Evaluation terms, version 1 (27 September 2026). Agent Office LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("we", "us"). These are the written evaluation terms that LICENSE §2 refers to.
They let a business install and run Agent Office on one machine of its own for 30 days, at no charge, to decide whether to buy a licence. They apply only after we have confirmed a grant to you in writing, as section 1 describes.
1. How a grant starts
1.1. A grant takes effect when both of these have happened:
- we send you an Evaluation Confirmation by email that names your business, the start date and the end date (the form is in the annex); and
- someone who can bind your business accepts it in writing. A reply email saying so is enough.
1.2. Until then, LICENSE §2 applies in full and you may not install or run the software.
1.3. These terms, your Evaluation Confirmation and LICENSE are the whole evaluation licence. Where these terms differ from LICENSE, these terms govern the evaluation. Everything else in LICENSE applies, including §1 (ownership), §4 (restrictions), §5 (third-party components) and §9 (governing law).
2. Who may evaluate
2.1. A business evaluating Agent Office for its own internal use: a company, partnership, sole proprietor acting for their business, non-profit or public body. Consumers acting for personal purposes may not.
2.2. You may not evaluate on behalf of someone else. An IT provider may evaluate for itself before joining our partner programme. To evaluate for one of its clients, the client asks for its own grant, and the IT provider may do the installation for the client.
2.3. A business that makes or sells a product that competes with Agent Office may not evaluate it without our separate written permission.
2.4. We offer evaluations to businesses in the United States. Anywhere else, only with our written agreement.
3. What you may do
3.1. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence, for the term in section 5, to:
- install the release we deliver to you on one machine your business owns or controls (a physical machine, or a virtual machine in your own data centre or your own cloud account), as one instance;
- run it, including its onboarding wizard and starter packs, with your own model provider accounts or your own local models;
- let your own staff sign in and use it;
- let the software make its own backups on that machine, and run its restore tests;
- install any updated release we deliver to you during the term; and
- read the source code included in the release, to evaluate it.
3.2. You may keep one working copy of the release on the machine, the download file we sent, and the backups the software makes. No other copies.
4. Evaluation, not production
4.1. You may use the software only to evaluate it. Production use is not allowed. Production use means any of these:
- (a) sending, publishing or delivering anything the software or its AI employees produce (a message, post, reply, document or file) to anyone outside your business, other than test messages to addresses and accounts your business controls;
- (b) using what the software produces in your real dealings with clients, customers, suppliers, regulators or the public, including by copying it out by hand;
- (c) doing work for, or giving access to, anyone other than your own business, its staff and its contractors (including an IT provider) acting for it, for example running it for a client or hosting it for others; and
- (d) running more than one instance or on more than one machine, or running it after the end date except as section 9 allows.
4.2. Within those limits you may use your own real data and connect your real channel accounts to test them. You do so at your own risk. We recommend keeping every channel at approve, so that nothing leaves without a person's approval.
4.3. Data you send to a cloud model provider during the evaluation reaches that provider, as it would in production. If rules limit who may receive your clients' data (for example, a tax preparer's duties on tax return information, or health information), evaluate with fictional data or with local models only, unless you already hold the consents or agreements those rules require. Those duties are yours.
5. Term
5.1. The evaluation runs for 30 days. It starts on the start date and ends at the end of the end date in your Evaluation Confirmation.
5.2. We may extend it once, by up to 30 more days, in writing (an email from us is enough). Ask before the end date. There is no second extension.
5.3. One evaluation per business in any 12 months, unless we agree otherwise in writing.
5.4. You may end the evaluation at any time by following section 9. We may end it early only if you break these terms and, where the breach can be put right, you have not put it right within 5 business days of our written notice.
6. No fees
There is no charge for the evaluation. Your own costs stay yours: the machine, any cloud bill, model provider spend, and your staff's time.
7. Your data, and what we receive
7.1. We receive nothing from the machine. The software has no licence key, no activation, no date check, no telemetry and no update check, and it never contacts Agent Office LLC on its own. The only request that can reach a server we run is the optional avatar download, and only if you start it (section 7.5). You have no duty to report your use, send us data or give us access to the machine.
7.2. Everything on the machine is yours and your responsibility, including your credentials, documents and messages, and your accounts with model providers and their terms.
7.3. What we hold about you is the record of your grant: your business's name, the contact's name and email address, the start and end dates, and the dates we issued download links. We keep it for 24 months after the end date and then delete it, unless you buy a licence, when it becomes part of your licence record. The service that hosts the release download also records the IP address and time of each download, as any web server does; we use those records only to run and protect the download service, and where we control them we keep them for no more than 90 days.
7.4. If you ask us for help, send only what the question needs, and remove secrets and personal data first. We use what you send only to answer you, and delete it within 90 days after we close the request.
7.5. What leaves the machine. Nothing is sent to Agent Office LLC, apart from the avatar download request described at the end of this section, if you start it. Model calls go to the providers and model servers you register, through the software's gateway. One exception is open in this release: a task card can run an AI employee's session on a model service that the agent runtime reaches without a credential, outside the gateway (see section 8 of the security whitepaper, docs/security-whitepaper.md). The other things that leave the machine, such as the agent runtime's model-metadata lookup, web searches and the messages you approve, are listed in the whitepaper's section 2 table. If you choose to install the optional avatar pack (ao avatars install), the file comes from the address pinned in the release (today a code-hosting service; later possibly a download server we run), and that server sees your machine's IP address and the time of the download, as any web server does.
