These are the terms for using Sofia. They're written in plain language because you should be able to read them and know what you're agreeing to.
By using Sofia, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use Sofia.
Who can use Sofia
Sofia is built for teachers and adult educators. To use Sofia, you must:
- Be at least 18 years old
- Provide accurate information when you sign up
- Be responsible for what you do with your account, including keeping your password secure
If you're using Sofia on behalf of a school or organization, you confirm that you have the authority to do so on their behalf.
What Sofia is
Sofia is a tool that helps teachers create instructional materials and other documents using AI. It generates content based on inputs you provide and frameworks like the AP Course and Exam Description.
Sofia is software, not a teacher. The output is a starting point — sometimes a very good starting point — but it's your responsibility as the educator to review what Sofia generates before using it with students. Sofia can be wrong, can produce content that sounds confident but isn't accurate, and can make mistakes a real teacher would catch. You should treat Sofia's output the way you'd treat a thoughtful but inexperienced teaching assistant: helpful, but not infallible.
What you can do with Sofia's output
Content you generate using Sofia is yours to use. You can:
- Use it in your classroom
- Modify it however you need
- Share it with students, colleagues, and parents
- Print it, post it, distribute it
We don't claim copyright on what Sofia generates for you. The output is yours.
What you can't do
A few things are off-limits:
- Don't use Sofia for content that violates the law — including content that infringes copyright, defames someone, or contains material that's illegal where you live.
- Don't use Sofia to harm students or anyone else. This includes generating content designed to bully, harass, or discriminate.
- Don't try to break Sofia. This means no scraping, no reverse-engineering, no attempting to access other users' accounts, no overloading the service deliberately.
- Don't represent Sofia's output as a human's original work in contexts where that matters — for example, in academic submissions or professional credentials where AI-generated content is prohibited.
- Don't use Sofia to produce content that exploits or sexualizes minors. Period.
- Don't share your account. Sofia is for individual teacher use. If your school wants multiple seats, contact us.
If you violate these terms, we may suspend or terminate your account.
Things Sofia can't promise
Sofia is provided "as is." We work hard to make it useful and reliable, but we can't promise:
- That it will be available 100% of the time. Sometimes systems go down for maintenance, or because of issues with our cloud providers, or because of bugs we haven't found yet.
- That every generation will be accurate. AI makes mistakes. You're responsible for reviewing output before using it.
- That Sofia will keep working forever in its current form. We may change features, retire features, or in the worst case shut down. If we shut down, we'll give you advance notice and a way to export your content.
To the maximum extent the law allows, Sofia, its operators, and Zunama (the nonprofit organization behind Sofia) are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of Sofia. If something Sofia produces causes a problem for you — a recommendation letter that didn't land right, a worksheet with an error you didn't catch — we're sorry, but our liability is limited.
This isn't us trying to escape responsibility for our work. It's the standard legal framing that lets a small organization offer something for free without facing existential risk from a single bad outcome. If we charged for Sofia, the calculation might be different. We don't.
AI-generated content
Sofia produces content using AI. A few things you should know:
- The AI Sofia uses (Anthropic's Claude) is provided by a third party, and Sofia depends on it. Outages or changes there may affect Sofia.
- AI can produce content that's biased, inaccurate, or culturally inappropriate. Sofia tries to mitigate this through careful prompts and source-grounded generation, but it's not perfect. Review what you publish.
- AI-generated content may sometimes resemble existing copyrighted work, even unintentionally. If you're going to publish or distribute Sofia's output widely, the responsibility for verifying originality is yours.
Tokens, payments, and free use
Sofia is currently free for individual teachers, with a monthly allotment of generation tokens that resets at the start of each calendar month. Unused free tokens don't carry over.
We may, in the future, offer paid tokens, paid organization plans, or other paid features. If we do, the terms for those will be clearly disclosed before purchase, and free use of Sofia will continue to exist as long as it's sustainable.
If you're using paid features:
- Refunds are at our discretion. We'll be reasonable about them, but we don't promise specific refund terms.
- Token purchases are not transferable between accounts.
- We reserve the right to change pricing for future purchases. Tokens you've already bought retain their value at the time of purchase.
Connected services
If you connect Sofia to a third-party service (like Google Drive), you're also agreeing to that service's terms. Sofia operates within the permissions you grant; we can't see, read, or modify content the connection doesn't allow.
You can disconnect any service at any time from your settings page. Disconnecting doesn't delete content already in those services.
Intellectual property
The Sofia software, design, name, and underlying systems are owned by Zunama. You can use Sofia under these terms, but you can't copy, redistribute, or build a competing product using Sofia's code.
The content you generate using Sofia is yours. The frameworks Sofia references (like the AP Course and Exam Description) are owned by their respective rights holders, and Sofia uses them in ways consistent with educational use. We're not affiliated with the College Board, ETS, or any other curriculum-framework owner.
Termination
You can stop using Sofia at any time, and you can delete your account from your settings page. Deletion is final after a 30-day soft-delete window.
We can suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, that we believe pose a risk to other users or to Sofia itself, or that have been inactive for an extended period. We'll try to give notice when we can, but we reserve the right to act immediately for serious violations.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms over time as Sofia evolves. If we make material changes, we'll let you know — by email if the changes affect your rights or obligations, by a notice on this page if they're clarifications. The date at the bottom of this page tells you when it was last updated.
If you keep using Sofia after material changes, you've agreed to the new terms. If you don't agree, you can stop using Sofia and delete your account.
Disputes
If something goes wrong, the first step is to email us at james@zunama.com. Most issues can be resolved by talking. Sofia is run by a small team; we want to make things right when we can.
For formal disputes, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, where Sofia is operated. Any legal action must be brought in courts located in Washington.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Email james@zunama.com.
Last updated: May 3, 2026.