Terms & conditions

These terms are an agreement between you and Udaya Vijay Anand, a sole founder based in New York, USA, doing business as erys (called erys, we, or us in these terms). They govern your use of the erys.app website, the voice demo on the site, the waitlist, and early access to the erys application for macOS (together, the service). They are effective as of July 11, 2026.

By visiting the site, using the voice demo, joining the waitlist, or accepting an early access seat, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

PLEASE READ THE SECTION TITLED DISPUTES, ARBITRATION, AND GOVERNING LAW CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, AND IT GIVES YOU A 30 DAY RIGHT TO OPT OUT.

These terms are not legal advice, and nothing on this site is legal advice. If you have questions about your rights, talk to a lawyer.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the service. If you use the service on behalf of a company or another person, you represent that you have authority to bind them, and "you" includes them.

The service is intended for users in the United States. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have, we will delete it.

You may not use the service if you are barred from doing so under applicable sanctions or export control laws. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you where you live.

erys is a voice-first AI assistant for macOS. It is currently in early access, built and run by a solo founder. Early access means the software is still being shaped: it is offered so a small group can use it early, not as a finished product.

EARLY ACCESS FEATURES MAY CHANGE, BREAK, OR BE REMOVED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND MAY NEVER BECOME GENERALLY AVAILABLE. THERE IS NO SERVICE LEVEL COMMITMENT, NO UPTIME GUARANTEE, NO SUPPORT OBLIGATION, AND NO DUTY TO FIX ANY BUG. Keep your own copies of anything important: early access software may fail to preserve data, and we make no data retention or migration promise for early access.

erys relies on AI models, and AI output can be wrong, incomplete, or misleading. Verify anything that matters before acting on it. erys does not provide medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.

Early access seats are offered at our sole discretion. We may limit, pause, or close early access at any time.

Subject to these terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the service for your own personal or internal use. That license is the only right you receive: we retain all ownership of the service, including the erys software, site, demo, designs, models, prompts, and branding, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, or sublicense the service. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of it, or attempt to extract its source code, prompts, or model configuration, except to the extent a law expressly permits it despite this restriction. You may not use the service to build or benchmark a competing product.

If you send us feedback, ideas, suggestions, or bug reports, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use them for any purpose, including building them into erys, without compensation, attribution, or any obligation to you.

Please do not send feedback you consider confidential or proprietary. We are a small operation shipping quickly, and we cannot track feedback restrictions.

Use the service lawfully and as it is intended. You may not use it to break any law, infringe anyone's rights, or harm anyone.

Specifically, you may not: probe, scan, or test the security of the service or attempt unauthorized access; interfere with or disrupt the service or its infrastructure; scrape the site or access the service by bots, scripts, or other automated means; circumvent or attempt to circumvent rate limits or abuse screens; abuse the voice demo, including attempting to repurpose it beyond answering questions about erys, using it to generate harmful or unlawful content, or flooding it with requests; impersonate any person; or upload malware or other harmful code.

We may, at our sole discretion and with no obligation to monitor, warn you, throttle you, end a demo session, suspend or terminate your access, or report conduct to authorities. We are one person running this service, and we protect it accordingly.

The voice demo on erys.app lets you ask questions about erys, and it is designed to answer questions about erys only. When you use it, you are speaking with an AI, not a human.

Your microphone activates only after you grant explicit permission in your browser, and only during an active conversation. You can end the conversation at any time, and the microphone is not used outside an active conversation.

Your audio is streamed in real time to third party processors for speech to text, language model inference, and text to speech, solely to generate a response to you. erys does not record or store your audio. There is no audio at rest, and no voiceprint, voice model, or other biometric identifier or biometric information is created, collected, or stored. We cannot recognize you by your voice, by design.

The text of your conversation is held in server memory for at most 15 minutes so the conversation stays coherent, and is then discarded. It is never written to disk and never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.

Rate limits and abuse screens apply to the demo, and we may throttle, interrupt, or end sessions that trip them. Because nothing is retained, do not treat the demo as a place to store anything, and do not share sensitive personal information with it.

Joining the waitlist is free. The only personal information the waitlist collects is the email address you give us, and we use it solely to contact you about erys.

We do not sell or share your personal information. To be removed from the waitlist and have your email deleted at any time, write to udaya@erys.app and we will do it.

Being on the waitlist does not guarantee a seat, a price, or a timeline. Seats are offered at our sole discretion.

erys costs a flat $50 per month for the first hundred founders. You are charged nothing while you are on the waitlist: billing starts only if and when you accept an early access seat, and we will make the price and renewal terms clear before you accept.

Your subscription renews monthly until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access until then. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where the law requires a refund.

If we change the price, we will give you at least 30 days advance notice by email, and the change applies only to billing periods after the notice period. If you do not agree with a price change, cancel before it takes effect. You are responsible for any taxes that apply to your purchase, other than taxes on our income. We may suspend access for non-payment after notice.

You can connect third party accounts and tools to erys, such as your Google account. When you connect one, you authorize erys to access it within the permissions you grant, so it can do the work you ask. You must have the right to connect the account, and you remain responsible for complying with that provider's own terms.

erys acts on your instructions. For any action that sends, changes, shares, or deletes something, such as sending an email or filing a message, erys asks for your explicit approval first, and you are responsible for the actions you approve. Because erys relies on AI, and AI can be wrong, review what erys proposes before you approve it.

