Terms of Service

These Terms are the agreement between you and VibeForMe.ai ("VibeForMe", "we", "us"). They apply when you create an account, and they apply to browsing the public parts of the site whether or not you ever sign up. If you do not accept them, do not use the platform.

VibeForMe is a discovery marketplace. Businesses describe AI projects they want built; developers subscribe for access to those projects and pitch for the work. We introduce the two sides and host the conversation. We are not a party to whatever either of you agrees to afterwards — see section 10.

Two further documents form part of this agreement: our Acceptable Use Policy and our Privacy Policy.

An account is either a developer account or a business account, chosen at sign-up. The role decides what the platform will let you do: only developers can subscribe and send pitches, only businesses can publish project briefs. We do not convert an account from one to the other.

To hold an account you must:

• be at least 18 years old, or old enough to enter a contract where you live if that age is higher
• give accurate information, and keep it accurate — most of what you write is shown to the people you are trying to work with, and inventing it is a breach of these Terms as well as a bad strategy
• keep your sign-in credentials to yourself, and tell us if you think somebody else has them
• not hold more than one account of the same role, and not open a new account to get around a suspension

Sign-in is handled by Clerk, our authentication provider. You can also sign in with Apple or Google, in which case that provider — not us — verifies who you are and tells us the email address and name on the account. If you use Apple's Hide My Email, what we receive is the relay address Apple generates, not your real one, and that is the address we will write to.

For the first 24 hours after an account is created, what it publishes is not shown to other people. It is a spam measure and it applies to everybody; nothing is lost and no action is needed.

A subscription is what a developer buys to work here, and the plans are Starter, Professional and Agency, billed monthly: Starter at $49 a month, Professional at $149 a month, Agency at $349 a month. What each plan includes is set out on our pricing page, and the monthly pitch allowance is the difference that matters most — Starter allows 10 pitches a month, while Professional and Agency set no monthly limit. We take no commission on work you win.

Free trial. If you have never subscribed before, your first subscription starts with a 14-day trial on whichever plan you pick. The trial is attached at checkout and only then: if you subscribed once, cancelled, and came back, your new plan bills immediately. We collect a payment method up front so the plan can continue when the trial ends.

Payment. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach our systems. Subscriptions renew automatically each month at the then-current price for your plan until you cancel. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax we are required to add.

Changing plan. A downgrade is scheduled to take effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, so you keep the higher plan until then. An upgrade is handled through the Stripe billing portal.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time; the flow starts in Settings and finishes in the Stripe billing portal. Settings shows the date your current billing period ends. Your plan's features stay available for as long as the subscription is active in Stripe, and we do not promise access through the end of a period you have already paid for. If you need to know exactly when your access stops, the billing portal states what cancelling does before you confirm it. Your account, profile, portfolio, past pitches and conversations are untouched by cancelling — what you lose is the plan-only features, the daily AI allowances your plan included, and full funnel analytics.

Refunds. We do not give partial refunds for a month already begun. Cancel or downgrade to stop the next charge. Nothing here limits a refund you are entitled to by law.

If a payment fails, we may suspend the paid features of your account until it succeeds. We may change prices, and we will tell you before a change affects a renewal of yours.

A business account is free. Posting a project, reading developer profiles, receiving pitches and talking to the developers you accept cost nothing, and we do not take a cut of the work you commission.

A business account may have up to 3 projects open at once. Closing a project frees the slot. A project you post must be a project you actually want done — posting to collect pitches you have no intention of accepting wastes the time of people paying to be here, and is a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.

Everything you write or upload — your profile, portfolio, project briefs, pitches, messages, testimonials — stays yours. We claim no ownership of it.

You give us the permission we need to run the platform: to store your content, and to show it to the people it is meant for, in the places the product shows it. That permission lasts as long as the content is on the platform and covers nothing else. We do not sell it, and we do not use it in advertising.

Where content is shown depends on what it is:

• A developer profile is public. It has a URL anybody can open, and search engines can index it. That is the point of it.
• A project brief is shown to developers browsing for work, and an anonymized extract of an open brief may appear on our public pages — the project's own words plus the industry, team size, location, budget range and timeline. Your company name, website and logo are not part of that extract. See section 6.
• Pitches and messages are shown to the people in that conversation, and to us where we need to look — a report, a payment dispute, a legal obligation.

You are responsible for having the right to post what you post. Do not upload client work you are not allowed to show, or anybody's confidential material. If you tell us something of yours is on the platform without permission, email support@vibeforme.ai and we will look into it.

We may remove or hide content that breaks these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, and we may act on a report without having reached a conclusion about who is right.

A business browsing developers sees everything: profiles here are public. A developer browsing projects does not see who posted them. They see the brief, the industry, the team size, the location, the budget range and the timeline — enough to judge whether the work suits them. The business's name, website and logo are not shown.

That stays true until the business decides otherwise, and there are two ways it decides: it accepts a developer's pitch, or it starts a conversation with a developer itself. Either one reveals the business's identity to that developer, in that conversation, and to nobody else.

This is how the platform is built rather than a preference you set, which is why we can describe it plainly: the queries that serve project briefs to developers do not read those fields. It is not a guarantee about the business, though. A brief that names the company in its own description names it, and we do not stop a business from identifying itself in a message.

