These terms govern your use of answerfoundry.ai and any AnswerFoundry LLC service you request or purchase.
Please read Section 15 (Limitation of Liability) and Section 17 (Disputes). They limit what we can be held responsible for and set out how disagreements get resolved, including where a lawsuit must be brought and a shortened deadline for bringing one.
These Terms of Service form a binding agreement between you and AnswerFoundry LLC, a Florida limited liability company ("AnswerFoundry," "we," "us"). You accept them when you submit a form on this site that states you agree to them, when you sign or countersign a proposal, statement of work, or invoice that references them, or when you otherwise engage us for services.
If you accept on behalf of a business, you represent that you are authorized to bind that business, and "you" means that business.
Order of precedence. If you and AnswerFoundry sign a master services agreement, statement of work, or proposal, that signed document controls over these terms to the extent of any conflict, and these terms govern everything the signed document does not address. Absent a signed document, these terms are the entire agreement for the services you purchase.
We may update these terms. Changes take effect when posted, except that changes do not apply retroactively to a dispute that has already arisen and do not change the fees or scope of an engagement already underway without your agreement. If you have an active engagement, we will tell you directly about material changes.
AnswerFoundry is an AI-visibility, SEO, GEO, and AEO consultancy serving businesses across industries. We measure and improve how AI answer engines and search engines find, describe, and recommend a business. Our current offerings are:
"Foundry Audit" is the name of our diagnostic engagement. Any earlier reference to an "AI Visibility Audit" in our materials means the Foundry Audit.
The Answer Snapshot is provided free of charge, is built from a limited set of representative test questions at a single point in time, and is a preliminary read rather than a complete diagnostic. It is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, and nothing in it is a recommendation you should act on without further diagnosis. We may decline to provide a Snapshot, may limit how many we provide, and may discontinue the offering at any time.
Requesting a Snapshot does not create a client relationship and does not obligate either of us to anything further.
4.1 Published prices. The prices shown on our pricing page are standard fixed prices or starting prices as labeled there. Temporary launch or promotional rates apply only under the eligibility and timing stated on that page. Your actual price is the one stated in your accepted checkout, proposal, statement of work, or invoice, and that price controls.
4.2 When payment is due. One-time engagements, including the Foundry Audit and Fix Sprint, are paid in full before work begins. Monthly plans are billed in advance, on or about the same calendar day each month, beginning on the engagement start date. Invoices are due on receipt unless the invoice states otherwise.
4.3 Accepted methods. We accept the payment methods offered through our Stripe-hosted checkout or identified on your invoice. Stripe processes payment information under its own terms and privacy practices; AnswerFoundry does not store complete card numbers.
4.4 Late payment. Amounts more than 10 days past due may accrue a late charge of 1.5% per month, or the maximum rate permitted by Florida law if lower. We may suspend work on written notice while an invoice is past due, and suspension does not extend the term or reduce fees.
4.5 Taxes. Fees are exclusive of any applicable sales, use, or similar taxes, which are your responsibility except for taxes on our income.
4.6 Audit credit. If you begin a Forge & Monitor engagement within 14 days after your Foundry Audit is delivered, the Foundry Audit fee you paid is credited toward your first month.
4.7 The Foundry Audit is non-refundable once delivered. "Delivered" means the moment we send the completed audit report to the email address you designated for delivery. Before delivery and before work has begun, we may issue a refund at our discretion. Once delivered, the fee is non-refundable, because the Foundry Audit is a fixed-scope diagnostic completed at the point of delivery rather than an ongoing service. This is disclosed here, on our pricing page, and in our FAQ.
4.8 Monthly fees are not refundable in part. Fees for a month already begun are not prorated or refunded on cancellation. See Section 5.
4.9 Founding Client rate. Qualified Founding Clients receive Forge & Monitor at $999 per month for the first three months. If the engagement continues after that initial period, the then-published standard rate applies; as of August 20, 2026, that rate is $1,250 per month. The Founding Client rate is limited to the first five qualifying clients, is confirmed in writing before enrollment, and may be closed at any time.
