Drew Founding Members Waitlist, Beta and Invite Terms

Run by: Drew App, To be added, Victoria, Australia ("we", "us"). Contact: hello@drewai.app Effective: 2 November 2026

By joining the waitlist, you agree to these terms. Please read them with our Privacy Policy.

1. The short version

• Joining the waitlist is free. You don't need to buy anything to join, get free beta access in your wave, or share a free invite. Paying never changes your position. If you're at final position 501 to 1,000, paying lets you join the beta in the first wave instead of the next wave. It also gives you the Early Beta badge and, if you're still subscribed at launch, the founder rate offer (section 7A.11).
• Prices. These terms don't list prices. Prices will be shown clearly, including GST, before you agree to pay anything, and nobody is charged without first seeing the full price.
• Text pilot. Drew may run a text pilot with a small, hand-picked group. Some people can join it through an invitation from a pilot member, but only once we approve them. Approval isn't promised. If you're not approved, you keep your place on the beta list (section 7B).
• Free plan. At launch there'll be a Free plan. It's free for as long as Drew runs, and we have no plans to change that. We'll never move you to a paid plan or charge you without your choice, and if anything about the Free plan changes, you'll get notice first (section 10A.1). It includes a set of connectors, and paid plans unlock more.
• Your position. Everyone has a ranking score. It starts from the order you confirmed your email. Each verified referral (someone who signs up through your link, confirms their own email and passes our checks) lowers your score by 10 points, for up to 10 verified referrals (so 100 points at most), until the cut-off. We sort everyone by score, lowest first, so your actual position depends on everyone's scores. We don't promise any number of places. Shares, clicks and payments don't count (section 4).
• The top 500 people in the final list (section 5) get free beta access in the first wave.
• Positions 501 to 1,000 get free beta access in a later wave, planned as the next wave after the first (section 7.2). Or they can choose to pay to join the first wave (section 7A).
• Positions 1,001 and below stay on the second-wave waitlist for free access in later waves (section 9). They can't pay for first-wave access. They can join the first wave only if one of the final top 500 gives them their free invite, which isn't promised (section 8). And, if they join through a free invite and stay for the full beta, can be offered the founder rate through path 2 (section 10.1).
  • Positions 1–500 also get a numbered Founders badge and the Early Beta badge (section 6).
  • Everyone in the first wave gets the Early Beta badge: the top 500, paid members, and people who join through a free invite (section 6).
  • Positions 501–1,000 who don't pay get free access in a later wave (planned as the next wave), without a badge (section 6).
  • You keep the Early Beta badge until you cancel or leave. If you take up the launch offer at the end of the beta, you keep it (section 6.4).
• Invites (section 8). There's one kind of invite: a free invite, which gives the person you invite free first-wave beta access. The final top 500 each get 1 free invite. It's used once the person you invite signs up through your link and confirms their email, and it isn't replaced after that (sections 8.5 and 8.6). Invites are never sold, and there's no paid route through an invite.
• Before launch, there's no money, credit or other reward for referring or inviting people. A verified referral only lowers your ranking score. Your final position then decides your beta wave and, for the final top 500, the Founders badge and the founder rate offer (section 4.12). Free invitees who stay for the full beta (section 10.1A), and paid beta members still subscribed at launch (section 10.1), are also offered the founder rate, in ways that have nothing to do with referrals. You get nothing when someone you invite joins, uses Drew or pays (section 8.9). After launch, if someone you invited directly signs up on or after launch day and pays for a plan, you each get Drew credits once their first paid month and refund window are done. They're for extras in Drew, not plan fees, and have no cash value (section 8A). Invites can't be sold or bought (section 8.8).
• Members share their own invite link. Drew never sends invite emails for you.
• Badges and waves depend on your position, not on luck. There are no draws, and no random picks.
• Paid first-wave access (optional). Only people at final position 501 to 1,000 can pay the founder monthly rate to join the first wave (section 7A). The price, including GST, is shown before you start your trial. The fee pays for your first-wave beta access. You start with a 7-day free trial once your access is switched on. We take your card when the trial starts, but we don't charge it during the trial. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your card is charged automatically, then each month. We'll remind you at least 48 hours before your first charge (section 7A.16). It's month to month, and you can cancel any time. We never charge you before your beta access is switched on. Paying never changes anyone's position. It does give you the Early Beta badge (section 6) and, if you're still subscribed at launch, the founder rate offer (section 10.1). Paid places are capped to what we can support well, including what services we rely on, such as Google, allow (section 7A.15).
• Founder rate at launch: when Drew launches, eligible members will be offered a founder rate on the Max plan for one 12-month term, paid up front (section 10). The full price is shown before you pay. There are three ways to be offered it (section 10.1): (1) be in the final top 500 when the beta starts, alongside the Founders badge; (2) join through a free invite and stay for the full beta (section 10.1A); or (3) be a paid beta member still subscribed at launch (section 7A.12). One offer per person, for one 12-month term.
• Money: the only payment before launch is the optional paid beta (section 7A). It's a monthly charge for access you can already use. We take no payment for a launch plan before launch.
• Drift early access: a chance to test Drift, Drew's local device helper, early, if places allow. Not promised (section 19). Drift can run commands on your computer, so it has its own extra rules and consent.
• The 500 and 1,000 lines are provisional until the final list. Your place can go up or down until the cut-off, and nothing is final before the final list. We don't promise dates.
• Play fair. We remove fake sign-ups and can adjust positions.

2. How badges and places work: position and effort, not chance

This isn't a competition, lottery or draw. Nothing is decided by chance. Badges, beta access and invites follow fixed rules in these terms, based on:

• when you confirmed your email;
• how many of your referrals are verified, up to the cap (sections 4.3 to 4.5); and
• for the Early Beta badge, whether you're in the first wave: in the top 500, through the paid beta, or through a free invite (section 6); and, for invites, whether you're in the final top 500 (section 8.2).

We never use a random draw. We never use a random tie-breaker, and we never manually re-order the line. The only exceptions are the fair-play rules in section 12 and fixing genuine errors.

The text pilot is separate from the line. We choose who joins it by fit and by how many people we can support (section 7B). That never changes anyone's place in the line.

