Terms and Conditions

The downloads are free at the moment

Maius for Mac and Windows, and Maius Agent Home, are currently supplied free of charge. No amount is charged for them, and the terms below that describe a price, a paid order or a payment apply only to products that are actually charged for — which today means the weekly hosted subscriptions.

No payment card is needed to download these products. A customer who gave CogsMe a card before 25 October 2026 still has it stored by Stripe. CogsMe will not charge a stored card without first asking the customer to agree to the price. A customer may remove a stored card at any time by contacting support, and removing it does not affect a licence already issued.

These terms apply to purchases of Maius software from CogsMe Pty Ltd trading as Maius-Ai. Prices shown on the website are in Australian dollars and include GST.

What Maius is

Maius is a desktop application for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows PCs (x64) that runs AI agents on the customer’s own computer. The customer supplies and controls the computer, the internet connection, and the AI account the agents run on — a Claude plan signed in through Claude Code, a ChatGPT plan signed in through Codex, or an Anthropic or OpenAI API key — together with any other third-party accounts they choose to connect, and all associated credentials and usage charges. Model usage is billed to the customer by the AI provider under that provider’s terms; CogsMe does not resell it.

The deck — the screen where the customer talks to agents and approves their actions — runs on the computer and can also be opened on a phone. On a phone it reaches the computer either over the customer’s own private network (for example Tailscale) or, when away from home, through a relay CogsMe operates; the Privacy Page describes what that means.

Some Maius agent apps are supplied separately from maius-ai.com under these same terms.

What you and your agents do

You are responsible for what you instruct an agent to do and for what it does with the access you give it. Maius and Natto run on your computer, under your account, with your files and your connected services. Giving an agent access is equivalent to giving an assistant access to that computer. You decide which folders it may touch, which services it may reach, and which actions you approve; CogsMe neither sees nor controls those decisions, and does not operate your computer.

You are responsible for the output you obtain and for anything you then do with it — publish, send, deploy, trade on, or rely on — including checking it is accurate, lawful and suitable before you do. AI output can be wrong, and can be confidently wrong.

You are responsible for anything an agent does to a third party’s system, account or data at your instruction, and for having the authority to instruct it. You agree to indemnify CogsMe against claims brought by a third party that arise from your use of an app or from instructions you gave an agent, except to the extent the claim arises from CogsMe’s own breach of these terms or its negligence. Nothing in this paragraph applies to a consumer to the extent the Australian Consumer Law says it cannot.

Keep your own backups. Agents create, change and delete real files on your real computer.

Your AI provider account is yours, not ours

Your subscription or API account with an AI provider — Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (ChatGPT or Codex), Google, or any other — is a contract between you and that provider. It has nothing to do with CogsMe. It is governed by that provider’s terms of service, acceptable use policy and pricing, not by these terms. CogsMe does not resell, sponsor, administer or form part of it.

This means, in plain terms: we do not set what it costs, what it includes, what rate limits apply, what content it refuses, when it changes, or whether it keeps working. We cannot restore access, issue credit, raise a limit, appeal a suspension or recover a lost key on that account. If a provider changes its prices, its models, its policies or its API, or suspends or ends your account, that is between you and them — take it up with the provider. Charges for model usage are billed to you by the provider directly; CogsMe does not receive them.

You are responsible for complying with your provider’s terms when you use its account through our apps, for the usage charges you incur, and for keeping your keys and sign-ins secure. Product names belong to their owners and are used here only to say what our apps can connect to.

How agents behave

Inside its own workspace folder, a Maius agent runs commands, reads and writes files, and accesses the network without prompting for confirmation of each individual action. Actions that reach outside that folder are presented to the customer for approval and are refused if left unanswered. The customer is responsible for the instructions they give an agent and for the consequences of those instructions, and should treat agent access as equivalent to granting an assistant access to that computer. Every approval, refusal and automatic decision is recorded in a log on the customer’s computer, which the customer can read at any time.

