account across people you would not vouch for. You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding agreement where you live. Axiom is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.

While using Axiom, you agree not to:

• Publish or run anything illegal where you or we operate, or anything that infringes someone else's rights.
• Publish malware, credential harvesters, or code that misrepresents what it does — a node's description and its behaviour must match, because other people decide to invoke it based on that description.
• Attempt to break tenant isolation: reading, writing, or influencing another tenant's data, secrets, executions, or infrastructure. This includes trying to escape the node sandbox or to reach cluster-internal services.
• Use Axiom to attack third parties — port scanning, spam, DDoS, or credential stuffing through a published node.
• Abuse free capacity: crypto mining, bulk compute unrelated to using the product, or deliberately circumventing rate limits and quotas.
• Probe or load-test the platform without asking us first. Security research is welcome — email us and we will tell you what is in scope.
• Store or process regulated or specially protected data — protected health information, payment card data, biometric or government identifiers, or anything covered by rules such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or GLBA — unless we have agreed otherwise with you in writing. We make no certification claims and the platform is not built for that data by default.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the platform, or otherwise try to derive our source code, models, model weights, or prompts.
• Crawl undocumented surfaces, or extract the catalog in bulk, without our written permission. Normal use of our documented APIs, CLI, and MCP surface is expressly fine, including by your own agents — searching and invoking the marketplace programmatically is what Axiom is for.
• Use Axiom itself, the marketplace catalog, or the output of our models to build, train, or improve a product, service, or model that competes with Axiom. This does not restrict the applications you build on Axiom or what you do with them — they are yours, including when they compete with someone else. What it restricts is using Axiom, its catalog, or its model outputs to build a rival to Axiom.

Axiom itself is ours. The platform and its software, the durable execution engine, our models and prompts, the console and the site, the documentation, the name and the brand, and the marketplace catalog as a compilation — its selection and arrangement, and the metadata we generate for it such as descriptions, tags, embeddings, and rankings — are ours and are protected by intellectual property law. The individual listings in it remain their publishers'. None of that changes because you use the service.

What you get is a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to use Axiom while you comply with these terms, for the purpose the service is offered for. No other right is granted, expressly or by implication, and we reserve everything not granted here. Individual published packages carry their own open-source licences, which govern that code and are not affected by this section.

You own what you build. We claim no ownership of your packages, nodes, flows, source code, or applications, and nothing here transfers your intellectual property to us.

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, build, run, copy, modify, process, analyse, display, and distribute the content you store on Axiom — published or private, including the prompts you give the app builder and the output it generates — in order to operate, secure, support, and improve Axiom, including working out which components are worth building and publishing so that everyone's next app is easier to build. The licence lasts as long as you keep the content here. For content you publish to the marketplace it also covers distributing that content to other users; delete it and that part ends for future distribution, though copies other people already obtained are outside our control. It is sublicensable to the service providers that operate the service on our behalf; the current list is in the Privacy Policy.

What was already made stays made. Copies and derivatives already created under this licence — including AI models already trained, aggregated data already derived, and components we have already built — survive deletion of your content and termination of your account. We cannot un-train a model or un-publish a component we already wrote, and this licence does not require us to. Deleting content stops us using that content going forward; it does not reach back into what was already made from it.

Three things we will not do, on any plan. We do not use the data your application collects from its own end users for anything except running your application. We do not read the secrets you register — they are encrypted and released only to an execution you have granted them to. And we do not publish, list, sell, or make your private packages, nodes, flows, or applications available to other users, or mark any of them as a candidate for the marketplace. It stays yours, and it stays out of the marketplace.

What we learn is ours. We may use what we learn from content on Axiom — patterns, structures, techniques, and the gaps we find — to build our own components, templates, and features, and anything we build that way belongs to us. We still never publish your artifact itself: what reaches the marketplace is written by us.

AI model training. We may use content you store on Axiom to develop and improve AI models that power the product. You can turn that off at any time, for your whole account, from Console → Account. It is free, we do not ask why, and nothing else about your account changes. Turning it off applies from then on; it does not remove content from models or datasets already built, which we cannot undo. To be clear about what the switch covers: it stops us using your content to train models. It does not withdraw the licence above — we still run the service, and we still use what we learn to improve Axiom and to decide what to build next.

Aggregated and de-identified data. We may create de-identified, anonymised, and aggregated data from your use of Axiom, and may retain and use it for any lawful purpose, including publicly. That data does not identify you and is not your content.

Feedback. If you send us an idea, a suggestion, a bug report, or any other feedback, we may use it without restriction, without attribution, and without owing you anything.

Published packages carry their own open-source licences. Those licences — not these terms — govern what a consumer may do with the code, and it is on you as a publisher to have the right to publish under the licence you declare, including for any third-party library you wrap.

