Terms of use

What this is

These are the terms on which you may use Kwechi. Plain words, because you are a tired parent and not a lawyer either. Where they describe something the product does, it was checked against the code.

Kwechi is free today and there is no way to pay for it. There is no billing in this product. If that changes, you will be told before anything is charged, and these terms will be rewritten first.

Nothing asks you to agree to this. There is no tick-box on the sign-up screen and no acceptance is recorded anywhere. Before Kwechi opens beyond the family that built it, agreeing to these terms will become part of creating an account, and this paragraph will say so instead.

Who may use Kwechi

An adult. You must be old enough to enter an agreement where you live, and you must be a parent or a guardian of the children you add.

Your child does not use Kwechi and does not agree to anything. He has no account. There is no child-facing screen in this product. When you add him, you are telling Kwechi about him, and you are doing that on your own authority as his parent.

From about thirteen a linked login inside your family account may be offered. If it is, the teenager using it will be told plainly what the adults in the family can see. Kwechi will not build silent monitoring of a child.

At eighteen nothing changes by itself. Kwechi runs to twenty-five, so a person's whole recorded upbringing stays inside an account their parent holds long after they are an adult. No screen hands it over, takes a copy for them, or deletes it on their word. Ask, and it is done by hand, like everything else here.

Your account

Keep your password to yourself. Everything done in your session is treated as done by you.

You may invite other adults into your family — another parent, a grandparent, a carer. Choose the role honestly, because the role decides what they can reach. A guardian can read and change a child's profile, the weights, the schedule, the routines and the logs, which is the widest of the roles you can hand out; a carer cannot, and records only what happens — sessions, practice, work marked done. Invite a guardian only if you would hand them the folder.

What you may do here

Use Kwechi for your own family: build archetypes, run the plan, read and watch what the library offers, record your own language, keep your own notes, and copy a published template as a starting point for your own child.

What you may not do

• Do not try to reach another family's data, or to work around the rules that keep families apart.
• Do not upload work that is not yours to upload. Somebody else's book, somebody else's video, a scan of a copyrighted text. The page on uploads says this at length.
• Do not download or re-host a video from the library. Where a licence does not allow it, Kwechi does not offer it, and going around the product to get it is a breach of the source's terms as well as of these.
• Do not resell Kwechi, or run it as a service for other people's children.
• Do not use it to harm a child, to circumvent the safety limits, or to record a person who has not agreed to be recorded.
• Do not attack the service: scraping, automated hammering, probing for weaknesses, or overwhelming the AI limits.

Your things stay yours

What you put into Kwechi belongs to you. Your words, your philosophy, your beliefs, your recordings, your photographs, your notes, your own library items. Kwechi does not take ownership of any of it.

You give Kwechi permission to do the obvious and necessary things with it: store it, show it back to you and to the other adults in your family, include it in the plan, and keep the backups that any database keeps. Nothing more. In particular:

• Kwechi sends nothing of yours to anyone for training a model. There is no such feature, no such export and no such setting, and nothing in the product does it. What the AI vendor does with a request once it has it is governed by that vendor's own terms, and Kwechi will not make a promise on another company's behalf. The privacy page names the vendor and says exactly what travels.
• It is never sold, licensed on, or handed to an advertiser. There are none.
• A photograph, a recording, a note, a training log or a progress record cannot reach another family. Nothing in the product moves one of those across — not the copying routine, not a template, not a screen. (What Kwechi sends to the companies it runs on is a different question, and the privacy page answers it by name.)

Two things you write can cross to another family, and only these two. Both belong to a template published platform-wide, and both are deliberate:

• The philosophy on a published template is readable by any signed-in adult, because the rule that hands out that archetype makes an exception for a published template and the philosophy travels inside the row.
• A belief you flagged for a template, on a published template, is readable by any signed-in adult and is copied into the family that clones it — your words in the belief, how to apply it, and the instruction it gives the AI.

Nothing else. Not a belief you did not flag, not the philosophy on an archetype you did not publish, and nothing at all about your child. No family can publish its own template today, so as things stand this describes exactly one archetype: the founder's own. If that ever changes, you will be shown these two sentences before you publish anything.

If you ask a question of the AI, what you typed goes to the AI vendor so it can be answered. The privacy page says exactly what travels with it.

Templates

One archetype is published as a platform template — the founder's own — and any signed-in family can copy it. Copying is a copy, not a link: later edits by the author do not reach your copy, and your edits do not reach the author.

