Terms of use

Plain language, one page. Using Keen Bean means you're happy with all of this.

What you're buying

A licence to use Keen Bean on your own Mac, for as long as you like. It doesn't expire and there's nothing to renew to keep it working.

A licence includes twelve months of updates from the day you buy. After that the app carries on exactly as it is, on the last version you were entitled to; new versions need a renewal, which is optional. Buying is a one-time payment, not a subscription.

The licence is for you. Please don't publish your key or hand it around — it's the only thing standing between a small independent product and not being one.

It's provided as-is

Keen Bean is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind. It may have bugs, it may mishear people, and its AI-generated summaries, cards and drafts can be wrong. They are drafts, not finished work — check anything important before you act on it or send it to a client.

To the maximum extent the law allows, Savvy Monkey is not liable for losses arising from your use of Keen Bean. Nothing here limits rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other consumer protection law that applies to you; those rights cannot be excluded and they come first.

Your keys, your costs

Keen Bean runs on API keys you supply — one for transcription, one for the AI models. Those accounts are yours: the bills are yours, their terms are yours to follow, and your usage is between you and those providers. Expect a few dollars a month at normal meeting volume, but it's metered by them, not by us.

Recording is your responsibility

Keen Bean transcribes conversations. Laws about recording differ by country and, in Australia, by state. It's your responsibility to know your local rules and to tell the people in your meetings that notes are being transcribed. The app reminds you before each meeting; the obligation is yours.

What the app sends, and what it doesn't

Your meetings, notes, keys and settings live in files on your computer. Audio goes only to your transcription provider; transcript text goes only to the AI provider you configured.

Two things reach us, and only these two: your licence key, sent when the app checks for or downloads an update, and a one-way fingerprint of your Mac, sent once if you start a free trial so the trial can end. There is no account, no analytics and no usage tracking. Nothing about your meetings is ever sent to us, so we could not read them if we wanted to. The privacy page has the full detail.

The software is ours, your work is yours

Keen Bean and its code are © Savvy Monkey, all rights reserved. Everything Keen Bean produces from your meetings — transcripts, notes, drafts, diagrams, exports — belongs to you. We claim nothing in it and have no copy of it.

Buying and refunds

Purchases are sold and fulfilled by Paddle.com Market Ltd as merchant of record. Thirty days money back, no questions — see the refunds page.

Changes

These terms may change for future versions. The copy that shipped with your version applies to your licence; buying again or renewing means accepting whatever is current at that point.

Where this is governed

Savvy Monkey operates from Australia, and these terms are governed by the laws of Australia. If you bought through Paddle, their buyer terms also apply to the transaction itself.