Terms and Conditions

Hypercritica is an AI-assisted editorial platform for writers. It is a tool that authors use to edit their own writing. It is not a tool that generates writing on the author's behalf.

Hypercritica is currently in open beta, and anyone can create an account. By creating an account, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and that the information you provide is accurate. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for activity that occurs under your account.

You retain all rights to the content you submit to Hypercritica and to the edited output produced through your use of the platform. This includes copyright, moral rights, and publishing rights in:

• —Your original manuscript or essay text.
• —Edited output where you have reviewed and accepted suggestions.
• —Any editorial commentary or chat exchanged with Fred.

Hypercritica claims no ownership of, license to, or commercial interest in your content beyond what is strictly required to operate the service for you, as described in Section 4.

You are solely responsible for the content you submit to Hypercritica. You represent that you have the necessary rights to the content you submit, and that your use of Hypercritica does not violate any third-party right, publishing contract, or applicable law.

By submitting content, you grant Hypercritica a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to process that content for the sole purpose of providing the service to you: storing it on your behalf, transmitting it to model providers to generate editorial suggestions, and displaying the resulting suggestions back to you. This license terminates when you delete the content or your account.

The following are operating commitments of Hypercritica:

• —Hypercritica does not write original content on your behalf. It does not author new passages, generate prose from a prompt, or ghostwrite.
• —Hypercritica edits the words you have already written. Some suggestions propose alternative phrasings at the sentence or line level, offered for you to review and accept or reject. Hypercritica does not rewrite your work wholesale or replace your voice with its own.
• —Hypercritica does not train AI models on user manuscript content. We may use data about user accept/reject decisions to improve the editorial systems; this data does not include manuscript text and is anonymized at training time, as set out in our Privacy Policy.
• —Hypercritica does not retain residual rights, licenses, or commercial interest in user-submitted or user-edited work.

You agree not to use Hypercritica to:

• —Submit content you do not own or have permission to submit.
• —Submit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that exploits or endangers minors.
• —Attempt to access another user's account, content, or workspace.
• —Reverse-engineer, scrape, or otherwise extract the underlying systems, models, or prompts behind Hypercritica.
• —Use Hypercritica in violation of any model provider's usage policies.

Hypercritica offers subscription plans and one-off purchases such as manuscript edits. Current pricing is shown at checkout and on our site. We may change pricing over time; any change applies to future purchases and future billing periods, not to a period you have already paid for.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Your card details are handled by Stripe and are not stored by Hypercritica.

Subscriptions bill in advance and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time to stop future billing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and you retain access until then.

Payments are non-refundable except where required by law, though we may issue refunds at our discretion. One-off purchases such as manuscript edits are non-refundable once the edited work has been delivered to you.

Hypercritica uses commercially-licensed third-party language models from Inception Labs (Mercury) and OpenAI to produce editorial suggestions. Your content is sent to these providers solely for that purpose. Hypercritica operates under standard API terms with each provider. See our Privacy Policy for further detail.

Hypercritica is in open beta. Features may change, break, or be removed. The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Hypercritica disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Editorial suggestions produced by Hypercritica are suggestions only. You are responsible for reviewing and deciding whether to accept any suggestion. Hypercritica makes no guarantee that suggestions will be free of errors, factual inaccuracies, or omissions.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Hypercritica and its founders, contractors, and partners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses arising out of your use of the service. Our total cumulative liability under or in connection with these terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid Hypercritica in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) USD 100.

You may close your account at any time by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms or use the service in a way that creates risk for Hypercritica, other users, or our model providers. Upon termination, your content will be handled according to the retention and deletion practices described in our Privacy Policy.

We may update these terms as the product evolves. Material changes will be communicated to active users by email. The “Last updated” date will always reflect the most recent revision. Continued use of the service after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

• —Euwyn Goh: euwyn@wordsmith.page
• —Yash Wanvari: yash@wordsmith.page