Licence

Each order — whether the product is supplied free or for a price — grants the customer a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Maius release obtained for the customer’s own personal or internal business use. A licence to a release already obtained is not withdrawn if that product later becomes paid. The apps are not to be changed, and are not to be sold by anyone but CogsMe.

No changing them. The customer must not modify, adapt, translate, rebrand, repackage or create a derivative work of Maius, Natto or any other app supplied by CogsMe, must not remove or alter any name, logo, copyright line or licence notice in them, and must not represent a changed copy as ours. Using an app as it is supplied — configuring it, connecting it to services, writing your own agents, skills and workspace files, and running it on your own machine — is not “changing” it, and is the whole point of the product.

No selling them. The customer must not sell, resell, rent, lease, lend, sublicense, distribute, publish, host for others or otherwise make Maius, Natto, any other CogsMe app, or a licence key for one, available to anyone else — whether for money or free of charge — and must not bundle one into another product or service. A licence is for the customer’s own personal or internal business use and is not transferable. CogsMe is the only seller of these apps; if someone else is selling one, it is not authorised by us.

Two limits on the two paragraphs above, both of which apply whatever these terms say. Reverse engineering is not prohibited where the law permits it — in Australia the Copyright Act allows it for interoperability, error correction and security testing, and a term cannot take that away. Open-source components included in an app remain governed by their own licences, which in some cases expressly permit modification and redistribution of that component; where those licences and these terms differ about that component, those licences win. The notices are included in the download.

What you make with it

CogsMe claims no ownership of anything you put into an app or get out of it. Your prompts, your files, your agents, your skills and your workspace are yours. Whatever rights exist in what a model produces for you are a matter between you and your AI provider under their terms — we are not a party to it and take no interest in it. We do not read, collect, train on or reuse your work; the Privacy Page sets out the one exception, which is the relay you choose to use.

Be aware that AI output is not automatically original or free of other people’s rights, and that two customers can receive similar output from the same provider. Checking that what you publish or rely on is yours to use is part of the responsibility described above.

Customer responsibilities

The customer must follow the setup guide, maintain backups, secure credentials and private access URLs, pay third-party provider charges, and ensure their use of AI and of any personal information is lawful. Availability of third-party services, including the customer’s model provider, is outside CogsMe’s control.

Chatting with other Maius users

A message you send another Maius user is stored on CogsMe’s servers until they collect it, and so are the files and skills you send. This is unlike the rest of the product, where your work stays on your own computer, and unlike the relay, which stores nothing. It works this way because the other person’s computer is usually switched off when you write to them. CogsMe can therefore technically read what you send in chat, does not do so, and does not train on it or reuse it. The Privacy Page sets out what is kept and for how long.

Nobody can message you, add you to a group or send you anything until you have accepted them. Deleting a message removes it for everyone in that conversation and removes any file or skill attached to it; you may delete only your own messages.

A skill you send is instructions another person’s agent may follow on their computer. It reaches them as a proposal and is not installed unless they accept it. You are responsible for what you send; the responsibilities in “What you and your agents do” apply to it. Do not send anything unlawful, anything you do not have the right to send, or anything designed to damage or take control of someone else’s computer. A skill you receive is somebody else’s code: treat it as you would a program from a stranger.

Acceptable use and accounts

The customer must not use Maius, or direct an agent, to break the law, to access any computer, account or service without authority, to harass or harm anyone, or to interfere with CogsMe’s systems or other customers. The customer is responsible for keeping their Maius account, their computer and their private access links secure, and for anyone they allow to use them.

If a customer materially breaches these terms, CogsMe may suspend or close the account. Where practicable CogsMe will give notice and a chance to fix the problem first. If an account is closed for breach, any prepaid subscription period not yet supplied is refunded pro rata unless the breach was serious — for example unlawful use or an attack on the service. A licence already granted to a downloaded release is not affected by account closure except where the breach involved that licence.

