Last updated: October 1, 2026
1. Who We Are and What These Terms Cover
These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Small Machine Co. membership community and any related content, materials, or sessions (together, the “Service”). The Service is operated by Small Machine Company LLC (“Small Machine Co.”, “we”, “us”).
By purchasing a membership, creating an account, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Use of the public website at smallmachine.co is governed by our Website Terms of Use.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding contract to use the Service. You agree that the information you provide when signing up is accurate and that you will keep it current.
3. Your Account
You are responsible for your account credentials and for everything that happens under your account. Do not share your login. Memberships are for a single person and may not be shared, transferred, resold, or used by multiple people. We may suspend or terminate accounts we reasonably believe are being shared.
Notify us at austin@smallmachine.co if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.
4. Membership, Billing, and Renewal
Subscription. Membership is sold as a recurring monthly subscription. When you subscribe, you authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method the then-current membership fee on a recurring monthly basis until you cancel.
Founding member pricing. Members who join during the founding period at the founding rate will continue to be charged that rate for as long as their membership remains active and uninterrupted. If you cancel and later rejoin, you will be charged the rate then in effect.
Price changes. We may change membership pricing for new members at any time. For existing members, we will provide at least 30 days’ notice before any price change takes effect, and you may cancel before it applies.
Payment processing. Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store your full payment card details. Your use of Stripe is subject to Stripe’s own terms and privacy policy.
Failed payments. If a payment fails, we may retry the charge and may suspend or terminate access if payment is not received.
Taxes. Prices are exclusive of any applicable taxes, which may be added at checkout where required.
5. Cancellation and Refunds
You may cancel your membership at any time from your account settings. Cancellation stops future charges. Your access continues until the end of the billing period you have already paid for.
Refund policy. We do not offer refunds for payments. We offer a self service option for cancellation so members are responsible for managing their subscriptions and payments.
6. What the Membership Includes
Membership includes access to the community platform, materials we publish there, and scheduled sessions during your active membership. The specific contents, features, and schedule may change over time as the community develops. We may add, modify, or discontinue features, sessions, or materials.
Nothing in these Terms guarantees that any particular material, session, feature, or person will remain available.
7. Community Rules
By participating you agree that you will not:
- Post promotional content, solicitations, or offers to sell your own products or services to other members
- Harass, abuse, threaten, or discriminate against anyone
- Share or reproduce our materials outside the community (see Section 8)
- Share other members’ content, posts, or personal information outside the community
- Post confidential information belonging to your employer, clients, or any third party
- Post unlawful, infringing, or malicious content, including malware or code intended to cause harm
- Use the Service to build or distribute anything unlawful
- Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to extract content or member information
We may remove content and suspend or terminate access for violations, at our discretion, with or without notice. Where a membership is terminated for a violation, we may at our discretion refund the current billing period.
8. Intellectual Property
Our materials. All content we provide through the Service, including written materials, templates, prompts, workflow files, recordings, and course materials, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property law.
While your membership is active, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use these materials for your own business or professional use, including building systems for your own organization. You may not resell, redistribute, republish, share outside the community, or use our materials to create a competing product, course, or community.
This license ends when your membership ends. Systems you have already built for your own use are yours to continue using.
Your content. You retain ownership of anything you post. By posting, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display, reproduce, and distribute that content within the Service for the purpose of operating it. If you want us to feature your content, name, or results in marketing outside the community, we will ask you separately.
9. No Guarantee of Results
The Service is educational. We do not guarantee any particular outcome, result, revenue, time savings, employment outcome, or business performance. Examples, case studies, statistics, and testimonials reflect individual experiences and are not promises or typical results. What you get out of this depends on your own effort, circumstances, and decisions.
10. Not Professional Advice
Nothing in the Service constitutes legal, financial, tax, investment, employment, medical, or other professional advice. We are not your lawyer, accountant, or advisor. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on anything you learn here.
11. Third-Party Tools and Services
The Service references and teaches the use of third-party tools and platforms. We do not control those tools, are not responsible for them, and do not guarantee their availability, pricing, security, performance, or continued existence. Your use of any third-party tool is governed by that provider’s own terms, and any costs you incur with them are yours.
You are solely responsible for how you configure, secure, and operate any system you build, including compliance with any laws or contractual obligations that apply to your data or your clients’ data.
12. Your Builds, Your Responsibility
You own your builds. Anything you build, configure, deploy, or run using what you learn in the Service (“Your Builds”) is yours, and so is the responsibility for it. This includes AI agents, automations, workflows, prompts, code, databases, integrations, and any actions those systems take on your behalf.
Our materials are a starting point. Templates, workflow files, prompts, code samples, and demonstrations we share are educational examples. They are not tested for your environment, data, or use case. You are responsible for reviewing, testing, and securing anything before you use it, especially before it touches live data, customers, money, or production systems. If you use our materials, you do so at your own risk.
AI tools are unpredictable. AI tools can produce incorrect, incomplete, or harmful outputs and can take actions you did not intend. You are responsible for reviewing AI outputs, setting appropriate permissions and limits, and supervising any system that acts on your behalf.
Security is your responsibility. You are responsible for securing Your Builds, including API keys, credentials, access permissions, and any personal or confidential data they handle. Any security guidance we share is meant for general education. It is not a security audit, review, guarantee or assurance of any kind.
We are not liable for the consequences. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss or damage arising from Your Builds or your use of AI tools, including:
- Broken, disrupted, or misconfigured tools, systems, or accounts
- Security vulnerabilities, breaches, or unauthorized access
- Lost, corrupted, leaked, or deleted data
- Unexpected charges, usage fees, or costs from third-party providers
- Actions taken by AI agents or automations, including messages sent, records changed, or transactions made
- Violations of law, regulation, platform terms, or agreements with your employer or clients
This applies whether Your Build was based on our materials, guidance given in a live session, feedback from us or other members, or your own work.
Content from other members. Members share their own builds, code, and opinions. We do not review or verify them, and we are not responsible for what happens if you use them.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, arising from or related to the Service, Your Builds, your content, regardless of the theory of liability.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising from or related to the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.
15. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Small Machine Company LLC and its owners, officers, and contractors from any claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
16. Termination
You may terminate at any time by cancelling. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time for violation of these Terms, non-payment, or if we discontinue the Service. If we discontinue the Service entirely, we will provide reasonable notice and refund any prepaid period not yet delivered.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 8 through 15.
17. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms. If we make material changes, we will notify members by email or through the Service before they take effect. Continued use after that constitutes acceptance. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the current version.
18. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to conflict of law rules. You and we agree that any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Morris County, New Jersey, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.
19. Miscellaneous
If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Website Terms of Use, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a sale or transfer of the business.
20. Contact
Questions about these Terms: austin@smallmachine.co
Small Machine Company LLC