Terms of use

These terms govern your use of geistlabs.dev and the free material published on it. They are a contract between you and Geist Labs, identified in the Legal notice.

By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the site.

These terms cover browsing the site, reading articles, and downloading free resources.

Two things are governed elsewhere, and those documents take precedence over this one where they overlap:

• Buying a playbook or any other paid digital product is governed by the Terms of sale, the Product licence, and the Refund policy.
• Booking a workshop or other engagement is governed by the Workshop and engagement terms.

How personal data is handled is described in the Privacy policy, which is incorporated into these terms by reference.

You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of digital consent in your country if that is higher, to use this site or to subscribe to anything on it. The site is not directed at children.

You may read, link to, quote with attribution, and print for personal or internal business use anything we publish publicly. You may share a link to any page freely.

You may not:

• Copy, republish, or redistribute substantial parts of the site's content as your own or as a competing publication.
• Sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit any material obtained from the site, except as the Product licence expressly permits.
• Remove or obscure any attribution, copyright, or licence notice.
• Use automated systems to scrape the site at a rate that degrades it for others, or to circumvent any access control, paywall, or download gate.
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site or its supporting infrastructure, probe it for vulnerabilities outside a channel we have invited, or interfere with its operation.
• Use the site or its content to build, train, or evaluate a competing product in breach of the reservation below.
• Submit anything unlawful, infringing, malicious, or deliberately false through the contact form or any other channel.

All content on this site — articles, playbooks, templates, diagrams, figures, code samples, brand marks, and the site design itself — is owned by Geist Labs or used under licence, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.

We expressly reserve the right to text and data mining, including reproduction for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, or grounding machine learning and generative AI systems. This is an express reservation of rights for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and equivalent provisions elsewhere. Commercial text and data mining of this site requires a written licence from us.

This reservation does not restrict ordinary search indexing, or retrieval by an AI assistant acting on a specific user request, both of which we permit and encourage — see /robots.txt for the machine-readable position.

Code samples published in articles may be used freely in your own projects without attribution unless the article says otherwise. Templates distributed as products are governed by the Product licence.

Some resources are offered in exchange for an email address. Where that happens:

• Consent to marketing email is asked for separately and is never a condition of receiving the resource.
• Every marketing email includes a working unsubscribe link and our postal address.
• Unsubscribing does not affect resources you have already received.

Free resources are licensed for your personal and internal business use. They may not be redistributed or resold. See the Product licence for the full terms.

The material on this site is technical and educational. It is general information, not advice for your specific situation, and it is not legal, tax, financial, or compliance advice.

Statements about outcomes — faster delivery, lower cost, more reliable systems — describe what the methods are designed to achieve and what we have observed in practice. They are not a promise, guarantee, or prediction of the results you will get. Results depend on your codebase, team, tooling, and how consistently the practices are applied. You are responsible for evaluating whether anything here fits your situation, and for testing it before you rely on it.

Any testimonial, case study, or metric published on this site reflects the genuine experience of the person or organisation identified, is published with their permission, and is not typical of every reader or client. Where a result is unusual, we say so. We do not publish incentivised, fabricated, or suppressed reviews, and we do not remove negative feedback that is genuine.

The site links to third-party sites and tools we find useful. We do not control them, we are not responsible for their content or practices, and a link is not an endorsement. Their terms and privacy policies apply when you follow the link.

We aim to keep the site available and accurate, but we provide it on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We may change, suspend, or withdraw any part of it at any time without notice. Content may become out of date, particularly where it describes fast-moving AI tooling.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted availability.

Nothing in this section limits rights that cannot be limited under the law of your country of residence. If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK, your statutory rights are not affected.

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or business opportunity, however caused.
• Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the site and these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred US dollars (USD 100).

We do not exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. Consumers in the EEA and the UK keep the full benefit of any mandatory rule of their local law that gives them more than this section does.

If you use the site in breach of these terms and that causes a third-party claim against us, you will indemnify us against the reasonable costs and damages arising from it. This does not apply to consumers to the extent the law of their country of residence prohibits it.

We may update these terms. The Last updated date at the top of this page always reflects the current version, and material changes will be announced on the site. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms. Terms that applied to a purchase or a booking are fixed at the time of that purchase or booking and do not change retroactively.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the site if you breach these terms. The sections on intellectual property, disclaimers, liability, and governing law survive termination.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina have exclusive jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident in the EEA or the UK, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in force and the unenforceable provision is applied to the maximum extent permitted. These terms, together with the documents referenced in them, are the entire agreement between us regarding the site.

Questions about these terms go through the contact form or the legal address in the Legal notice.