Fair usage policy

Chalkful includes a few AI-assisted features. Each one costs us a small amount per use, so this policy exists to keep that sustainable for everyone on a shared plan price — not to nickel-and-dime how you run your own tutoring business.

What this covers

• Progress report drafting — a first-draft summary of a student's sessions and homework, generated from your own session notes, that you review and edit before sending.
• Session-note topic tagging — a short topic label added to a completed session, based on your private note, feeding the "Topics" view in Analytics.
• Receipt & expense capture — reading a photographed receipt to draft the vendor, date, amount and category on /expenses, which you confirm before it's saved.

Everything else in Chalkful — scheduling, invoicing, the parent portal, reminders — isn't AI-driven and isn't covered here.

What "fair" means

These features are built for one tutor running their own practice at a normal, human pace — drafting a report per student roughly as often as you actually meet them, tagging the sessions you actually hold, photographing the receipts you actually collect. That covers every real tutoring business we've seen, including a busy full-time one.

It doesn't cover, and we reserve the right to act on:

• Scripted, automated, or bulk calls to these features outside normal in-app use.
• Using one account's AI features on behalf of multiple unrelated tutors or businesses.
• Deliberately feeding the same request repeatedly to extract value unrelated to your own tutoring records.

What happens on unusual usage

If an account's usage looks far outside normal tutoring activity, we may throttle or pause the AI-specific parts of the affected feature. The rest of Chalkful keeps working as normal, and each feature already has a built-in non-AI fallback — a progress report falls back to a plain template, expense entry falls back to typing the fields in yourself. We won't suspend your account over this alone, and we'll always email you first if something looks unusual rather than act silently.

Questions

Running a genuinely large practice and think you might bump into this? Tell us first — hello@chalkful.app. This policy is aimed at abuse, not at tutors doing real work.