Terms of Service

Last updated: 6 July 2026 (v2.1)

Plain-English terms for using strangematerials.com and the Ray client workspace. The one-line summary: the scoping service produces AI drafts and estimates that you must verify before using, nothing is binding until a formal proposal or quote is accepted, and responsibility for decisions made on those drafts stays with you.

1. Who we are

"Strange Materials", "we" and "us" mean Quantum Touch Limited, a company registered in Ireland (CRO 482832, VAT IE3201879BH), Office 2, 12A Lower Main Street, Lucan, Dublin, K78 X5P8, Ireland. Contact: [email protected]. By using this site or the client workspace you accept these terms. The service is aimed at businesses; if you use it as a consumer, nothing here limits rights you have by law that cannot be limited.

2. The service — and what you agree to by using it

We provide (a) a free AI-assisted scoping service — a conversation with our AI assistant, Ray, which produces working documents such as an opportunity brief, business case, pitch deck and draft scope — and (b) paid design and build engagements, which are always agreed separately in writing.

3. The default agreement — and proposing something different

These Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Cookies notice, the AI Transparency Statement and the Default Data Processing Agreement together form the default agreement. It governs all use of this site, the scoping service and our proposal process — no signature needed.

• Want different terms? That's on you to raise. If you need a replacement or supplementary contract — your own master services agreement, procurement terms, a negotiated DPA — the onus is on you to propose it in writing, and to draw it up, before or during the proposal process. Nothing different applies unless we expressly accept it in writing.
• No silent substitutions. Terms attached to purchase orders, invoices, vendor-onboarding portals or similar have no effect unless we expressly accept them in writing — issuing a PO or paying an invoice does not vary the default agreement.
• Engaging is agreeing. If no replacement has been proposed and accepted, then by engaging or continuing our proposal process you acknowledge and agree that the default agreement governs in full.
• Order of precedence: (1) a signed engagement contract or accepted formal proposal; (2) any replacement agreement we expressly accepted in writing; (3) the default agreement. Within the default agreement, the Default DPA prevails on processor obligations.

4. Your account and access

• Access to the workspace is by sign-in link sent to your email. Keep control of that inbox — anyone with the link can access your workspace. You are responsible for activity under your access.
• You may invite colleagues into a specific project as read-only guests. You are responsible for choosing them, for having the right to give us their name and email, for ensuring they comply with these terms, and for revoking access when it should end. Guests can read the project pack and ask Ray questions; they cannot change anything. Anything a guest does with project outputs is between you and them — our responsibilities are only to you, our client.
• We may suspend access that we reasonably believe is abusive, unlawful, or an attempt to compromise the service, and we apply fair-usage limits to keep the service available for everyone.

5. Acceptable use

Don't use the service to do anything unlawful; don't upload content you have no right to share, or that is malicious (including malware or content designed to manipulate or subvert the AI system); don't attempt to probe, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the service; don't misrepresent who you are. We log security-relevant events and act on them.

6. Your content and our IP

• Yours stays yours. You own the information and files you provide. You grant us the licence needed to process them to run the service — including AI processing as described in our AI Transparency Statement — and we handle personal data as set out in the Privacy Policy. We do not use your data to train AI models. You warrant that your content is lawful, accurate to your knowledge, and yours to share — AI outputs are built from what you provide, and errors in equal errors out.
• Drafts are for your evaluation. Documents the scoping service produces for you may be shared inside your organisation and with your advisers — subject always to section 7: whoever you share them with, the duty to verify before use travels with you. The document formats, templates, the Ray system, this site and our branding remain ours.
• Delivered work. Ownership of what we build for you is dealt with in the engagement contract for that build, not by these terms.

7. AI outputs — verification and responsibility are yours

The scoping service uses artificial intelligence, and AI has known failure modes: it can produce content that is inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or plausible-sounding but wrong. You accept the following as conditions of using the service:

• Everything is a draft. Every output — documents, figures, forecasts, scopes, chat answers, voice replies — is AI-generated draft material for your evaluation, even where a human has reviewed it, unless and until it is confirmed in a formal proposal or engagement document issued by our team.
• You verify before use. You must independently check any output — figures, assumptions, claims, calculations, suitability — before using it for any purpose: internal decisions, board or investor material, financial planning, grant or funding applications, communications, or anything else.
• Your decisions, your responsibility. In all scenarios, you are solely responsible for any decision made, action taken, or loss arising from use of or reliance on outputs. Outputs are inputs to your judgement — they do not replace it, and we do not stand behind unverified use.
• Not professional advice. Nothing the service produces is legal, financial, tax, accounting, investment, grant, regulatory or other professional advice. Where such matters arise, engage a qualified adviser. Guidance on grants or funding is signposting only; applying, and eligibility, are matters between you and the funding body.
• Your compliance stays yours. You are responsible for how outputs are used in your business, industry and jurisdiction, including any regulatory, disclosure or professional obligations that apply to you, and for checking that your use of any output does not infringe third-party rights.
• No promised outcomes. Forecasts, savings estimates and scenarios are models built on stated assumptions — they are illustrations, not predictions or guarantees of any result.

8. Your indemnity to us

You will indemnify and hold harmless Quantum Touch Limited, its directors, employees and agents against all claims, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of: (a) content you (or your guests) provide to the service; (b) your — or anyone you shared them with — use of or reliance on outputs, including decisions taken on unverified drafts; (c) your breach of these terms or of applicable law; and (d) access you granted to guests. This indemnity does not apply to the extent a claim results from our fraud or wilful misconduct.

9. Paid engagements

Paid work is governed by the accepted proposal or quote and any engagement contract, including price, deposit, timeline and deliverables. If those documents conflict with these terms, the engagement documents win for that work. Invoices are payable as stated on them. Unless a replacement DPA has been agreed in writing, the Default DPA applies to personal data we process on your behalf during the engagement.

10. Liability

The free scoping service is provided "as is" and without warranty of any kind — including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for purpose or availability — and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability arising from its use, including any loss arising from use of or reliance on AI-generated outputs, whether or not reviewed by a human. For paid engagements, our total aggregate liability is capped at the fees you paid for the engagement concerned, and neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue, business, data, goodwill or anticipated savings. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

11. Availability and changes

The scoping service is provided free and its availability is not guaranteed; we may change, suspend or withdraw features. We may update these terms — the "last updated" date changes and continued use means acceptance. Material changes affecting an active paid engagement will be notified.

12. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the Irish courts have exclusive jurisdiction — except that consumers retain any rights to bring proceedings in their home jurisdiction. Talk to us first: most things are fixable at [email protected].