3. Joining

1. You must be 18 or older.
2. Use your own email address. Only one entry per person.
3. We treat versions of the same inbox as one email. For example, in Gmail we ignore dots and anything after a "+". So jo.smith+1@gmail.com and josmith@gmail.com count as one entry.
4. We block disposable and throwaway email addresses.
5. Spam filtering runs on the form.
6. You join the line when you click the link in our confirmation email. Until then, you have no position.

4. How positions work

1. Your starting number is your confirmation order. The first person to confirm their email is number 1, the second is number 2, and so on. Earlier confirmations start higher.
2. After you confirm, you get a personal referral link. Share it yourself, with people you know (sections 4.13 and 8.4). Drew never sends it for you.
3. When a referral counts (a "verified referral"). A referral counts only when all of these are true:
   • someone new signs up through your link, before the cut-off (section 5.3);
   • they confirm their own email by clicking the link we send them;
   • they pass our bot check on the sign-up form (section 3.5);
   • they're not excluded under point 4; and
   • a 72-hour hold has passed since they confirmed, without a fair-play flag (section 12). If they're flagged, the referral counts only if a person clears it on review. Each person counts only once, and only for the first referral link they used. While a referral is on hold, your waitlist page shows it as "pending".
4. What doesn't count:
   • you, or a second account of yours (section 12);
   • anyone who was already on the waitlist;
   • sign-ups that are never confirmed, or that fail the bot check;
   • shares, posts, clicks or visits to your link;
   • anyone who signs up through a free invite (section 8);
   • pilot invitations (section 7B.6);
   • anyone who paid or was paid, or was offered anything, to sign up (section 12);
   • anyone who leaves the waitlist before the referral finishes its hold.
5. Your ranking score. Everyone on the waitlist has a ranking score:
   • Score = your confirmation order − (10 points × your verified referrals, up to the cap)
   • Only your first 10 verified referrals count. So the most anyone's score can drop is 100 points. You can share with more people, but extra referrals don't change your score.
   • A score can go below zero. We keep it as it is, so differences people have earned aren't flattened.
   • We sort everyone by score, lowest first. The lowest score is position 1, the next is position 2, and so on. That's the line.
   • Because everyone's referrals count, your position depends on everyone's scores, not just yours. A lower score doesn't promise any particular number of places. It's the same rule for everyone, and it never changes for one person.
6. Example (made-up numbers, for illustration only). Person A confirmed 3rd and has 1 verified referral: score 3 − 10 = −7. Person B confirmed 8th and has 2: score 8 − 20 = −12. Person C confirmed 2nd and has none: score 2. Sorted lowest first, the order among these three is B, A, C. Their actual positions also depend on everyone else's scores.
7. Other people's referrals count for them too. So your position can drop, even if you do nothing.
8. Paying never changes anyone's position. Starting a trial or paying for the paid beta, or for anything else, doesn't improve your position, and it doesn't count as a referral for anyone.
9. Ties. If two people have the same score, the person who confirmed their email first ranks higher. We record confirmation times to the millisecond. If times are still equal, the earlier sign-up record ranks higher. There is no random element.
10. If a referral stops counting. If we take away a referral under the fair-play rules (section 12), it stops counting and your position is recalculated. Anything that came from it can be removed too.
11. Ranking stops at the cut-off. At the cut-off (section 5.3), we freeze the line. Referrals made after the cut-off don't count. Referrals still on hold at the cut-off are settled during the final fair-play check (section 5.4): they count if they clear it. After the final list, referrals don't change anyone's position, including on the second-wave waitlist (section 9). The cut-off is always before the beta goes live.
12. What a referral does, and doesn't do. A referral doesn't directly give you money, credit, a discount, a free month, more invites or anything else. Its only direct effect is on your ranking score, and so on your waitlist position. But your final position matters: it decides your beta wave (section 7) and, if you're in the final top 500, the Founders badge (section 6) and the founder rate offer at launch (section 10.1). So referrals can help you reach the top 500, but only up to the cap (section 4.5). The final top 500 also get the invites in section 8.2, and may get a chance to test Drift early, if places allow. That's not promised (section 19.1). (There are two other paths to the founder rate that have nothing to do with referrals: free invitees who stay for the full beta, and paid beta members still subscribed at launch, section 10.1.) The founder rate is an offer to buy a plan at a set price. It isn't money or credit given to you. Section 8A (credits after launch) never applies to anyone who signed up before launch day.
13. Sharing your link. Share it personally, with people you know: a message to a friend, or a post on your own profile. Don't send it in bulk to people you don't know, buy email lists, or post it where a platform's rules don't allow it (section 12).
14. What you see. Your waitlist page shows your position, how many of your referrals are verified and how many are pending, and the cap. It never shows who they are.
15. How we describe it. We'll describe referrals plainly: each verified referral lowers your ranking score by 10 points, for up to 10 verified referrals, until the cut-off, and everyone is sorted by score. We won't promise a number of places. The public leaderboard shows positions, verified referral counts and, for each member, the optional display name they chose or a generic label such as "Member #12". You can add, change or remove your display name at any time from your waitlist page. Display names must be 2 to 24 characters and unique. They must not include emails, links or phone numbers, offensive words, or anything that pretends to be Drew, Drew App, its staff or anyone else, or that uses someone else's name or brand without permission. We may reject or remove a name that we reasonably think breaks these rules, and you'll go back to the generic label. A pinned founder row shows the total verified referrals across all members; it isn't a ranked spot and doesn't change anyone's position. Your own waitlist page shows you your position and verified referral count privately, never the raw score. This isn't a competition, lottery or draw. Nothing is decided by chance, and you don't need to buy anything. Nothing is final before the final list (section 5.2).
16. If referrals are switched off. If we find the referral rule is being abused in a way we can't fix fairly, we may stop counting new referrals and rank by confirmation order plus the referrals already verified. We'll tell everyone on the waitlist page first. We won't take away verified referrals except under section 12.

