Terms

What you are buying, and what you are not.

The same promises the rest of the site makes, in one place, including the ones that are not in our favour.

This is a draft. It describes how the product actually behaves today and it has not been reviewed by a lawyer. If something here matters to your decision, ask us before you rely on it.

Last updated 31 July 2026.

What each step is

The $5 scan is a search and an honest report of what it found. The $21 plan is a written description of your idea. Building is arranged separately, after a paid call, and is never included in either.

You can stop after any step. Nothing renews, there is no subscription, and there is nothing to cancel.

The plan is yours

You own what we write for you. Take it to any developer, publish it, change it, or ignore it. We do not hold it back, we do not licence it to you, and we do not need to be involved in what you do next.

What the scan is not

It is a search, run well, and searches miss things. A scan that finds nothing is not a guarantee that nothing exists, and a scan that finds competitors is not a verdict on whether you should build. We report the evidence and say plainly where our reading of it is inference rather than fact.

The licence and activity we show for an open source project come from the code host. Read the licence yourself before you rely on it. We are not giving you legal advice about reuse.

If your idea already exists

We will tell you, and you will still have paid for the scan. That is the point of running it before you build, and it is why the fee is five dollars rather than fifty.

Refunds

If the scan fails for a reason that is ours, we retry it once and refund you automatically if it fails again, and we tell you that we have.

If we cannot plan your idea properly at this price, we say so and do not take it on. See what we do not plan.

What we will not do automatically

We do not quote work that moves money, handles payments, or touches regulated data without a person reading it first. Those plans are reviewed by hand, and you will be told that is what is happening.

Fair use

One scan is one idea. The fee exists to stop automated abuse rather than to meter you, and we would rather ask you what you are trying to do than cut you off.

If something goes wrong

Email [email protected] and a person will read it. We would rather fix it than argue about whether we have to.