Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your use of Catalyst — the mobile app, the website at usecatalyst.app, and any related features (together, the “Service”). By creating a Catalyst account or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service.

You must be at least 16 years old to use Catalyst. If you are between 16 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, by using the Service you confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf.

Catalyst is operated from Canada. The legal entity operating Catalyst is identified in the “Contact Us” section at the bottom of this page. These Terms incorporate the Privacy Policy by reference; using the Service means you have read and accept both.

Catalyst is a voice-first AI assistant for tracking and articulating your career progression. You speak; the AI listens, asks follow-up questions, and helps you build a longitudinal record of the work you do.

What the Service is for. Catalyst exists to help you organize, articulate, and remember your own work. It is a tool for you to use on yourself.

What the Service is not.Catalyst does not provide legal advice, financial advice, HR advice, medical advice, mental-health advice, or formal career counseling. The AI’s responses are generated automatically and may be incorrect, incomplete, or unsuitable for your specific situation. Anything you do based on Catalyst’s outputs — applying for a job, raising an issue at work, framing a performance review — is your decision and your responsibility.

AI outputs are not guaranteed.AI-generated content (conversation responses, extracted insights, weekly summaries) is derived automatically from your input and from the underlying AI provider’s models. Catalyst does not guarantee that the outputs are accurate, complete, current, or fit for any particular purpose.

Catalyst is currently offered to a closed group of users through Apple’s TestFlight program. While the Service is in beta:

• The Service may be unstable. Features may change, break, or be removed without notice as we iterate. We do not guarantee uptime, availability, or preservation of any specific feature during the beta period.
• Your data is real. Even though the Service is in beta, the conversations you have and the insights generated are real personal data. They are protected by the Privacy Policy, which applies in full during beta.
• No paid plan exists yet. Beta access is currently free of charge. When paid plans are introduced, beta members will be notified in advance and given the option to choose a plan or continue on the free tier.
• Beta-period liability cap.During the beta period, Catalyst’s total cumulative liability to you for any claim arising out of or related to the Service is capped at fifty Canadian dollars (CAD $50), regardless of the legal theory of the claim. This cap supersedes the general limitation of liability below for the duration of the beta.

When the Service moves out of beta, this section will be removed and the rest of the Terms will continue to apply.

To use Catalyst, you create an account using your email address (and, after Catalyst launches on the App Store, optionally Sign in with Apple or Google). You agree to:

• Provide accurate information. Use a real email address you control. Email is how Catalyst delivers transactional messages and verifies that it is you.
• Keep your account secure.Don’t share your credentials with anyone else. Notify us promptly at legal@usecatalyst.app if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.
• Take responsibility for activity on your account. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, except where caused by our negligence or by a security failure on our side.

One person per account.Catalyst accounts are intended for individual use. Don’t share an account with another person; the longitudinal record only works if it is about one person.

A short list of things you agree not to do with Catalyst:

• Don’t harass, defame, or harm other people.Catalyst is for talking about your own work and your own career. Don’t use it to record or distribute content that defames, harasses, threatens, or endangers anyone else.
• Don’t use it for someone else.The Service is for the individual account holder’s own use. Don’t use Catalyst on behalf of another person without their explicit consent and a clear lawful basis.
• Don’t try to break it. No reverse-engineering, scraping, automated access, decompilation, or attempts to bypass authentication, rate limiting, or access controls. No deliberate attempts to extract the underlying AI prompts or model behavior.
• Don’t submit unlawful or infringing content.Don’t upload or input content you don’t have the right to share, including content that infringes anyone else’s intellectual property, privacy, or other rights.
• Don’t compete unfairly.Don’t use the Service to build a competing product, train a competing AI model, or extract insights for resale.
• Don’t violate the law.Don’t use Catalyst in any way that violates applicable law in Canada, the United States, or your jurisdiction.

If you violate these rules, we may suspend or terminate your account. For serious or repeated violations, we may do so without notice.

Our rights. Catalyst owns the Service, including the software, the website, the AI prompts and conversation design, the user interface, and the Catalyst name and branding. These Terms do not grant you any rights to the foregoing except the right to use the Service as the Terms allow.

Your rights to your content.You retain ownership of the content you put into Catalyst — your voice recordings, conversation transcripts, profile information, and the underlying facts about your career. Catalyst does not claim ownership of any of it.

License you grant Catalyst. To run the Service, we need a license to process your content. By using Catalyst, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, process, transmit, store, and display your content solely for the purpose of providing and improving the Service for you. This license terminates when you delete your account, except for content that is necessarily retained briefly in routine database backups, which are purged on schedule.

