Terms of Service
Plain-English terms for using Brief. Read them once. They protect you and us.
What Brief is
Brief is a creative AI tool built and operated by CGA Creative LLC ("we," "us," or "CGA"). It takes an idea, drafts a creative brief, plans a scene, and renders a black-and-white storyboard you can use in your own production work. The thing Brief does is help you commit to a direction before you spend time and tokens on color, motion, and sound.
Who can use it
You must be 18 or older. You need a valid email address. If you sign up on behalf of a company, you confirm you have authority to bind that company to these terms.
Your account
You're responsible for keeping your login credentials private. If someone uses your account, we treat their actions as yours. Tell us as soon as possible if you think your account has been accessed by someone you didn't authorize.
What you provide and what Brief produces
When you use Brief, you provide inputs: a concept, prompts, references, character bibles, style notes, anything you type or upload. Brief uses those inputs plus its system to produce outputs: synthesized briefs, shot lists, prompts, and rendered storyboard images. Both inputs and outputs are subject to these terms.
What you own
You own your inputs. Concepts, prompts, references, and any text you provide are yours. We don't claim them. We don't train future AI models on them.
You own the outputs you generate, to the extent ownership is possible under current law for AI-generated content. You can use them for any legal purpose, including commercial use, subject to the AI reality below and the acceptable use rules.
We license back only the rights we need to operate Brief: the right to store your outputs in our database, display them in your account, and send them through our service back to you. Nothing more. We don't claim a portfolio license. We don't use your outputs in our marketing without your explicit written permission.
The AI reality you need to know
Brief uses third-party AI image models, currently Flux 1.1 Pro Ultra from Black Forest Labs, served via Replicate, to generate images. AI image generation has real limits we won't pretend away.
Uniqueness is not guaranteed. AI models are trained on large image corpora. Renders may resemble existing copyrighted works, recognizable real people, trademarked designs, or other AI-generated images. We can't promise originality or non-infringement.
Quality varies. Sometimes renders fail, look weird, or miss the prompt. Re-rendering is part of normal use. Cash refunds for failed renders are handled case by case.
You are responsible for reviewing outputs before commercial use. Before you use any render for a commercial purpose, you should look at it, clear any rights issues you spot, and decide whether it's safe for your use case. We can't and won't do that review for you.
What you can't do with Brief
You may not use Brief to generate, request, distribute, or store:
- Sexual or sexually suggestive content involving anyone under 18, in any form, full stop.
- Non-consensual sexual imagery of real people.
- Deepfakes or photorealistic impersonation of identifiable real people without their explicit, documented consent.
- Content that infringes copyright, trademark, publicity rights, or privacy rights of others.
- Content designed to defame, harass, defraud, or cause demonstrable harm to specific people.
- Content depicting real-world violence against identifiable individuals or groups.
- Anything illegal where you are located or where we operate (United States).
We can refuse service, terminate your account, and remove content at our discretion if we believe you have violated this section. We don't owe you a refund for time you spent violating it.
The Founder Cohort
The first 100 signups to Brief are in our Founder Cohort and receive:
- Three free rendered briefs to start.
- A locked subscription price of $14/month after the free briefs.
- Access to future Brief features (stylize, animate, score, finish) at the same $14/month price for as long as they remain continuously subscribed.
"Continuously subscribed" means you don't cancel. If you cancel and later resubscribe, you re-enter at the then-current public price, which will be higher. The Founder Cohort price is not transferable to other accounts.
If we fundamentally restructure the product or sell the business, your Founder Cohort price stays at $14/month for the version of Brief you signed up for, but we cannot guarantee the same price applies to a successor product under different ownership.
Payments and subscriptions
Subscriptions are billed monthly via Stripe. Your subscription auto-renews each month until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period.
Refunds: we don't issue refunds for partial months. If you believe you've been charged in error or experienced a service failure that warrants a refund, email us and we'll look at it case by case.
Failed payments: if your payment method fails, we'll attempt to charge again. If we can't collect after a reasonable retry period, your subscription pauses and you lose access to paid features until the payment is resolved.
Account termination
You can terminate your account anytime from your account settings or by emailing us.
We can terminate your account if you violate these terms, if your payment fails and you don't resolve it, or if continuing to serve you would expose us to legal risk. We will give you reasonable notice and an opportunity to export your work where possible, except when immediate termination is required (for example, for serious violations of the acceptable use section).
Disclaimer of warranties
Brief is provided "as is" and "as available." We don't guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against all attacks, or that AI outputs will meet your expectations. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Limitation of liability
We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Some jurisdictions don't allow these limitations, so they may not fully apply to you. The limits above apply to the maximum extent your jurisdiction allows.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CGA Creative LLC, its members, employees, and contractors from any claim, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from:
- Your use of Brief.
- Your inputs (prompts, concepts, references, etc.).
- Your outputs and how you use them.
- Your violation of these terms.
- Your violation of any third party's rights.
We will tell you promptly about any claim covered by this section and let you participate in the defense at your expense.
Third-party services we depend on
Brief depends on third-party services to function. Each has its own terms and privacy policies.
- Stripe for payments.
- Supabase for database and authentication.
- Replicate for image-generation infrastructure.
- Black Forest Labs for the Flux AI model.
- Anthropic for the Claude AI model used in some Brief features.
- Vercel for hosting.
We chose these vendors because they have established reliability and privacy practices. We are not responsible for outages, errors, or breaches caused by them.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms over time. When we make material changes, we'll notify you by email and post a notice on the Brief site. If you keep using Brief after the changes take effect, you accept them. If you don't accept them, your remedy is to stop using Brief and cancel.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any dispute arising out of these terms or your use of Brief will be resolved through binding arbitration in Boston, Massachusetts, administered by JAMS under its applicable rules. You waive any right to participate in class actions, class arbitrations, or representative proceedings.
If for any reason the arbitration clause is unenforceable, you and we agree to bring any remaining disputes only in the state or federal courts located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Contact
Questions about these terms: erich@cgacreative.com
CGA Creative LLC
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA