1. Who we are

Thonest (“Thonest,” the “Service,” “we,” “us”) lets a company publish a verified timeline of its own revenue history and the decisions behind it. The Service is owned and operated by Flocksy LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company (“Flocksy”). References to Thonest in these Terms are references to Flocksy LLC doing business as Thonest. By accessing or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. What the Service is

You connect a payment provider read-only. Thonest reconstructs your revenue history from it, detects milestones in that history, and attaches the measured figures to the launches, pricing changes, pivots and other events you add yourself. The result is a timeline you may keep private, publish at a public address, or embed on your own site.

Two kinds of thing appear on a timeline and they are labelled differently throughout. Measured figures are computed by us from your connected account under the published method. Added entries are your own words, written by you. Where a figure is derived from historical subscription data rather than observed at the time, it is labelled reconstructed and is weaker for the reasons given at How we count MRR.

Where the Service shows what happened after an event — the figures thirty, ninety or a hundred and eighty days later — it states two measurements and the arithmetic between them. It does not assert that the event caused the change, and nothing on the Service should be read as such an assertion.

Optionally you may lock a goal: a measurable target with a deadline, recorded before the outcome is known and settled automatically from your connected data. Cryptographic fingerprints of locked goals are anchored to a public blockchain so they cannot be silently edited or backdated. Section 4f governs those.

Thonest previously operated a public archive of dated statements by public figures. Records in that archive were permanent and remain reachable at their own addresses; sections 4a to 4e continue to govern them. The archive is not what the Service is for, and no new records of that kind are being created.

2a. Publishing, visibility and embeds

Nothing you connect is public until you publish it. Publishing makes your timeline readable at a public address, generates a share image for it, and makes an embeddable version available to any site that points at that address. Individual entries may be hidden from the public view; a measured figure may be hidden but never reworded, by you or by us.

You may make a published timeline private again at any time, which stops the public address, the share image and the embed from resolving. It does not recall copies already made: a page that was public may have been cached, screenshotted, quoted or embedded elsewhere, and we cannot retrieve those. Publishing revenue figures about your business is a decision to make them public, and you should treat it as irreversible in practice. Locked goals are separately permanent under section 4f.

3. Accounts

You must provide accurate information when creating an account, keep your credentials confidential, and be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live). Creating an account requires you to agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy, and that agreement is recorded. You are responsible for activity under your account. One account may hold more than one company; you must be authorised to connect the payment account of each company you add. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

4. Your submissions

You are responsible for ensuring your submissions are lawful, accurately attributed, and permitted under these Terms. The representations and responsibilities in this section apply to records you submit. They do not apply to records Thonest creates independently under Section 4e, for which no outside user bears submission responsibility. When you submit a statement, a source, or any other content, you represent and warrant that: (a) the source is lawfully public and you are entitled to submit it; (b) the wording is verbatim and you have not altered the words, the attribution, or the surrounding context in any way that changes their meaning; (c) the statement is correctly attributed to the person who actually made it; (d) the submission concerns a matter of public concern and does not target a private individual; (e) you are not submitting it for the purpose of harassing, defaming, or retaliating against anyone; and (f) the submission violates no law or third-party right. You further acknowledge that you have no obligation to submit anything, and do so voluntarily and at your own risk.

You grant Flocksy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and archive your submissions as part of the registry, including within individual public records and any licensed dataset or API. Submissions are checked against their sources; we may refuse, decline to publish, or withdraw any submission at our sole discretion, with or without reason, and without that discretion alone making us the publisher or speaker of third-party content.

4a. Our role: a registry, not a publisher

Thonest is an interactive computer service that hosts content provided by others. Statements in the registry may be submitted by users, drawn from sources users identify, or independently recorded by Thonest as described in Section 4e; in every case they are attributed to the person who made them at the source we link. Flocksy is not the author or speaker of those statements, and hosting a statement is not an endorsement of it or a representation that it is true.

We claim the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230) for information provided by another information content provider. We do not claim that protection for everything on the Service. Material that Thonest itself creates or develops — including classifications, normalized descriptions of a claim, resolution conditions, settlement outcomes, and summaries — is our own content and is not covered by that section. Section 230 also does not apply to intellectual-property claims, and nothing here asserts otherwise.

Verification is mechanical and narrow. When we report that a quote was verified, we mean only that the words appear in the source at the location cited and are attributed there to the named speaker. That is a statement about the source, not an assertion that the speaker was right, honest, or reasonable. For a pre-outcome record, reporting that a locked condition was MET or NOT MET means that the condition was evaluated against its named source, automatically where supported or through documented evidence review. Historical records added after the outcome are clearly identified and excluded from pre-outcome track records. Neither reporting is an opinion about the speaker and must not be represented as one.

Any moderation, formatting, verification, refusal, or removal we perform is undertaken in good faith to keep the registry accurate. Exercising editorial judgment of that kind does not make Flocksy the publisher of user-submitted content, and no such action waives any protection available under Section 230(c) or any other law.