5. The cut-off lines

1. From day one, your own waitlist page shows your position and two lines:
   • the Founders line under position 500; and
   • the Beta line under position 1,000.
2. The 500 and 1,000 lines are provisional until the final list. Until then, they only show where you'd land if the list froze right now. Positions can move until the cut-off. Being above a line before the final list is published doesn't promise you a badge, beta access or the launch offer.
3. Cut-off time: we'll set the cut-off date and time, and announce it on the waitlist page at least 7 days ahead. The cut-off always falls before the beta goes live.
4. At the cut-off, we freeze the line. We then run a final fair-play check for up to 7 days. After the check, we publish the final list (the final top 1,000). From then, positions, badges and the lines are final, and the list doesn't change (except under section 12).
5. If someone in the final top 1,000 is removed for breaking the rules, their spot passes to the next person in line, in order. Badge numbers aren't re-issued.

6. Badges

1. The top 500 hold both badges.
2. Positions 501–1,000 who don't pay get free beta access in the next wave (section 7.2), but no badge, because they're not in the first wave. Earlier drafts and preview pages said otherwise, but no one signed up under that wording.
3. The Early Beta badge window. You get the Early Beta badge only if your first-wave access is switched on before a closing date we'll announce, no later than launch day. People who join through a free invite after that still get beta access, but not the badge.
4. How long you keep the Early Beta badge. You keep it until you cancel or leave.
   • Paid members: if you cancel, the badge comes off when your access ends (at the end of your paid month, or at the end of your trial if you cancel during it).
   • When the beta ends: if you take up the launch offer (section 10), you keep the badge for good.
   • We'll show this before you start your trial.
5. Apart from point 4, we can remove a badge only under section 12 (fair play), or if you leave (section 16).
6. We'll issue no more than 500 Founders badges. There's no fixed number of Early Beta badges. It depends on how many people join the first wave before the badge window closes (point 3), and on the cap on paid places (section 7A.15).
7. Badges are recognition only. They have no cash value. You can't sell, swap or transfer them.
8. A badge doesn't promise any feature, price, support level or launch offer, except what these terms say.
9. Paying is one way to get the Early Beta badge, not the point of paying. You pay for beta access (section 7A.1). We won't promote the badge as a reason to pay, or as a reason not to cancel.

7. Beta access in waves

1. First wave: the final top 500 (free), anyone who chooses the paid beta (section 7A), and anyone who joins through a free invite (section 8), until the badge window ends (section 6.3).

2. Later waves (free): final positions 501–1,000 get free access in a later wave, planned as the next wave after the first, in order of final position. Positions 1,001 and below get free access in later waves as they open (section 9), and can't pay for first-wave access (section 7A.2). These are plans, not promises (section 13). We won't hold back a free wave to push people to pay.

3. When it's your turn, we email you a beta access link.

4. If you don't start your beta account within 14 days, we may offer your beta spot to the next person in line. You keep your badge.
5. Free beta access is free for the whole beta period, whichever wave you're in. We'll announce when the beta ends. After that, you can keep using Drew on the Free plan (section 10A.1), or choose a paid plan (section 10A). We'll tell you clearly before then. Free beta members are never moved to a paid plan automatically.
6. What "beta" means here. Drew in beta (the free beta and the paid beta):
   • may have bugs, and may give wrong or incomplete answers;
   • may be slow, or unavailable for short periods, while we fix things;
   • may change, or lose features, while we test them;
   • may not have every feature we plan for launch, and may not include Drift (section 19).

7A. Paid beta: paid first-wave access (optional)

1. What it is. You pay a monthly fee to use the Drew beta in the first wave, instead of waiting for your free wave. The fee pays for your first-wave beta access.

2. Who can choose it: only people at final position 501 to 1,000. People at position 1,001 and below (the second-wave waitlist) can't pay for first-wave access. They stay on the second-wave waitlist for free access in later waves (section 9) and can still get in through a free invite (section 8.1). Places are capped to what we can support well (section 7A.15).

3. Price: the founder monthly rate. The price, including GST, is shown clearly on the page and at checkout before you start your trial. That's the full price. There are no extra fees. We won't call it a "discount" or "saving" unless it's genuinely lower than a price we actually charge.

4. Month to month. There's no minimum term, and no annual or upfront option for the beta.

5. When we charge you:

   • Not when you sign up. Your trial starts only when your beta access is switched on and ready to use (section 7A.16).
   • Your first charge is when your trial ends, unless you cancel before then. After that, we charge you on the same date each month, for that month.
   • If you've already had a trial (section 7A.16.8), there's no trial: we charge you for the first time when your access is switched on.
   • We take no deposit, and you can't prepay future months.
6. Before you start, you'll see, right next to the button: that this is a subscription, the trial length and end date, the price after the trial, the first charge date, how often you're charged, how to cancel, what the beta does and doesn't include (section 7.6), and these terms (section 7A.16.4).
7. Cancel any time, online, from your account. Cancelling is as easy as signing up: no more steps, no phone call, and no reason needed. There's no fee. You keep access until the end of the month you've paid for. We'll email you to confirm you've cancelled. If you cancel, you keep your free place in your later wave (section 7.2). If that wave has already opened, you move to free access straight away.
8. Refunds:
   • If we end the paid beta early, pause it, or materially reduce what it does, we'll stop charging you and refund the unused days.
   • If the beta is down for an extended period, we'll credit or refund that time.
   • If your free wave opens while you're paying, you can cancel and keep using the beta for free.
   • Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law always apply (section 17).
9. Price changes: we'll give you at least 30 days' notice by email. You can cancel for free before the new price starts.
10. Receipts and notices: we email you when your trial starts, a reminder before your first charge (section 7A.16.5), a receipt for every charge, and a notice if a payment fails. These are factual service emails. You get them even if you didn't tick the updates box.

11. What paying does: it gives you first-wave beta access for each month you pay. You also get the Early Beta badge (from the start of your trial, until you cancel; section 6.4) and, if you're still subscribed at launch, the founder rate offer (section 7A.12).

    What paying doesn't do:

    • It doesn't change your position, or anyone else's.
    • It doesn't take a first-wave place from anyone in the top 500, and it doesn't slow down any free wave (section 7.2).
    • It doesn't give anyone else anything. Nobody gets anything because you pay (section 8.9).
    • It isn't a deposit, a prepayment or a credit towards a launch plan. Your monthly fee pays for the beta you use that month.

12. The paid beta and the launch offer:

    • If you're a paid beta member and you're still subscribed at launch, you'll be offered the launch offer (path 3, section 10.1).
    • "Still subscribed at launch" means your paid beta subscription has been charged at least once (your free trial has ended and your first paid month has started), and it's active and not cancelled on launch day. A free trial on its own doesn't count. If you've cancelled, it doesn't count, even if you still have access until the end of your paid month. If you rejoin the paid beta and your subscription has been charged and is active and not cancelled on launch day, it counts.
    • If you cancel before launch, you keep access to the end of your paid month, but you won't be offered the launch offer through this path. We don't refund past months for this reason, because they paid for beta access you could use.
    • It's one offer per person, for one 12-month term, even if you also qualify another way (section 10.1).
    • If launch is delayed, the paid beta carries on month to month. You can cancel at any time.
    • If Drew launches during your trial, your trial ends on launch day and we won't charge you. Because you haven't been charged, you don't count as still subscribed at launch, so path 3 doesn't apply. You may still be offered the founder rate through path 1 or path 2 if you qualify for one of them (section 10.1).
    • If Drew doesn't launch, there's no launch offer. We stop charging you when the beta ends, and refund any unused days. You'll only have paid for months of beta access you could use.
13. When the beta ends (at launch), paid beta charges stop. We won't move you to a launch plan automatically. You choose whether to take up the launch offer or any other plan.
14. It's still beta software (section 7.6). Paying means the consumer guarantees apply in full. Section 17 explains them.
15. Paid places: a soft cap we can raise.
    • The cap. There are 750 places in total for paid members and people on a trial. A trial takes up a place. We may raise the cap as our capacity grows. We'll tell people on the waitlist page when more places open. Lowering the cap never removes anyone who's already in.
    • Why there's a limit. It isn't about cost. It's about giving every member a working beta and real help. Capacity means our support team, our servers and AI processing, and limits set by other services we rely on, such as Google.
    • Google features. Some Drew features need your permission to use your Google account (for example Gmail, Calendar or Drive features). Until Google verifies the Drew app, Google only lets a small number of people use those features.
      • Before you start your trial, the checkout tells you which features are on for you, including whether the Google features are on.
      • If a feature listed at checkout isn't there when your access is switched on, we won't start your trial or charge you. If we've already charged you, we'll refund you in full (below).
      • When Google verifies Drew, we'll switch the Google features on and tell you. Your price doesn't change.
    • We'll show how many places are left only if that number is true and current.
    • Before we raise the cap, we'll check we can run the extra places (support, Google limits, servers and AI processing) without making the beta worse for people already in it.
    • If places are full, you'll go on a list for the next place, in the order you confirmed. Your trial doesn't start, and we won't take your card or charge you, while you wait.
    • No trial and no charge until access can actually be switched on. If we take a payment and then can't switch your access on within 2 days, we'll refund it in full.
    • If the beta becomes too slow or unreliable for paid members, we'll pause new places. Section 7A.8 refunds and your consumer guarantee rights apply.
    • Free waves come first. Paid places never delay the free waves for 501–1,000 or later positions (section 7.2). Google's limit counts free and paid users together, so we'll plan free waves into it first.
16. 7-day free trial, then the founder monthly rate shown at checkout, unless you cancel.
    1. Length: 7 days. One trial per person (point 8).
    2. When it starts: when your beta access is switched on and ready to use. Not when you sign up, and not while you're on a waiting list (section 7A.15). The trial ends at the same time of day on the last day, Sydney time (AEDT/AEST). We show the exact end date and time.
    3. Your card, and no charge during the trial.
       • We ask for your card when you start the trial. We don't charge it during the trial.
       • A card check, not a hold. When you add your card, our payment provider checks with your bank that the card is valid. It's a zero-amount check. It isn't a charge, and we don't hold any of your money. Some banks briefly show a zero or small pending item that drops off by itself. We don't put a hold (a pre-authorisation) on your card. If we ever do, we'll tell you the amount and when it's released before you add your card.
       • Unless you cancel before your trial ends, we'll charge your card the monthly price shown at checkout (including GST) automatically on the date shown at checkout, then on that date each month until you cancel.
       • No other fees. No sign-up fee, card fee or cancellation fee.
    4. What you'll see before you start, right next to the "Start my 7-day free trial" button, in clear text at least as prominent as the word "free":
       • "This is a subscription. Unless you cancel before your trial ends, your card will be charged the monthly price, including GST, automatically on the date shown, then each month until you cancel." (The checkout shows the actual price and date in that sentence, at least as prominently as the word "free");
       • the trial length, and the date and time it ends;
       • the date of your first charge, and that you'll be charged on that date each month after;
       • there's no minimum term and no notice period;
       • that we take your card now but don't charge it during the trial, and that the card check is for a zero amount and isn't a charge;
       • that there are no other fees;
       • which features are on for you, including whether the Google features are on (section 7A.15);
       • how to cancel (Account > Billing), and that if you cancel before the trial ends, you pay nothing;
       • that we'll email you a reminder before your first charge; and
       • links to these terms and the privacy policy.
    5. Reminder before your first charge. We'll email you at least 48 hours before your trial ends (around day 5). It gives the end date and time, the charge date and amount, the last time you can cancel without paying, and a direct link to cancel. It's a factual service email, sent even if you didn't tick the updates box. If we don't send it on time, we'll extend your trial so you get the full notice, and we'll tell you the new charge date.
    6. Cancelling during the trial. Online, in your account settings, in no more steps than it took to sign up. No phone call, and no reason needed. We may show one screen with the facts (for example, what you'll lose), but you can skip it. It takes effect straight away: no charge will be taken. We'll email you to confirm. You keep your free place in your later wave (section 7.2).
    7. After the trial, your subscription carries on month to month. Section 7A.7 (cancel), 7A.8 (refunds, counted from your first charge) and 7A.9 (price changes) apply.
    8. One trial per person. We check your account, your email (normalised, section 3.3), your payment card (using a token from the payment provider, never your card number) and device signals. If you've had a trial before, you can still join the paid beta, but without a trial. We'll tell you before you pay. Trial abuse is covered by section 12. If we end a trial because of it, we won't charge you for the trial.
    9. Badge. The Early Beta badge shows from the start of your trial. If you cancel during the trial, it comes off (section 6.4). Paying doesn't give you any invites (section 8.2).
    10. If the beta is down for more than 24 hours in total during your trial, we'll extend your trial by that time and email you the new charge date.
    11. Price during the trial. Your first charge is at the price you saw when you started the trial. Later changes follow section 7A.9.
    12. What we won't do. We won't call it "free" unless the trial really costs nothing. We won't show "free" without the price after the trial next to it. We won't hide the charge date, or that the charge is automatic. We won't add any fee you didn't see before you started.
    13. Drift testing isn't covered by this trial (section 19.3).

7B. Text pilot

1. What it is. Drew may run a text pilot with a small, hand-picked group. It's an early test of Drew by text. It may do less than the beta, and it has the same "beta" limits as section 7.6. We'll only describe what the pilot can do once it really does it.
2. How people join. There are two ways in:
   • Testers we pick. When you join the waitlist, you can tick a box to say you'd like to help test early builds. We choose testers by fit (for example, how you'd use Drew), not by position or referrals.
   • Invited by a pilot member, then approved by us. Pilot members can share their own invitation link during the pilot. Drew never sends invitations for them (section 8.4).
3. Everyone invited must be approved first. If someone invites you, you register and then see "Waiting for approval". Nobody joins the pilot automatically. Our message will say: "Thanks for registering. The team will let you know if there's a pilot place for you. If not, you'll keep your place on the beta list."
4. What approval means. Approval means we're offering you a place in the pilot. We decide by fit and by how many people we can support, including the limit Google sets on how many people can use an app before Google verifies it. We don't decide it by the inviter's rank. We don't promise to approve anyone, and being invited doesn't mean you'll be approved. Approval doesn't give you a badge, a better position or the founder rate offer, unless these terms say so.
5. If you're not approved, you go onto the beta list with a normal waitlist place, and section 4 applies as for anyone else. Not being approved never costs you anything.
6. Inviting during the pilot gets the inviter nothing (section 8.9). A pilot invitation isn't a referral, and doesn't change anyone's position (section 4.4).
7. Dates. We'll announce the pilot dates when they're set. Those dates, and any later stages, are plans, not promises (section 13). If the start date moves, we'll tell people who've registered.
8. Your details. We keep your invitation and approval status with your waitlist record. We'll update our Privacy Policy to explain how we use it before the pilot starts.

8. Invites (top 500 only)

1. Free invites only. There's one kind of invite. The person you invite gets free first-wave beta access. They don't pay anything for the beta, and an invite never leads to a paid sign-up.
2. Invites you get:

• No one else gets invites, including paid members, people who join through a free invite, and people in later free waves.
• Paying never gives you invites, and invites never depend on whether anyone paid.

3. No top-ups. You get 1 invite in total and we never add more or replace it. Nothing you or the person you invite does earns more invites (section 8.9).
4. How to invite. You share your own invite link yourself, with people you know: in your own messages, chats or posts. Drew doesn't send invite emails, texts or messages, and we never ask for the email address or phone number of anyone you want to invite. Only share where the platform's rules allow it, and don't spam.
5. When an invite is used. Your invite is used once someone signs up through your invite link and confirms their email. If someone signs up but never confirms, your invite isn't used, and you can still give it to someone else. We don't check what they do in Drew to decide this.
6. A used invite doesn't come back. If the person who confirmed their email through your link never joins the beta, leaves it, or is removed, your invite doesn't come back and we don't replace it. You never have more than 1 invite. If you haven't used your invite yet, it has no expiry date of its own, but it only works while invites are open during the beta: we can pause new invites when first-wave places are full (sections 7.1 and 8.12), and after launch your link works only as a referral link (section 8.12). If we cancel your invite because of something you did (section 8.8 or section 12), it's gone.
7. What you see. For your invite, you'll see Not used (no one has signed up through your link and confirmed their email yet), Used (someone has signed up through your link and confirmed their email) or Joined (they've also joined the beta with it). Once it shows Used or Joined, it stays used. We don't show you what the person you invited does in Drew.
8. No selling or buying invites. You must not sell, buy, auction, swap or trade invites, invite links or badges. That includes doing it for money, crypto, gift cards, goods or favours, and it applies on any website or group. You also can't charge anyone to pass on a link. If you do, we can cancel the invites and badges involved, and remove the accounts (section 12).

9. Before launch, there are no rewards or credits of any kind. When someone you invite joins or uses Drew, you don't get money, credit, a discount, a free month, more invites, a badge, a higher place, a better launch offer, or anything else. That's the same for the people who invited you, and everyone further up the chain. Invites are a way to bring people you think would use Drew. They aren't a way to earn anything. Referrals on the waitlist are separate: a person who signs up through your referral link and confirms their email, and is verified before the cut-off, lowers your ranking score (section 4.5), and nothing else (section 4.12). After launch, section 8A applies, but only to friends who sign up through your link on or after launch day. Nobody gets credits for anyone who signed up or paid before launch.

10. How we describe invites. We'll always say an invite is free, and never link it to a payment. We won't describe invites or the beta as rare or special-access, as a way to get ahead of other people, or say places are running out, unless that's true and current (section 7A.15).

11. The invite chain and the founder rate offer. Sending an invite never gives anyone the founder rate offer. People who joined through a free invite are offered it if they stay for the full beta (sections 10.1 and 10.1A). That doesn't depend on who invited them, or on anyone they invite.
12. The invite chain doesn't close at launch. After launch, your invite link carries on as a referral link to Drew's normal plans (section 8A). After launch, invites don't give the Early Beta badge (section 6.3), the founder monthly rate or the founder rate offer.
    • We can pause new invites if first-wave places are full (section 7.1). Pausing doesn't affect anyone already in.
    • We'll review the invite and referral programme at least once a year. We can change or end it for a good reason (for example fraud, legal changes, abuse or capacity) with at least 30 days' notice. Section 8A.15 covers credits you've already been given.