What a copy carries: the weights, the philosophy, and the author's beliefs that were flagged for the template — their words, how they apply them, and the instruction each one gives the AI, landing in your family for you to keep, change or throw away. What it does not carry: anything about the author's child. No name, no dates, no photograph, no recording, no log, no progress. There is no path in the copying routine that reaches a child.

A family cannot publish its own template today. The database refuses it unless an administrator approves the publication. If that changes, the terms for publishing — what other families may do with your archetype, how you are credited, and how you unpublish — will be written here and shown to you before you publish anything.

What the AI writes

Anything the AI produces is labelled as generated and carries who reviewed it and when. It cannot be marked approved without a named reviewer — the database refuses it.

What the AI writes for your family is yours to use as you like. Kwechi claims nothing more than the right to keep showing it to you inside the product. Kwechi does not claim to own it, because whether anyone can own it is an unsettled question and a claim would be a guess.

The AI can be wrong. Read what it writes before you act on it, and read the safety page before you act on anything about training, food or your child's body.

The library

Some items are in the library in full, because the licence allows it. Some play in their owner's own player. Some are a card that sends you out to where the work lives. The screen tells you which and why in a sentence, and that decision is made by one piece of code so no page can guess.

Not everything in the library is free of copyright. That is the design: some of it is somebody else's work, embedded or linked with their terms intact. Treat it as theirs.

If your account ends

You may stop using Kwechi whenever you like, and you do not have to ask anybody. Settings → Your data is where you take a complete copy of your family's record, and where you end it. Take the copy first: after the deletion runs there is nothing left to take one from.

Kwechi may close an account that is being used to harm a child, to reach another family's data, or to attack the service. Before closing an account for anything less serious, you will be told what the problem is and given a chance to fix it.

How ending a family works. The owner types the family's name, and it is dated thirty days ahead. Every other adult sees it on their own Your data page from that moment, and that page is the notice — tell them yourself as well. Each of those adults may ask once for more time. Until the date, nothing is destroyed, the owner and any parent can still take a copy, nothing else in the family can be deleted or retired — not a recording, not a note, not a photograph — and the owner can call it off in one click. On the date, the files go first and then the rows: the database refuses to remove a row while a single photograph, recording or export copy is still in storage, because the rows are what say where the files are.

One exception, and the privacy page sets it out. A record that changes were made — when, to which table, what action — is deliberately kept outside the family record and survives, because that is what proves the deletion happened. Its contents go: no name, no date of birth, no note, not even who did it. The contents of older entries are dropped after twenty-four months whether or not anybody deletes anything.

And one thing this does not reach. The database platform keeps its own backups on its own schedule, which Kwechi does not set. So "deleted" means deleted now, and out of backups within that window; these terms do not put a number on a window they do not control.

If the adults in a family stop agreeing

Separation, a death, a fallen-out grandparent. The mechanics are blunt and none of them is softened by a screen, so they are worth knowing before they matter.

• The owner has the final say and can end the family for everyone. It is neither instant nor silent: thirty days, a notice on every other adult's own page, one request for more time each, and nothing else in the family deletable while it waits. Deleting the owner's own account does not end the family; the database refuses it until the family is handed over or deleted properly.
• The owner cannot be removed, and can hand the family over from a screen. The new owner gets the final say and the old owner stays as a parent. A family with only one adult should add a second before it needs one: if that adult loses their mailbox, a password reset and an address change both go to the mailbox that is gone, and a second owner is the only thing that saves the record.
• The owner may remove another adult, and anybody may leave. Access ends in the same moment. Nothing they wrote is removed or renamed — the logs, the recordings and the words stay, under their name, because the record belongs to the child's upbringing and not to whoever typed it — and the owner can bring them back at any time.
• Every parent has an independent copy — a guardian, a carer and a viewer do not. An adult who is the owner or a parent exports the whole family record without asking the person they are leaving. The other roles cannot, and the screens say so where it matters: helping with the day is not the same thing as taking the record away. If you hold one of those roles and want a copy, ask the owner or a parent before you go.

Nothing here decides between two adults who disagree. What it gives them is thirty days, with a copy in each parent's hands, instead of one irreversible click.

If Kwechi stops

One person builds and runs this. There is no escrow, no successor and no automatic export, and no arrangement with anybody to keep it running or hand it over. If Kwechi ends — he stops, he is ill, he sells it — you would be told, and there would be no mechanism beyond that telling.

