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The terms that apply when you use thing.company, the papers and the free toolkit.
Effective October 6, 2026
These terms govern your use of thing.company (the "Site") and the free toolkit, papers and other material on it. Thing Company, LLC ("Thing Company", "we", "us") runs the Site. By using it you agree to these terms. If you do not, please do not use it. How we handle personal information is in our Privacy Policy.
The Site explains how Thing Company tests commercial bets on industrial technology, publishes our papers, and lets you ask for a Sprint Assessment or download the toolkit. It is general information about our work and our field.
Everything on the Site, including the papers, the toolkit, the examples and the specimen scorecard, is general information. It is not legal, financial, investment, engineering or other professional advice, and you should not act on it without advice that fits your own facts.
Using the Site, sending a form, or having a call with us does not make you a client and does not create an engagement. We take on work only under a written agreement signed by both sides. Until there is one, we owe you no duty to keep what you tell us confidential beyond what our Privacy Policy says, so please do not send trade secrets, confidential deal terms or other sensitive material through a form or an introductory email.
Our papers and tools grade claims as Verified, Benchmarked or Assumption, and a verdict is a recommendation, not a guarantee. We try to be accurate and we cite our sources, but we cannot promise that every statement is complete, current or right for your situation. Markets, products and prices change.
The Site and everything on it, including the papers, text, diagrams and the Thing Company name and logo, belong to Thing Company or its licensors and are protected by copyright and trademark law.
You may read the papers, link to them, and quote short passages with credit to Thing Company and a link back. You may not copy a paper in full, republish it, sell it, or present it as your own without our written permission. Using our name or logo to suggest we endorse you needs our written permission too.
The toolkit is a set of text instructions that you load into an AI assistant you already use. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use it, free, for your own internal decision work. You may not sell it, charge for access to it, or redistribute it, and you may not remove our credit from it.
The toolkit runs inside your assistant, not on our systems. What you type into the assistant, and what it answers, is governed by your assistant provider's terms, and assistants can be wrong. A toolkit result is a self-check to help you prepare, not a verdict from us. We may change or withdraw the toolkit at any time.
When you send a form or an email, you confirm that what you tell us is accurate and that you are entitled to share it. You allow us to use it to answer you and to run the Site, as our Privacy Policy describes. You keep your own rights in it.
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We may block an address or a person who does, without notice.
The Site links to other sites and works with AI assistants and other services we do not run. They have their own terms and privacy practices, we do not control them, and a link is not an endorsement.
We provide the Site and its material "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we give no warranty of any kind, including that the Site will be uninterrupted or free of errors, or that it is fit for a particular purpose. Some places do not allow some exclusions, so some of this may not apply to you.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Thing Company and the people who work for it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for lost profits, revenue, data or opportunity, arising from your use of the Site or reliance on its material. For anything else, our total liability to you is limited to one hundred US dollars. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
You are responsible for loss we suffer because you broke these terms or used the Site unlawfully, and you will reimburse us for it, to the extent the law allows.
We may change these terms, and the Site and its material, at any time. We post the new terms here with a new date. If you keep using the Site after that, you accept them.
We may suspend or end your access to the Site at any time, including if you break these terms. Sections that by their nature should survive, such as 4, 9, 10, 11 and 14, do.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about them or the Site will be heard in the state and federal courts located in the State of Washington, and you and we agree to those courts' jurisdiction.
These terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Site. If a part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.
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Last updated: October 6, 2026