Terms

The terms, in plain English.

Last updated 3 October 2026 · Something Big, LLC

The short version

The newsletter is free. Unsubscribe whenever you like. Read and share what we publish, but don’t republish it as your own. The content is information, not professional advice. Our services are offered without a guarantee of uninterrupted availability or complete security. The liability limits and the rights they cannot affect are set out below. Something Big Pro is a paid membership. It renews automatically until you cancel. You can cancel anytime online and keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.

Who we are

somethingbig.ai and the Something Big Is Happening newsletter are operated by Something Big, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company operating in New York, 116 Brandywine Lane, Melville, NY 11747 (“we”, “us”). These terms cover our website, newsletter, prompt generators, games, Something Big Pro, and related resources (the “Services”).

By using a Service after receiving notice of these terms and an opportunity to review them, you agree to them to the extent an agreement is formed under applicable law. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. Our privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information; accepting these terms does not waive any privacy right that applicable law does not allow you to waive.

The newsletter

Something Big Pro

Something Big Pro is our paid membership. The newsletter stays free.

Price. Pro costs $20 a month or $199 a year, in US dollars. In the US, sales tax is added at checkout where it applies. Outside the US, checkout may show the price in your currency. You pay at the start of each month or year through Stripe, our payment processor.

Outside the US. Where we sell Pro outside the US, your price includes any VAT, GST or sales tax due where you live.

Sold through Link. If your checkout says “Sold through Link”, Link (Sold through Link, LLC, a Stripe company) handles your payment as merchant of record. You’re still buying Pro from us. Link collects and pays any tax and sends your receipts and renewal reminders. Your card statement shows LINK.COM followed by our name. You can cancel in Manage your membership or in your Link account at link.com, and Link’s refund policy (support.link.com/questions/sold-through-link-refunds) also applies.

It renews automatically. Your membership renews at the end of each month or year, and we charge the card you paid with, until you cancel. Each renewal is for the same length as your plan, at your current price.

Founding price. If you join at a founding rate, your price stays the same for as long as you stay subscribed. If you cancel, the founding rate ends. If you join again later, you pay the price on that day.

Changes to price or terms. If we change your plan’s price or another important term of Pro, we’ll email you 7 to 30 days before it applies to you, with how to cancel.

Cancel anytime, online. Cancel in Manage your membership in a few clicks. You don’t need to email or call. You can also email hello@somethingbig.ai and we’ll cancel it for you. Cancelling stops all future charges. You keep Pro until the end of the month or year you’ve already paid for. When Pro ends, you lose access to the members’ pages, the email AI and member perks, and your founding rate ends.

Unsubscribing is not cancelling. Unsubscribing from our emails doesn’t cancel Pro or stop charges. To stop paying, cancel in Manage your membership.

Refunds. Cancelling stops future charges, and you keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for. If something isn’t right, email us at hello@somethingbig.ai and we’ll make it right.

If you’re in the UK or EU. You have a legal right to cancel within 14 days of joining and get a full refund, even if you’ve started using Pro. To use it, tell us within 14 days of joining: email hello@somethingbig.ai from the address you paid with, or send us the form below. We’ll refund your payment to the card you paid with within 14 days of hearing from you, and your Pro access ends. You can use this form, but you don’t have to: “To Something Big, LLC, 116 Brandywine Lane, Melville, NY 11747, hello@somethingbig.ai: I cancel my contract for Something Big Pro, ordered on [date]. Name: [ ]. Email I paid with: [ ]. Date: [ ].”

If we stop offering Pro. We’ll stop charging you and refund the unused part of any yearly plan.

Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe tries again over the following days. If it still fails, your membership is cancelled.

Disputes. If you dispute a charge with your bank, we cancel your membership so you aren’t charged again. Emailing us first is usually faster.

Member perks. Perks are offered by other companies under their own terms. A partner can change or end its perk. Perks end when your membership ends.

The email AI. Members can email up to 10 questions a month. The answers are written by an AI built from Matt’s published work. Its answers are information, not professional advice (see “Not advice”).