Axiom generates code, configuration, and other output using AI models. That output can be wrong, insecure, incomplete, or similar to output generated for someone else — models produce similar answers to similar prompts, and we cannot promise your output is unique or that it does not resemble existing code. It is not legal, financial, medical, or professional advice.

You are responsible for reviewing, testing, and securing anything you ship, exactly as you would be for code you wrote yourself. As between you and us, you own the output you generate to the extent rights in it exist. We make no warranty that it is correct, fit for your purpose, or free of third-party claims.

• Your application and its users. If you build something on Axiom and other people use it, that relationship is yours. You are the one who owes them a privacy notice, terms, support, and whatever the law where they live requires. We are not a party to it.
• Your data and your compliance. You decide what to put into Axiom, and you are responsible for having the right to put it there and for meeting any obligation that attaches to it.
• Your third-party accounts. Keys you register for other services — model providers, payment processors, anything else — stay governed by your agreement with those providers, and their charges are yours.
• Your backups. This is a beta. Keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose.

The marketplace hosts code written by other users. We do not audit it. Before invoking something, read its source — every published node exposes its handler source and a commit-pinned link to its repository, and that is there precisely so you can check. Grant a secret to a node only when you have decided to trust that node's code. What a third-party node does with an input you give it is between you and its publisher.

The marketplace hosts code published by other people. If you believe something here infringes your copyright, tell us and we will act. Send a notice to christiangeorgelucas@gmail.com containing all of the following:

• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
• Identification of the material you say is infringing, specific enough for us to find it — a package name and version, or a link.
• Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We will remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice, and tell the person who published it. If you are that person and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address containing your contact details, identification of the removed material and where it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your signature. We may restore the material after a reasonable interval unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action.

Repeat infringers. We terminate the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe. Sending a notice or a counter-notice that misrepresents the position can make you liable for damages, so do not send one lightly.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense — including reasonable legal fees — arising out of the content you store or publish on Axiom, the applications you build and the people who use them, your use of the service, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights. We will tell you about any such claim and let you control the defence, provided any settlement that binds us has our consent.

To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost data, lost profits, lost revenue, business interruption, or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of Axiom, even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to Axiom will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose, or US$100. Axiom is free during beta, so for most people that number is US$100. These limits apply to every theory of liability — contract, tort, or anything else — and survive termination. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limits, in which case the limits apply as far as they legally can.

Axiom is free today. We may introduce paid plans, quotas, rate limits, and usage caps, and we may change what the free tier includes. We will tell you before we start charging you for something that is free today, and you can stop using Axiom instead. Quotas and limits themselves can change with the product — they are how we keep a free service running.

You must comply with export control and sanctions laws, including those of the United States. You may not use Axiom, or let anyone else use it through you, if you are located in an embargoed country or region, are on a restricted-party or denied-party list, or are otherwise barred from receiving the service. You must not use Axiom for any purpose those laws prohibit.

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by something outside our reasonable control — an outage or change at a cloud, network, or model provider, a cyberattack, a power or internet failure, a change in the law, a labour dispute, an act of war or terrorism, or a natural disaster. Axiom runs on other people's infrastructure, and when that infrastructure fails so do we.

We may suspend or remove an account, a package, or a flow that violates these terms, endangers other tenants, or threatens the stability of the platform. Where the situation allows it we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix it; where it does not — an active attack, or an active legal obligation — we will act first and explain after. We may also discontinue the service, in whole or in part, at any time. You can stop using Axiom and delete your account at any time.

Axiom is operated by an individual today and may not be forever. We may assign these terms, and transfer the operation of the service, to a successor — most likely a Delaware corporation formed to run Axiom, or an acquirer of it — and these terms then bind that successor on the same footing. Doing so does not require you to accept the terms again; if the successor wants to change them, the “Changes to these terms” section below governs that, exactly as it would today. You may not assign your obligations under these terms to anyone else.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to Axiom will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both of us consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Any claim must be brought within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred. Each of us waives any right to a jury trial, and to bring a claim as a class action or in any other representative capacity. Nothing here stops either of us from seeking an injunction in any court to stop a misuse of intellectual property or a breach of the acceptable-use section. If you are a consumer somewhere that gives you a non-waivable right to your local courts or law, this section does not take that away.

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us about Axiom, and replace anything said earlier. If a signed agreement between you and us says something different, that agreement controls. If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that part is narrowed to what is enforceable. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. We may give you notice by email or by posting on the site; you give us notice at the address below. Nothing here creates a partnership, employment, or agency relationship, and there are no third-party beneficiaries.

We will update these terms as the product matures. Material changes are announced on the site and reflected in the effective date at the top of this page. If you keep using Axiom after a change takes effect, the updated terms apply to you. If you do not agree with a change, stop using Axiom and delete your account.

Questions, disputes, takedown requests, and security reports all go to christiangeorgelucas@gmail.com. How we handle personal data is covered separately in the Privacy Policy.