4b. Public statements, public figures, and fair use

Our editorial policy is to quote only the minimum necessary for accurate attribution, always with a link to the original, for purposes of documentation, commentary, research, and public-interest record-keeping. We also aim to record statements made publicly by public figures and limited-purpose public figures speaking in their public capacity, on matters of public concern.

That is a statement of our policy and intent — it is not a representation that any particular excerpt qualifies as fair use or any other exception under copyright law, which depends on facts a court weighs case by case. Third-party submissions targeting private individuals are prohibited under Section 6; see Section 6a on recording your own statements.

4c. Notice, right of reply, and takedown

Anyone — including a person quoted — may contest a record through the dispute process or by emailing hello@thonest.com. On receiving a specific, good-faith notice that a record misquotes, misattributes, or materially misrepresents a statement, we will review it promptly and, where the notice is substantiated, append a public correction, mark the record as disputed, or withdraw it from public display. Speakers may submit a response for publication alongside their record. These remedies are available without cost and without litigation, and we ask that they be used first.

4d. Copyright complaints

Copyright Agent
Flocksy LLC
PO Box 1691
Pawcatuck, CT 06379
United States
Email: hello@thonest.com · Subject: “DMCA Notice”

We review notices promptly and will remove or disable access to material as appropriate. We maintain a repeat-infringer policy and will terminate accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

4e. Records Thonest creates

Thonest may independently identify public statements and create registry records from publicly available sources, including before the person or organization identified in a record has created an account or claimed a profile. A Thonest-created record does not mean that the person identified submitted, approved, sponsored, endorsed, or is affiliated with the record or with Thonest. Each record states who put its source on the record, and Thonest-created records are identified as added by Thonest.

Claiming a profile verifies identity or control of an account or domain. It does not mean the person endorses every existing third-party or Thonest-created record on that profile, and existing records are not altered by a claim. Anyone identified in a record may use the notice, reply, and dispute mechanisms in Section 4c.

4f. Connected revenue data and locked goals

If you connect a payment provider such as Stripe, you grant Thonest read-only access to the data needed to compute the metrics we publish for your company — currently monthly recurring revenue and the number of paying customers. We do not request, and cannot exercise, any ability to create charges, issue refunds, alter subscriptions, or move funds. We compute those metrics using the published method at How we count MRR, which is versioned; a locked goal is settled under the version in force when it was locked.

When you lock a goal, the goal, the measurements required to settle it, and the eventual outcome become a permanent public record. Disconnecting your payment provider stops further collection from the moment of disconnection. It does not withdraw a goal already locked, does not remove measurements already taken, and does not prevent the goal from being settled or from being published as unsettled. You accept this expressly at the point of locking, and a goal cannot be locked without that acceptance.

You are responsible for the accuracy of what your connected account contains. Where we cannot compute a metric under the published method — for example an account billing in more than one currency — we will decline to publish a figure rather than estimate one.

4g. Reported timelines

Some company pages on Thonest are reported rather than verified. These are assembled by Thonest from revenue figures the company has published about itself — its own blog, dashboard, interviews or posts — and every entry carries a link to the source it came from. They are labelled “Reported” on the page and on every row.

A reported page is not measured from that company’s billing and is not verified by Thonest. We do not warrant that figures we did not measure are accurate, current, or complete, and figures may be estimated between published points where the page says so. As set out in Section 4e, a reported page does not mean the company submitted, approved, sponsored, endorsed, or is affiliated with the page or with Thonest.

Any company may have its reported page removed on request. Email hello@thonest.com from a company address and we will withdraw it from public display. No reason is required and the remedies in Section 4c remain available for corrections instead of removal.

5. Permanence, corrections, and disputes

The anchored cryptographic proof cannot be altered or deleted. The readable, off-chain record is append-only by default, but we may restrict or withdraw it from public display when required by law, these Terms or our published policies. Corrections and withdrawals are documented transparently when legally permitted. Cryptographic hashes already published to a public blockchain may remain permanently.

Errors are handled through public, append-only correction events displayed alongside the original, and anyone, including the person quoted, may use the dispute process. You acknowledge that registration is effectively irreversible in this sense: cryptographic fingerprints of records persist on public blockchain infrastructure that nobody, including us, can alter, even where the readable record is later restricted or withdrawn from public display.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to: submit fabricated quotes or misattributed statements; harass, defame, or target private individuals; scrape or overload the Service; probe or breach its security; use the Service to violate any law; misrepresent Thonest records as endorsements or judgments; or interfere with the operation of the registry. We may rate-limit, suspend, or block access to protect the Service.

6a. Recording your own statements

Anyone may register their own predictions and statements, whether or not they are a public figure. The restrictions in Section 6 on records concerning private individuals apply to submissions about other people. They do not limit what you may record about yourself.

