Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are between Aaron Kettl, doing business as Fabrication AI ("we," "us," or "our"), and the person or organization using our website and Fabrication OS (the "Services").

By using the Services, creating an account or publishing a listing, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. A separate signed agreement controls if it expressly conflicts with these Terms.

You must be at least 18, legally able to enter an agreement, and authorized to act for any organization you represent. If accounts are offered, provide accurate information, protect credentials, and report suspected unauthorized access through the contact details below.

You represent that you are not, and are not acting for, (a) a person located, organized or ordinarily resident in a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, or (b) a person identified on, or owned or controlled by a person identified on, a U.S. government restricted-party list, including the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Entity List maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security. You may not use the Services if either applies.

Access is limited to features and records made available to you. A subscription, organization affiliation, supplier profile, or graph relationship does not grant access to another party's information. Do not share credentials or bypass permissions.

The Services are designed for the U.S. manufacturing community and the engineers and businesses that work with it. To protect the companies listed in our directory and to comply with U.S. sanctions and export control laws, we do not offer the public Services in certain countries and regions, including those subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and we may change where the public Services are available at any time. We determine availability from the approximate location of a request, as described in the Privacy Policy.

If you hold an account, you may continue to use the Services while traveling or working outside the United States, subject to these Terms and applicable law. Holding an account does not authorize use from, or for the benefit of, a country, region or person that U.S. sanctions or export control laws prohibit.

You may not use a virtual private network, proxy, relay or other means to disguise your location or to access the Services from a place where they are not offered. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to your use of the Services, including U.S. sanctions and export control laws and the laws of the place where you are located.

Fabrication OS connects a manufacturing ontology, sourced Graph answers, and a browsable supplier Network. Features are under development and may be limited, changed, or discontinued. Marketing examples and roadmaps do not promise availability, coverage, or delivery dates.

Visitors who are not signed in may browse a limited number of results in each directory, parts and guides list and may read public company profiles, parts and guides. Viewing complete lists requires a free account. This limit, together with bot protection and rate limits, is designed to keep the directory available to the people it serves and to protect the companies listed in it from bulk collection. We may change these limits at any time.

We also prepare industry research and reports from published company information and cited public sources. A report describes companies as they present themselves and as public records show them. It is not a qualification, endorsement, valuation, credit assessment or investment advice. A report is provided to its recipient under a separate agreement.

Unless separately agreed in writing, the Services do not place manufacturing orders, award supplier work, provide payment services, or act as your engineering representative, procurement agent, inspector, broker, or contracting party. Software access, customer manufacturing orders, and supplier obligations are separate relationships.

AI-generated content, retrieved records, calculations, and citations may be incomplete, inaccurate, stale, or inapplicable. A citation identifies a source; it does not guarantee accuracy. Check assumptions, units, revisions, source context, and applicability before relying on a result.

An advertised capability is not proof a supplier can produce your part, meet a tolerance, hold a certification, provide capacity, satisfy a delivery date, or comply with safety or regulatory requirements. A facility listing is not a qualification, endorsement, quote, or commitment.

Do not rely on the Services as the sole basis for engineering release, production approval, safety-critical decisions, inspection acceptance, or regulatory compliance. Obtain appropriate professional review, supplier confirmation, and independent validation. The Services do not replace engineering judgment or legally required approvals.

As between you and Fabrication AI, you retain the rights you hold in content you submit. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, reproduce, and display that content only as needed to provide requested Services, protect their operation, and comply with law, subject to applicable confidentiality and privacy commitments.

When you publish a company listing, you also grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the listing's published text and facts, including the company's name, description, services, materials, equipment, locations, certifications, ownership, size, founding year, industries served and small business statuses. The license covers displaying that information in our directory and connected services, such as the Fabrication AI connection in ChatGPT, and analyzing, summarizing, quoting and including it in research and industry reports that we may share, license or sell to third parties. It does not cover your listing's photographs in reports, or any private content such as drafts, quote requests, messages, files, project documents or workspace content.

Although a published listing is public, we use the measures described in Where the Services are available, What Fabrication OS provides and the Privacy Policy, including regional availability, bot protection, rate limits and sign-in for complete lists, which are designed to limit bulk collection of listings and to deter their misuse. These measures reduce, but cannot eliminate, the risk that others copy published information, and we do not guarantee that they will prevent every misuse.

If you edit, hide or remove a published listing, later reports use only what is then published. Reports already prepared or delivered can keep the information as it was published when they were prepared. You must have the right to publish everything on your listing, and it must be accurate.

You must have the rights and permission to submit and use your content. Do not provide third-party trade secrets, restricted drawings, personal information, or controlled technical data unless the specific service and agreement authorize that use. The Services do not offer an environment approved for export-controlled information.

Submitting private content does not authorize publication into shared knowledge, disclosure to suppliers or use in research and reports. Broader sharing requires an explicit authorized scope. How AI providers handle information is described in the Privacy Policy.

