Terms of Service

1. Acceptance and Electronic Agreement

By using the Services, submitting information after a required acceptance control, creating an account, enrolling in a course, purchasing or claiming a product, or selecting another affirmative control that references these Terms, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. If you act for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" includes both you and that organization.

Checking an unchecked acceptance box or selecting "I agree" after being presented with these Terms is your electronic signature and agreement to transact electronically. Terms acceptance is separate from optional marketing email and SMS consent. Save a copy for your records.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding agreement. You may not use the Services if law bars you from doing so. If you use the Services for a company, brand, partnership, or other organization, you represent that you are authorized to provide its information and act on its behalf.

The Services are operated from the United States. You are responsible for following the laws that apply where you live or operate. Mandatory consumer rights in your jurisdiction remain in effect.

3. Definitions

• AI Architect Academy means the Vertical Apps course and digital-product brand, including free Foundations content and paid Academy offerings.
• Course Services means courses, videos, lessons, communities, support, downloads, memberships, and related digital or physical benefits offered through AI Architect Academy or another Vertical Apps learning product.
• Course Materials means videos, audio, transcripts, PDFs, prompts, workbooks, checklists, scripts, skills, hooks, templates, examples, graphics, text, and other materials supplied through a Course Service.
• Site means verticalapps.io and any Vertical Apps page, form, scheduler, or online feature.
• Whop means the third-party platform used for Academy storefront, account, checkout, payment, membership, course, community, and related functions.
• Application Materials means information, ideas, text, documents, images, links, business details, product concepts, or other material submitted during an application or pre-engagement interaction.
• User Content means questions, comments, posts, reviews, assignments, project information, files, feedback, or other material you submit through a Service.
• Vertical Apps Content means the Site, Course Materials, and all text, branding, graphics, layouts, software, templates, methods, frameworks, media, and other materials supplied by Vertical Apps or its licensors.
• Engagement Agreement means a master services agreement, statement of work, order form, or other commercial agreement signed by Vertical Apps and a client.

4. Scope and Order of Terms

These Terms govern the Site, applications, pre-engagement interactions, Course Services, Course Materials, accounts, purchases, support, communities, and related communications. They do not create a custom development, advisory, staffing, launch, marketing, management, or ongoing support engagement.

Paid client services require an Engagement Agreement. That agreement controls project scope, specifications, deliverables, milestones, acceptance, dependencies, staffing, change orders, fees, taxes, payment, refunds, suspension, termination, confidentiality, data processing, warranties, service levels, indemnities, ownership, licenses, and remedies for that engagement. If it conflicts with these Terms, the Engagement Agreement controls for the paid client work.

An offer, order page, product listing, or course-specific addendum may add product terms. These Terms control unless the additional terms clearly say they override a named provision. Whop's terms govern your use of Whop and its platform relationship; these Terms govern your relationship with Vertical Apps as the product supplier and content licensor.

5. Site, Applications, and Preliminary Communications

The Site may let prospective clients request consideration for a strategy call or service. Submission does not guarantee qualification, acceptance, availability, an offer, price, timeline, financing, staffing, or an obligation to proceed. Either party may end pre-engagement discussions at any time.

Preliminary discussions, demonstrations, estimates, roadmaps, build plans, budgets, schedules, and recommendations are exploratory and nonbinding unless included in a signed Engagement Agreement.

You represent that Application Materials are accurate to the best of your knowledge, that you may provide them, and that they do not violate law or another person's rights. You grant Vertical Apps a limited license to host, copy, review, analyze, internally discuss, and share Application Materials with personnel, contractors, advisers, and providers only to operate the Site, evaluate and communicate about the application, prepare a possible engagement, protect the Services, and comply with law.

6. Accounts and Credentials

You must provide accurate, current information and keep it updated. You are responsible for activity under your account and for protecting credentials, devices, and access links. Notify Vertical Apps and Whop promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.

Unless an offer expressly allows team access, each account and membership is for one named person. You may not share, sell, transfer, rent, or expose credentials; let another person impersonate you; create accounts by automated means; evade an access limit; or use one purchase or claim to provide access to others.

