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NextAutomation Sphere

Terms of Use — Sphere

Effective Date: 2026-06-12
Last Updated: 2026-05-09

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using Sphere (sphere.nextautomation.us, hereafter the “Service”), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. The Service is operated by Next Automation Labs LLC (“we,” “us,” “our”). These Terms form a binding agreement between you and Next Automation Labs LLC.

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By creating an account you represent that you are 18 or older.

2. Service Description

Sphere is a practice and training platform for real-estate-AI workflows. The Service simulates real-estate scenarios (capital raising, underwriting, acquisitions, asset management, operator workflows) so that real-estate professionals can practice prompt engineering and AI-assisted decision-making in a safe environment.

All practice content carries simulated: true and is explicitly NOT investment advice. Every attempt, scenario, output, and downstream artifact derived from your use of the Service is tagged with the simulated: true regulatory discriminator. Operator-playbook artifacts derived from training data carry lineage: training_data_simulated provenance metadata. JSONL snapshot lines carry schema_version: 1 (and successor versions) so downstream consumers route correctly.

No fiduciary or advisory relationship is created by use of the Service. Sphere does not provide investment advice, legal advice, tax advice, real-estate brokerage services, or securities recommendations. Outputs are educational and illustrative only.

3. Account & Eligibility

The Service is operated under United States law and is offered primarily to users located in the United States. Users from the European Union, United Kingdom, European Economic Area, or Switzerland may use Sphere normally, but their attempts are excluded from our training corpus per the geo-fence described in our Privacy Notice. This exclusion is automatic based on the country-of-residence answer you provide at onboarding.

Account creation requires:

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

4. License Grant

For users with training_data_consent: true (currently: users whose country-of-residence is not in our data-protection-jurisdiction list — see Privacy Notice §International Users for the 32-code list and the lib/data-protection-jurisdictions.ts source-of-truth file), you grant Next Automation Labs LLC a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use your pseudonymized attempt data — pseudonymized in the sense that your real-world identity is replaced with an opaque internal user_id in any extracted snapshot, while prompt text and Claude-output content are preserved verbatim — for:

  1. AI grading model improvement — training, evaluating, and improving the rubric and shadow-agent grading systems that score your and other members' attempts.
  2. Operator playbook synthesis — deriving weekly markdown playbooks tagged with lineage: training_data_simulated provenance metadata, distributed to verified operators and the broader Sphere member base.
  3. Intent-signal pattern derivation — extracting buyer-profile (ICP segment) and workflow-role signals from attempts, supporting tier upsell, affiliate routing, and product analytics.

This license is granted only for content created during periods when training_data_consent: true applies to your account. The license survives account deletion in the form of immutable Storage snapshots (snapshot files stay frozen for audit-defensibility under the SEC Marketing Rule and Form ADV recordkeeping); however, all consumers of those snapshots honor opt-out tombstones (rows in data_collection_opt_outs) for any post-deletion processing. In effect: existing snapshots remain on disk, but no new derivations include your data after you opt out or delete your account.

If training_data_consent: false applies to your account (geo-fenced jurisdiction or post-opt-out), no license under this Section 4 is granted, and your attempts are excluded from training extraction at the read-path level.

5. CCPA Notice (California Residents)

California residents have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”):

We do not currently sell personal information for monetary consideration. We interpret “sharing” broadly per CCPA Section 1798.140(ah) and document any third-party data flows in the Privacy Notice.

Opt-out mechanism (v3.1): To opt out of training data use, email [email protected] with the subject line “CCPA opt-out” and your account email. We will process opt-out requests within 15 business days per CCPA Section 1798.130(a)(2). On receipt, we manually insert a row into the data_collection_opt_outs table; all ETL read paths immediately filter out your user_id from future extraction, and downstream consumers of existing snapshots filter you out as well.

In-app self-serve opt-out via the /profile privacy tab is deferred to v3.2 and is not available in v3.1. Email is the supported opt-out channel for v3.1.

6. Termination & Deletion

You may request account deletion at any time by emailing [email protected] with the subject line “Account deletion.” In-app account-settings deletion is planned for v3.2 and is not available in v3.1. On receipt of a deletion request, in v3.1:

  1. We insert a data_collection_opt_outs tombstone within 72 hours of receipt. The tombstone immediately excludes you from all future ETL extractions; downstream consumers of existing snapshots also filter you out.
  2. The founder manually deletes your live database rows within 30 days of receipt.

Automated 90-day post-deletion wipe of live rows is planned for v3.2; until that ships, the manual deletion timeline above applies.

Immutable Storage snapshots remain on disk indefinitely (audit-defensibility under SEC Marketing Rule and Form ADV recordkeeping), but all consumers of those snapshots honor the tombstone — no future use occurs after the opt-out date. If you require the deletion of immutable snapshot copies (e.g., under a CCPA right-to-delete request that overrides recordkeeping defenses), contact [email protected] and we will evaluate the request against the applicable recordkeeping floor.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, that engage in abuse of the Service (e.g., automated scraping, attempts to circumvent the simulated-content discriminator, or attempts to extract proprietary rubric data), or that pose security or legal risk to the Service, other members, or third parties.

7. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE.” We make no warranty, express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or availability.

No investment advice. Nothing on the Service constitutes investment advice, securities recommendations, real-estate brokerage advice, tax advice, or legal advice. The simulated: true discriminator is present at every layer of the Service to make this explicit. No fiduciary or advisory relationship is created by use of the Service.

No warranty of accuracy. AI-generated outputs may be incorrect, incomplete, or misleading. You are solely responsible for evaluating the accuracy and applicability of any output before acting on it (or omitting to act on it).

User responsibility. You are solely responsible for any decisions made or omitted as a result of platform use, including investment, business, legal, or operational decisions. The Service is a practice tool, not a decision-support tool for real transactions.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Next Automation Labs LLC's total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed the greater of: (a) the amount you paid Next Automation Labs LLC in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred United States dollars ($100).

Next Automation Labs LLC shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, including without limitation lost profits, lost data, lost business opportunity, or substitute service costs, arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service.

The limitations in this Section 8 do not apply to: (a) gross negligence or willful misconduct, (b) fraud, or (c) any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

9. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict of law principles. Exclusive jurisdiction shall lie in Miami-Dade County state and federal courts.

You and Next Automation Labs LLC each waive any right to a jury trial. Any dispute arising under or relating to these Terms shall be resolved by a court of competent jurisdiction in the venue specified above. Class actions are not permitted.

10. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via:

We will provide at least thirty (30) days' notice before material changes take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of an updated Terms version constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.

For non-material changes (typo fixes, clarifications that do not change rights or obligations), we may publish the change without prior notice; the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms will reflect the change.

Contact for Terms questions: [email protected]
Contact for privacy / opt-out / deletion requests: [email protected]