Terms

For the weekly 1:1 consulting sessions. Between Tom Voltz, a sole proprietor doing business as UsefulBots, and you. Buying on this site means agreeing to what's below.

I've kept it short on purpose. If anything here doesn't match what you understood, email me at tom@usefulbots.com before you buy and I'll fix the document rather than explain it away.

1. What I'll do

I'll spend one hour a week with you, one to one, over a screen share, helping you put AI to work inside the business you already run. The sessions are working sessions. We'll look at your real workflows and build against them.

Between sessions you can send me short questions and I'll answer them when I can. That's a courtesy rather than a commitment to a response time.

2. What I won't do

Anything larger than the weekly hour is separate work. If you want software built, hosted, or maintained outside our sessions, or you need something delivered to a deadline, I'll scope it and quote it and we'll sign something else for it. I'll tell you when we cross that line, in the session, before any of it starts.

3. When we meet

Sixty minutes a week at a time we agree after you buy. It's a standing appointment, so you get the same hour every week and I hold it for you.

4. What it costs

$150 an hour. $600 buys four sessions, paid up front through Stripe, renewing every four weeks. I don't discount larger blocks, so the rate is the same whether it's your first hour or your fiftieth.

5. Moving or missing a session

If either of us needs to move a session, give 24 hours' notice and we'll reschedule. No penalty and no limit. If you cancel with less than 24 hours' notice, that session is used. If I cancel with less than 24 hours' notice, I'll reschedule it and add a session to your account at no charge.

Sessions you've paid for stay on your account while we're working together. If you build up more than four unused, I'll pause your billing until you've used them, and if they accumulate well beyond that I may refund the unused ones rather than carry them indefinitely. I won't let unused sessions expire or be forfeited. If I stop carrying them, you get the money back.

If you need to stop for a while, tell me. Billing stops and I'll hold your slot for a month.

6. Ending it

You can stop at any time. There's no notice period and no termination clause to work through. Email me and I'll issue a refund for every session you haven't used, at $150 each, within two business days. Your bank usually takes a few more days to show it.

I can also stop, with two weeks' notice, and the same refund applies.

7. Your information

While we're working on your systems, it's possible I'll be exposed to confidential information. I will always do my utmost to conduct the work with integrity and professionalism, and to protect and preserve anything confidential I come across. Anything you show me stays between us, the same is true in reverse, and that obligation outlives these terms.

In practice that means being careful about which tools your information touches, and working from sample or de-identified data where we need something realistic to build against.

If you work in a regulated field, email me before you buy. There's a short addendum covering data handling, and I'll sign a confidentiality agreement, a BAA, or an equivalent data-processing agreement if your organization needs one.

8. What we build

Whatever we build for your business is yours. Prompts, scripts, documents, automations, all of it, and you keep it if we stop working together.

The general methods, templates and tooling I bring to the work stay mine, and I go on using them with other clients. I won't use anything specific to your business anywhere else.

9. The necessary boring part

I'm an independent contractor, not your employee, partner, or agent.

I'll do this work carefully and competently, but I can't guarantee a particular result. AI tools change weekly and some things we try won't work. If something goes wrong, what I owe you is capped at what you've paid me in the previous three months.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California. Neither of us can hand this agreement to someone else without the other agreeing in writing. Changes have to be in writing and agreed by both of us, and email counts.

Last updated 7 August 2026.