Terms

Terms of use

What you are allowed to do with Continuo, what we promise, what we do not, and the one responsibility that stays with you: recording people lawfully.

Draft 1 · 31 July 2026 · Continuo for Windows

Draft — under review. This is not legal advice.

This is a working draft, published so it can be read and challenged before an attorney reviews it. It is not yet a binding agreement, no software has been licensed under it, and the company that will stand behind it has not been formed. Bracketed placeholders mark the decisions still open. The final version ships with the first public build.

The short version

Continuo is licensed to you, not sold. It is our software; you get the right to use it on the terms below.
A licence covers one person. Paid tiers are priced per seat, as shown on the pricing section.
Recording people lawfully is your responsibility. Continuo makes disclosed recording the easy path; it cannot make a recording legal.
Your meetings, minutes, and memory are yours. They stay on your machine, and we hold no copy.
Minutes are drafts you review before anyone else sees them. Do not treat them as a certified record.
We disclaim warranties and cap our liability, in the ordinary way and in plain words below.

Who this is between

These terms are between you (the person using the software, or the organisation you use it for) and [Continuo — legal entity to be formed; a Virginia, USA limited liability company]. "We" and "us" mean that entity. "The software" means the Continuo desktop application, its bundled models and components, and any updates we provide.

If you use Continuo for your employer or client, you confirm you are allowed to accept these terms on their behalf and that their policies permit the use.

Installing or using the software means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not install it.

Draft note: the entity does not exist yet. Every bracketed name, address, and jurisdiction reference is a placeholder to be replaced at formation, before these terms are presented to anyone as binding.

Your licence

Continuo is proprietary software. We keep all rights in it — the code, the configuration and model packaging we ship, the interface, the documentation, and the name. You get a licence, and nothing more than the licence.

Subject to these terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use one copy of the software per seat, on computers you own or control, for your own work.

A seat is a person, not a machine. You may install it on more than one of your own computers; you may not share a seat with a colleague.
Organisation licences are counted per user, as priced on the site. Each user is bound by these terms.
Your output is yours. The minutes, briefs, agendas, and memory Continuo produces on your machine belong to you, with no licence back to us and no restriction on commercial use.
The licence lasts as long as you comply with these terms and, for paid tiers, as long as the subscription is current.

Tiers and payment

Current launch pricing, as published on the site:

Free — $0, forever. The full local brain: persistent memory, unlimited briefs, questions, and conversations with your brain, plus unlimited meeting agendas and minutes, passive read-only ingestion of your chats and email. It runs entirely on your machine, offline.
Plus — $5 per month. Everything in Free, plus the bridge to a frontier AI you already pay for, and bigger local models.
Enterprise — $10 per user per month. Everything in Plus for every user, centrally administered, plus a local-network inference API so one machine inside your walls serves every seat.

Prices are in US dollars and are launch prices — we may change prices for future terms, but a change never applies to a period you have already paid for, and we will tell you before a renewal at a new price. The free tier is free because your own machine does the work; it is not a trial and there is no clock on it.

Draft note: billing, renewal, refund, cancellation, and tax terms are not written here because the payment path is not stood up. This section must be completed before any money is taken, and consumer-law refund rules (and app-store rules, if the app ships through a store) will govern parts of it.

What you may not do

The rules are short and they are meant literally.

Do not record people unlawfully. Do not use Continuo to record any conversation you are not legally entitled to record, or to record covertly where notice or consent is required. This is the one that ends the licence immediately.
Do not defeat the consent controls. Do not modify, bypass, patch, or automate around the consent gate, the notice prompts, the objection handling, or the escrow behaviour, and do not run a build that has had them altered.
Do not use it for surveillance of employees, household members, or anyone else who has not been told, or in any way that would be harassment, stalking, or an invasion of privacy.
Do not resell, rent, sublicense, or redistribute the software or its bundled models, or run it as a service for others.
Do not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, except to the extent your local law expressly permits despite this restriction.
Do not remove or alter copyright, licence, or attribution notices, including the third-party notices shipped with the build.
Do not use it to break other rules — your employer's policy, your client's agreement, the terms of a meeting platform, or a court order.
Do not use the software to build a competing product from it, or misrepresent its output as something it is not.

Continuo never joins your meeting and never touches a meeting platform's API, process, or account. Please keep it that way: do not attempt to make it interoperate with a platform in a manner that platform prohibits.

Recording, consent, and the law

This is the most important clause in this document.

You are responsible for obtaining consent and for recording lawfully. Continuo is a tool that helps you disclose and helps you notice when disclosure has not happened. It does not determine what is lawful, it cannot know what jurisdiction the other people are in, and using it is not a defence.

What the software does, honestly: it looks for evidence that the room was told — a notice in the invite, a disclosure in the chat, a platform recording banner, a known notetaker in the roster, or your confirmation that you announced it out loud. It tells you when consent has not been detected, and it keeps nothing durable until notice is established. If someone appears to withdraw consent, it asks you to decide; no automated signal ever stops a recording on its own, and no automated signal is ever treated as permission.