AI-generated content.Catalyst generates content based on your inputs — conversation responses, extracted insights, weekly summaries. Catalyst makes no claim of ownership over this AI-generated content as it relates to your account; you may use it for any lawful purpose, including drafting your own performance reviews, resumes, or interview prep.

No training on your data. Our agreements with our AI providers (Anthropic and OpenAI) prohibit them from using your content to train their models. Catalyst itself does not use your content to train any model.

Feedback.If you send us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, or ideas about the Service (“Feedback”), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that Feedback for any purpose, including improving the Service. You may mark Feedback as confidential, in which case we will treat it as confidential; otherwise we may use it freely. We are under no obligation to act on, credit, or compensate you for Feedback.

The free tier.As of these Terms’ effective date, Catalyst is free to use. There is no charge to create an account, log debrief sessions, or receive weekly summaries.

Future paid features. Catalyst may introduce paid features and subscription plans in the future. When paid plans are introduced, the specific terms (price, billing cycle, refund and cancellation policy, auto-renewal disclosures, and any required statutory notices for residents of California or other jurisdictions) will be presented to you at sign-up, and your acceptance of those terms will be required to subscribe. You are not obligated to subscribe to continue using the free tier (subject to any future changes to the free tier itself, which will be communicated in advance).

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, CATALYST DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

CATALYST DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THE SERVICE OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

AI-GENERATED CONTENT (CONVERSATION RESPONSES, EXTRACTED INSIGHTS, WEEKLY SUMMARIES) IS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY AND IS NOT GUARANTEED TO BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE YOU MAKE OF AI-GENERATED CONTENT, INCLUDING ANY USE IN CONNECTION WITH JOB APPLICATIONS, PERFORMANCE REVIEWS, COMPENSATION DISCUSSIONS, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL DECISIONS.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES; IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS, THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Catalyst, its directors, officers, employees, agents, suppliers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, business opportunities, goodwill, or use, arising out of or related to your use of the Service, regardless of the legal theory of liability and even if Catalyst has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Catalyst’s total cumulative liability to you for all claims arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amounts you paid Catalyst for the Service in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred Canadian dollars (CAD $100). During the beta period described in the “Beta and Early Access” section above, the beta-period cap (CAD $50) applies instead.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages; in those jurisdictions our liability will be limited to the smallest amount permitted by law.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Catalyst and its directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party, or (c) your use of the Service in a manner that violates the “Acceptable Use” section.

Catalyst reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you would otherwise be required to indemnify us, in which case you agree to cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

Before either of us files a formal legal action, we agree to first attempt to resolve any dispute through good-faith negotiation. To start the process, send a written notice describing the dispute to legal@usecatalyst.app. If the dispute is not resolved within 60 days of that notice, either of us may pursue formal legal action.

Subject to the negotiation requirement above, any legal action arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the courts of Ontario, Canada, and you submit to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Some jurisdictions do not permit consumers to waive their right to bring claims in their local courts; in those jurisdictions, this section applies to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights or confidential information.

Termination by you. You can stop using Catalyst at any time. To delete your account and all associated data, use the in-app account deletion flow or email legal@usecatalyst.app. Account deletion is described in detail in the Privacy Policy.

Termination by us. We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, if (a) we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, (b) we are required to do so by law or a court order, (c) the Service is being discontinued, or (d) the action is necessary to protect Catalyst, other users, or the public from harm.

Effect of termination. When your account is terminated, your right to use the Service ends. Cloud data is deleted in accordance with the Privacy Policy. On-device data persists until you delete the app or clear it manually.

Survival. The following sections survive termination of these Terms: Intellectual Property, Subscription and Billing (for any unresolved billing matters), Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnity, Governing Law and Disputes, and this Termination section.

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes — those that meaningfully change your rights or obligations under the Terms — we will notify you by email and through an in-app banner at least 30 days before the change takes effect. For minor edits (clarifications, formatting, fixing typos), we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

If you don’t agree with a material change, you can stop using the Service and delete your account before the change takes effect, and the previous Terms will continue to apply to your past use. Continued use of the Service after a material change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other terms specifically referenced or accepted by you (such as future subscription terms), constitute the entire agreement between you and Catalyst regarding the Service.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

No waiver.Catalyst’s failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms. Catalyst may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets, subject to the protections described in the Privacy Policy regarding the transfer of your data.

Language. These Terms were drafted in English. Translations are provided for convenience only; in any conflict between the English version and a translation, the English version controls.

Force majeure. Catalyst is not liable for any failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, wars, civil disturbances, government actions, network or infrastructure failures, or pandemic-related disruptions.

Questions, concerns, or notices about these Terms? Contact us at legal@usecatalyst.app.