Terms of Service

1. What CEO Brain is

CEO Brain is a service that lets verified CEOs and CTOs write free-form peer answers about real decisions they’ve made, stores those answers in an anonymized corpus, and serves synthesized peer evidence back to the same audience on demand through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and the ceobrain.org web app.

The two operations the service exposes are consult (a verified user asks a specific decision question; we retrieve and synthesize peer evidence) and contribute (a verified user writes an answer that enters the corpus). By using the service, you agree to these Terms.

2. Eligibility

You may use CEO Brain only if you are (a) at least 18 years old, (b) currently the CEO or CTO of a company that meets our segment criteria, and (c) not legally barred from using the service in your jurisdiction. Co-founders without the CEO or CTO title (e.g. COO, CMO, founding engineer) may apply for manual review at admin@ceobrain.org. We verify identity via LinkedIn at signup and cross-check role + company via an AI agent against your supplied public LinkedIn profile.

3. Your Content

“Content” means everything you submit to CEO Brain: your peer answers (both the question text and the answer body), your claim information (LinkedIn URL, optional expertise tags), the consult queries you issue, and any other text or data you upload.

You retain ownership of your Content. We do not claim authorship.

License grant.By submitting Content, you grant CEO Brain (and its successors and assigns) a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content for any purpose, including but not limited to: anonymization and inclusion in the peer corpus, retrieval and synthesis in response to other verified users’ consult queries, training and fine-tuning of AI models, marketing, research, benchmarking, statistical analysis, and commercial use. You represent and warrant that you have the right to grant this license.

Anonymized derived works survive.Even after you delete your account or specific Content, anonymized aggregate insights and synthesized works derived from your Content (in a form that no longer personally identifies you) remain CEO Brain’s property and may continue to be used, distributed, and monetized.

4. Anonymity safeguards

Three layers protect contributor identity:

• Write-time redactor. Before any peer answer is stored, a scanner replaces known names, companies, social handles, URLs, and dollar amounts at or above one million US dollars with placeholder tokens. The author sees what was rewritten and may re-edit before submission.
• Write-time quality screen.An AI model scores each peer answer for likely AI-paraphrased origin, prompt- injection content, and specificity. Answers flagged as sensitive are stored but excluded from retrieval and do not count toward the contributor’s reciprocity quota.
• K-anonymity floor at retrieval. A consult query returns synthesized peer evidence only if at least three (3) distinct verified peer authors match the query. Below that floor, the consult refuses. We never return verbatim quotes from a single identifiable contributor.

These are best-effort safeguards rather than absolute guarantees. See Section 8 (Disclaimers).

5. Acceptable use

You will not:

• Submit peer answers you didn’t personally author.
• Use AI to paraphrase content you didn’t author and submit it as your own. The quality screen detects this; flagged answers don’t count toward your reciprocity quota.
• Submit knowingly false claims about your role or company.
• Embed instructions in your answer body intended to influence the synthesis pipeline or other users’ consult outputs (prompt injection).
• Reverse-engineer, scrape, or systematically extract the corpus or consult outputs for redistribution.
• Use CEO Brain to harass, defame, or disclose information about specific individuals (other than yourself in your own Content).
• Attempt to identify individual contributors from consult outputs.
• Resell, rent, or sublicense your CEO Brain access or your MCP API tokens.

Violation may result in immediate account termination, claim revocation, MCP token revocation, and forfeiture of any reciprocity credit.

6. Privacy

How we collect, use, and share your data is governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference into these Terms.

7. Termination

You can delete your account anytime from the Account page (signed in via LinkedIn), or by emailing admin@ceobrain.org. Upon deletion: your personal data (email, name, LinkedIn handle, claim details) is anonymized in place — the row stays so foreign keys remain valid, but every PII field is replaced with a tombstone marker. All MCP API tokens issued to you are revoked immediately. Anonymized synthesized content derived from your Content remains (per Section 3, “anonymized derived works survive”).

We may suspend or terminate your account for violation of Section 5 (Acceptable use), failure of identity re-verification, or any material breach of these Terms.

8. Disclaimers — not advice, you own your decisions

Not advice.CEO Brain is provided “AS IS” without warranties of any kind. The synthesized peer evidence served by the consult endpoint is informational only — it reflects what other CEOs reported doing, not what you should do. It does not constitute legal, financial, tax, accounting, medical, or any other form of professional advice. CEO Brain is not your advisor, consultant, or fiduciary.

No responsibility for your decisions. You are solely responsible for every business, financial, hiring, legal, personnel, and operational decision you make. CEO Brain is not liable for any outcome resulting from a decision you make, whether or not the consult output informed that decision and whether or not that output turns out to be accurate.

Verify before relying. Consult outputs can be inaccurate, outdated, or out-of-context for your specific situation. The product synthesizes self-reported answers from other CEOs; their facts, framings, and conclusions may be wrong. Do not rely on consult outputs for material business, legal, financial, hiring, or personnel decisions without independent verification, your own judgment, and (where relevant) qualified professional advisors.

No relationship. Using CEO Brain or receiving consult output does not create any advisor-client, fiduciary, employment, partnership, or joint-venture relationship between you and CEO Brain or its operators.

Security — best effort, not guaranteed. We implement layered defenses against prompt-injection and content-manipulation attacks: the write-time redactor strips named entities; the write-time quality screen scores paraphrase, injection, and specificity signals; the synthesis prompt forbids fabrication and verbatim attribution; the retrieval-time K-anonymity floor refuses queries that would return evidence from fewer than three distinct authors. These are best-effort defenses rather than absolute guarantees. Consult outputs are delivered into your AI agent’s active context — you are responsible for sandboxing your agent environment and validating outputs before acting on them. We make no warranty that consult outputs are free of manipulation attempts, malware-style payloads, errors, or biases. We are not responsible for actions your AI agent takes based on consult output, including external API calls, data handling, code execution, or any downstream consequences of agent reasoning influenced by the output.

We disclaim all implied warranties — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the maximum extent permitted by law.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, CEO Brain’s total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the service is limited to the amount you have paid CEO Brain in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim, or USD $100, whichever is greater. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CEO Brain (and its successors, officers, employees, and agents) from any claim, damages, or expenses arising out of (a) your Content, (b) your violation of these Terms, or (c) your violation of any third-party right.

11. Successors and assigns

CEO Brain may assign these Terms and the rights granted hereunder, in whole or in part, including in connection with any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, change of control, or financing transaction, without notice to or consent from you. Your rights under these Terms are personal to you and not assignable.

12. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Arbitration.Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the service will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, with the seat of arbitration in Wilmington, Delaware. The arbitrator’s decision is final and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class waiver. Disputes will be resolved on an individual basis. You waive any right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative proceeding against CEO Brain.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes (defined as changes that expand the license grant, change dispute-resolution mechanics, change the safeguard model described in Section 4, or reduce your rights) will require re-acceptance via the same consent flow you completed at signup. Non-material changes (typos, clarifications, formatting) take effect when posted.

14. International users

CEO Brain is operated from the United States. If you access the service from outside the US, you do so at your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law. Where local consumer-protection law provides rights that cannot be waived, those rights apply notwithstanding these Terms.

15. Severability and entire agreement

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full effect. These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and CEO Brain regarding the service.