Terms of use
Plain terms for a free tool.
Effective 19 September 2026. These terms cover the Wellspring website and research workspace operated by U3 Labs, LLC (“we”). Using Wellspring means you accept them. They are written to be read.
Free to use
Wellspring is free. There is no subscription, no paid tier, and no feature held back for payment. If we ever offer a way to support the work, it will be voluntary, it will not change anyone’s access, and it will be described plainly where it is offered. Support given to U3 Labs, LLC is not a charitable gift and is not tax-deductible.
What you may do
Read, search, study, take notes, prepare sermons, export your research, and use what you produce however you like. Your notes, highlights, sermons, collections and claims are yours. We claim no rights in them.
What you may not do
Use Wellspring to break the law, to attack the service or its hosting, to scrape the site at a rate that harms other users, or to pass off Wellspring or its editorial text as your own or as someone else’s. Nothing here restricts the texts on the shelf, whose licences are their own (below).
The texts
The library holds public-domain works and openly licensed texts. Each package records its edition, source, licence and known limits (including damaged OCR where scans were used) in the corpus register, and those licences — not these terms — govern the texts. Where a licence asks for attribution, Wellspring shows it; where it restricts use, Wellspring records the restriction. Wellspring’s own editorial text (help, guides, the homiletics reference, curated definitions) and its design are © U3 Labs, LLC unless a page says otherwise. Whether to publish Wellspring’s code under a public licence is a decision under consideration and will be announced here.
Inclusion is not endorsement
The library holds Scripture, extra-biblical literature, oral tradition and comparative and historical works because a researcher needs them, not because Wellspring ranks them as equal or true. Every work is labelled for what it is. Wellspring belongs to no church, assembly or tradition, and no tradition’s theology is presented as the tool’s own.
No advice
Wellspring is a research environment. Nothing in it — the texts, the computed connections, the dictionaries, the study assistant’s observations — is theological, pastoral, legal, medical or financial advice, and nothing is a substitute for your own judgement and study. Computed relationships (concept links, lexical profiles, cross-references) are starting points for investigation, not conclusions.
The study assistant
The assistant is optional and off by default. It observes and asks; it never writes for you, and its words are never evidence. It can be wrong. If you connect it to an endpoint, that host’s terms and charges apply to what you send. We are not responsible for what a model says or for a third-party host.
As is
Wellspring is provided as is and as available, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do our best to keep it accurate and available, and we say plainly where a text is damaged or a feature is incomplete; but we do not promise that it is error-free or uninterrupted. To the fullest extent the law allows, U3 Labs, LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for any loss of research you did not export. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits; where they apply, our liability is limited to the smallest amount the law permits.
Your research and its safety
In this preview your research lives in your browser; export a backup if you want a copy that survives a cleared browser. At public launch a free account will be required to use the workspace and library, and these terms will be updated first to say what we store, how you sign in, and how you delete it.
Changes and ending
We may change these terms; the effective date changes with them and material changes will be noted on this page. You can stop using Wellspring at any time and delete your research with the control in Settings. We may restrict access from a source that abuses the service.
Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If a part of them is found unenforceable, the rest stands.