Welcome to AdmitForge. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are the agreement between you and AdmitForge (“AdmitForge,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) for use of our website, apps, tools, and related services (the “Service”). By creating an account, subscribing, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
We have kept this readable on purpose. Where a section affects your money or your rights, we say so plainly.
The short version
- AdmitForge is guidance, not a guarantee. We give you structure, tools, and feedback to help you shape a stronger application. We never guarantee admission, an interview, or a scholarship, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does.
- We never write your application for you. Our AI critiques, outlines, and asks questions. What you submit is your own work, and it is your responsibility.
- You follow each school's rules. That includes their instructions, deadlines, and their AI-use and disclosure policies.
- Plans are annual and non-refundable, except where the law where you live gives you a right we cannot exclude. You can turn off renewal anytime.
- Our method belongs to us. Your materials belong to you.
- These Terms and our pricing can change. We will note changes with a new effective date and version.
This summary is here to help you understand the agreement. The full sections below control if there is ever any conflict.
1. Who can use AdmitForge
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter a binding agreement. The Service is built for prospective graduate business school applicants and is not directed to children. We may decline, suspend, or end access for anyone who does not meet these requirements, or who we reasonably believe does not.
2. What the Service is, and what it is not
The Service provides guidance for MBA and graduate business school applicants: brainstorming aids, structural outlines, critiques of material you write, informational summaries of school data, checklists, and educational content (our “Playbook”) that reflects our methodology, which was built by Stanford GSB alumni who have coached applicants to top programs.
The Service is not:
- a guarantee, prediction, or assurance of any admission, interview, waitlist result, scholarship, financial-aid amount, or other outcome;
- a ghostwriting or application-completion service. We do not write, submit, or complete any part of an application for you. Our AI features critique, outline, and ask questions; they do not fabricate content on your behalf;
- legal, financial, immigration, tax, or other professional advice; or
- a substitute for each school's official instructions, deadlines, and policies, which always control.
3. No guarantee of outcomes
Admissions decisions are made entirely by the schools and are outside our control. We do not represent, warrant, or guarantee that using the Service will lead to admission, an interview, a waitlist conversion, a scholarship, a particular test score, or any other result. Any examples, statistics, or illustrations are informational and are not a promise of your results. Your outcome depends on your own qualifications, your own work, and the schools' independent judgment.
4. School data and other reference information
The Service shows school information such as deadlines, essay prompts, and AI-use policies. This information is sourced as of the date shown on the page. It is not independently guaranteed, it may be incomplete or incorrect, and schools can change it at any time without notice. Always check any school information you rely on against that school's official page. We are not responsible for a school's decisions, policies, or changes to them.
5. Your responsibilities and your content
- Accuracy and honesty. You are responsible for the truth, accuracy, and originality of everything you submit to a school. You will not misrepresent your background, achievements, or authorship.
- Your materials are yours. The stories, essays, goals, resumes, recommender briefs, interview notes, and other materials you create (“Your Content”) belong to you. You confirm that you have the rights to Your Content and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights.
- School rules and disclosure. You are solely responsible for reading and following each school's application instructions and each school's AI-use and disclosure policies. Where a school requires you to disclose AI assistance, making that disclosure is your responsibility. Our tools help you understand and document your use; they do not replace your obligation to comply.
- Your account. Keep your login secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at support@getadmitforge.com if you suspect unauthorized use.
6. Acceptable use
You agree that you will not, and will not help anyone else:
- create or use more than one account, or use the Service for more than one applicant. The Service is licensed as one account, one applicant;
- share, sell, rent, sublicense, or transfer your account or access, or run the Service as a service or resale for others;
- scrape, crawl, harvest, or use bots or other automated means to access, copy, or extract any part of the Service or its content;
- reverse-engineer, probe, or attempt to reconstruct or extract our prompts, models, methodology, or corpora, including through adversarial prompting or prompt injection of the AI features;
- copy, republish, distribute, or make derivative works from the Playbook, guides, templates, coaching notes, rubrics, or detection corpora, or feed that material to any other tool or model to reproduce or train on our method;
- attempt to bypass usage limits, rate limits, paywalls, or access controls;
- upload malware, disrupt the Service, or try to gain unauthorized access to any system or data;
- use the Service to break any law, to infringe anyone's rights, or to engage in academic dishonesty a school prohibits; or
- use the Service to build or assist a competing product.
7. Our intellectual property, and your license to use it
The Service and everything we provide within it, including the AdmitForge name and marks, the Playbook, guides, templates, coaching notes, rubrics, question banks, detection corpora, software, and design, and the methodology behind them (together, “Our IP”), are owned by AdmitForge and protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other laws. Our method is our property.
Subject to these Terms and your payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the Service and Our IP solely to prepare your own graduate school application. No other rights are granted, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved. Do not remove or obscure any proprietary notice.
8. Your content, and the permission you give us
You keep all ownership of Your Content. To run the Service, you give us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, transmit, and display Your Content, and to make service-necessary copies of it, only as needed to provide, secure, maintain, and support the Service for you. This includes sending your content to our AI provider for processing, as described in our Privacy Policy.
We do not sell Your Content, we do not use it to train AI models, and we do not use it for advertising. We do not access Your Content except to operate or support the Service. This permission ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for routine backups on their normal deletion cycle and anything we must keep by law. You can export Your Content from your settings at any time, and keeping your own copies is a good idea.
9. AI features
Parts of the Service use AI to produce suggestions, critiques, outlines, and questions. AI output is generated automatically, may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date, and is a suggestion only. It is not professional advice and not a guarantee of any outcome. Review and verify it before you rely on it or submit anything. You are solely responsible for what you submit to schools and for following each school's AI-use and disclosure policies. We provide guidance and never fabricate application content for you.