4.10 No retroactive discount adjustment. Amounts properly billed at a promotional or founding rate are not recalculated at a higher rate solely because an engagement later ends. The minimum term and notice obligations in Section 5 still apply.
4.11 Existing engagements. Publishing a new price does not change the fee or scope of an engagement already underway. A different price applies only if you agree to it in a new or amended proposal, statement of work, order, or invoice.
5.1 Minimum term. Forge & Monitor has a three-month minimum term. Category Leader's initial term is stated in its written proposal and is generally six months because category-level implementation and measurement require more runway.
5.2 Automatic monthly renewal — stated plainly. After the minimum term, your plan continues automatically from month to month, and you will continue to be billed each month, until you cancel. Each renewal term is one month. There is no long-term contract and no renewal for a period longer than one month.
5.3 How to cancel. Cancel with at least 30 days' written notice. You are responsible for fees through the end of that 30-day notice period, and we will keep working through it. You may cancel by the same means you used to accept — if you accepted by email, an email cancels; if you accepted through a form or an electronic signature, a reply through that same channel cancels. Email to hello@answerfoundry.ai always works. We will confirm your cancellation in writing.
5.4 Cancellation during the minimum term. Notice given during the three-month minimum takes effect at the later of the end of the minimum term or the end of the 30-day notice period. Promotional or founding discounts already billed are not recalculated retroactively.
5.5 Our right to cancel. We may end an engagement on 30 days' written notice, or immediately for non-payment, for a material breach you do not cure within 10 days of notice, or where continuing would require us to do something unlawful, unethical, or outside our competence.
Your proposal or statement of work lists the deliverables for your engagement. Unless it expressly says otherwise, the following are not included in any plan:
If work you need falls outside scope, we will tell you before any work starts and, where we can, recommend who to bring in. Out-of-scope work is performed only under a written change order signed by both of us.
8.1 Access. To perform the services you may give us access to your website or content management system, your Google Business Profile, your directory and listing accounts, your analytics or marketing platforms, and similar systems. We will use that access only to perform the scoped services.
8.2 A limited, special, revocable agency. Where the services require it, you authorize AnswerFoundry to act on your behalf as your limited, special, and revocable agent, solely within the systems expressly identified in your engagement and solely for the purpose of performing the scoped services. This authorization is not a general agency.
8.3 What this authorization does not include. AnswerFoundry has no authority, express or implied, to:
8.4 Revocation. You may revoke this authorization at any time in writing or by removing our access. Revocation is effective when we receive it or lose access, whichever is first, and does not relieve either of us of obligations already incurred. Revocation that prevents us from performing may end the engagement under Section 5.
8.5 Records. We keep a record of material changes we make in your systems on your behalf and will provide it on request during the engagement and for 12 months after it ends.
AnswerFoundry is an independent contractor. Nothing in these terms or in any engagement creates a partnership, joint venture, franchise, employment, agency beyond the limited agency in Section 8, or fiduciary relationship between us. Neither of us may bind the other except as Section 8 expressly permits. Each of us is responsible for its own personnel, taxes, insurance, and expenses. The limited agency in Section 8 exists to let us do specific technical work inside your accounts and is not intended to, and does not, impose fiduciary duties on AnswerFoundry.
AI answer engines, search engines, and directory platforms are operated by third parties. We do not control them, we have no relationship with or certification from them, and their models, ranking systems, and policies change without notice.
We do not guarantee any placement, ranking, citation, mention, score, lead volume, revenue, or other outcome in any AI system or search engine, and no one honestly can. What we commit to is the work: performing the scoped services with reasonable professional skill and care, testing and reporting honestly, and telling you what we find whether or not it is what you hoped for. Any statement on our website that we "guarantee the work" means exactly that commitment and nothing more — it is not a warranty of any result, outcome, or performance level, and it is not a promise that any specific fix will produce any specific effect.