8A. Referral credits after launch (planned)

This section starts on launch day. Before then, there are no rewards or credits of any kind (section 8.9).

1. What you and your friend get. After launch, if someone you invited directly qualifies (point 3), you each get 1,000 Drew credits. It's a fixed amount, the same for every friend. It's never a share of what your friend pays.
2. What credits are for. Credits go into your Drew credits wallet. You can use them only on extras in Drew, such as extras we'll list in the wallet at launch. You can't use them to pay for your plan. You can use them only with Drew App, never with anyone else.
3. When a friend qualifies. You both get the credits at the same time, once your friend:
   • signed up through your link on or after launch day;
   • passes the activation test: the friend has paid for one month, that month has ended with no refund, and they've used Drew on at least 3 separate days in that month. (This test is only for credits after launch. It doesn't apply to invites.)
   • pays for a Drew plan at the normal price;
   • finishes their first full paid month; and
   • is past that month's refund window, with no refund or chargeback.
4. Direct referrals only. Never for people your friend invites, or anyone further down. No levels, no teams, no overrides.
5. Anyone with a Drew account can share their link. You don't need to pay or buy anything to take part. This includes people on the Free plan. Your friend has to pay for a plan to qualify.
6. Cap. Credits for up to 10 qualifying friends a year for each person. Your friend's credits don't count toward your cap. Each person can get a friend's credits only once.
7. Business accounts. A new Business account counts as one friend, however many seats it has. Its credits go into the account's shared wallet. If a Business member shares their link, the credits also go into that shared wallet. Extra seats never count.
8. Expiry. Credits expire 12 months after we give them. Your wallet shows each expiry date. We'll email you 30 days before credits expire. When you use credits, we use the ones that expire soonest first.
9. No cash value. Credits can't be cashed out, sold, transferred, swapped or refunded. They aren't a gift card, and they aren't a balance you can withdraw.
10. Your friend's price. Your friend pays the same price as anyone else for the same plan. Anyone can buy Drew without a link. Your friend's credits are for joining, not for inviting others.
11. How we describe it. Wherever we mention credits, the main conditions sit right next to it: your friend must pay for a plan and finish their first paid month and refund window; credits are for extras, not plan fees; no cash value; 12-month expiry; up to 10 friends a year. For example: "1,000 Drew credits each, for extras like voice minutes, once your friend finishes their first paid month. Not for plan fees. No cash value." We won't say "free", "free money", "earn" or "income", and we won't put a dollar value on the credits.
12. Sharing your link. Section 8.4 still applies. Drew never sends referral messages for you. Any suggested share text won't mention credits. Your friend sees their credits and the conditions on Drew's own link page, before they sign up.
13. Taking credits back. If your friend's payment is refunded or charged back, or we find fraud or gaming (point 14), we can remove the credits from that referral, on both sides. If they've already been used, we only take the same amount from your unused referral credits. We never take credits you bought, and we'll never ask you to pay money back. A person reviews it first, we tell you why, and you can ask us to look again (section 12).
14. Anti-gaming. You can't refer yourself, a second account, or someone who shares your payment card. You can't create or pay for accounts to get credits, refer people and then refund, buy ads on Drew's name, post your link on coupon or referral-swap sites, or spam. We check accounts, normalised emails, payment card tokens and device signals.
15. Changes. We can change or end the credit programme for a good reason (for example fraud, legal changes, abuse or capacity) with at least 30 days' notice. Credits you've already been given keep their expiry date, or stay usable for at least 90 days after the change, whichever is later. A change never applies to a friend who has already qualified.

9. Second-wave waitlist

1. Everyone outside the final top 1,000 stays on the second-wave waitlist, in order of final position, for free access in later waves. After the cut-off, referrals don't change positions (section 4.11).
2. If places open up, we may offer you a place in an earlier wave. We can't promise this.
3. Only the final top 500 get a free invite, 1 each. If one of them gives you theirs, you can join the first wave through it, but that isn't promised (section 8.2). You can't pay for first-wave access from position 1,001 and below (section 7A.2).
4. We don't promise when the later waves open, or how many people they'll include.
5. The founder rate offer: people outside the final top 500 are offered it only through path 2 (free invitees who stay for the full beta, section 10.1A) or path 3 (paid beta members still subscribed at launch, section 7A.12).

10. Founder rate at launch (the launch offer)

When Drew launches, eligible members will be offered a founder rate on the Max plan for one 12-month term, paid up front. The full price is shown before you pay. It's an offer you can choose to take up at launch. There's nothing to pay or sign up for now. It isn't a "lifetime" deal, and it doesn't continue after the 12 months.

1. Who gets the launch offer. There are three paths. It's one offer per person, whichever path you qualify through.
   • Path 1: final top 500. Everyone in the final top 500 (section 5.4) when the beta starts, including anyone who gets a place in it under section 5.5. You get it alongside the Founders badge (section 6).
   • Path 2: free invitees who stay for the full beta. People who joined through a free invite (section 8.1) and stay for the full beta (section 10.1A). Joining through a free invite isn't enough on its own.
   • Path 3: paid beta members still subscribed at launch. Paid beta members (section 7A) whose paid beta subscription has been charged at least once and is active and not cancelled on launch day. A free trial on its own doesn't count (section 7A.12).
   • No one else. Being in the first wave isn't enough on its own. People who only use the free later-wave beta aren't offered it.
   • If you qualify through more than one path, you still get one offer, for one 12-month term, and nothing extra.

1A. What "stay for the full beta" means (path 2).

• Your beta access stays active from when your first-wave access is switched on until the beta ends: you don't cancel or leave, and you aren't removed under section 12.
• There's no minimum-use test. Staying active is enough.
• If you leave early, you don't qualify through path 2. Re-joining doesn't restore it. (If we removed you by mistake, section 12 puts things back as they were, so that isn't leaving early.)
• If you're removed under section 12 (fair play), you lose it.
• If we pause the beta or it's down, that doesn't count against you.
• Path 2 has nothing to do with referrals or invites you send. You can't qualify for it by bringing in other people.

1B. Accepting the offer. Taking the founder price at launch is how you accept it. You do that by paying for the 12-month term within at least 30 days from the day we send you the offer email (also shown in your account) (section 10.4). If you don't, the offer ends (section 10.10).

• Badges and invites don't give the founder rate offer on their own. Inviting people never makes you eligible, and never improves the offer (section 8.9).

2. What's offered: the founder rate for the Max plan, for one 12-month term, paid up front. We'll show the total you'll pay for the 12 months, including GST, before you pay. If we also show what it works out to each month, the 12-month total will be shown at least as prominently. The offer doesn't apply to other plans or to Enterprise.
3. Currency and GST: in Australian dollars, including GST. The price we show is the total you pay, with no extra fees.
4. How to take it up: when Drew launches, we'll put the launch offer in your Drew account, with a notice you see when you sign in. That's how it's delivered. We'll also send everyone eligible one short factual email saying the offer is waiting in your account and when the window closes, even if you've unsubscribed from updates. It's a service message about your eligibility, not marketing (section 16). To accept, pay 12 months up front within at least 30 days from the day we send you the offer email. The closing date is also shown in your account. The window doesn't start on launch day, and it doesn't start until that email is sent.
5. No payment for a launch plan before launch. We won't take any payment, deposit or pre-authorisation for a launch plan before Drew publicly launches. You only pay for it at launch, when the plan is available to use straight away. (Paid beta fees are separate monthly charges for access you can already use, sections 7A and 19. They aren't deposits, prepayments or credits towards a launch plan.) You'll see the full price and terms before you pay anything.
6. How long: the founder rate applies to that one 12-month term only. It doesn't apply to monthly billing, extra seats, add-ons or usage charges.
7. Renewal: after 12 months, the standard price at the time of renewal applies. We'll email you at least 30 days before your term ends, with the renewal price and how to cancel. We won't renew you automatically unless we told you clearly before you paid, and you can turn renewal off online.
8. If features change: Drew will keep changing. During your term, we won't remove or materially reduce the core features of the plan you paid for. If we do, you can cancel and get a refund for the unused full months.
9. Cancelling and refunds:
   • You can cancel at any time. Your plan then runs to the end of the paid term.
   • If we stop offering Drew before your term ends, we'll refund the unused full months.
   • Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law always apply. For example, if there's a major failure with the service, you may be entitled to a refund. Nothing in these terms takes those rights away (section 17).
10. If you don't accept within the window, the founder rate offer ends and standard pricing applies.
11. If Drew doesn't launch, there's no founder rate offer. You won't have paid anything for a launch plan. If you were on the paid beta, section 7A.12 applies.
12. We won't call the founder rate a "discount" or "saving" unless it's genuinely lower than a price we actually charge new customers for the same plan. We won't show a "was" price unless it's a real price we've actually charged.

10A. Plans at launch (planned, for reference)

These are our planned plans. The paid plans may change before launch. The Free plan is free for as long as Drew runs, and we have no plans to change that (section 10A.1). Prices will be shown clearly, in Australian dollars and including GST, before you agree to pay anything.

10A.1 The Free plan: what we promise

1. The Free plan is free for as long as Drew runs, and we have no plans to change that. If we ever decided to charge for it, we'd give at least 60 days' notice by email and in the app, and you could keep using it free until then. We'll never charge you for it, or ask for a card, without you choosing a paid plan.
2. We won't move you to a paid plan unless you choose one. Being on the Free plan never turns into a paid subscription automatically, including after a trial or after the beta.
3. What can change. Drew will keep changing, so we may change which features or connectors the Free plan includes, for example to add new ones, swap one kind of connector for another, or change usage limits. If a change takes something away, we'll:
   • give you at least 60 days' notice by email and in the app;
   • explain what's changing and why;
   • keep the Free plan free, and genuinely usable for everyday use. We won't cut it back so far that, in practice, you have to pay to keep using Drew.
4. If Drew ever closes. "For as long as Drew runs" means what it says. If we ever close Drew for everyone, the Free plan ends then too. We'd give at least 60 days' notice and a way to download your data. We wouldn't close it, or end it, just for Free plan users while Drew carries on for paying users.
5. Your account. Section 12 (misuse and fraud) still applies to Free plan accounts, like any other account.

11. (Not used)

12. Fair play and fraud

You must not:

• sign up more than once, or use fake, borrowed or throwaway emails. We treat plus-addresses and dotted versions of the same inbox as one email (section 3.3), and we block disposable email services (section 3.4);
• use bots, scripts, VPN farms, proxies or paid sign-up services;
• refer or invite yourself, or set up a second account to do so;
• create referrals with fake, bulk-made or other people's email addresses, or get people to sign up only so a referral counts;
• pay, reward or offer anything to anyone to sign up through your link, or accept anything to sign up through someone's link;
• fake activity (for example, scripted or dummy accounts made to use an invite or to pass the activation test for credits in section 8A.3);
• start more than one trial, for example with a second email, a different card or a new account (section 7A.16.8);
• game referral credits: refer yourself, use fake or paid-for accounts, or refer people and then refund (section 8A.14);
• trade referrals, join "swap" or "invite ring" groups, or sell or buy invites, invite links or badges (section 8), or charge anyone to pass on a link;
• spam people with your link, send it in bulk to people you don't know, or post it where the platform's rules don't allow it; or
• pretend to be us or someone else.

What we check. To keep referrals fair, our systems look for signs like these:

• many sign-ups from the same device, browser or network (IP address) in a short time;
• bursts of sign-ups through one link that look automated;
• sign-ups that fail or only just pass the bot check;
• disposable, plus-addressed or near-identical email addresses;
• referred people who never open anything we send after confirming.

A flag alone doesn't remove anyone. A flagged referral stays pending until a person reviews it. We use these signals only for fair play and security, as our Privacy Policy explains.

If we reasonably believe someone has broken these rules, we can:

• not count, or take away, referrals and invites;
• adjust positions, including after the cut-off;
• cancel badges, invites, pilot places or beta access;
• remove someone from the waitlist or beta.

