Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: May 2026.

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs your use of Oakrift, a media-intelligence service operated by Whitescale Labs LLC. By using Oakrift, you agree to this AUP and to the Oakrift Terms of Service.

This AUP applies to everyone who accesses or uses Oakrift, including account holders, users acting on their behalf, and anyone who receives or distributes content generated by the service.

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" line above, and changes take effect when posted.

1. What Oakrift Is — and Isn't

Oakrift produces AI-generated intelligence briefs that interpret and summarize publicly available information about companies, people, and topics. Briefs are interpretive analysis based on public sources. They are probabilistic, may contain errors, and are not statements of verified fact about any person or company.

This shapes what Oakrift may and may not be used for. The rules below apply.

2. Subjects of Briefs — Who You Can and Cannot Generate Briefs About

Oakrift is designed for intelligence about public figures, companies, organizations, and topics. You may use the service to generate briefs about:

• Companies, organizations, brands, and products.
• Public figures — public officials, executives of public or substantial private companies, public-facing media figures, and people who have voluntarily entered public controversy on a matter of public concern.
• Public topics, events, industries, and trends.

You may not use Oakrift to generate, request, or distribute briefs that:

• Target private individuals. Do not generate briefs about identified private individuals (people who are not public figures as described above). This includes briefs about neighbors, ex-partners, family members, individual consumers, individual employees, or other private persons.
• Target minors. Do not generate briefs about any person who is, or whom you reasonably know to be, under 18.
• Make criminal allegations or professional-misconduct claims about named individuals that are not already a matter of public record. This includes accusations of fraud, crime, sexual misconduct, malpractice, or other professional or ethical wrongdoing against an identified person.
• Harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm a specific person or company.
• Stalk, surveil, dox, or aid in stalking or doxxing any person.
• Are generated for the purpose of unlawful discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, age, or other protected characteristic, or to assist any person in doing so.

3. Decisions You May Not Make Solely on the Basis of a Brief

Briefs are interpretive analysis, not verified fact. You may not use a brief, by itself or as the determinative input, to make a decision about a specific person where the law requires independent verification or imposes special obligations. In particular, do not use a brief as the sole or determinative basis for:

• Employment decisions — hiring, firing, promotion, discipline, or compensation.
• Credit, lending, or insurance decisions.
• Housing or tenancy decisions.
• Healthcare or medical treatment decisions.
• Legal decisions — including any decision that would constitute the practice of law or require legal advice.
• Educational or admissions decisions.

For any of these, you must independently verify the underlying facts before acting. Oakrift is not a consumer reporting agency, a background check service, an investment adviser, a legal adviser, or a medical adviser, and briefs are not consumer reports, background checks, investment advice, legal advice, or medical advice.

4. Republication and Distribution of Briefs

You may share, forward, and republish briefs you generate, subject to the rules below. These rules exist because a brief may travel beyond the original viewer, and downstream readers must be able to understand what they're reading.

When you republish, forward, or distribute a brief outside Oakrift, you must:

• Preserve the on-brief disclaimer and attribution. Do not remove or alter the AI-generated/interpretive-analysis disclaimer that appears on briefs, and do not present a brief as anything other than what it is.
• Not present briefs as verified statements of fact about identified people or companies. Briefs are interpretive synthesis; do not characterize them otherwise.
• Not republish briefs you have been notified contain inaccurate, misleading, or harmful statements, unless and until the issue has been resolved (for example, through the Notice & Takedown process).

If you republish or distribute a brief in violation of these rules, you are responsible for the consequences of that republication. This is reflected in the indemnification provisions of the Terms of Service.

5. Competitive and Disparagement Use

Oakrift may be used to research and understand competitors as part of normal business intelligence. It may not be used to disparage them or to interfere with their business relationships. You may not:

• Use briefs to make false or misleading public statements about a competitor, their products, their services, their executives, or their business.
• Use briefs in regulatory filings, complaints to regulators, or litigation in a way that presents the brief as verified factual evidence about a competitor.
• Use briefs to interfere with a competitor's existing contracts or business relationships by sharing the brief with the competitor's customers, partners, investors, or counterparties in a manner intended to disrupt those relationships.
• Use briefs to conduct astroturfing, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or any campaign that misrepresents the source or nature of the analysis.

6. Service Integrity and Standard Restrictions

Regardless of your purpose, you may not:

• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of Oakrift, its models, or its underlying systems, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
• Scrape, crawl, or harvest data from Oakrift through automated means, except via APIs we provide for that purpose.
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any technical or access controls, rate limits, security measures, or usage limits.
• Conduct security testing, penetration testing, or vulnerability research against Oakrift without our prior written authorization. (To report a vulnerability you have discovered incidentally, contact security@oakrift.com.)
• Use the service to transmit malware, viruses, or other malicious code.
• Impose an unreasonably large load on Oakrift's infrastructure beyond ordinary, good-faith use.
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, in connection with your use of Oakrift.
• Use the service to violate any applicable law or regulation, or to facilitate the violation of any applicable law or regulation, including export controls, sanctions, and intellectual-property laws.
• Use the service in any way that is or could reasonably be construed as terrorism, incitement to violence, child sexual abuse material, or other content that is illegal under U.S. federal or applicable state law. We will report suspected child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement as required by law.
• Share, resell, or sublicense your account or your access to Oakrift to anyone outside your organization, except as expressly permitted by the Terms of Service.

7. Customer Responsibility for Use

You are responsible for:

• Your use of Oakrift, including the inputs you provide and the briefs you generate.
• The use of Oakrift by anyone who accesses it through your account or with your credentials, whether or not you authorized that use.
• Ensuring that anyone in your organization who uses Oakrift on your behalf understands and complies with this AUP.
• Any republication, distribution, or downstream use of briefs that you or your organization initiate.

8. Enforcement

We may, at our discretion and without prior notice:

• Investigate suspected violations of this AUP, including by reviewing brief generation activity and inputs associated with your account.
• Remove or restrict access to specific briefs that we determine, in our reasonable judgment, violate this AUP.
• Suspend or terminate accounts that we determine, in our reasonable judgment, violate this AUP, including under our repeat-infringer policy described in the Notice & Takedown page.
• Report violations to law enforcement, regulators, or other parties as we determine appropriate or as required by law.

We are not obligated to monitor use of the service for AUP violations. The absence of enforcement action in any particular case does not constitute a waiver of our right to act on similar or related matters in the future.

9. Reporting Violations

If you believe someone is using Oakrift in violation of this AUP, contact us at legal@oakrift.com. If you are the subject of a brief and believe it contains inaccurate, misleading, or harmful statements about you, please use the correction process at corrections@oakrift.com (see the Notice & Takedown page).

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP from time to time, including to address new risks, new product capabilities, or changes in law. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" line at the top of this page, and changes take effect when posted. Continued use of Oakrift after a change to this AUP constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

This AUP is part of, and should be read together with, the Oakrift Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Notice & Takedown page.