1. Acceptance
By downloading, installing, or using the Manwe beta, or by requesting a guided run, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use Manwe.
Terms of Use
Beta use, limits, and your responsibilities.
These terms cover the Manwe Mac beta, the askmanwe.com website, and any guided runs you request. Read them before you install the beta or send us a decision.
2. What Manwe is
Manwe is a beta Mac application that structures serious questions into role-bound advisor panels, evidence, disagreement, and decision records. The askmanwe.com website provides information about Manwe, a public archive of example decision records, and a direct beta download. A guided run is optional human help with framing a single serious decision; it is not the product and does not change what the app does.
3. Beta status
Manwe is early-stage software. It may change, break, lose data, or produce unexpected output. Features, modes, and behavior can change between releases. Do not rely on the beta for workflows where failure is not recoverable.
4. License to use the app
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Manwe beta on Macs you own or control, for your own decision-making or internal evaluation. You may not: (a) resell, sublicense, or redistribute the app or its components, (b) reverse engineer or modify the app except as permitted by applicable law, (c) use the app to build a competing product, or (d) remove or alter any notices contained in the app.
5. Decision support only
Manwe helps you inspect assumptions, evidence, dissent, risks, forecasts, and next actions. It is decision support, not professional advice. Outputs are not legal, medical, clinical, financial, regulatory, tax, or safety advice. Do not rely on a decision record to make legally, medically, or financially binding decisions without appropriate qualified human review.
6. Your responsibility for content and outcomes
You are responsible for: (a) the questions and context you enter, (b) any documents or source material you upload, (c) your decision to use a local or cloud model mode, (d) the decisions you make based on decision records, and (e) any use of outputs you share or act on. Do not upload material you do not have the right to use or that would be unlawful to process.
7. Cloud models and third-party services
When you use cloud model modes, the content of your run is sent to the provider you configure (for example, Anthropic or OpenAI) and is subject to that provider's own terms and privacy practices. The Manwe beta is distributed via GitHub Releases, which has its own terms. We are not responsible for third-party services, but we require that you do not use them through Manwe in ways that violate their terms or applicable law.
8. Public decision records
Public records on askmanwe.com are examples of output format and are provided for informational purposes only. They may reflect older versions of Manwe, different model configurations, or different source inputs than your own runs. Do not treat public records as advice to you or as a guarantee of what you will see in your own use.
9. Intellectual property
The Manwe name, brand, design, app code, and website content are owned by Manwe and protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Content you create in your own decision rooms, and source material you upload, belong to you; we do not claim ownership of your decision records. Public archive records are published with the understanding that they are proof of output and may be read, quoted with attribution, and linked to, but not reproduced in full without permission.
10. Acceptable use
Do not use Manwe to: (a) process material you are not authorized to process, (b) attempt to deceive, defraud, harass, or harm another person, (c) generate content that violates applicable law, (d) evade safety or compliance obligations you owe elsewhere, or (e) interfere with the operation of the website or the beta.
11. No warranty
The Manwe beta, the website, and guided runs are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, reliability, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that outputs are correct, complete, or suitable for your particular decision.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Manwe and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or decision outcomes, arising from or related to your use of the beta, the website, or a guided run. Our aggregate liability for any direct damages is limited to USD 100 or the amount you have paid us in the prior twelve months, whichever is greater.
13. Termination
You may stop using Manwe at any time by uninstalling the app. We may pause, change, or discontinue the beta, or remove access for a specific user, for any reason, including for violations of these terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, governing law, and these general terms) will survive.
14. Changes to these terms
We may revise these terms as the beta evolves. Substantive changes will be reflected by updating the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the beta or the website after a change means you accept the revised terms.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws applicable to the Manwe team's place of residence, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved by good-faith discussion will be submitted to the competent courts at that location, unless mandatory consumer protection law in your jurisdiction provides otherwise.
16. Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected].