machine graded — membership agreement
This is the agreement a member accepts at checkout ("the sign-up agreement"). It incorporates the Risk & Performance Disclosure and the Privacy Policy by reference; both are presented and separately acknowledged at checkout (see ACCEPTANCECAPTURESPEC.md).
MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT between BALD ARTHUR LLC, a Georgia limited liability company with its registered address at 250 Cricket Lane, Alpharetta, GA 30009, contact kelly@machinegraded.com, operating as Machine Graded ("we," "us," "the lab"), and the individual identified at checkout ("you," "the member").
1. The service
A personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to receive Machine Graded's alert feed and related member surfaces for the term paid for. Pricing as displayed at checkout (founding tranche: $350 per 3 months, listed first, or $150 per month; the published price ladder rises for later tranches — existing seats keep their price). Seats are capped at 15; the cap exists because the markets traded absorb roughly that much follower flow, and enrolment may be frozen at any time by our capacity governor.
You are buying access to a feed, not a promise about results. Nothing we send is financial, investment, betting, or tax advice, and nothing is a solicitation to trade. Every decision to place, size, or skip a position is yours alone. You acknowledge the Risk & Performance Disclosure, which you accepted separately at checkout and which is part of this agreement.
2. Our commitments
(a) Every alert sent to members is graded and published in the public record, wins and losses alike, on the same template and schedule. (b) We never delete or retroactively edit a graded pick; corrections are new, dated entries quoting the error. (c) From the date live house trading begins — published on the record as the start of the live era — house positions and member alerts fire from the same tick, with ordering logged and auditable; until that date the record is paper-graded and no house-execution claim is made. (d) A false alert becomes a dated public incident note. (e) The method stays private; the record never does — you will not receive model or mechanism detail, and no member ever will.
3. Your responsibilities
(a) You are 18 or older (or the higher age your jurisdiction requires for the venues you use). (b) Venue legality is yours to determine. Whether you may lawfully use Polymarket, Kalshi, a funded/prop account, or any other venue where you live is your responsibility; our staff and agents are instructed to refuse to advise on it. (c) Sizing is yours. We publish stake guidance in units; translating units into money is your decision against your own bankroll. (d) If you follow selectively, your results are yours, not the record's. (e) If you trade a funded/prop account, that firm's rules are between you and the firm; we provide analysis, not instructions, and do not control your risk, timing, or selection. (f) You will keep your own delivery channels (Telegram, notifications) working; we verify delivery at onboarding.
4. Redistribution and watermarking
Your seat is personal. You may not share, resell, republish, syndicate, group-buy, mirror, screenshot-forward, paraphrase-for-redistribution, or otherwise provide our alerts to any non-member, in any medium, paid or free.
DISCLOSURE: every alert you receive is individually watermarked to your seat, in more than one way; marks survive copying and screenshots and identify the receiving seat deterministically. We monitor public and semi-public channels for our alert content. A leaked alert identifies who leaked it.
If your seat redistributes alerts: (1) the seat is terminated immediately; (2) no refund is issued for the remaining term — agreed liquidated compensation for capacity and edge decay, not a penalty [enforceability + figure — counsel]; (3) the seat is released to the waitlist; (4) we may state publicly that a seat was terminated for redistribution, without naming you. [Injunctive relief; DMCA for republished record content — counsel.]
5. Payment, guarantee, cancellation
(a) All sales are final. Payments are non-refundable in all circumstances — including cancellation, dissatisfaction, termination of the seat, or discontinuation of the service. [No-refund enforceability by jurisdiction; consumer-law carve-outs — counsel.] (b) You may cancel any time and keep access until the term ends. (c) Cancellation is one step; our staff and agents are instructed never to pressure, guilt, delay, or upsell on the way out. (d) Billing runs through Whop/Stripe; the statement descriptor is MACHINEGRADED. Please contact us before initiating a chargeback. [Chargeback-abuse clause — counsel.] (e) Prices may change for future terms with notice; your current term's price is fixed; if the seat cap is ever raised, existing seats keep their price.
6. The AI, stated plainly
The lab's public operator, Kelly, is an AI, disclosed on every surface. The operation — grading, publication, alert dispatch, auditing — is run by automated systems with human oversight. The record is not AI-generated: it is the graded outcome of real alerts against real venue resolutions, and every figure traces to a published file you can download and recompute. Support may be handled by an AI agent with a human escalation path; anything involving money, legal questions, delivery failures, or distress reaches a human.
7. Suspension and termination by us
We may suspend or terminate any seat at any time, for any reason or for no reason, at our sole discretion. Where the termination is for redistribution (§4), no refund is issued (§4(2)). No refund is issued for any termination, including discretionary termination by us. [Termination-without-cause combined with strict no-refund — counsel: flagged as the agreement's most aggressive clause.] Causes we will always act on include abuse or harassment, attempts to extract methodology, chargeback fraud, and breach of §3.
8. Service realities and operator discretion
Alerts aim for delivery within 30 seconds of firing, but delivery depends on third-party platforms and your device; we do not guarantee third-party uptime. A no-alert day is not a service failure — zero qualifying edges means zero alerts, and that is the system working as designed.
The shape of the service is ours to decide, at any time, at our sole discretion. We decide — and may change without your approval — which markets and models the system trades, how many alerts fire, when they fire, how they are formatted and delivered, which features exist, and whether enrollment is open. We may pause, modify, or discontinue any part of the service at any time. No particular market, model, alert volume, or feature is promised — what you are owed is the feed as it exists, honestly graded and honestly published. If we materially reduce the service mid-term, no refund is issued; your remedy is cancellation. [counsel.]
9. Intellectual property
The record, alert formats, site content, and marks remain ours. Your licence is to use alerts for your own trading during your term, nothing more. Publishing your own results referencing your membership is fine; republishing our content is §4.
10. Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability is limited to the amounts you paid in the 3 months preceding the claim, and we are not liable for trading losses, missed opportunities, venue outages, or third-party platform failures. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. [Cap figure; warranty-disclaimer conformity; indemnity; governing law and venue; arbitration + class-action waiver — counsel.]
11. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy (accepted at checkout, incorporated by reference) governs data handling. Watermark-to-seat mappings exist solely to enforce §4.
12. General
(a) Entire agreement — this agreement plus the incorporated disclosures is the whole deal; no rep or promise outside it (including anything in marketing posts) is part of it. (b) Severability — if a clause fails, the rest stands. (c) No waiver by inaction. (d) Assignment — you may not assign; we may assign to a successor of the business. (e) Notices — email to the address you gave at application; you must keep it current. (f) Changes — material changes get notice before taking effect at your next renewal; the dated version in force when you paid governs that term. (g) This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia.
13. Acceptance
Accepted electronically at checkout by checking the acceptance boxes and completing payment. We record the terms version, timestamp, and acceptance evidence (see ACCEPTANCECAPTURESPEC.md). [Confirm e-sign/UETA sufficiency of checkbox + payment as signature — counsel.]
Version: v1.3 · effective Aug 4 2026 · v1.0 approved by counsel Aug 1 2026; §7 amended Aug 1; §§5, 7, 8 amended Aug 3 (strict no-refund policy); §1 pricing amended Aug 4 (founding $150/$350) — all amendments pre-first-acceptance, pending counsel re-review.