Terms of use.

By requesting access to or using Landform Labs you accept these terms. The service is built for professional use in and around property and design; you need to be at least 18 and able to enter a contract to hold an account.

Landform Labs is a site-reading and concept-design workspace, currently in a private beta covering the Queenstown-Lakes District. An address returns a read of the site (terrain, hazards, planning context, capacity) and a workspace for developing buildable concepts against it.

The beta is free. Nothing on this site is currently sold, we do not collect payment details, and there is no subscription. If that ever changes, we will tell you clearly beforehand, and continuing past that point will be your choice; you will never be charged for something you did not agree to.

Access is granted account by account while the beta runs. We may decline, suspend or withdraw access at our discretion during the beta; this is how we keep a small product honest while it is still being built.

Give us accurate details when you sign up, keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think your account has been accessed by someone else. You are responsible for what happens under your credentials. Workspace members you invite can see the workspace's projects; invite accordingly.

The engines produce concept-stage reads: terrain, hazards, planning rules, capacity ceilings, massing options, compliance checks and specifications, with figures cited to a rule, a data source, or a named assumption. We build them to be honest about what they know, including naming what is missing.

They are still not professional advice. The public datasets they read can be incomplete, out of date, or wrong; district plans change and are subject to interpretation; named assumptions are exactly that. Outputs are not planning, surveying, engineering, valuation or legal advice, they are not a council determination or a consent, and they are not a substitute for any of those.

Before you rely on a figure in a land purchase, a design commitment, a consent application, or any other decision with real consequences, verify it with the appropriate professional. Decisions you make remain your decisions.

AI features can produce output that is plausible and wrong. Review what they propose before you keep it; the compliance engine checking a proposal is part of the product, not a guarantee.

The briefs, concepts, designs and other content you create belong to you. You give us the non-exclusive licence needed to host, process, back up and display that content so the service can work, including passing relevant context to the AI providers named in the privacy policy when you use AI features. That licence exists to run the service and for nothing else.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we can use them to improve the product without owing you anything; that is the one exception.

The engines, software, design and brand of Landform Labs remain ours. The public and government datasets the product reads (for example LINZ and council data) remain subject to their own source licences; using this product does not give you rights in those datasets beyond what their licences allow.

In using the service you agree not to:

Probe, overload, or disrupt it, or try to get around access controls, including reading data belonging to another workspace.

Scrape or bulk-extract the service's reads or underlying data, or resell or republish outputs as a data service of your own.

Misrepresent an output as a council determination, a consent, or professional advice when presenting it to others.

Use the service to break the law.

We may suspend or close accounts that do these things, and where something looks unlawful we may be required to report it.

This is a beta. Engines, data sources and features change without notice, sometimes substantially; availability is not guaranteed; and the beta itself may be paused or ended. We work carefully, but you should expect rough edges. If we close the beta or your account, ask us and we will help you retrieve your content within a reasonable period before it is deleted under the privacy policy.

The service is provided as-is and as-available during the beta. To the extent New Zealand law allows, we exclude warranties and guarantees not stated in these terms, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss (including loss of profit or a missed opportunity on a site), and our total liability for all claims arising from the beta is capped at NZD 100, reflecting that the service is free.

Where you use the service in trade, you and we agree that the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does not apply, as section 43 of that Act allows. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You can stop using the service and ask us to delete your account at any time. We can suspend or end beta access as described above. When an account ends, access stops and data is handled under the privacy policy.

New Zealand law governs these terms and the New Zealand courts have exclusive jurisdiction. If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands. If these terms change materially, signed-in users will be told; the date at the top always reflects the current version. Questions to matt@landformlab.com.