Your use of a connected service is also governed by that provider's terms, and that provider, not erys, is responsible for its own service. You can disconnect a connected account at any time from within erys or from that provider's account settings, which ends erys's access going forward.

erys's access to and use of Google data follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Our privacy policy explains what erys accesses, how it is handled, and how to disconnect.

The service depends on third party providers, including the speech to text, language model inference, and text to speech processors behind the voice demo, and may link to third party sites. We do not control third parties and are not responsible for their services, terms, availability, or acts. Your use of a third party service is governed by that third party's own terms.

Apple, Mac, and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. erys is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc.

Google, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Contacts are trademarks of Google LLC. erys is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. Your use of Google services through erys is subject to Google's own terms.

The erys name, logo, and site design belong to us. Do not use them without written permission.

THE SERVICE, INCLUDING THE SITE, THE VOICE DEMO, THE WAITLIST, AND THE EARLY ACCESS APPLICATION, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT AI OUTPUT WILL BE RELIABLE. YOU USE THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING UP YOUR OWN DATA.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the exclusions above may not apply to you. In that case they apply to the fullest extent the law allows.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ERYS AND UDAYA VIJAY ANAND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST GOODWILL, OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) $50 OR (B) THE FEES YOU PAID TO ERYS IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. EACH LIMITATION APPLIES EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

Nothing in this section limits liability for our gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud, or any other liability that cannot be limited under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of the above may not apply to you.

You agree that these limitations are a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and us: erys is early access software offered by one person at a modest flat price, and it could not be offered without them.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless erys and Udaya Vijay Anand from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from or relating to: your use or misuse of the service, your breach of these terms, your violation of any law, or your violation of anyone else's rights.

We may assume control of the defense of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with us. You may not settle any such claim without our prior written consent.

Talk to us first. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to email udaya@erys.app with your name, a description of the dispute, and the relief you seek, and to give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. Most problems can be fixed with an email. This notice period is a condition to starting arbitration or any court proceeding.

If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, you and erys agree that any dispute arising from or relating to the service or these terms will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitration will be held in New York, New York or, at your choice, by videoconference or telephone or, for claims where the rules allow it, on written submissions. For claims of $10,000 or less, we will pay the AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees beyond the portion the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules assign to you, unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous. The arbitrator, not a court, decides questions about the scope and enforceability of this arbitration agreement.

YOU AND ERYS EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR ANY OTHER REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis, and the arbitrator may not consolidate claims or award relief to anyone other than the individual claimant. If this class waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular dispute, then this entire arbitration section, and only this section, will not apply to that dispute.

Exceptions. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration, and either of us may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information. If 25 or more arbitration demands raising similar claims are filed by the same or coordinated counsel, you and we agree the demands will be resolved in staged batches under the AAA's applicable procedures, applicable statutes of limitation are tolled while a claim awaits its batch, and either party may take a claim to court if the batching process causes unreasonable delay.

Your right to opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement and class waiver, with no other effect on these terms, by emailing udaya@erys.app within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with your name, your email address, and a statement that you opt out of arbitration.

These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the laws of the State of New York, excluding its conflict of law rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Any claim that is not subject to arbitration will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York, and you and we consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. Nothing in this section deprives you of any consumer protection that the law of your home jurisdiction says cannot be waived by contract.

We may update these terms as erys evolves. If a change is material, we will give you advance notice, at least 30 days by email if you have a seat or are on the waitlist, or by a prominent notice on erys.app, before it takes effect. Changes apply prospectively only, and a change to the arbitration section does not apply to disputes that arose before it took effect unless you accept it. If you keep using the service after a change takes effect, you accept it. If you do not agree, stop using the service and, if you have a paid seat, cancel before the change takes effect.

You may stop using the service and cancel your seat at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the service at any time, for any reason or no reason, and we will try to give you notice when it is reasonable to do so. If we terminate your paid seat without cause, we will refund the prorated unused portion of your current billing period; otherwise, fees are non-refundable except where the law requires a refund.

On termination, your license ends and your access ends. The following survive termination: license restrictions, our ownership, the feedback license, the disclaimers, the limitation of liability, indemnification, the dispute resolution section, and this general framework of the agreement.

Severability. If any provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be reformed to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable while preserving its intent, or severed if it cannot be, and the rest of these terms remain in full effect. The arbitration section has its own severability rule, stated there.

Entire agreement. These terms are the entire agreement between you and erys about the service and supersede any prior discussions or understandings. If we present additional terms when you accept an early access seat, those additional terms control over these to the extent they conflict.

No waiver, assignment, and the rest. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver, and waivers are effective only in writing. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them in connection with a sale, transfer, or reorganization of erys. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control. These terms create no partnership, agency, or employment relationship, and there are no third party beneficiaries. You agree to comply with applicable export control laws. The English version of these terms controls.

Notices and contact. We may send notices to the email address you gave us, and notice is effective when sent. You can reach us anytime at udaya@erys.app for questions about these terms, waitlist removal and deletion, billing, arbitration notices and opt-outs, or anything else about erys.