Our AI Visibility Disclaimer is incorporated into these terms by reference and explains this in more detail. If it conflicts with this section, this section controls.
The provisions in this section apply only where a client is a healthcare provider or another entity covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. They are dormant otherwise. They are the strictest instance of the general rules in Sections 7 and 8 about client data and in Section 4 about compensation.
Our services are not intended to involve protected health information ("PHI"). You must not route, transmit, upload, or otherwise make available to AnswerFoundry any patient-identifiable information, and you must not grant us access to a system for the purpose of our handling PHI.
AnswerFoundry will not knowingly access, read, export, store, or process patient messages, patient intake or appointment-request submissions, patient-portal content, or reviews containing health information, and will not import any of it into AnswerFoundry's own systems. Absent a signed business associate agreement, AnswerFoundry does not act as a business associate and does not accept any engagement that requires the creation, receipt, maintenance, or transmission of PHI.
If any part of a proposed engagement would require AnswerFoundry to create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI — including managing Google Business Profile messaging, responding to reviews that may contain health information, or working inside a system that stores patient communications — a written business associate agreement must be signed before that work begins, and the scope and price will be set accordingly. Either of us may decline that work instead.
If we encounter PHI incidentally while performing scoped work, we will stop, not copy or export it, and notify you promptly so you can decide how to proceed.
All AnswerFoundry compensation is a flat fee for services — a fixed project fee or a fixed monthly fee — set in advance and not dependent on outcomes. AnswerFoundry does not accept, and will not agree to, any compensation that is calculated by reference to the number of patients a healthcare client receives, the revenue a healthcare client derives from patients, the value of services rendered to patients, or any per-patient, per-lead, per-appointment, percentage-of-revenue, or other performance-based measure tied to patients. This applies to our client engagements and to our partner program alike. Compensation for referring a business to AnswerFoundry as a client is ordinary commercial activity and is permitted; compensation tied to patients reaching a healthcare provider is not, and we will not pay or receive it.
Nothing we provide is medical, clinical, legal, regulatory, billing, coding, or compliance advice. Our founder is a physician; he does not act in a clinical capacity for AnswerFoundry, and AnswerFoundry provides no medical services and no medical advice to anyone. You are responsible for the accuracy and regulatory compliance of all claims, credentials, service descriptions, and content about your practice, including advertising rules that apply to your profession, and for reviewing anything we draft before it is published.
12.1 Your material. You keep ownership of everything you give us — your content, trademarks, data, and accounts. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to use it during the engagement solely to perform the services.
12.2 Deliverables. On full payment, you own the audit reports, written content, schema markup, and other deliverables we create specifically for you. You may use, modify, and republish them freely.
12.3 What stays ours. We keep ownership of our methods, processes, prompt sets, testing frameworks, templates, checklists, scoring approaches, internal tooling, and general knowledge and know-how, including anything we learn or improve during your engagement. Nothing in Section 12.2 transfers any of it, and we may use it for other clients.
12.4 Our site. The content, design, and copy on answerfoundry.ai are ours. Do not copy, scrape, republish, or use it commercially without written permission. Ordinary quoting with attribution and a link is fine.
12.5 Portfolio and publicity. Unless you tell us otherwise in writing, we may identify you as a client by name and logo and describe the work at a general level in our portfolio, case studies, proposals, and marketing. We will not disclose your confidential information, your specific metrics, your pricing, or anything you have marked confidential without your written approval of the specific material. You may withdraw this permission at any time in writing, and we will remove the material from anything we control within 30 days, though we are not required to recall printed materials already distributed.
Each of us may learn confidential information about the other — business plans, pricing, strategies, credentials, customer information, and anything a reasonable person would understand to be confidential. Each of us agrees to use the other's confidential information only to perform or receive the services, to protect it with at least reasonable care, and not to disclose it except to personnel and advisors who need it and are bound to keep it confidential. These duties do not apply to information that is public through no fault of the recipient, was already known without a duty of confidence, is independently developed, or is lawfully received from a third party. If disclosure is legally compelled, the recipient will give prompt notice where it lawfully can. These duties continue for three years after the engagement ends, and indefinitely for anything that qualifies as a trade secret.