You do not have to wait to be told. Settings → Your data hands the owner or any parent a complete copy of the family's record, on demand, in a file that opens without Kwechi. Take one now rather than on the day you need it, and keep your own copy of anything you would be sorry to lose.

What is not promised

Kwechi is offered as it is. It is a product being built, by one person, while his first child is on the way.

• It can be unavailable, slow, or wrong.
• The plan is an offer, not a prescription. No outcome is promised for any child.
• The library depends on other people's services. A video can disappear; a link can rot.
• The AI can be wrong, and sometimes confidently.
• Kwechi is not a doctor, a physiotherapist, a coach who can see your child, or a teacher who knows him. The safety page sets this out properly and it is the page that matters most.

Except where the law does not allow it to be limited, Kwechi is not liable for loss that follows from using it — for a plan that did not suit your child, for something a model wrote, for a service it depends on going down, or for data lost through something outside its control. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else the law does not permit to be limited.

These terms do not ask you to waive anything on your child's behalf, and Kwechi would not rely on such a waiver if they did.

Changes to these terms

They will change, because the product is changing weekly. When something material changes, you will be told in the app rather than left to notice. The date at the top of this page is the date it last changed.

Where this sits in law

Kwechi is run from Boston, Massachusetts, and the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts governs these terms and any dispute about them, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Nothing here takes away a right you have where you live that cannot be taken away by agreement.

How to complain

A complaint goes to the founder. He reads it himself; there is nobody else. See "How to reach us" at the foot of this page for where that stands today.

What Kwechi does not do

• There is no company, no registered address, no telephone number and no named contact here, so every remedy on this page ends at an address that has not been published.
• Nothing asks you to agree to these terms when you sign up.
• There is no billing, so there are no refund or cancellation terms.
• A family cannot publish its own template, so the terms for doing so are not written.
• Deleting one voice recording leaves the audio file. Only deleting a child profile or the whole family sweeps the files, and then the files go before a single row does.
• "Deleted" means out of the platform's own backups on the platform's own schedule, which Kwechi does not control and does not put a number on.
• Nothing happens automatically when a child turns eighteen, and nothing decides between two adults who disagree.
• There is no successor or escrow if Kwechi stops. The export exists; nothing takes a copy for you.
• There is no takedown page and no registered copyright agent. The uploads page sets out what a notice should say and what happens to it.

How to check this page

• No billing exists: family_accounts.plan in 0002_identity.sql is a placeholder with nothing behind it.
• What a guardian may do and a carer may not: is_family_editor() and is_family_contributor() in 0002_identity.sql, against the child_profiles policies in 0006_children.sql.
• A family cannot publish a platform template: the archetypes_guard trigger in 0007_archetypes.sql raises an error unless an administrator approves it.
• A copy carries no child, and does carry the flagged beliefs: clone_archetype in 0007_archetypes.sql, whose second insert copies parent_beliefs; the test at supabase/tests/03_templates_clone.mjs.
• The two cross-family reads: the select policy on archetypes in 0007_archetypes.sql, and 0023_invite_preview_and_template_beliefs.sql, whose header explains why it exists.
• Generated content needs a named reviewer: the content_ai_reviewed constraint in 0008_content_library.sql.
• Read here, or go out to it: apps/web/src/lib/media/capabilities.ts.
• Nothing else crosses a family: row-level security on every table, and the tenancy tests in supabase/tests/.
• Who may take a copy, and who is refused: is_family_principal in 0051_data_rights_schema.sql.
• That deleting the owner's account no longer ends the family: the on delete restrict on family_accounts.owner_user_id in 0051_data_rights_schema.sql, beside prevent_owner_removal() in 0002_identity.sql. transfer_family_ownership() is hardened in 0052_member_lifecycle.sql and called by /settings/family/ownership.
• That files go before rows: complete_deletion_purge() in 0054_purge_and_audit_retention.sql, which refuses while an object remains, and supabase/functions/purge-deletions/, which removes them.
• The notice, the hold and the freeze: request_family_deletion(), place_deletion_hold() and family_is_frozen() in 0053_deletion.sql, proved by supabase/tests/26_deletion.mjs.
• Removing a member, leaving, changing a role and handing over ownership: the four functions in 0052_member_lifecycle.sql, proved by supabase/tests/25_member_lifecycle.mjs.