Terms of Service

MakeIRL sells a preflight: a one-time, $79, automated check of the KiCad files you upload. A preflight tells you whether your design cleared a fixed set of deterministic manufacturing checks. It does not tell you whether your board will do what you designed it to do.

When every check passes, your report reads:

That sentence is the whole product. We check that a design is internally consistent and safe to send to a factory. We do not check that the circuit works.

Every preflight report lists, check by check, what actually ran:

• Electrical rule checks (ERC) on the schematic
• Design rule checks (DRC), including manufacturing clearances
• Schematic ↔ PCB parity (netlist match)
• BOM line completeness and MPN/package sanity
• Gerber, drill, and placement export integrity
• A small set of named heuristic checks (power, reset, programming, connector patterns)

Each item is marked Performed, Not performed, Not applicable, or Unknownfor your specific run. We never claim a check ran if it didn’t.

Regardless of how the report reads, a passing preflight never establishes any of the following:

• Functional correctness — whether the circuit does what you intended
• Firmware or embedded software behavior
• RF, EMC, or signal-integrity performance
• Thermal performance
• Mechanical or enclosure fit
• Safety, regulatory, or certification compliance

A full statement of what we checked versus what remains unknown appears on every report, above the checkout button, every time.

You are the engineer of record for this design. You decide whether it does what you intend, whether it is safe for your use, and whether it complies with any regulation that applies to it. A passing preflight report is not an engineering sign-off, and it does not transfer that responsibility to us.

The automated preflight is scoped narrowly, on purpose:

• 2–4 layer PCBs
• Low-voltage prototypes only
• Bounded BOM size (see your product page for the current cap)

The following are out of scope, without exception:

• Mains-voltage circuits
• Medical devices
• Automotive systems
• Aerospace hardware
• Any other safety-critical or life-support use

An out-of-scope upload may still produce a machine report, but that report can never show “READY FOR MANUFACTURING,” and checkout stays disabled for it.

Each preflight fee is charged once per release— an immutable snapshot of the exact files you uploaded, identified by content hash. Uploading changed files creates a new release and, if you want it checked, a new charge. An identical-hash rerun of a release you’ve already paid for is free.

MakeIRL does not currently offer a human-reviewed tier. Every report you receive today is produced entirely by automated tooling and, where explicitly labeled, an AI advisory layer — no engineer at MakeIRL reviews, signs off on, or is contracted to review your design. If we introduce a paid human-review tier later, its scope will be described separately, and it will only launch once a named, credentialed reviewer is under contract.

Some reports may include an Advisory section generated by a large language model. Advisory notes are hypotheses, not findings. They can never block your release, never appear in the pass/fail verdict, and never create warranty coverage. Treat them as a second pair of eyes, not a citation. See Privacy for how advisory review handles your data.

Our only affirmative commitment about check accuracy is the Release Gate Warranty, which covers a narrow set of things we could get wrong on our end. Outside that warranty, MakeIRL is provided without a warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and our liability for any claim arising from your use of MakeIRL is limited to the amount you paid us for the release in question. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

We may update these Terms. Material changes bump the version recorded at checkout, so the terms that govern your purchase are the ones in effect when you accepted them, not a later version.

Questions about these Terms: email [email protected].