We warrant that we will perform the services with reasonable professional skill and care. Except for that warranty, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, our services, deliverables, and website are provided "as is" and "as available," and we disclaim all other warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that our website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any third-party platform will remain available or behave consistently, or that any result described in Section 10 will occur.
15.1 No indirect damages. To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost business opportunity, or loss of goodwill, even if advised of the possibility.
15.2 Cap. To the fullest extent permitted by law, AnswerFoundry's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the services or these terms will not exceed the total fees you paid to AnswerFoundry in the three months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
15.3 What the cap and Section 15.1 do not apply to. The limitations in Sections 15.1 and 15.2 do not apply to: (a) gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or intentional misrepresentation; (b) a party's indemnification obligations under Section 16; (c) breach of confidentiality under Section 13; (d) infringement or misappropriation of the other party's intellectual property; (e) your obligation to pay fees owed; or (f) any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.
15.4 Third-party platforms. We are not liable for the acts, omissions, outages, policy changes, algorithm changes, account suspensions, or content decisions of any third-party platform, including AI answer engines, search engines, hosting providers, review platforms, and directory services.
15.5 Severability of this section. If any part of this section is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect and the unenforceable part is limited to the minimum extent necessary.
16.1 By you. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless AnswerFoundry and its members, officers, and personnel from third-party claims, and resulting losses, damages, and reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of: content, data, claims, or credentials you provided or approved; your violation of a third-party platform's terms; your failure to hold rights in material you gave us; your breach of Section 7 or Section 11; regulatory or professional-licensing matters concerning your business; or your negligence or willful misconduct.
16.2 By us. We will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless you and your officers and personnel from third-party claims, and resulting losses, damages, and reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of our gross negligence or willful misconduct, our breach of Section 13, or a claim that a deliverable we created for you infringes a third party's intellectual property rights — except to the extent the claim arises from material you supplied or from your modification or use of a deliverable outside the scope we recommended.
16.3 Process. The party seeking indemnity must give prompt written notice, allow the indemnifying party to control the defense with counsel of its choosing, and cooperate reasonably. No settlement that imposes an obligation or admission on the other party may be made without that party's written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld.
16.4 Relationship to the cap. The cap in Section 15.2 does not limit either party's obligations under this Section 16.
17.1 Governing law. These terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
17.2 Talk first. Before starting any formal proceeding, the party with the concern will describe it in writing and both of us will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days.
17.3 Mediation first. If that does not work, we will submit the dispute to non-binding mediation in Orange County, Florida, before a mediator we agree on, sharing the mediator's fees equally. Neither of us may file suit until mediation has occurred or 60 days have passed since a written mediation request, whichever comes first. This does not prevent either of us from seeking injunctive relief to protect confidential information or intellectual property, or from bringing a claim in small claims court.
17.4 Venue. Any lawsuit must be brought exclusively in the state courts located in Orange County, Florida, or in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division. Both of us consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection to venue there.
17.5 Attorney's fees. In any proceeding to enforce or arising out of these terms, the prevailing party is entitled to recover its reasonable attorney's fees and costs from the non-prevailing party. This provision is mutual and is intended to operate reciprocally consistent with Fla. Stat. § 57.105(7). This does not limit any fee-shifting a statute provides independently.
17.6 Time limit for claims. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or the services must be brought within one year after the claim accrues, and is otherwise permanently barred. This does not apply where a shorter contractual period is prohibited by law, and does not apply to claims for non-payment of fees.
17.7 No arbitration at this time. These terms do not require arbitration. If we ever add an arbitration provision, we will present it separately and conspicuously, name it specifically at the point of acceptance rather than burying it in a link, and it will apply only to agreements entered after you accept it.
