Terms of Service

## 1. Definitions - **"Forge"** — the software binary and associated tools distributed by Ironpine Labs LLC. - **"Ironpine Labs"** — Ironpine Labs LLC, a Florida limited liability company, the developer and licensor of Forge. - **"Customer"** — the individual or entity that purchases a license and agrees to these Terms. - **"License Key"** — the cryptographically signed string generated after purchase that activates Forge features. - **"Tier"** — the subscription level purchased (Solo, Pro, or Team), as described on the pricing page. - **"Seat"** — one individual developer authorized to use Forge under a license. One seat = one person. - **"Subscription"** — the recurring billing relationship between the Customer and Ironpine Labs, managed through Stripe. - **"Community Mode"** — the unlicensed operating mode available to all users without a License Key, providing limited demonstration features. - **"Trial"** — a 14-day period during which a paid subscription's features are available before the first charge. --- ## 2. License Grant Subject to these Terms and timely payment of all fees, Ironpine Labs grants Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable (on material breach per Section 13) right to download, install, and use the Forge binary on any machine personally operated by the licensed developers, up to the number of Seats purchased. ### 2.1 Seat Definition One Seat authorizes one individual developer to use Forge. A "developer" is a human being — not a CI/CD runner, not an automated build system, not a shared service account. CI pipeline usage (via `forge ci`) counts against Seats only if the CI system is running forge on behalf of an individual developer's code changes; headless batch processing does not consume a Seat. ### 2.2 Team Tier Minimum The Team tier requires a minimum purchase of 3 Seats. You may not purchase 1 or 2 seats at Team pricing. ### 2.3 Community Mode Forge may be used in Community Mode without a License Key and without payment. Community Mode is governed by these Terms except for the license fee obligations. Community Mode is a demonstration that provides limited features: 1 repository, 3 MCP tools (search, symbol lookup, health check), CLI-only operation, and a daily query limit. Community Mode does not include MCP server mode, dashboard, workflow composites, or multi-repo support. Community Mode features are described at [forge.ironpinelabs.com/docs](https://forge.ironpinelabs.com/docs). ### 2.4 Trial Period If Customer starts a subscription with a trial period, they receive full features of their selected Tier for 14 days. No charge is made during the trial. The trial converts to a paid subscription on day 15 unless cancelled before that date. Trial features match the purchased Tier exactly. --- ## 3. Prohibited Uses Customer may not: - **Reverse engineer** the Forge binary, except to the extent permitted by applicable law that cannot be contractually waived. - **Redistribute** the Forge binary to individuals or entities who have not purchased their own license or are not covered by Customer's active Seat count. - **Share License Keys** across more developers than authorized by the purchased Seat count. - **Sublicense or resell** Forge or access to Forge to third parties. - **Use Forge to build a competing service** — specifically, Customer may not use Forge's output, architecture, or tool responses as the primary basis of a commercially-offered code intelligence service that directly competes with Forge. - **Remove or alter** copyright notices, license notices, or any indication of origin in the binary or associated files. - **Circumvent** license validation, feature gating, or the license health check system in the binary. The prohibition on competitive use does not prevent Customer from: building internal tools for their own organization, integrating Forge into their own development workflow, or writing publicly about Forge (including comparisons, tutorials, and critiques). --- ## 4. Open Source Components Forge incorporates open-source components. Licenses and notices for those components are available via `forge licenses --html` or in the LICENSES.html file bundled with the binary. Customer's rights to use those components are governed by their respective licenses. --- ## 5. Subscription and Billing ### 5.1 Billing Cycles Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually, as selected at purchase. Payment is processed by Stripe on behalf of Ironpine Labs. ### 5.2 Automatic Renewal Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled before the renewal date. For monthly subscriptions, the renewal date is the same day each month. For annual subscriptions, the renewal date is the anniversary of the original purchase date. ### 5.3 Trial Conversion If Customer starts with a trial, the subscription converts to paid on day 15 automatically. Customer will receive a new (non-trial) License Key by email upon conversion. ### 5.4 Upgrades Upgrading to a higher tier or adding Seats takes effect immediately. The additional amount due is calculated on a prorated basis for the remaining days in the current billing period. ### 5.5 Downgrades Downgrading to a lower tier or reducing Seat count takes effect at the start of the next billing period. Customer retains access to the higher tier through the end of the current period. ### 5.6 Price Changes Ironpine Labs may change subscription prices for new purchases at any time. Existing subscribers will receive 30 days' notice before a price increase takes effect for their renewal. --- ## 6. Refund Policy **Annual subscriptions:** Ironpine Labs offers a 14-day money-back guarantee on new annual subscriptions (separate from the trial period). If you are not satisfied with Forge within 14 days of your first annual charge, contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to request a full refund. Renewals are not eligible for this guarantee. **Monthly subscriptions:** Monthly subscriptions are not eligible for refunds. You may cancel at any time