What "Pay with Likes" is

There is no permanent free plan. Instead you can earn time on Ultra — the real hero tier (unlimited agents and vaults, voice, priority routing, the full cockpit on your own Mac), not a watered-down free version — by publicly posting about SynthOS.

There are two, and only two, ways to earn. One qualifying post earns 1 free day of Ultra, capped at one free day per account for the lifetime of the account. Every 15,000 public views on qualifying content earns 1 free month of Ultra; this is cumulative and stacking (30,000 views = 2 months, 45,000 = 3, and so on), up to a lifetime ceiling of 12 earned free months per account. We re-check the public view count periodically and top up months as views climb.

What "free" covers, and what it does not: free Ultra is the subscription seat. It does not include your AI provider's thinking bill. Bring your own subscriptions or keys and model usage is billed to you directly by your provider, with no markup from us — or top up SynthOS credits any time, billed at the rates shown in the app.

No card is required to take part. Granting is manual, after a human checks your submission.

Who can take part

An account is required so we can credit the earned time to you; signed-out visitors are routed to sign up first. You must be able to form a binding contract — see the "Your account" clause in our main Terms of Service at /terms.

The post must be genuinely yours: your own public profile or handle, your own words. No buying posts, no bots, no paid-placement accounts you don't control.

Supported platforms are LinkedIn and X — for both tiers. Posts elsewhere (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, newsletters, and the rest) don't count toward either tier for now; post them if you want to, we just can't credit them. For the 15,000-views month tier, a video of you actually using SynthOS also qualifies, as long as it's published on LinkedIn or X.

The post must carry the #ad disclosure (or your local-law equivalent — for example LinkedIn's paid-partnership label). This is a hard requirement: earning free product for a post is a material connection the law requires you to disclose.

We never ask you to lie or to post a glowing review. You can be critical. The only requirements are that the post is real, public, live, yours, about SynthOS, and disclosed.

The post tier is capped at one free day per account for the account's lifetime. The views tier scales with your real, organic reach, up to the lifetime ceiling described under "Fair use & anti-abuse" below.

You must be 18 or older — or the age of majority where you live, if that's higher. The program is open worldwide, wherever running it is lawful; if your country's rules on paid endorsements or promotions make a grant unlawful, we can't make it.

People on our side of the table can't take part: employees, contractors, and affiliates of TRU aren't eligible to earn.

How we verify

Every submission goes into a small human review queue, and a person on our side checks it. Typical turnaround is within a day.

We confirm the post is live, public, yours, genuinely about SynthOS, and carries the disclosure. The views tier additionally has its public view count re-checked periodically so we can top up months as reach grows.

We decide eligibility in good faith. Borderline calls — is this genuinely about SynthOS? is this view count organic? — are made by us, and we'll explain a decline if you ask.

Granting is not instant or automated. Please don't expect an API-speed unlock; a real person is in the loop.

Fair use & anti-abuse

The program runs on trust and a human in the loop. No fake, bought, bot-driven, or otherwise incentivized views or engagement — view counts must be organic and public. Suspiciously inflated counts can be discounted or rejected.

No deleted, recycled, private, paywalled, or off-topic links. A post that is deleted or made private after earning can have its grant reversed going forward (see below).

One day per account, and no account farming. Multiple accounts for the same person, sock-puppets, and handle-recycling are prohibited and forfeit grants.

No misrepresentation: don't claim a partnership or endorsement beyond a disclosed personal post, don't impersonate anyone, and don't post on someone else's behalf and claim it as yours.

No illegal, hateful, harassing, or deceptive content — it disqualifies the submission and may end your participation.

There is one hard ceiling, and we'd rather state it than surprise you with it: an account can earn at most 12 free months of Ultra in its lifetime. Views beyond that still count for our gratitude, not for more months. We may also set reasonable rate limits on submissions to keep the review queue sane.

Revocation & expiry

Earned, verified months are never clawed back for view drops. Once a month is earned it's yours; views going down later never take any away.

But grants obtained by abuse, fraud, fake views, or terms violations can be revoked at any time — including reversing days or months credited for content that was deleted, hidden, undisclosed, or proven inauthentic. Revocation here is for bad faith, not for honest changes in reach.

Earned Ultra time is not cash, has no monetary value, and is non-transferable and non-refundable. It was earned, not bought, so the /refunds policy does not apply to it.

When free time lapses, Ultra access ends — but everything the app made for you stays on your Mac as files you own: your vault, your run history, your outputs. Nothing is held hostage.

We can change or end the program with reasonable notice, and that notice comes by email to your account address — so keep it current. We won't retroactively cancel time you've already fairly earned and that is currently active.

Tax: depending on your jurisdiction, the value of free product you receive may be yours to report. We don't give tax advice.

The fine print

These program terms are part of, and incorporate, our main Terms of Service at /terms and our Privacy Policy at /privacy. Where they conflict on a program-specific point, this page controls for the program.

Not legal advice. Questions: [email protected].

Do it straight — post something real, public, and yours, with the disclosure — and the days and months are yours. Earned months are never taken back.