Terms of Service

RunSimpler is a brand of Moonbound Consulting, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company. The site you are reading is runsimpler.com. The company you would be contracting with is Moonbound Consulting, LLC. Those are two names for one business, and it goes first because finding an unfamiliar company name halfway down a terms page is unsettling, and you should not have to work out who you are dealing with.

In these terms, "RunSimpler," "we," "us," and "our" mean Moonbound Consulting, LLC. "You" means the person reading this. Our registered address is 333 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60606.

These terms govern your use of this website and any material we publish on it. If we do work for you, that work is governed by a separate signed agreement, and section 6 explains how the two documents fit together.

By using this website you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please stop using the site. That is the whole of it, and there is no hidden second condition.

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the "last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes take effect when we post them. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept the revised terms. We do not send individual notice of website terms changes, though we do give notice of changes to a signed client agreement, because that agreement says so.

You may read, browse, and print pages from this site for your own use, and you may share links to it freely. We would rather you linked to a page than copied it.

You may not copy, republish, or resell substantial parts of the site's content as your own, scrape it at a volume that degrades service for other readers, attempt to break or bypass its security, or use it to send unsolicited commercial messages.

You may not use this site or anything on it to train a machine learning model, build a competing dataset, or generate derivative commercial content, without our written permission. We are an AI firm and we are aware of the irony. We are also aware of what our written work is worth.

We try to keep the site available and correct. We do not promise it will be either. We may change, move, or remove any page at any time, including this one.

Case studies, blog posts, service descriptions, pricing indications, and any other content on this site are published for general information.

None of it is legal, financial, tax, accounting, or professional advice, and none of it is a recommendation to take a particular action in your business. If you need advice about your situation, engage someone to advise you on your situation.

Results we describe for other clients are what happened for those clients, in their market, with their inputs. They are not a forecast of what will happen for you. We say this plainly because the alternative is a disclaimer nobody reads and everybody relies on anyway.

The scheduling tool on our contact page is provided by Calendly LLC. When it loads, you are interacting with Calendly's service inside our page, and Calendly receives the information you enter into it.

Booking a call does not create a contract for services and does not oblige either of us to proceed. It books a conversation.

Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain what the scheduler loads and what it stores. Please read them before you use it if that matters to you. We think it should.

Descriptions of our services on this website are an invitation to talk, not an offer capable of acceptance. Pricing shown on the site is indicative. A price becomes binding when it appears in a signed agreement.

All work we do for you is governed by a signed agreement. These terms of service govern your use of the website. They are not your client contract and cannot be relied on as one.

Order of precedence. If a signed agreement and these terms conflict on any point, the signed agreement controls for that engagement. If several signed documents conflict, the more recent one controls, unless it says otherwise. Nothing in these terms adds to, subtracts from, or reinterprets a signed agreement.

Where a signed agreement is silent on a point that these terms address, these terms fill the gap for that point only.

Fees, payment schedule, and currency are set out in the signed agreement.

Project work is invoiced as set out in the signed agreement, which may require payment in advance of work starting. Subscription work is invoiced in advance of the period it covers and renews for successive periods until canceled under section 12.

Invoices are payable within 14 days of the invoice date unless the signed agreement says otherwise.

Fees exclude taxes. Where sales tax, VAT, GST, or a similar tax applies, you pay it in addition. If you are required to withhold tax from a payment to us, the amount we receive must be the amount we invoiced.

Third party costs that we pay on your behalf, such as software subscriptions, domain registrations, hosting, advertising spend, and stock media, are yours to reimburse. We will tell you about a material third party cost before we commit to it.

If an invoice is overdue we may charge interest at 1.5% per month on the overdue amount, or the maximum the law allows if lower, and may suspend work and access to systems we operate for you, after giving you 7 days written notice. Suspension does not end the agreement and does not pause your obligation to pay.

Fees already paid for work performed are not refundable, except where a signed agreement says otherwise or where the law requires a refund.

This is the section that matters most, because we hand clients real assets: their own repositories, their own brand systems, their own content. Read it carefully.

Our website. The design, text, images, video, and code of this website belong to us or our licensors. Nothing on the site transfers to you by your reading it.

Your deliverables. When you have paid us in full for an engagement, you own the deliverables produced under it. Ownership transfers on receipt of final payment for those deliverables, and it transfers to you outright: the source files, the repository, the brand system, the content, the configuration. We do not hold your work hostage behind a subscription, and we do not license back to you something you paid us to make.

What we keep. We keep the RunSimpler Materials. Our frameworks, methods, agent architectures, prompt libraries, internal tooling, and reusable components remain ours, and nothing in an engagement transfers them to you. Where a deliverable contains RunSimpler Materials and cannot function without them, we grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, modify, and host those materials as part of that deliverable, for your own business. That license does not let you extract them and sell or distribute them separately.

Open source and licensed components. Deliverables often include open source software, fonts, stock media, and third party services. Those carry their own licenses, which continue to apply and which we cannot transfer. We will tell you what they are. Some of them require you to hold a subscription of your own, and where that is true we will say so before delivery, not after.

Your materials. Your materials stay yours. You grant us a license to use them for the duration of the engagement, only for the purpose of doing the work. You confirm you have the right to give us what you give us. If you hand us an image you do not have rights to, the consequences of that land on you, and section 11 covers it.

