Terms of sale & use
What you buy, and what we owe you.
Written to be read, not to be survived. If any line here contradicts something on the sales page, the more generous reading wins — that is a rule we bind ourselves to, not a figure of speech.
Effective September 6, 2026 · Seller: GENIC FILM LLC, Los Angeles, California
On this page
1. Who you are buying from
SECOND FOUNDER is a product of GENIC FILM LLC, a California limited liability company based in Los Angeles. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean GENIC FILM LLC; "you" means the person or company that bought the product.
Legal notices reach us by email at [email protected]; a postal address for legal notices is available on request.
2. What the product is
SECOND FOUNDER is a set of documents and a database template. Specifically: a constitution file you install into Claude or ChatGPT, a Notion template with three surfaces (Ledger, Loops, Settled), a quickstart, a connection guide, a schemas reference, an expansions guide, the weekly Read workflow, pointer instructions, support policy, and the Laws one-pager.
The kit is a one-time purchase of digital files and a template. Nothing runs on our servers. Nothing logs into your accounts. We do not operate anything on your behalf. You use the files in your own AI workspace and maintain your own record. Notion is optional. First-Read usage support is included by email.
Because the product is delivered as files, you get it in full at purchase. Optional setup work is a separate service, scoped and agreed before payment. A kit purchase counts toward the $499 setup price for 30 days; service scope and terms are agreed separately.
3. Your licence
You get a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use SECOND FOUNDER for your own company — including a company you co-found, and including your employees and contractors working on that company's behalf.
You may
- Install the files into as many of your own AI workspaces as you want.
- Edit, rewrite, and adapt any of it. The constitution is meant to be amended — that is the point of the product.
- Keep everything you create with it. Your decisions, your records, your amended constitution: yours, forever, with no claim from us.
- Quote short excerpts publicly with attribution, including screenshots of the Laws page.
You may not
- Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the files — free or paid, whole or substantially whole.
- Publish the product as your own, or use it as the deliverable in a consulting or template business.
- Share your download or template link publicly.
Affiliate participation permits referring buyers through an approved link; it does not grant resale or redistribution rights. Running an agency or consultancy that uses the system internally is fine. Installing it for clients as a paid service is not covered by this licence — email us and we will work something out, because we would rather say yes than police it.
4. Payment and taxes
Checkout is handled by Polar or Gumroad, depending on the purchase link. The checkout provider acts as merchant of record. We never see or store your card details. The provider handles applicable checkout taxes and supplies your receipt.
Prices are in US dollars. Founding pricing is $99 one time for the first 20 paid customer purchases across both checkouts; then $149 one time. Test orders, refunds and free copies are excluded. When that price changes, we log the change and its date in the public ledger — we do not run countdown timers or invented scarcity.
There is no subscription, no auto-renewal, and nothing to cancel.
5. The 30-day refund
30 days, one email, no interrogation. Email [email protected] with the word "refund" within 30 days of purchase and you get your money back in full. You do not need a reason. You do not need to prove you tried. Telling us where it lost you is welcome and never required.
Refunds go back through the original checkout provider to your original payment method; their processing time applies, typically a few business days. After a refund, your licence and update access end and we ask that you delete the files — an ask, enforced by nothing but the fact that we treated you well.
This guarantee is on top of, and never in place of, any refund right the law gives you where you live.
6. Updates and support
Every improvement to v1 is yours at no charge, forever: fixes and clarifications to any shipped file, install-path updates when Claude or ChatGPT change how projects and instructions work, and new eval-verified revisions of the constitution. Updates arrive by email to the address on your order.
Genuinely new modules beyond the v1 box — a Korean edition, an automation module, an install-for-you service — would be separate products, and v1 buyers get founding pricing on them. The full policy, including our two-business-day support bar, is in the support-and-updates page shipped with your files.
We support English and Korean.
7. Third-party AI platforms
SECOND FOUNDER installs into Claude (Anthropic) and ChatGPT (OpenAI), and records into Notion. Those are independent companies with their own terms, prices, and privacy policies. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any of them.
Two consequences worth stating plainly:
- They can change. If a platform changes its project, memory, or instruction features, our job is to update the install path for free — but we cannot guarantee any third-party feature keeps existing.
- Your data goes to them, not to us. Whatever you paste into Claude or ChatGPT is governed by that platform's terms. We see only material you deliberately share with us for support or separately agreed setup.
AI systems make mistakes, including confident ones. The product is built to reduce that — the constitution's whole job is to force verification before a decision is locked — but it does not eliminate it. Check anything that matters before you act on it.
8. No results promise
We publish our own numbers, dated, in the public ledger, and we describe how we run our own company on this system. That is a record of what happened to us. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is a guarantee of revenue, growth, funding, or any other outcome.
Nothing here is legal, tax, accounting, financial, or investment advice.
9. Liability
The product is provided "as is." To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Our total liability to you, for any claim arising out of the product or these terms, is capped at the amount you paid us. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost data.
Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits. Where that is true, they simply do not apply to you, and nothing here limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms for future purchases. The version in force when you bought is the version that governs your purchase, and we will not retroactively reduce what you already paid for. Material changes get dated in the public ledger like everything else.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
Any dispute arising from these terms or the product is resolved exclusively in the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and each of us consents to that venue. No arbitration clause, no class-action waiver — if we ever wrong you, you keep the normal doors.
If you are a consumer, mandatory protections in your home country still apply and nothing here removes them.
12. Contact
One address, read by a founder: [email protected]. There are two of us and an operating system, not a support department.