18.1 Ordinary business notice may be given by email — to you at the address on your engagement, and to us at hello@answerfoundry.ai — and is deemed received on the business day sent if no delivery failure is received, otherwise on the next business day.
18.2 Formal legal notice — including notice of breach, notice of termination for cause, indemnity demands, and any notice commencing a dispute — must be in writing and sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier or by certified mail, return receipt requested, and is deemed received on documented delivery. Formal legal notice to AnswerFoundry must be sent to:
AnswerFoundry LLC
2445 S Hiawassee Rd, PMB 1021
Orlando, FL 32835
18.3 Service of process. Service of process on AnswerFoundry must be made on its registered agent as shown in the current records of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, for AnswerFoundry LLC, document number L26000408802. The mailing address in Section 18.2 is not an address for service of process.
18.4 Either party may change its notice address by notice given under this section.
Neither party is liable for delay or failure to perform (other than payment obligations) caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, hurricanes and severe weather, fire, flood, epidemic or public health emergency, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disruption, government action, and failures of utilities or telecommunications.
Because of the nature of our work, this section expressly includes: changes to, deprecation of, outage of, rate-limiting of, policy change by, or loss of access to any AI answer engine, large language model, search engine, hosting provider, customer relationship management platform, review platform, directory, or business-listing service; changes to any third-party algorithm, ranking system, or content policy; and suspension, restriction, or termination of an account by any such platform for reasons outside our control. If a force majeure event continues for more than 30 days, either party may terminate the affected engagement on written notice, and you will owe fees only for services performed through the termination date.
On termination, we will deliver work completed through the effective date, return or delete your credentials, and hand off access. You will pay all fees due through the effective date and through any applicable notice period.
Survival. The following survive termination or expiration for any reason: Section 4 (fees accrued and payment obligations), Section 8.5 (records), Section 9 (relationship of the parties), Section 10 (no guarantee), Section 11 (healthcare provisions), Section 12 (intellectual property and portfolio rights), Section 13 (confidentiality), Section 14 (disclaimer of warranties), Section 15 (limitation of liability), Section 16 (indemnification), Section 17 (governing law, disputes, and fees), Section 18 (notices), this Section 20, and Section 21 (general provisions) — together with any other provision that by its nature is intended to survive.
21.1 Entire agreement. These terms, together with any signed proposal, statement of work, or master services agreement and the policies incorporated by reference, are the entire agreement between us about their subject matter and supersede all prior discussions, proposals, and understandings. Order of precedence is as stated in Section 1.
21.2 Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if it cannot be, and the rest of these terms stay in full force.
21.3 No waiver. A failure or delay in enforcing any provision is not a waiver of it, and a single or partial exercise of a right does not prevent further exercise.
21.4 Assignment. Neither party may assign these terms without the other's written consent, except that either may assign to a successor in a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all assets on written notice. These terms bind and benefit permitted successors and assigns.
21.5 No third-party beneficiaries. These terms are for the benefit of you and AnswerFoundry only. No other person or entity has any right to enforce them.
21.6 Electronic records and signatures. You consent to receive these terms, notices, and engagement documents electronically, and you agree that electronic signatures, checkbox acceptance, and records have the same legal effect as handwritten signatures and paper records. You may withdraw this consent by writing to us, in which case we will provide paper records and may end an engagement that cannot be administered on paper.
21.7 Headings and interpretation. Headings are for convenience only. "Including" means "including without limitation." These terms will not be construed against either party as drafter.
21.8 Partner program. Partnerships described on our partners page are governed by a separate written partner agreement. The compensation restriction in Section 11.5 applies to every partner arrangement.
21.9 Other policies. Our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, AI Visibility Disclaimer, and SMS Program Terms are incorporated into these terms by reference.
Questions about these terms: hello@answerfoundry.ai or our contact page.
AnswerFoundry LLC
2445 S Hiawassee Rd, PMB 1021
Orlando, FL 32835