You agree not to use the Services to:

• Violate applicable law, export restrictions, intellectual property rights, privacy, or confidentiality obligations.
• Introduce malware, disrupt availability, evade usage limits, access records without authorization, or interfere with security controls.
• Fabricate evidence, impersonate suppliers, misrepresent certifications, capability, ownership or small business status, or conceal material uncertainty when presenting an output.
• Extract or redistribute data in breach of source licenses, permissions, or agreed access limits, or facilitate fraud or harmful activity.
• Use any robot, crawler, scraper or other automated means to access, copy or collect content or data from the Services, except (a) search engines and AI assistants reading public pages as permitted by our robots.txt file, and (b) interfaces we make available for that purpose, such as the Fabrication AI connection in ChatGPT, used within their published limits.
• Circumvent, disable or interfere with regional availability, bot protection, rate limits, sign-in requirements or other access limits, including by disguising your location, rotating network addresses, or creating or sharing multiple accounts.
• Compile, copy or redistribute a substantial portion of the directory, parts catalogue or guides, or use them to build or improve a competing directory, database or dataset, or to train an AI model on them, without our written permission.
• Use contact information from the Services to send unsolicited bulk or commercial messages, or sell, rent or otherwise provide it to others.
• Access or use the Services from, for or on behalf of a country, region or person described in Eligibility and authorized access, or provide information obtained from the Services to such a person in violation of U.S. sanctions or export control laws.
• Reverse engineer protected technology except as permitted by applicable law, or remove required ownership and attribution notices.

Fabrication AI and its licensors retain their rights in the Services, software, branding, and original site content, including the selection, arrangement, research and descriptions that make up our directory, parts catalogue and guides as compilations. A company retains its rights in its own published listing, as described in Your content and permissions. Subject to these Terms and authorized access, you may use those materials to use the Services. No ownership in our software or trademarks is transferred.

Third-party source material remains subject to its owner's rights and licenses. AI output may not be unique or legally protectable, and use may require further permission. Returning or linking to material does not grant another party's rights in it.

You may voluntarily provide suggestions and permit us to use that feedback to improve the Services without payment. This permission does not authorize disclosure of confidential content or override a separate written agreement.

Browsing this website or reading these Terms does not create a fee, subscription renewal, or manufacturing purchase. Before a paid feature is enabled, pricing, payment timing, taxes, renewal, cancellation, and refund rules must be disclosed and accepted in a separate order or checkout agreement.

A supplier engagement requires its own specifications, scope, commercial terms, and approvals. Fabrication OS access does not establish a manufacturing contract or authorize spending on your behalf.

The Services may link to manufacturer websites or, where enabled, use third-party models, hosting, or integrations. Third parties operate under their own terms. Their content, availability, and conduct are outside our control, without limiting obligations we cannot exclude under applicable law.

An integration does not grant permission to disclose information. You must authorize the connection and have rights to send the requested data. No external connection is created merely by reading these Terms.

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may restrict access where reasonably necessary to address a material breach, security threat, unlawful use, or legal requirement, including by blocking network addresses or suspending accounts used to circumvent access limits or to collect data in bulk, or where continued access would violate sanctions or export control laws. Where appropriate and feasible, we will provide notice and an opportunity to remedy the issue.

Paid-service termination or refund rights are governed by the applicable agreement and mandatory law. Export, deletion, and retention depend on the available service and the Privacy Policy; these Terms do not promise unimplemented export or backup features. Provisions intended to survive, including ownership, limitations, and disputes, survive termination to the extent lawful.

To the maximum extent permitted by law and except as expressly agreed in writing, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available." We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement to the extent lawfully permitted.

We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation, complete supplier coverage, accurate generated content, or fitness for a manufacturing job. Nothing here excludes a warranty or statutory right that cannot legally be excluded.

To the extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or lost profits, arising from the Services, even if advised of the possibility.

Fabrication AI's total liability arising from the Services will not exceed the greater of US $100 or the amounts you paid to Fabrication AI for the affected Services in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These exclusions and limits do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, or liabilities that law does not allow the parties to limit. A separate signed agreement may set different limits for the services it covers.

Before bringing a claim, each party will first try in good faith to resolve the dispute through the contact details below, without preventing urgent relief or extending statutory filing deadlines. Mandatory consumer protections and rights to contact regulators remain available.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where the law of the place you live requires otherwise. Disputes will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, unless applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere. These Terms do not require arbitration or waive class proceedings or jury trial rights.

The date above shows when these Terms last changed. Material changes will be communicated with reasonable notice and renewed consent where required; they will not retroactively remove accrued rights. If you do not agree to effective changes, stop using the affected Services, subject to any separate agreement.

If a provision is unenforceable, the rest continues to the extent permitted by law. Failure to enforce is not a waiver. Neither party may assign an agreement in a way that reduces the other's mandatory legal rights. These Terms and expressly incorporated agreements describe the agreement for their subject matter.

Fabrication AI is operated by Aaron Kettl, 11320 Alhambra Dr, Austin, TX 78759. Send questions and legal notices about these Terms to hello@fabrication.ai or by mail to that address. Privacy requests go to privacy@fabrication.ai, as described in the Privacy Policy.

These Terms are effective as of November 6, 2026.