Parts of the platform are built on a large language model. We use Claude, from Anthropic, reached through Anthropic's API. It is used to suggest which developers suit a project, to turn a sentence about a project into a structured brief, and to draft pitches, messages and profile copy when you ask it to.

Using those features sends the relevant content to Anthropic to be processed — the brief you are writing, the profile being matched, the message you asked for help with. It is sent to produce that result and for no other purpose. Anthropic is a processor acting on our instructions; the Privacy Policy sets out what that means.

A draft is a draft. Anything the model writes for you is a starting point that you send under your own name, and you are responsible for it. Model output can be wrong, generic or subtly off, and a match suggestion is a suggestion — not advice, not a recommendation, and not a statement that a developer is suitable or competent.

AI features have daily limits that vary by plan, and they depend on a third party we do not control. If Anthropic's API is unavailable, the feature fails and the rest of the product keeps working; we do not promise any particular availability for it.

You can connect a GitHub or Stack Overflow account to your developer profile. This is optional, it is separate from how you sign in, and you start it yourself from Settings.

Connecting one authorises us to hold an access token for that account and to use it to read your public profile there. From GitHub we read your username, name, bio, public repository count, follower count, avatar and profile URL; from Stack Overflow, your display name, reputation, badge counts, profile URL and profile image. We read it to show it on your profile — we do not post anything, and we do not read private repositories.

There is a second, separate flow: building a profile from your GitHub, which you start from the profile editor. It reads more than the connection above — as well as your name, bio, location and website, it reads your six most-starred public repositories, and from each one the name, description, main language, star count and topics. That summary is sent to Anthropic's Claude API to draft your headline, bio and skills, which is the point of the feature and is covered by section 7. You get a draft to edit; nothing is published until you save it. If you would rather no repository data left the platform, write your profile yourself.

You can disconnect an account at any time from Settings, which removes the stored token. You can also revoke our access from GitHub's or Stack Overflow's own settings, and we would rather you knew that than not.

The rules are in the Acceptable Use Policy, and breaking them breaks these Terms. In short: no spam, no harassment, no misrepresenting who you are or what you have done, no scraping, no attempts to break the platform or reach data that is not yours.

One rule is worth restating because it is the one people are most tempted by. The anonymity model exists so a business can evaluate developers without being contacted by all of them. Do not try to work out who an anonymous business is in order to contact them off-platform, and do not use anything you learn here to reach somebody who has not chosen to reveal themselves to you.

We are an introduction service, and it is worth being exact about the limits of that.

• We do not vet developers. We do not check identity, qualifications, certifications, references or right to work. Profiles, portfolios and testimonials are written by the developers themselves. Certifications shown on a profile are self-declared unless the profile says otherwise. Do your own diligence before you hire somebody, exactly as you would with any contractor you found anywhere else.
• We do not verify project briefs. A budget or timeline on a brief is what the business typed.
• We are not a party to your deal. Scope, price, contract, invoicing, payment, delivery, intellectual property and disputes are between the business and the developer. We do not handle payment for the work, we do not hold funds, and we do not arbitrate. A subscription buys access to the marketplace — not work, not leads, not a hire.
• We are not your employer or agent, and nothing here creates a partnership or joint venture between us.

The platform is provided as it is. We work to keep it available and correct, and we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. To the extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties, and our liability to you is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for lost profits, lost work, or a deal that went badly.

You can close your account whenever you like, from Settings. If you have a subscription, cancel it as well or closing the account will cancel it for you.

We can suspend an account for a period, or end it, if it breaks these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if it is being used to defraud or harm somebody, or if we are required to. We will tell you why where we reasonably can. For something serious — fraud, harassment, an attempt to compromise the platform — we may act first and explain afterwards.

If we end your account for breaking these Terms, we do not refund the rest of the month. If we end it for any other reason, we refund the unused part of the period you have paid for.

Closing your account does several things at once:

• an active subscription is cancelled
• the messages you sent are deleted
• pitches you sent that were still awaiting an answer are expired, and your developer profile stops being visible
• projects you had open are closed, and your conversations are archived
• your sign-in is deleted at Clerk, so you can no longer log in

Your account record itself is not erased from our database. It is marked as deleted and stripped of what identifies you — your email address is replaced with a placeholder and your name becomes "Deleted User". The rows it is attached to survive in that state: a brief you posted, a pitch you sent, the conversation it started. This is deliberate. Those records belong to the other side of the conversation as much as to you, and deleting them outright would remove somebody else's history of their own work.

We also keep what we are required to keep — billing and tax records, and anything needed for a dispute or a legal obligation.

If you want a copy of your data before you go, Settings will export it. If you want erasure beyond what closing the account does, email privacy@vibeforme.ai; the GDPR page explains how we handle that and what we may have to retain.

We will change these Terms as the product changes. The date at the top says when they last changed. If a change materially affects you, we will tell you by email or in the product before it takes effect, and we will give you enough notice to cancel if you do not accept it. Carrying on using the platform after a change takes effect means you accept it.

For anything about these Terms, email support@vibeforme.ai. For privacy and data requests, privacy@vibeforme.ai reaches the right person faster.

If a provision of these Terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing something immediately does not mean we have given it up. These Terms, with the Acceptable Use Policy and the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us about the platform.