We may require reasonable verification, reject duplicate or fraudulent accounts, correct obvious errors, and coordinate account actions with Whop. You remain responsible for a separate Whop account under Whop's terms.

7. AI Architect Academy Products

Supplier and platform

AI Architect Academy is operated and supplied by Vertical Apps. Whop provides platform, checkout, payment, account, membership, course, and related functions. Whop is not the creator or licensor of Vertical Apps Course Materials.

Offers, prices, and access

The applicable product page states whether access is free, one-time, recurring, promotional, or subject to another offer. Prices, taxes, billing intervals, included products, delivery method, and material eligibility rules shown at checkout form part of the order.

Unless a product page states a different fixed period, Course Service access lasts 12 months from enrollment. "Lifetime," "perpetual," or indefinite access is not offered. Vertical Apps may renew or extend access at its discretion without creating an obligation to do so. Access begins when Whop confirms enrollment or payment and may depend on account verification.

Course changes

We may correct, update, replace, reorganize, add, or remove lessons, assets, features, instructors, communities, schedules, and providers. We will not knowingly make a paid product materially different from its core description without a reasonable remedy required by the offer or applicable law.

Free products, promotions, and trials

Free access, bonus content, promotions, trials, scholarships, or discounts may have eligibility, quantity, time, or access limits. We may end or change a free offer prospectively. A free member has no right to future paid content, support, updates, or continued access beyond the stated period.

Payments, renewals, cancellations, and refunds

Whop or its financial partners process payments. You authorize the charges shown at checkout. Recurring products continue for the displayed billing period until canceled through the available account or platform method. Canceling stops future renewals and does not ordinarily refund a current period.

Unless an offer or mandatory law states otherwise, digital-product purchases are final after access, streaming, or downloading begins. Approved refunds are processed through Whop. Nothing here limits a refund, cancellation, withdrawal, or chargeback right that cannot lawfully be waived.

Physical fulfillment

A checkout may request a shipping address for course-related physical materials, rewards, merchandise, certificates, or future member mailings. Providing an address does not guarantee an item. Eligibility, inventory, destinations, timing, replacement, and shipping terms are controlled by the applicable offer. You are responsible for an accurate deliverable address and any duties or restrictions not collected at checkout.

8. Course License and Intellectual Property

Vertical Apps Content is owned by Vertical Apps or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other laws. Subject to these Terms and the applicable offer, Vertical Apps grants the named account holder a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license during the access period to view Course Services and download designated Course Materials for the holder's own learning, internal business planning, and independent projects.

You may use what you learn and may create your own original businesses, software, code, plans, and content. Vertical Apps does not own your independent work merely because you used the Course Services. You may not copy protected expression or redistribute Course Materials as part of that work.

You may not reproduce, publish, upload, share, sell, rent, sublicense, translate, adapt for distribution, create a substitute course or template library from, publicly display, rebroadcast, record, scrape, bulk-download, remove rights notices from, or commercially exploit Vertical Apps Content without written permission. You may not use Course Materials to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, or build a public or commercial AI model, dataset, course, knowledge base, or competing service without written permission.

Team, classroom, client, agency, contractor, or multi-user use requires an offer or license that expressly allows it. Open-source software and third-party materials remain subject to their own licenses. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The approved publisher notice is "© 2026 Vertical Apps. All rights reserved."

9. User Content, Feedback, and Community Features

You keep ownership of User Content you lawfully own. You represent that you may submit it, that it is accurate where accuracy matters, and that it does not violate law, platform rules, confidentiality, privacy, publicity, intellectual-property, or other rights.

You grant Vertical Apps a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, format, display to the audience identified by the feature, transmit, review, moderate, and use User Content only to operate, support, improve, protect, and enforce the Services and to comply with law. This license ends when the content is no longer reasonably needed for those purposes, subject to public posts, backups, legal holds, safety, and dispute records.

Do not submit credentials, production secrets, regulated data, private customer data, confidential client materials, source repositories, or third-party content you cannot share. Course communities and support channels are not confidential unless a signed agreement says otherwise.

We may remove or restrict User Content, close a thread, preserve evidence, or report conduct when reasonably needed for safety, law, rights, platform rules, or these Terms. We do not promise to monitor every post. Feedback and suggestions may be used without payment or restriction, but we will not publicly identify you as an endorser without permission.

