bringyourBring Your AI FAQ
The questions buyers actually ask, answered without marketing fog. If something's not here, reply to the checkout email or write hello@bringyour.ai.
Will the price actually go up from $49, or is that marketing?
Yes, the price rises as the product matures. $19 and $29 are genuinely for the first and next ten buyers — these aren't infinite inventory. Once the $49 tier is the only option, it continues to go up whenever we ship a meaningful toolkit addition. Buyers who paid $19 keep getting every future tool free; the rising price only affects future buyers.
What happens if Bring Your AI shuts down?
Your CLI keeps working — licenses are verified with embedded ed25519 public keys, no remote check-in required. The remote MCP server at bringyour.ai/mcp would go offline, but the local bringyour binary works offline. Source is open enough that if we ever stopped maintaining it, buyers could fork and keep going.
What does my $19 (or $29 or $49) actually cover?
A lifetime license for everything Bring Your AI ships now. Current capabilities:
- Move Claude Code ↔ Codex setup
- Build a first setup from public GitHub
- Free preview that does not expose mappings or generated content
- Remote MCP server for no-data preview and local-install handoff
- Validation file, rollback snapshots, scrub, signing, and encrypted transfer
No subscription, no auto-renew, no upsell emails.
How does the license key work?
After Stripe checkout, a signed envelope (ed25519 over your email + key + purchase timestamp) is emailed to you. Paste it into ~/.bringyour/license or set BRINGYOUR_LICENSE in your environment. The CLI verifies the signature locally. No remote phone-home, no telemetry, no account system.
Can I transfer my license to a coworker or new laptop?
Personal-use licenses are tied to an email, not a device. Move to as many machines as you own. Transferring to a different person isn't supported — each license stays with the email that purchased it.
What's the refund policy?
30-day refund on request, no questions asked, emailed to hello@bringyour.ai with the receipt's email address. Your license gets revoked on refund. After 30 days refunds are case-by-case.
Do I need a Claude/OpenAI API key to use Bring Your AI?
Only for optional synthesis during build. The deterministic GitHub/RSS/HN/Dev.to/Stack Overflow collection works without an LLM key. migrate does not need an API key.
What's the Foundry Practitioner Toolkit?
A bundle of tools for people who build with AI agents full-time, starting with Bring Your AI. Every future addition ships free to anyone who paid this round — no new charge, no pro tier, no enterprise upsell. Planned next tools include a multi-harness sync daemon, a versioned agent vault with rollback, and a context-budget heatmap. Shane picks what ships next based on buyer feedback.
Who's behind Bring Your AI?
Shane Cheek — founder of 8Bit Concepts, building autonomous agent businesses through the Foundry platform (aidevboard.com, nothumansearch.ai, 8bitconcepts.com). Bring Your AI is the fourth Foundry property. Direct support: hello@bringyour.ai.
Is there a free trial?
bringyour preview and the remote MCP preview tools run without a license. Preview only reports whether the move or first setup is supported, whether an existing setup can be kept, and that original files will not be changed. Applying the setup requires a license.
What data does Bring Your AI send anywhere?
Your harness data stays local. File transforms happen on your machine through the CLI or local MCP server. The remote MCP server is no-data: it only supports preview, target listing, and local-install handoff. It does not accept harness files, generated memories, user rules, API keys, GitHub handles, or file contents.
How big is the company?
One person plus AI agents. The whole stack — CLI, MCP server, web site, payment pipeline, lead autoresponder, monitoring — is operated by Shane with automated agents doing the build, deploy, and maintenance work. No team, no investors, no runway clock.