Our content

Everything we publish — articles, emails, prompts, tools, and this site — belongs to Something Big, LLC or its licensors. You’re welcome to read it, link to it, quote it with attribution, and share it with people. You may not republish it wholesale, sell it, or present it as your own work.

Where we make something explicitly for you to use — a prompt, a template, a technique — use it freely, including at work.

Your submissions and access

You keep any rights you have in content you submit. You authorize us to process that content and transmit it to the service providers involved in the feature you request, as described in our privacy policy. You must have the right to submit that content and authorize that processing.

Do not submit passwords, API keys, or sensitive or confidential information to our prompt generators. Keep your access tokens and the email account or device used to access the Services secure, and contact us if you believe someone is using your access without permission. These responsibilities do not reduce obligations that the law places on us.

Not advice

We write about AI: what’s happening, what it means, and how to use it. That is information and opinion, not professional advice — not financial, investment, legal, medical, or career advice. AI moves fast and models change; verify anything important before you rely on it.

Generated responses can contain errors and may not be unique or suitable for your intended use. Review outputs before using them, including before running generated instructions or relying on them at work.

Acceptable use

Don’t abuse the site or the subscribe flow: no scraping subscriber data, no automated mass signups, no attempts to disrupt or gain unauthorized access to the service, and no using our forms to send us content you don’t have the right to share.

Availability and suspension

We may change, suspend, or discontinue a Service, and may restrict access or invalidate access tokens to address abuse, suspected unauthorized access, legal requirements, or operational problems. If we discontinue Something Big Pro, the refund in the Pro section applies. We do not promise uninterrupted access, permanent storage, or recovery of lost content or game progress. Any duties or remedies that applicable law requires still apply.

Third parties

We link to independent sites and use third-party providers. Our current providers include beehiiv for email delivery, Railway and Cloudflare for hosting and delivery, OpenAI for prompt generation, and Stripe for payments, with Link, a Stripe company, as merchant of record for purchases marked “Sold through Link”. Independent third-party services have their own terms and policies. We do not control their availability or warrant their performance. Our use of a provider does not remove responsibilities that applicable law places on us.

No warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or completely secure.

Unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or loss of content or data can occur, including through cyberattacks, account compromise, or a provider incident. We do not guarantee that such events will never occur. This statement does not waive our obligations under applicable privacy, data-security, or breach-notification law.

Liability limits

Subject to the exceptions below, and only to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Something Big, LLC and its officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising out of or relating to the Services. This includes lost profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill, or data to the extent those losses fall within those categories of damages.

Subject to the same exceptions, the total aggregate liability of Something Big, LLC and its officers, employees, contractors, and agents, taken together, arising out of or relating to a Service will not exceed the fees you paid us for that Service during the 12 months before the event first giving rise to the claim. For a free Service, those fees are zero. This cap applies only to claims and remedies that applicable law allows us to limit.

These exclusions and limits apply to claims arising from use of or inability to use the Services, reliance on content, interruptions, and unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or loss of content or data, whether a claim is based on contract, tort (including ordinary negligence), statute, or another legal theory, and even if the possibility of loss was disclosed. They do not apply where prohibited by law.

Exceptions: nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, or any liability, duty, right, or remedy that applicable law does not permit to be excluded or limited. These exceptions apply to every disclaimer, exclusion, and liability cap above, including any nonwaivable consumer, privacy, data-security, or breach-notification protection.

If a provision cannot be enforced

If a provision is unlawful or unenforceable, it applies only to the extent the law permits, or is severed if it cannot lawfully apply. The remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law. This does not authorize limiting a right or remedy that the law makes nonwaivable.

Changes

We may update these terms from time to time and will identify the current version by its date. Changes apply prospectively. Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice and obtain agreement. Posting a new version does not by itself reduce rights arising from earlier events or establish your acceptance of that version.

Contact

Something Big, LLC — hello@somethingbig.ai