to stop the next renewal; you retain access through the end of the paid period. **Exceptions:** Ironpine Labs reserves the right to issue refunds at its discretion for extenuating circumstances, but is not obligated to do so outside the 14-day annual guarantee. --- ## 7. License Keys ### 7.1 Key Delivery After a successful purchase or trial conversion, a License Key is generated and emailed to the address provided at checkout. If you do not receive your key within 30 minutes, check your spam folder and contact [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). ### 7.2 Offline Validation License Keys are cryptographically signed and validated offline using Ed25519 signature verification. Forge does not contact Ironpine Labs' servers to validate your key on every use. ### 7.3 License Health Check Forge performs a weekly license health check ("heartbeat") by sending a hash of your license key, your client version, and your platform to Ironpine Labs' validation server. No code, queries, file paths, or codebase content is transmitted. This check enables Ironpine Labs to revoke licenses associated with refunds, disputes, or fraud. The heartbeat is configurable and transparent: run `forge config heartbeat --show` to see exactly what is transmitted and when. Air-Gapped tier customers may obtain a compiled-without-heartbeat build; contact support. ### 7.4 Key Expiration License Keys encode an expiration date. Annual license keys expire 365 days after issuance. Monthly license keys expire 30 days after issuance; a new key is emailed each billing cycle upon successful renewal. ### 7.5 Revocation Ironpine Labs may revoke a License Key by updating the key's status in the validation server. Revocation takes effect at the next scheduled license health check (within 7 days). Revocation may occur for: cancellation, refund, payment dispute, or material breach of these Terms. ### 7.6 Lost or Compromised Keys If a License Key is lost, you may request redelivery by contacting [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). If a key has been shared beyond the authorized Seat count or is otherwise compromised, contact support. Ironpine Labs may revoke the original key and issue a replacement. --- ## 8. Updates New versions of Forge are distributed via Cloudflare R2 and announced on the [forge.ironpinelabs.com](https://forge.ironpinelabs.com) website. There is no mandatory update mechanism — Forge will not automatically replace itself. Customer may run `forge update` to check for and download newer versions. Updates are included in the subscription for the duration of the subscription term. --- ## 9. Disclaimer of Warranties **FORGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IRONPINE LABS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IRONPINE LABS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT FORGE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, OR SECURE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.** Code intelligence tools provide analysis to assist developers — they do not guarantee correctness. Always apply professional judgment to Forge's output. --- ## 10. Limitation of Liability **TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL IRONPINE LABS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF BUSINESS, OR DATA LOSS, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF IRONPINE LABS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.** **IRONPINE LABS' TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL FEES PAID BY CUSTOMER TO IRONPINE LABS IN THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CLAIM.** --- ## 11. Indemnification Customer agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ironpine Labs and its members, officers, and contractors from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, fines, and costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to Customer's use of Forge in violation of these Terms or any applicable law. --- ## 12. Privacy Customer's use of forge.ironpinelabs.com and the license purchase process is governed by Ironpine Labs' [Privacy Policy](https://ironpinelabs.com/privacy#forge). The Forge binary collects no personal data and transmits no codebase content. The weekly license health check transmits only license hash, client version, and platform as described in Section 7.3. --- ## 13. Termination ### 13.1 By Customer Customer may cancel their subscription at any time through the Stripe Customer Portal at [forge.ironpinelabs.com/portal](https://forge.ironpinelabs.com/portal) or by contacting [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. ### 13.2 By Ironpine Labs Ironpine Labs may terminate this agreement, effective 30 days after written notice, if Customer commits a material breach and fails to cure within that period. For fraud or security incidents, Ironpine Labs may terminate immediately. ### 13.3 Effect of Termination Upon termination, Customer's right to receive new License Keys ceases, and Ironpine Labs will revoke existing License Keys via the heartbeat mechanism within 7 days. --- ## 14. Governing Law and Venue These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA. Any legal proceeding not subject to arbitration under Section 15 shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Pasco County, Florida. --- ## 15. Arbitration Except for disputes qualifying for small claims court and requests for injunctive or equitable relief, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be resolved by binding arbitration under Florida law. **Class action waiver:** Any arbitration or proceeding shall be conducted on an individual basis. --- ## 16. General Ironpine Labs may modify these Terms. Material changes will be communicated via the forge.ironpinelabs.com homepage and by email to existing license holders at least 30 days before they take effect. --- ## Contact **Ironpine Labs LLC** — Florida, USA Support: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Privacy questions: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])