Work produced with AI. We use AI systems throughout our delivery process, and we tell clients this openly because it is the product. Two consequences follow. First, the law on copyright in AI assisted output is unsettled in the United States and elsewhere, and we cannot promise that every element of a deliverable attracts copyright protection or that ownership is enforceable against a third party in the way a fully human authored work would be. We assign to you everything we are able to assign. We cannot assign what the law does not recognize as property. Second, AI systems can produce output resembling existing material. We review deliverables before handing them over, and section 10 sets out the limits of what that review promises.

Showing the work. Unless the signed agreement says otherwise, we may name you as a client and show the work in our portfolio, case studies, proposals, and marketing. We will not publish your confidential information, your customer data, or a metric you have not approved. If you would rather we did not reference you at all, tell us and we will put that in the signed agreement.

Feedback. If you suggest an improvement to how we work, we may use it without owing you anything for it. We are not going to run a royalty ledger on good ideas from clients.

Each of us will keep the other's confidential information confidential, use it only for the engagement, and protect it with at least the care we use for our own.

This does not cover information that is already public, that we already had, that a third party gave us without a duty of confidence, or that we developed independently.

If the law or a court requires disclosure, the party required to disclose may do so, and will tell the other first where it is lawful to do that.

Where a signed agreement contains its own confidentiality terms or a separate NDA is in place, those control and this section falls away.

We promise to perform services with reasonable skill and care, in a professional manner, using people and systems competent to do the work.

We do not promise a business outcome. We do not promise a number of leads, a search ranking, a conversion rate, a revenue figure, or a return on your spend, and no statement on this website, in a proposal, in a workshop, or in a conversation should be read as promising one. Marketing results depend on your market, your offer, your pricing, your team, your capacity to serve demand, and a set of platforms whose rules change without asking us. We control our work. We do not control the rest.

We do not promise that AI generated output will be accurate, complete, original, or fit for a purpose we were not told about. AI systems make errors confidently. Our process includes human review, and that review reduces error rather than eliminating it. Where a deliverable will be used in a context with legal, medical, financial, or safety consequences, you are responsible for having it reviewed by someone qualified in that field before you use it.

We do not promise that any website, workflow, or system will be uninterrupted, error free, or secure against every attack.

Except as stated in 10.1, and to the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all other warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Neither of us is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost business, or loss of goodwill, whether or not the possibility was known.

Our total liability arising out of or connected with an engagement, whether in contract, tort, negligence, statute, or otherwise, is limited in total to the fees you paid us for that engagement in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Our total liability arising out of your use of this website, where you are not a client, is limited to one hundred US dollars ($100).

The limits in 11.1 and 11.2 do not apply to your obligation to pay fees, to either party's breach of confidentiality, or to a party's indemnity obligations under 11.5, infringement of the other party's intellectual property, gross negligence, and willful misconduct.

You will indemnify us against claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your materials infringing someone's rights, from your use of a deliverable in a way the signed agreement did not contemplate, or from your breach of these terms.

Any claim connected with an engagement must be brought within one year of the date you knew or should have known of the facts giving rise to it.

The signed agreement sets out notice periods and termination rights. This section applies where it is silent.

Subscription work may be canceled by either of us on 30 days written notice, effective at the end of the then current billing period. We do not pro rate a period already billed.

Project work may be terminated by you for convenience on written notice. You pay for work performed and commitments made up to the termination date.

Either of us may terminate immediately, by written notice, if the other materially breaches and does not fix the breach within 15 days of being told about it, or becomes insolvent.

On termination we hand over. Within a reasonable period we will transfer to you the deliverables you have paid for in full, including repository access, source files, and account ownership for accounts held in your name. We will not hold paid work back as a bargaining chip in a commercial disagreement. Deliverables not yet paid for in full stay ours until they are.

We may keep one archival copy of engagement material for our records, insurance, and legal obligations, handled under our Privacy Policy.

Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.5, 12.6, 13, and 14 survive termination.

These terms and any engagement are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.

The courts located in Cook County, Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and both of us submit to that jurisdiction.

Before either of us starts proceedings, we will each make a genuine attempt to resolve the dispute by discussion between people with authority to settle it. This does not stop either of us seeking urgent injunctive relief.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, that part is severed and the rest continues.

If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

You may not transfer your rights or obligations without our written consent. We may transfer ours as part of a sale or reorganization of the business.

Nothing here makes either of us the other's partner, agent, employee, or joint venturer.

These terms, together with any signed agreement and the policies linked from this site, are the entire agreement between us on their subject matter, and they replace any earlier understanding on it.

Neither of us is liable for failure to perform caused by events outside our reasonable control, including outages of third party platforms and infrastructure we depend on. This does not excuse a failure to pay.

No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

Legal notices to us go to tony@runsimpler.com, marked for the attention of Anthony Drummond, President. Where a signed agreement requires written notice by post, send it to Moonbound Consulting, LLC, Attn: Anthony Drummond, President, 333 West Wacker Drive, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60606.

Notices to you go to the email address on your account or in your signed agreement.

Email notice is treated as received on the next business day after sending, unless the sender receives a delivery failure.

Our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Accessibility Statement form part of these terms and are linked in the footer of every page.

Questions about these terms go to tony@runsimpler.com.