Terms of Use

About Akari Earth

Akari Earth™ is an evolving research and design initiative of Brainbyte LLC. It is exploring cooperative housing, shared stewardship, intentional community, accountable governance, belonging, and neurodivergent-conceived community design.

Akari Earth is not currently operating a housing community or accepting applications for housing or membership. The concepts presented on this site remain under research, development, review, and revision.

Research-stage information

Website content may describe questions, principles, hypotheses, possible structures, or future directions. It should not be treated as a finished legal, financial, organizational, architectural, clinical, housing, tax, governance, or operating model.

Akari Earth may revise, expand, narrow, replace, or discontinue concepts as research and professional review continue.

No advice or professional services

• Site content is provided for general informational and research purposes only.
• Nothing on this site is legal, tax, accounting, financial, investment, clinical, accessibility, civil-rights, real-estate, engineering, architectural, construction, environmental, or planning advice.
• Akari Earth does not currently provide housing, professional services, or individualized recommendations through this website.
• Any real-world housing, land, membership, cooperative, occupancy, disciplinary, governance, financing, accessibility, or development structure would require appropriate professional review and compliance with applicable law.
• Nothing on this site is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities, and nothing promises financial returns, housing, membership, funding, services, or other outcomes.

Contact, research participation, and expressions of interest

Messages, research responses, meeting requests, introductions, and expressions of interest are voluntary, informational, and non-binding.

Submitting a form or participating in a conversation does not create a customer, client, tenant, resident, member, employee, partner, advisor, fiduciary, agency, joint-venture, or other formal relationship with Brainbyte LLC or Akari Earth.

Participation does not constitute an application for housing, membership, employment, funding, services, or future participation. Any future relationship would require separate written documentation and any appropriate legal or professional review.

Research submissions and communications

Please submit only information you are comfortable sharing for the stated research or communication purpose. Do not submit confidential business information, privileged communications, trade secrets, or highly sensitive personal information unless Akari Earth has expressly requested it and appropriate safeguards have been agreed.

Research responses may be summarized, coded, grouped into themes, or paraphrased for internal analysis and model development, subject to the permissions and privacy choices presented when the information is collected.

Direct quotations will not be publicly attributed to an identifiable participant without permission.

Acceptable use

• Do not misuse the site or interfere with its normal operation.
• Do not attempt unauthorized access, security testing, destructive activity, or circumvention of technical protections.
• Do not use automated systems for large-scale scraping, extraction, copying, or collection without written permission.
• Do not submit unlawful, infringing, deceptive, threatening, malicious, discriminatory, or harmful content.
• Do not impersonate another person or falsely represent an affiliation, authorization, credential, or professional role.

Intellectual property

Akari Earth™, the website, branding, text, visuals, designs, frameworks, questionnaires, research materials, documentation, software, and related materials are owned by Brainbyte LLC, its contributors, or licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property and related laws.

The Akari Earth name is protected to preserve the integrity of the initiative and reduce the risk of misleading, unauthorized, or incompatible use. Trademark and copyright ownership do not mean that every future community concept, practice, or research finding will necessarily remain closed or proprietary.

You may view the site for personal, educational, research, or organizational evaluation. Reproduction, distribution, publication, derivative use, commercial reuse, automated extraction, model-training use, or other reuse requires written permission unless otherwise permitted by law or by an express license accompanying specific material.

Third-party services and links

The site may use or link to third-party services, including hosting, forms, scheduling, email, analytics, communications, storage, or infrastructure providers. Those services may have their own terms, privacy policies, availability, and security practices.

A link or reference does not necessarily constitute endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, or verification.

Availability, accuracy, and changes

We aim to present information responsibly, but we do not guarantee that website content is complete, current, error-free, or suitable for a particular purpose. Research-stage content may change as new evidence, lived experience, criticism, or professional guidance is considered.

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the website or its content without notice.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The site is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brainbyte LLC, Akari Earth, and their owners, contributors, contractors, affiliates, and service providers disclaim warranties arising from or related to the site and its content.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, those parties will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenues, data, goodwill, opportunity, or expected benefit arising from or related to use of, inability to use, or reliance on the site.

Governing law and updates

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

We may update these Terms as Akari Earth’s research activities, website, or practices evolve. When we do, we will update the effective date shown above.

Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to hello@akariearth.com .