The Service currently focuses on recording statements already made in public by others, and the interface for registering your own statements is not presently offered to all users. That is a product decision and may change; it does not narrow the permission above, and records already registered by the people who made them remain valid and are unaffected.

6b. Comments, reactions, and watching

Signed-in users may comment on a record, reply once to a comment, react to a record, and watch a record to be emailed about it. Comments and replies are your content, published under your account name and visible to anyone who can see the record. You are responsible for what you post.

You grant Flocksy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and display your comments as part of the record they appear on, for as long as they remain published. That licence exists so we can show your comment; it does not transfer ownership of what you wrote.

The same standards as the rest of the Service apply, and more directly, because a comment names a real person: no harassment, threats, incitement, or content posted to intimidate someone; no statements you know or should know to be false about an identifiable person; no impersonation of any person or organisation, including the person a record is about; no private or identifying information about anyone; and nothing unlawful. Report a comment at hello@thonest.com.

Comments are not part of the record. Unlike a registered claim, they carry no verification, are not anchored, and are not append-only. We may remove or withhold any comment, with or without notice, and you may delete your own — deletion removes the text while leaving the thread’s shape intact so replies still read coherently. Removing a comment never alters the underlying record.

A reaction is not a vote on whether a prediction is right. Reactions record only that someone thought a claim was worth having on the record. They are never counted for or against the person quoted, never used to rank or order anything, and carry no weight in any track record. Nothing in a comment or reaction is Thonest’s own statement about anyone.

Where a record names the user who submitted it, that credit means only that they located and submitted a publicly available source. It does not mean they wrote the statement, agree with it, endorse it, or have any connection to the person quoted.

7. Not advice

Thonest records statements about markets, technology, and world events, and reports whether locked tests were met. Nothing on the Service is financial, investment, legal, or other professional advice. Records and resolutions are informational only. Do not make investment decisions based on the Service.

8. Third-party content and services

Records link to third-party sources we do not control. The Service also relies on third-party providers, including AI model providers, hosting, email delivery, archival services, and public blockchain networks. We are not responsible for third-party content, services, or networks.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, its design, and its software are owned by Flocksy or its licensors. Quoted statements remain the intellectual property of their authors and are reproduced as brief, sourced excerpts for the public-interest purpose of accurate attribution. If you believe content infringes your copyright, contact hello@thonest.com with the information required by the DMCA and we will respond promptly.

10. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY RECORD, VERIFICATION, OR RESOLUTION IS COMPLETE OR CORRECT.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FLOCKSY AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL. FLOCKSY’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO $100 USD.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Flocksy LLC and its members, managers, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, judgments, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising from: (a) content you submitted that was fabricated, knowingly misattributed, or materially altered from its source; (b) your infringement of another’s intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights; (c) your deliberate misconduct or unlawful conduct; or (d) your material breach of these Terms.

This obligation is limited to matters within your control. It does not extend to ordinary use of the Service, to good-faith submissions that later prove mistaken, or to claims arising from Flocksy’s own content, classifications, resolution conditions, or settlement outcomes. It survives termination of your account. We may participate in the defense of any indemnified matter with counsel of our choosing.

12a. Assumption of risk and release

Submitting a statement attributed to another named person carries legal risk that sits with you. Before submitting, satisfy yourself that the wording is accurate, the attribution is correct, and the source is lawfully public. The particular risks of attributing a statement to another person do not apply when recording your own statement under Section 6a. All other obligations under these Terms still apply.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing requires you to indemnify Flocksy for its own gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud.

13. Arbitration and class action waiver

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service (“Dispute”) shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association. Consumer disputes are administered under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules and Consumer Due Process Protocol. Disputes involving business or API customers are administered under the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules. Arbitration shall take place in New London, Connecticut, or — if you are an individual consumer — remotely or in your home county at your election, consistent with the Consumer Arbitration Rules. If you are an individual consumer, Flocksy will pay the filing and arbitrator’s fees for any claim under $10,000 brought in good faith, and either party may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court. For business and API customers, the parties share the arbitrator’s expenses equally and the prevailing party may recover reasonable attorneys’ fees. Proceedings are confidential. All Disputes shall be arbitrated on an individual basis. You irrevocably waive any right to proceed on a class or collective basis. If this arbitration provision is found unenforceable, Disputes shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New London County, Connecticut, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

14a. Limitation period, severability, survival

Any claim arising from or relating to the Service must be brought within one (1) year after the claim arose, or it is permanently barred, to the extent such a limitation is enforceable where you live. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions remain in full force. Sections 4, 4a, 4b, 4e, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 12a, 13, and 14 survive termination of your account or of these Terms. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

15. Changes

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

16. Contact

Flocksy LLC, d/b/a Thonest
PO Box 1691
Pawcatuck, CT 06379
United States
hello@thonest.com

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