What that does not do: it does not obtain consent for you. Recording laws differ by country and, in the United States, by state — some require every participant to agree. Extra rules apply in specific settings, including biometric-identifier laws, privileged conversations, healthcare, HR matters, and recordings involving people in other jurisdictions. You are responsible for knowing which apply to your meetings and for complying with them, including your employer's and your clients' policies.

We do not condone unlawful recording, and we do not accept responsibility for it. The jurisdiction helper on the main page points to official guides in several regions as a starting point for your own research; it is not legal advice. If it matters, ask a lawyer where you are.

You agree to indemnify us — meaning, to cover our costs and any claims — arising from recordings you made in breach of this section or of the law.

Your content stays yours

We claim no ownership of anything Continuo records, compiles, or writes on your machine, and no licence to use it. We have no copy of it: the software does not transmit your recordings, transcripts, minutes, or memory to us. What the software does transmit is described in the privacy policy, and it is content-free.

The practical consequence runs both ways. Because we hold nothing, we cannot recover anything for you — not a deleted meeting, not a lost disk, not a forgotten folder. Backups are yours to keep.

Third-party services and components

Accounts you connect. If you connect a calendar, mail, or chat account, your use of that service stays governed by that provider's own terms. Continuo reads it read-only, from your machine, with the permissions you granted; you can revoke them at the provider at any time.

The frontier bridge. If you connect a cloud AI assistant on a paid tier, invoking it sends that question's context to the provider you chose, and that provider's terms and privacy policy apply to what you send. It happens only when you invoke it.

Open-source and model components. Continuo bundles third-party software and machine-learning models under their own licences, including permissively licensed components and the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime under Microsoft's distribution terms. The notices and licence texts ship with the build. Where one of those licences grants you rights, it prevails over the restrictions in these terms for that component.

Updates and availability

We may issue updates, and updates may change, add, or remove features. We will not use an update to reduce the privacy guarantees described in the privacy policy without saying so plainly with the build that does it.

Some features are marked experimental or preview. They may change or disappear, and they carry no promise of continuity. The free tier is designed to keep working offline; it does not depend on us staying online for it to run.

No warranty

Continuo is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. To the extent the law allows us to disclaim them, we do.

In plain terms, here is what we specifically do not promise, because it would not be true:

That every meeting is detected and captured. Detection is a best effort against signals from your operating system, and a meeting can be missed.
That a recording starts at the first second. By design, nothing is captured before notice is established, so the seconds before it are not recorded.
That minutes, briefs, action items, or answers are accurate or complete. They are AI-generated drafts, cited so you can check them, and they are meant to be reviewed by you before anyone relies on them.
That the software or its output satisfies any legal, regulatory, evidentiary, or record-keeping requirement. It is not a certified transcript and not a legal record.
That it is uninterrupted or error-free, or that data on your machine cannot be lost.

If you need a record that must be right, keep your own.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses — lost profits, lost business, lost opportunities, reputational harm, or the cost of substitute tools.
We are not liable for lost or corrupted data. There is no copy of your data on our side, which is the point of the design and also the limit of what we can do about it.
We are not liable for claims arising from recordings you made, or from how you used what Continuo produced.
Our total liability for everything connected with the software is capped at [the amount you paid us for it in the 12 months before the claim]. On the free tier that amount is zero, and that is the honest trade for software that costs nothing and keeps your data out of our hands.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded — for example, for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you; the rest still does.

Draft note: the liability cap, the indemnity in the recording section, and any dispute-resolution or arbitration terms are exactly the clauses an attorney should set. They are written here as a starting position, not a settled one.

Ending this

You can stop at any time: uninstall the software. If you are on a paid tier, cancelling stops future charges from the next renewal; the tier's features stop at the end of the period you have paid for.

We can end your licence if you breach these terms — immediately in the case of unlawful recording or tampering with the consent controls, and otherwise if a breach is not fixed within a reasonable time after we ask.

When the licence ends, you stop using the software and remove it. Your data stays yours and stays where it is — on your disk. We cannot reach it, so nothing about ending the licence deletes your minutes or your memory. The sections that should outlive the agreement do: your recording responsibility for past recordings, the disclaimers, the liability limits, and governing law.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States], without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the courts of [Virginia] have jurisdiction over disputes — except where the law of your home country gives you the right to bring a claim locally, which these terms do not take away.

Draft note: Virginia is the planned home of the entity and is a placeholder pending formation; a later move to another state is anticipated and would change this clause. Recording-consent obligations are national and multi-state regardless of where the company sits — the jurisdiction chosen here does not lower the bar for anyone.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the date at the top and post the new version here. If a change materially affects your rights, we will announce it with the build that makes the change and give reasonable notice before it takes effect — continuing to use the software after that means accepting the new version. If you do not accept it, stop using the software; if you are on a paid tier, you may cancel and we will refund the unused part of the period.

We will keep the previous version available so the difference can be seen.

Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]. See also the privacy policy, which describes what the software stores and what it transmits.