10. No Public-Flow Confidentiality

The public Site, applications, courses, communities, support, and preliminary communications do not create a fiduciary duty or confidentiality obligation. Do not submit trade secrets, source code, credentials, regulated data, or highly confidential information unless Vertical Apps specifically requests it through an appropriate secure process and the parties have signed a suitable agreement.

This section does not authorize Vertical Apps to use personal information contrary to the Privacy Policy or misuse material protected by law.

11. Acceptable Use

You may not, directly or through another person:

• use the Services unlawfully, fraudulently, deceptively, abusively, or to violate another person's rights;
• impersonate another person, misrepresent identity, age, authority, eligibility, results, or affiliation, or submit fabricated information;
• harass, threaten, exploit, dox, discriminate against, groom, or endanger another user, or post sexual, violent, hateful, or unlawful content;
• probe, scan, test, bypass, disable, or interfere with authentication, security, availability, rate limits, paywalls, digital-rights controls, or access restrictions;
• introduce malicious code, distribute harmful content, attempt unauthorized access, or interfere with another account or provider;
• scrape, harvest, crawl, index, copy, record, extract, or bulk-download Service data or content through automated or manual means except ordinary search-engine indexing we authorize;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, frame, mirror, resell, sublicense, redistribute, or commercially exploit a Service or Vertical Apps Content except where law expressly prohibits restriction;
• spam, send unlawful marketing, collect another user's information without authority, or use the Services to build an unauthorized contact list;
• upload material that infringes, misappropriates, or violates intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other rights;
• use Service content or outputs to create a confusingly similar or competing service, course, asset library, model, or dataset without written permission;
• misrepresent Course Services as professional advice, certification, accreditation, guaranteed results, or work performed by Vertical Apps; or
• help another person do anything prohibited by these Terms.

12. Whop and Other Third-Party Services

The Services may use or link to Whop and other forms, scheduling, CRM, communications, community, AI, analytics, hosting, security, payment, tax, shipping, software, or professional services. Their terms and privacy notices govern their independent services. Vertical Apps does not control their acts, omissions, security, availability, content, or data practices except to the extent required by law or expressly assumed in a written agreement.

Your Whop account and platform use are subject to Whop's terms. Vertical Apps remains responsible for its products, descriptions, delivery, support, content license, and seller obligations. A link or integration does not imply a partnership, agency, or endorsement beyond the stated function.

13. Artificial Intelligence, Code, and Technical Responsibility

Course prompts, examples, workflows, scripts, skills, guardrails, and AI-assisted outputs are educational starting points. AI systems may hallucinate, omit requirements, create insecure or infringing material, expose information, change behavior, or produce code that fails.

You are responsible for human review, testing, security, backups, access control, privacy, accessibility, licensing, regulatory review, third-party terms, deployment, monitoring, claims, and professional advice before using or releasing a product. Never place credentials, regulated data, trade secrets, private customer data, or material you cannot lawfully share into an AI tool.

Vertical Apps does not operate, endorse, or warrant every app, model, platform, package, plugin, API, or software tool discussed in a course. Availability, price, features, terms, and outputs may change without notice.

14. Electronic Communications and Marketing Choices

You agree to receive electronic records and service messages needed for accounts, access, transactions, security, support, applications, scheduling, contracts, and fulfillment at the email address or account you provide. These messages may continue after a marketing opt-out when needed to provide a requested Service or comply with law.

Marketing email and marketing SMS are optional and separate. You receive either channel only under the choice and applicable law described at collection. Consent is not a condition of purchase, enrollment, free access, or support. You may unsubscribe from marketing email through its link and revoke SMS by replying STOP. The Privacy Policy explains how we record and honor choices.

Providing a phone number, joining a course, purchasing a product, submitting a form, or accepting these Terms does not by itself authorize automated or marketing texts. You are responsible for keeping contact information current.

15. SMS Program Terms

Programs and sender

Sender: Vertical Apps. An enrollment flow may offer an optional marketing program for recurring automated promotional text messages about AI Architect Academy, Vertical Apps services, educational content, events, launches, and related offers. A separate application or support flow may offer non-marketing status and scheduling messages. The disclosure presented when you opt in identifies the program you request.