10. Plans, billing, and renewal
- Plans and prices. Paid plans are billed as an annual subscription. Current plans and prices are shown at checkout. Consulting engagements, when offered, are separate and are described at the time.
- Pricing can change. We may change our prices. Price changes apply to future terms, not to a term you have already paid for, and we will give notice where required.
- Annual commitment; non-refundable except where required by law. When you subscribe, you are purchasing access for the full one-year term. Payment is for the entire year and is non-refundable, whether or not you use the Service, except where a law that applies to you gives you a non-waivable right to a refund or to cancel. Nothing in these Terms limits any right you have under the consumer protection laws where you live, including the Australian Consumer Law, which contains guarantees that cannot be excluded.
- If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA, or UK. You have a legal right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days of purchase without giving a reason. However, at checkout you can expressly request that we begin providing the Service immediately, and you acknowledge that once you begin using the Service within those 14 days you lose the right to withdraw. If you do not use the Service, you may withdraw within 14 days of purchase by emailing support@getadmitforge.com for a full refund. If you begin using the Service and then withdraw before the 14 days end, we may keep a proportionate amount for the access already provided, where the law allows.
- Discretionary exceptions. We may choose to give a refund or credit in an individual case at our sole discretion. Doing so does not change this policy or entitle anyone else to the same.
- Auto-renewal, and how to stop it. Unless you turn off renewal, your subscription renews at the end of each term at the then-current price, and your saved payment method is charged. You can turn off renewal at any time in your account settings, so you are not billed for the next term. Access continues through the end of the term you have already paid for. We show renewal terms before you pay and, where required, send renewal or price-change reminders.
- Payments and taxes. Payments are handled by our payment processor. You authorize us and the processor to charge your payment method for the fees you owe. You are responsible for any taxes other than our own income taxes.
- Failed payments. If a charge fails, we may suspend access until it is resolved.
- Fair use. AI features are subject to fair-use and daily usage limits described in the Service. We may adjust these limits to keep the Service reliable for everyone.
11. Free tools and beta features
Some tools are available without an account, and some features may be labeled beta or experimental. These are provided as they are, may change or be withdrawn at any time, may have stricter limits, and carry no service commitments.
12. Enforcement, suspension, and termination
You can stop using the Service at any time and can turn off renewal in your account settings.
We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, if you:
- abuse the Service, or use it in a way that creates risk or legal exposure for us or others;
- commit fraud, or provide false information;
- share, resell, or transfer your account or access, or use the Service for more than one applicant;
- violate the Acceptable Use section, including scraping or trying to reconstruct our prompts or methodology;
- file a chargeback or reverse a payment instead of contacting us to resolve a billing issue;
- use the Service to break the law or infringe someone's rights; or
- otherwise materially breach these Terms.
If we suspend or terminate your account for one of these reasons, your license to use Our IP ends and you must stop using it. Because plans are non-refundable, a termination for these reasons does not create a refund, and any refund still required by a non-waivable law is unaffected.
To protect the Service and our rights, we may also pursue other remedies available to us, including suspending or limiting access, terminating your account, recovering amounts you owe and the reasonable costs (including reasonable legal fees) of enforcing these Terms, and taking legal action for serious or repeated violations. We may also suspend or end the Service, or a feature, if we discontinue it or are required to by law.
Sections that by their nature should continue after your account ends, including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution, continue to apply.
13. Disclaimer
The Service, Our IP, and all content and AI output are provided as they are and as available, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that results, feedback, data, or AI output will be accurate, reliable, or complete, or that any outcome will be achieved. Some places do not allow certain warranties to be excluded, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, AdmitForge and the people who work with us will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost admissions or scholarships, lost data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including our own fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, or any non-waivable rights you have as a consumer. Some places do not allow certain limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
15. Indemnification
You agree to cover AdmitForge and the people who work with us for third-party claims, damages, losses, and reasonable costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of Your Content, your use or misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms, any law, or any school's policy, or your infringement of a third party's rights. This does not require you to cover us for our own fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to let you know, such as posting the updated Terms with a new effective date and version or emailing you. Changes take effect when posted unless we say otherwise. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and turn off renewal.
17. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which AdmitForge is organized, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. This does not remove any mandatory consumer protections of the place where you live.
18. Resolving disputes
We want to resolve any concern quickly and fairly. Please read this section carefully; it affects how disputes are handled.
- Talk to us first. Before starting a formal proceeding, email us at support@getadmitforge.com with a short description of the issue and what you would like. We will try in good faith to resolve it directly within 60 days. Most issues are settled this way.
- Binding arbitration. If we cannot resolve it, you and AdmitForge agree that the dispute will be settled by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except as noted below. The arbitration will take place in the county where AdmitForge is organized, or by video or phone where the rules allow.
- Small-claims and injunctive exceptions. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead, and either of us may seek an injunction in court to protect intellectual property or stop misuse of the Service.
- No class actions. Disputes will be brought only in an individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or member of any class or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims. You and AdmitForge waive any right to a jury trial.
- Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration and class-waiver section within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing support@getadmitforge.com with your account email and the words “arbitration opt-out.” Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.
- Consumers outside the US. Nothing here removes a right you have to bring proceedings in your home country or before a local authority where the law requires it.
19. Other terms
- Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the full agreement between you and us about the Service.
- Severability. If any part is found unenforceable, it will be narrowed or removed to the smallest extent needed, and the rest stays in effect.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision right away, we do not give up the right to enforce it later.
- Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them, for example as part of a merger or sale.
- Third-party services. The Service relies on outside providers such as hosting, database, AI, email, payment, and analytics. We are not responsible for their acts or omissions.
- Notices and contact. We may reach you by email or by posting in the Service. Questions about these Terms go to support@getadmitforge.com.
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