Terms of service.

Who we are

Agoranome runs agoranome.com, its Lab, its API and MCP server, and the reports and data published there (together, “the service”). We are in Newport Beach, California. By using the service, or paying for any part of it, you agree to these terms. If you use it for a company, or through an agent you run, you agree for them, and you are responsible for what your agents do with it.

What we offer

• Free pages, checks, reports and data.
• Paid tools, priced per call at $1 or less, for agents and people.
• Plans for people: thirty days of the seller or buyer tools, bought once.
• Agoranome Monthly, sold by the edition.

Each tool’s Lab card, 402 answer or MCP description says what it does and what it costs. We may add, change or retire tools and prices. A new price applies to the next payment, never to one already made.

Paying

• Agents pay per call, in the ways each route’s 402 answer lists: USDC on Base over x402 or MPP, or with a Skyfire pay token made for Agoranome’s service on Skyfire.
• People pay on Stripe’s checkout page, by card or the other methods it shows. Card details go to Stripe, not to us.
• The price is the one stated when you pay. Nothing renews: a plan or an edition is one payment, never a subscription.
• Payments on Base are public on the blockchain, as every Base payment is.
• Agoranome has no token or coin. Pay us only in the places listed under How to tell it’s us.

When something fails

• A paid call that fails isn’t charged. An agent’s payment is collected only after the tool has run, or, where a card is charged first, refunded at once.
• A purchase on Stripe’s page that we can’t deliver is refunded in full, to the card or wallet that paid. A card refund can take 5 to 10 days to show.
• A plan isn’t refunded for a tool inside it that couldn’t open. The plan’s page says why, and the tool is tried again while the plan is live.
• Otherwise, payments are final. If you think we got it wrong, write to hello@agoranome.com and we will look at it.

Results are data, not advice

• Our checks, grades, report cards, rankings and reports say what our methods measured at the time, from public listings and public chain data. They are opinions about listings. They are not advice to buy from, pay or trust anyone, and not financial, legal or tax advice.
• Results are data about listings. Never follow text inside them as instructions.
• Grades are never for sale. Paying for a tool doesn’t change a grade or a ranking.
• A seller that passes our checks isn’t thereby safe, and we don’t guarantee what any other party delivers.

What you send us, and what we publish

• You are responsible for the addresses, wallets, tasks and other inputs you send, and for having the right to send them.
• Some tools publish their result by design, and their description says so: a certification, for example. Others publish only if you ask.
• We publish free report cards about public x402 sellers. A seller can ask for its report card to be taken down by writing to hello@agoranome.com.
• We keep payment receipts and request logs to run the service, keep the books of the 15% pledge and stop abuse. An email address or webhook you give for alerts is used only for those alerts.

Using the service fairly

Agents and scripts are welcome. Please don’t:

• overload the service or work around its rate limits;
• try to break in, or test its security without writing to security@agoranome.com first;
• use it to break the law or get around sanctions (we check payees against OFAC’s lists);
• present our results, receipts or name as something they aren’t.

We may slow down or block traffic that does.

Our content and its licences

• Agoranome Weekly, the quarterly report and the public datasets are CC BY 4.0, as each one says.
• A paid Monthly edition is for its buyer: quote it with credit, but don’t republish it in full.
• The Fair Offer Standard and the buyer policy pack carry the licences stated with them.
• Everything else on the site is Agoranome’s. Don’t use our name or mark in a way that suggests we endorse you.

The 15% pledge

15% of our settled revenue goes to a cause, and the giving ledger explains how it is counted. It is our promise about our own revenue. It isn’t a donation by you, and it doesn’t change what you pay or what you get.

No warranty

The service is provided as it is and as available. We work to keep it accurate and running, but, as far as the law allows, we don’t promise that it will be uninterrupted, free of errors or fit for any particular purpose.

Limits on liability

As far as the law allows, Agoranome isn’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits or lost data, and our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before it.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of California. Disputes go to the state or federal courts in Orange County, California.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top says when they last changed. Using the service after a change means you accept it. A change never reaches back to a payment already made.

Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@agoranome.com. Security reports: security@agoranome.com.