8. Confidentiality
8.1. The software, including its source code and any documentation we have not published, is our confidential information and contains our trade secrets.
8.2. You will:
- use it only to evaluate Agent Office;
- share it only with your staff and contractors who need it for the evaluation and who are bound by confidentiality duties at least as strict as these;
- not publish it, post it or give it to anyone else;
- not use it to build, or to train anything that builds, a competing product; and
- not publish benchmarks, comparisons or reviews of it without our written permission.
8.3. This section does not cover information that is public through no fault of yours, that you already had, that you received lawfully from someone else without a duty of confidence, or that you developed independently. You may disclose what the law requires, after telling us where the law allows.
8.4. These duties last during the evaluation and for 5 years after it ends, and for source code and other trade secrets for as long as they remain trade secrets.
9. At the end of the evaluation
9.1. By the end date, either buy a licence (section 10) or stop.
9.2. If you stop:
- within 7 days after the end date, stop running the software, uninstall it and delete our material: the release copy and the download file,
/opt/agent-office,/usr/local/bin/ao, and the Agent Office material inside the uninstall archive (listed indocs/evaluation.md); - during those 7 days you may run the software only to export your own data and to uninstall it;
- you may keep your own data: your databases, messages, documents and files, backups of them, and company pack content that you wrote yourself (not our starter-pack text). Backups the software made may be kept whole, although they hold a copy of the company pack, as long as you do not use our material in them; and
- if we ask in writing, confirm by email that you have done this.
9.3. For an evaluation, LICENSE §6's duty to destroy every copy applies to our material only. Your own data stays yours.
9.4. The software does not lock itself. It checks no date, key or server, so it will keep running after the end date. That does not give you any right to keep using it. If the software shows an evaluation end date that you entered, the notice is a reminder only.
10. Buying a licence
10.1. Buy a licence from us, or from one of our authorised partners, before the end date.
10.2. The paid licence replaces this grant from the paid licence's start date. The same machine keeps running: no reinstall, no key, no data migration. Our licence record changes; the software does not.
10.3. Once you have bought, section 9 no longer applies, and confidentiality continues under LICENSE §10.
10.4. If the end date passes before you buy, section 9 applies until you do.
11. Support
We answer evaluation questions through the same channel as paying customers, on business days, and aim to reply within 2 business days. There is no service-level commitment. Report security problems as SECURITY.md describes.
12. Feedback
Feedback is welcome and never required. We may use it without any duty to you. We will not name your business publicly without your permission.
13. Third-party components and model providers
LICENSE §5 applies: third-party components keep their own licences. Your use of model providers and of any models you download is under their terms, which you accept with them directly.
14. No warranty
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED FOR EVALUATION "AS IS" AND "WITH ALL FAULTS". TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, AGENT OFFICE LLC GIVES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
The software's AI employees can run tools on the machine, spend money with the model providers you connect and, if you allow it, send messages. You choose those settings and are responsible for them.
15. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS: (A) AGENT OFFICE LLC IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE EVALUATION OR THE SOFTWARE; AND (B) AGENT OFFICE LLC'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR EVERYTHING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE EVALUATION IS LIMITED TO US$100.
This section does not limit any liability that the law does not allow to be limited. It does not limit your liability for using the software outside these terms or for breaking section 8.
16. Export and sanctions
You will not export, re-export or transfer the software, or use it, in breach of United States export control or sanctions laws. You confirm that your business is not located in a country under a comprehensive United States embargo and is not on a United States government list of restricted parties.
17. General
17.1. Law and courts. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States of America, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Texas have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to them, as LICENSE §9 says.
17.2. Transfer. You may not assign or transfer the evaluation or these terms, or sublicense the software.
17.3. Notices and records. Notices go by email to the addresses in the Evaluation Confirmation. Acceptance, notices and records made electronically count as written and signed.
17.4. Severability. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, that part is applied as far as the law allows and the rest stays in force.
17.5. Survival. Sections 7.3, 7.4, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 and 17 survive the end of the evaluation.
17.6. Changes. We may publish new versions of these terms for future grants. A grant already made stays under the version named in its Evaluation Confirmation.
Annex: Evaluation Confirmation (form)
We send this by email. Nothing here is valid until both parties have completed it.
Agent Office — Evaluation Confirmation
Licensor: Agent Office LLC (Texas), https://agentoffice.work
Evaluator: <legal name of the business>, <state or country>
Contact: <name>, <email address>
Terms: Agent Office Evaluation Licence, version 1
Release: <release version delivered>
Machine: one machine the evaluator owns or controls; one instance
Start date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
End date: <YYYY-MM-DD> (30 days)
Extension: <none | extended to YYYY-MM-DD on YYYY-MM-DD>
Accepted for the evaluator by <name, role>, who confirms they can bind the evaluator,
on <YYYY-MM-DD>, by reply email.