A person checks a flag before we take away a verified referral, remove anyone, or cancel a badge or beta access. We'll email you to say what we did and why, in general terms. You can ask us to review it by emailing hello@drewai.app within 14 days. A different person from the one who made the first decision will review it, and we'll reply within 10 business days. If we got it wrong, we restore what we took away and recalculate your position.

13. No promise about timing

• Wave dates, wave sizes, the second-wave date, the pilot's later stages and the launch date are plans, not promises. They may change.
• If a date moves, we'll update the waitlist page and tell people who've agreed to updates.
• What we do promise: if you're in the final top 1,000, you get the free beta access set out in section 7 (first wave for the top 500, and a later free wave for 501–1,000, planned as the next wave, with timing as set out above), and the badges in section 6, unless section 12 applies, or we stop the beta entirely (section 15). If you're on the paid beta, you pay nothing during your 7-day trial, and after that you only pay for months when your beta access is on (section 7A). If you have a free invite, you get free first-wave access when you sign up and confirm, while invites are open (section 8.12). We don't promise anyone a pilot place (section 7B).
• Drew in beta may not have every feature we plan for launch.

14. No cash value

Badges, positions, invites, pilot places, beta access, trials, referral credits (section 8A.9), Drift early access and the founder rate offer have no cash value. They can't be exchanged for money, and they can't be transferred, except where these terms say so.

15. Changes and ending the programme

1. We may change these terms for a good reason, such as preventing fraud, legal changes, or changes to how Drew works. This is subject to section 15.5 (the Free plan).
2. We won't change them in a way that takes away a badge you've already been given, a month of paid beta you've already paid for, or a launch plan you've already paid for, except under section 12, or as section 6.4 says (which you'll see before you pay).
3. For any material change, we'll give at least 14 days' notice on the waitlist page and by email (to people who've agreed to updates). You can leave at any time.
4. If we have to stop the beta or the programme entirely, we'll tell you. For the free beta, there's nothing to refund. For the paid beta, we'll stop charging you and refund the unused days (sections 7A.8 and 19). After launch, section 10.9 applies.
5. The Free plan. No change to these terms, or to Drew's plans or pricing, will:
   • start charging for the Free plan without the notice in section 10A.1;
   • remove the Free plan while Drew is running; or
   • move anyone on it to a paid plan, or charge them, without their choice.

We can change the Free plan's features or connectors only as section 10A.1 says, with notice.

16. Leaving

• You can unsubscribe from update emails at any time. This doesn't remove you from the line, or take away your badge, invites or founder rate offer. You'll still get factual service messages, such as your beta access link and one notice that a founder rate offer is waiting in your account (section 10.4).
• To leave the waitlist and delete your details, email hello@drewai.app. If you leave, you lose your position, and any badge or invites not yet used.

17. Australian Consumer Law and liability

Our goods and services come with guarantees that can't be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes any right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law, or any other law, that can't lawfully be excluded. This applies to the text pilot, the free beta, the paid beta, the Free plan and Drift. Calling something "beta" doesn't remove these rights.

Otherwise, to the extent the law allows, we're not liable for any indirect loss arising from the waitlist or the invite programme.

18. Law

These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia.

19. Drift early access testing

What Drift is. Drift is Drew's local device helper. It's an app you install on your own computer. With your permission, it can run commands on your computer (terminal control) and run automations in the background. For example, it can open, create, move or delete files, run scripts, and change settings. Because it acts on your computer directly, it has extra rules.

The Drift perk (early access testing).

1. Drift early access is a chance to test Drift early, if places allow. Not promised. Places are capped to what we can support well, and we don't promise a place to anyone, including Founders. If places allow, we plan to offer them first to:
   • Founders (final positions 1–500), at no extra cost.
2. It's optional. You don't need Drift to use the Drew beta.
3. It may not be ready. Drift testing may start later than the Drew beta, or not happen at all. These are plans, not promises (section 13).
4. Before you install Drift, you'll need to read and agree to the Drift Beta Addendum. If it conflicts with this section, the addendum wins, except where the law says otherwise.

Your consent and control.

5. Nothing runs until you set it up. When you install Drift, it starts with no permissions. Drift asks for your approval task by task before it acts for you. App permissions (which apps and files it can reach) are set up separately, and our Trust page explains what each one allows.
6. Some actions always ask first, even in Approved mode. These include deleting or overwriting files, installing software, changing system or security settings, using admin rights, and sending data to a new website or server.
7. You can change or take back permissions at any time, and you can uninstall Drift at any time.
8. Stop button (kill switch). You can pause everything Drift is doing: say "Drew, stop everything" (or your own safe phrase), or use the stop button in Drift and on the device menu bar. Drift stops starting new actions and tries to cancel anything that's running. Some actions can't be undone once they've finished, such as a deleted file or a sent message. We can also pause Drift for everyone, or for one device, if we find a safety or security problem.
9. Activity log. Drift keeps a log on your device of every action it takes: what it did, when, and which permission allowed it. You can view, export and delete the log.

Your responsibilities.

10. Only install Drift on a device you own, or one you're allowed to control. On a work computer, check your employer's IT rules and get permission first.
11. Only point Drift at systems and accounts you're allowed to access. Don't use Drift to access, change or disrupt anyone else's computer, account or data without their permission. That can be a crime.
12. Back up anything important before using Drift, and test it on things that don't matter first.
13. Don't use Drift for anything where a mistake could cause serious harm, such as medical, safety-critical or emergency systems, or industrial equipment.
14. Tell us about any security problem you find at hello@drewai.app. Please don't share it publicly until we've had a chance to fix it.

Beta software.

15. Drift is test software. Here's what that means, specifically:
    • it may make mistakes, including running the wrong command or misreading an instruction;
    • it may stop working, or be changed or removed, while we test it;
    • it may not work with every operating system or app;
    • it may slow your computer down while automations run.
16. We'll fix problems we're told about with due care and skill. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law always apply (section 17).

What we won't claim. We won't describe Drift as "100% safe", "can't break your computer", "fully autonomous" or "unhackable". We'll describe what it actually does, and what it can't do yet.

See also the Privacy Policy. ← Back to founders