Install Copilot and other software

Install Copilot and Natto Setup are optional helpers that run on the customer’s own computer and can install or check software that is not ours — for example Homebrew, Tailscale, Obsidian, Claude Code or Codex. Each of those is supplied by its own publisher under that publisher’s licence and privacy terms, is installed only with the customer’s agreement at the time, and may ask for the customer’s administrator password, which CogsMe never sees or receives. CogsMe does not control those programs, their updates or their availability, and the responsibilities and limits in these terms apply to the Copilots exactly as they do to the apps.

Delivery and download

Maius issues a licence and a private download link — for a free product as soon as the terms are accepted, and for a paid product after Stripe confirms payment. The link normally remains valid for seven days and permits up to 3 downloads. Customers must not share it. If a link is used or lost, contact support and a replacement will be issued. Contact support if a paid order is not delivered.

Hosted subscriptions

Some Maius products are sold as a weekly subscription and run on a machine CogsMe operates, reached through a web browser. No Mac is required. The customer still supplies their own Claude or ChatGPT plan, or an Anthropic or OpenAI API key; model usage is billed to the customer by Anthropic or OpenAI and is not resold by CogsMe.

Subscriptions are billed weekly in advance through Stripe and may be cancelled at any time. Access continues until the end of the week already paid for, and does not renew after that.

What is kept between sessions depends on the plan and is stated on the plan itself. The hosted machine is stopped when it has been idle and is rebuilt when the customer returns. On plans that do not include saved storage, nothing is carried between sessions. On plans that do, the customer's workspace is saved before the machine stops and restored when it starts. Customers should keep their own copies of anything they cannot afford to lose.

Signing in to Claude on a hosted machine

Signing in to Claude on a hosted machine replaces any long-lived Claude Code token the customer has created elsewhere. Anthropic issues one long-lived token per Claude subscription. Signing in to the hosted machine creates one, and doing so invalidates the previous one immediately and without notice. A customer who uses such a token elsewhere — for example in a build pipeline or a GitHub Action — will find that use stops working, and the reverse is also true: creating a token elsewhere ends the hosted machine's access and the customer will be asked to sign in again. Nothing warns either side that this has happened.

Signing in to Claude Code normally on a personal computer uses a different credential and is not affected. Customers who depend on a long-lived token for automation should use an Anthropic API key with the hosted product instead, and should note that API usage is billed by Anthropic per use rather than covered by a Claude subscription.

CogsMe may suspend a hosted subscription for non-payment, and may stop or restart a machine for maintenance or to protect the service.

Responsibility

CogsMe is responsible for Maius being what these terms and the website say it is, for supplying the hosted service with due care and skill, and for its own negligence.

CogsMe is not responsible for: the instructions a customer gives an agent, or actions an agent takes within the permissions the customer has granted it (see “How agents behave”); the availability, output, accuracy or conduct of third-party services the customer connects, including the AI provider; the customer’s compliance with those services’ terms; or events outside CogsMe’s reasonable control.

For customers who acquire Maius for business purposes and not for personal, domestic or household use, CogsMe’s total liability for any claim arising from a product or service is limited, to the extent the law allows, to supplying the product or service again or paying the cost of doing so, or to the amount the customer paid for it in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is greater. This limitation does not apply to consumers, and nothing in these terms limits liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or misleading conduct, or any liability that cannot be limited by law.

Consumer guarantees

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy the customer has under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be excluded, including the consumer guarantees about acceptable quality, fitness for purpose and due care and skill. The limitation in “Responsibility” applies only where the law permits it, which for goods and services ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use it does not.

Privacy and payments

Stripe processes card payments. Maius does not store complete card details. Personal information is handled as described in the Privacy Page.

Changes to these terms

The terms that apply to an order are the terms published when the order is placed. CogsMe may publish new terms for future orders. For a weekly subscription, CogsMe will email the customer at least 14 days before changed terms take effect; the customer may cancel before that date and the change will not apply to them. No change reduces a licence already granted or a right already accrued. The date and version of the current terms appear at the foot of this page.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, subject to any mandatory consumer law that applies in the customer’s location.

Last updated 8 November 2026 (version 2026-11-08). Contact: leo@ozeki.com.au.