Optional affirmative opt-in

You join only by an affirmative action that clearly requests texts at the mobile number you provide. Marketing SMS consent is not required to access free or paid products, submit an application, receive email, book a call, or obtain support. A phone number, checkout, enrollment, Terms acceptance, or blank or incomplete response is not SMS consent.

Automation, frequency, and charges

Messages may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system or other automated technology. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply under your wireless plan. Vertical Apps does not charge a separate program fee.

Canceling, help, and rejoining

Reply STOP to opt out. We also honor another reasonable message that clearly communicates revocation, including CANCEL, END, QUIT, REVOKE, OPT OUT, or UNSUBSCRIBE. We may send one non-promotional confirmation. Reply HELP or email [email protected] for help.

To rejoin, provide fresh consent through an approved opt-in path. A START reply counts only when the provider is configured to support it and the reply follows a disclosed re-enrollment instruction. Prior consent does not revive automatically.

Number ownership, delivery, and privacy

You represent that you are the subscriber or customary user of the number and may provide consent. Notify us if you stop using, transfer, or reassign it. Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Delivery depends on carrier networks, devices, and systems outside our control.

Mobile information and SMS consent are not shared with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes. The Privacy Policy explains permitted support-provider disclosures and retention.

Operational release condition

Providing consent records your request but does not guarantee that texting is active. No automated program message may be sent unless the required sender, campaign, consent evidence, suppression and revocation controls, recipient-local sending window, and tests are active.

16. Educational Information; No Professional Advice

The Services provide general educational, business, product, marketing, and technical information. They are not legal, tax, accounting, investment, financing, medical, employment, cybersecurity, privacy, accessibility, regulatory, or other licensed professional advice.

You remain responsible for decisions, due diligence, compliance, claims, customers, data, intellectual property, financing, hiring, technology, vendors, and use of anything learned or created. Consult qualified professionals who understand your facts and jurisdiction.

17. Examples and No Guaranteed Results

Case studies, examples, testimonials, screenshots, projections, estimates, prompts, outputs, and descriptions of past work show specific circumstances or demonstrations. They are not promises, typical-results claims, forecasts, or guarantees of revenue, profit, valuation, funding, audience, launch, approval, security, performance, hiring, product, timeline, cost, or any other outcome.

Results depend on factors outside Vertical Apps' control, including your market, offer, audience, information, decisions, skills, resources, cooperation, budget, team, vendors, competition, platforms, law, and execution.

18. Copyright, Trademarks, and Rights Notices

Vertical Apps, AI Architect Academy, associated logos, course titles, trade dress, and original content are protected marks or property of Vertical Apps or its licensors. No license to use a mark is granted except as needed to truthfully identify the Service you used.

If you believe material in a Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] that identifies the work, the material and location, your contact information, a good-faith statement, an accuracy and authority statement under penalty of perjury, and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove material and notify the submitting user. A user who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation may be responsible for resulting damages.

19. Protection, Suspension, and Termination

Vertical Apps may investigate suspected misuse, preserve evidence, remove content, restrict features, block a payment or download, suspend or terminate access, and cooperate with Whop, providers, affected parties, or lawful authorities when reasonably needed for safety, security, law, platform rules, payment risk, rights, these Terms, or an applicable offer.

We may act immediately for fraud, credential sharing, unauthorized redistribution, infringement, harassment, security risk, unlawful conduct, chargeback abuse, or material breach. Where practical and appropriate, we may provide notice and a chance to correct a lesser violation.

You may stop using a free Service at any time and may cancel a recurring product through the available account or platform method. Ending access does not erase payment duties, accepted orders, suppression records, or provisions that must survive. Sections concerning ownership, licenses, restrictions, user content, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, disputes, and general terms survive as needed.

20. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES, VERTICAL APPS CONTENT, COURSE SERVICES, COURSE MATERIALS, COMMUNITIES, DOWNLOADS, PHYSICAL ITEMS, AND COMMUNICATIONS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." VERTICAL APPS DISCLAIMS EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

VERTICAL APPS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT A SERVICE OR OUTPUT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, COMPATIBLE, AVAILABLE FOR A PARTICULAR PERIOD, OR SUITABLE FOR A DECISION; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT A PLATFORM OR TOOL WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE; OR THAT AN APPLICATION, COURSE, PROJECT, PRODUCT, LAUNCH, OR RESULT WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

Nothing excludes a warranty, remedy, or right that cannot lawfully be excluded. Service-specific warranties for client work, if any, appear only in the applicable Engagement Agreement.

21. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, VERTICAL APPS AND ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS; OR COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES, CONTENT, PRODUCTS, COMMUNICATIONS, OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THEIR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF $100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID VERTICAL APPS FOR THE SPECIFIC PRODUCT OR SERVICE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT. LIMITS FOR CUSTOM CLIENT SERVICES ARE DETERMINED BY THE ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT.

These exclusions and limits apply regardless of the theory of liability and allocate risk between the parties. They do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

22. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vertical Apps and its owners, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from third-party claims, demands, actions, investigations, proceedings, losses, judgments, settlements, penalties, fines, damages, liabilities, and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs arising from:

• your use or misuse of the Services, Course Materials, AI tools, code, or outputs;
• your Application Materials, User Content, project, product, claims, communications, or information;
• your breach of these Terms or an applicable offer;
• your violation of law or platform rules; or
• your infringement, misappropriation, or violation of another person's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other right.

Vertical Apps will provide reasonably prompt notice and reasonable cooperation at your expense. You may control the defense with counsel reasonably acceptable to Vertical Apps, but you may not settle in a way that admits fault by, imposes a nonmonetary duty on, or fails to fully release an indemnified party without written consent. Vertical Apps may participate at its own expense or take control if a conflict exists, the claim may materially affect it, or you fail to defend diligently. Your duties do not apply to the extent a final judgment finds the claim was caused by an indemnified party's gross negligence or willful misconduct.

23. Time Limit for Claims

To the extent permitted by law, a claim arising from the Services or these Terms must be filed within one year after it accrued or it is permanently barred. This period does not apply where law prohibits shortening a limitations period and does not alter a period stated in an Engagement Agreement.

24. Informal Resolution, Governing Law, and Venue

Before filing a claim, a party must send written notice describing the dispute and requested relief and allow 30 days for a good-faith informal resolution effort. Notices to Vertical Apps must be sent to [email protected]. This does not prevent temporary or emergency equitable relief.

These Terms and disputes with Vertical Apps are governed by Maine law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except to the extent mandatory law where you live provides a non-waivable right. Subject to those rights, exclusive venue lies in the state courts serving York County, Maine, or the United States District Court for the District of Maine, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction there.

To the extent permitted by law, each party may bring a claim only in its individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. This paragraph does not prevent a public agency from acting within its authority and does not waive a right that cannot lawfully be waived.

25. Changes to Services and Terms

Vertical Apps may change or discontinue a Service and may update these Terms by posting a revised version and effective date. Changes apply prospectively. If a change materially affects an existing paid product or previously granted right, we will provide additional notice and any remedy required by the offer or law.

26. General Terms

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the applicable offer, and any expressly incorporated addendum are the entire agreement for the Services they cover. An Engagement Agreement separately controls custom client work.

Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified only to the minimum extent necessary, and the remainder will continue.

Waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. A waiver must be in writing and applies only to the stated instance.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without prior written consent. Vertical Apps may assign them with a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or transfer of operations.

Force majeure. Vertical Apps is not responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, including platform, carrier, utility, network, labor, disaster, war, government, public-health, cyberattack, or supplier events.

No agency. These Terms do not create employment, partnership, joint venture, franchise, fiduciary, or agency duties between you and Vertical Apps.

No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights for anyone other than you, Vertical Apps, and the people protected by provisions that expressly cover them.

Export and sanctions. You may not use or export a Service in violation of United States export-control or sanctions laws.

Headings and interpretation. Headings are for convenience. "Including" means "including without limitation." Electronic and written notices satisfy a writing requirement where law permits.

27. Contact

For a privacy request, use the Privacy Request page. For accessibility assistance, email the address above with the subject "Accessibility Assistance" or read the Accessibility Statement. The Cookie Policy describes current Site technologies.