Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Stage 1 is a product of Inversion Systems, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company ("we", "us"). "You" means the person who creates an account and, if you use Stage 1 for a company, that company. If you accept these terms for a company, you confirm you have authority to bind it.

2. The service

Stage 1 finds buying signals at companies you choose, ranks those accounts, researches the people involved, drafts messages, and sends the messages you approve through LinkedIn and email accounts you connect. We change and improve the service over time. We'll tell you before we remove a feature you pay for.

3. Your account

Give us accurate information and keep it current. Use a work email you control. Keep your password private. Each login is for one person, so add teammates through invites rather than sharing a login. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at hello@getstage1.com if you think someone else has accessed it.

You must be at least 18 and using Stage 1 for business, not personal or household purposes.

4. Free trial, plans and payment

New workspaces start with a free trial. We'll tell you its length and limits when you sign up. A trial ends on its own, and we don't charge you unless you choose a paid plan.

Paid plans are billed in advance, monthly or yearly, through our payment processor, Stripe. Plans renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time in the app, and your plan stays active to the end of the period you paid for. Fees aren't refunded for partial periods, except where the law requires it. Prices exclude taxes, which you pay where they apply. We'll give you at least 30 days' notice before a price change takes effect on your plan.

If a payment fails, we may pause sending until it's fixed.

5. Your data

You own the data you put into Stage 1 and the data Stage 1 produces for you, including your accounts, contacts, notes, drafts and messages ("Your Data"). You give us permission to host, copy, process and display Your Data only to run, secure and support the service for you. We don't sell Your Data, and we don't use it to train AI models. Our Privacy Policy and, for business customers, our Data Processing Addendum explain how we handle it.

We may use aggregated and de-identified information about how the service is used, which doesn't identify you or any person, to run and improve Stage 1.

6. Connected accounts

When you connect a LinkedIn or email account, you authorize Stage 1 to read from and act through that account on your behalf, within the settings you choose. That includes reading posts, jobs, profiles and messages, and sending the connection requests, messages and emails you approve.

LinkedIn, email providers and other platforms have their own terms and limits. You're responsible for following them. Stage 1 keeps activity to a human pace by default, and a platform can still restrict or close an account at its own discretion. We aren't responsible for actions a third-party platform takes on your account. You can disconnect an account at any time.

7. Messages you send

Nothing is sent to a person until you approve the account, and you can edit every draft. You're the sender of every message that goes out under your name, and you're responsible for its content and for having a lawful basis to send it.

You agree to follow the laws that apply to your outreach, including anti-spam and privacy laws such as CAN-SPAM in the United States, CASL in Canada, and the GDPR and ePrivacy rules in the UK and EU. Honor every request to stop. Stage 1 records opt-outs and won't contact that person again, and you agree not to work around that.

8. AI drafts and research

Stage 1 uses AI, including Claude from Anthropic, to read your sources, research accounts and draft messages. AI output can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. Review drafts and research before you rely on them or send them. Signals come from public sources, and we don't guarantee that any signal is accurate or that any account will buy.

9. Acceptable use

Don't use Stage 1 to send spam or bulk unsolicited messages, to harass, deceive or impersonate anyone, or to send anything unlawful, defamatory or infringing. Don't put sensitive personal data into Stage 1, such as health, financial account or government ID information, or data about children. Don't use Stage 1 to make decisions about anyone's eligibility for employment, credit, housing or insurance. Don't try to break, overload, scrape, copy or reverse engineer the service, get around its limits or security, or access another customer's data. Don't resell Stage 1 or give access to people outside your company without our written permission.

We may suspend sending, or your account, if we reasonably believe you've broken this section or your use puts the service, other customers or the people you contact at risk. Where we can, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

10. Third-party services

Stage 1 works with services we don't control, including LinkedIn, email providers, HubSpot, Slack and Stripe. Your use of them is governed by their terms. We aren't responsible for their availability or for how they handle data you send them directly.

11. Ending your use

You can stop using Stage 1 and cancel at any time. We may end these terms with 30 days' notice, or right away if you materially break them and don't fix it within 10 days of our notice. After your account ends, you can ask us for an export of Your Data within 30 days. We then delete Your Data within 60 days, except for copies we must keep by law and backups that expire on their normal schedule.

12. Warranties and disclaimers

We'll provide the service with reasonable skill and care. Beyond that, Stage 1 is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all other warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't promise the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will produce any number of replies, meetings or sales.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data, even if told they were possible. Each party's total liability under these terms is limited to the fees you paid us in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim, or $100 if you haven't paid anything. These limits don't apply to your payment obligations, your obligations in section 14, or a party's fraud or willful misconduct.

14. Indemnity

You'll defend and indemnify us against third-party claims arising from the messages you send, Your Data, or your breach of sections 7 or 9, and pay the resulting damages and reasonable costs. We'll tell you promptly about the claim and let you control the defense.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For a material change, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the app before it applies to you. If you keep using Stage 1 after it takes effect, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, you can cancel before then.

16. General

New Jersey law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The state and federal courts in New Jersey have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to them. Neither party may assign these terms without the other's consent, except to a successor in a merger, acquisition or sale of substantially all of its assets. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a provision isn't a waiver. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control. These terms, the Privacy Policy and any order or addendum you sign with us are the whole agreement on this subject.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms go to hello@getstage1.com.