1. Who we are and what these terms cover
These Terms of Service (version 2026-11) form an agreement between you and AGROINTEL AS (org.nr 932901129, Fåholmen 3, 4160 Finnøy, Norway), operating under the brand Barnstar (barnstar.dev).
They govern your Barnstar account, Orbit Core cloud sync, Orion cloud and voice allowances, Barnstar's livestock vision services, and purchases of the Barnstar box and cameras. Use of the open-source Orbit and Orion software on your own computer is governed by its open-source licence described in Section 5.
2. Who may use Barnstar and accounts
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into contracts. If you create an account or order a plan for a farm business or organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that business.
Keep your password and sign-in devices secure. You are responsible for activity under your account and for the roles you grant to farm owners, managers, workers, and viewers when you invite them. Let us know at hello@barnstar.dev if you suspect unauthorised access.
3. Plans, trials, and billing
Current plans, camera tiers, Orion token and voice allowances, and rates are listed on barnstar.dev/pricing/. All prices are charged in EUR through Stripe.
- Free plan and trials: you can create a free account with no payment card. Where a free Orion cloud trial or allowance is offered (such as the initial free Orion month after you confirm your email address), it applies once per eligible account or farm under the rules shown on /pricing/. After a trial ends, you can pick a paid plan or run Orbit with your own AI provider key.
- Monthly and yearly billing: paid plans renew automatically each month or year until cancelled. Taxes and VAT are added at checkout where applicable.
- Cancel any time: you can cancel a paid plan at any time from your account or /pricing/ through the Stripe billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid billing period, and you keep your plan access until then.
- Allowances: monthly Orion token and voice allowances reset each billing month. When an allowance is used up, cloud Orion or voice calls pause until the next reset, a plan upgrade, or use of your own AI key.
4. Barn hardware
The Barnstar box (local edge compute) and optional tested barn cameras are sold as one-time purchases on /pricing/. Stripe collects your shipping address and payment at checkout.
Once paid for, the hardware is yours. You are responsible for mounting cameras safely in your barn, providing power and local network connections, and using a qualified electrician where local electrical rules require one. Statutory warranty and mandatory consumer withdrawal rights under applicable law apply in full.
5. Open-source software and Barnstar vision models
Orbit (the desktop farm app) and Orion (the AI agent sidecar), along with the Orbit Core source code in our public repository, are open-source software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only (AGPL-3.0-only). Nothing in these Terms restricts your rights under AGPL-3.0-only.
If your company wants to embed Orbit or Orion into a closed-source product or offer a proprietary hosted service without AGPL-3.0-only source-code obligations, a separate paid commercial licence is available from AGROINTEL AS — write to hello@barnstar.dev.
Vision models and hosted cloud services are not open source. The trained Barnstar livestock computer-vision models and weights (whether running on a Barnstar box in your barn or on Barnstar's cloud) and our hosted cloud services are proprietary to AGROINTEL AS and are provided as a service under your plan. You may not extract, copy, redistribute, or reverse-engineer the trained vision model weights except where mandatory law permits.
6. Your farm data and shared builds
You keep ownership of your farm records, animal data, barn video, and custom pages, connectors, or tools that you or Orion create for your farm. You grant AGROINTEL AS a limited licence to host, sync, and process the data you connect to our cloud solely to run Barnstar for you—and, only if you have given consent (as a founding farm at signup or by opting in; cancel any time), to use anonymised footage and animal outcomes to train and improve our models.
If you ask Orion to submit a custom page, connector, or skill to share with other farms, you confirm you have the right to share it and allow us to review and publish approved submissions in the open-source Orbit skills catalogue.
7. AI can make mistakes and animal welfare
Barnstar does not replace stockmanship or a veterinarian. Vision alerts (such as calving, foaling, lameness, heat, colic, feeding, or rest) and Orion's answers can miss events, raise false alarms, or contain mistakes. You remain responsible for inspecting your animals, animal welfare, biosecurity, medication withdrawals, and veterinary decisions.
Inside Orbit, Orion gets on with routine farm work and checks with you in the chat only before risky or hard-to-undo steps (such as deleting files, changing network or system settings, or contacting outside websites to submit or pay). Database edits and workspace changes made by Orion save local snapshots so you have one-click undo in Orbit Settings, but you are responsible for reviewing changes applied to your farm operations and connected equipment.
8. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use Barnstar or barn cameras unlawfully, or record people without complying with workplace, signage, and privacy laws that apply on your farm.
- Break into, overload, scrape, or bypass authentication, rate limits, or usage allowances on Orbit Core, our voice gateway, or other users' farms.
- Upload malware, leaked credentials, or content you have no right to use.
- Resell our hosted cloud allowances or extract proprietary Barnstar vision model weights.
We may suspend access to cloud services if needed to stop active security abuse, unlawful use, or non-payment after notice. Your local Orbit copy and local farm records on your own PC remain yours.
9. Early access, availability, and changes
Barnstar and Orbit are in early access. Founding prices reflect that we are building alongside working farms: the vision models learn each barn and improve over time, and features, interfaces, or cloud endpoints may change as we improve the product.
We work hard to keep Orbit Core and cloud alerts running reliably, and local camera tracking on a Barnstar box plus local Orbit records keep working when your barn internet drops. However, uninterrupted cloud uptime cannot be guaranteed during maintenance, provider outages, or network failures. If we discontinue a paid plan, we will give reasonable advance notice and refund any prepaid unused period.
10. Liability limits
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Barnstar's services are provided "as is", and AGROINTEL AS is not liable for indirect, consequential, or business-interruption losses, lost production, or livestock health outcomes arising from missed or inaccurate alerts or AI outputs.
Where liability applies, AGROINTEL AS's total aggregate liability in any twelve-month period is capped at the total fees you paid to AGROINTEL AS for the relevant service or hardware in the twelve months before the claim arose (or EUR 100 if you have paid nothing).
Mandatory law always comes first: nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, death or personal injury, or any mandatory consumer rights and statutory remedies that cannot be waived under applicable law.
11. Governing law and courts
These Terms are governed by the laws of Norway. Any dispute that cannot be resolved amicably shall be brought before the ordinary courts of AGROINTEL AS's domicile in Norway (Sør-Rogaland tingrett as court of first instance).
If you use Barnstar as a consumer, this choice of law and venue does not deprive you of mandatory consumer protections under the laws of the country where you habitually live, nor your right under mandatory law to bring or defend proceedings in the courts of your home place.
12. Changes to these terms and contact
When we make material changes to these Terms, we will give reasonable advance notice by email or inside Orbit before the new version takes effect. If you do not agree with the updated Terms, you can cancel your plan and stop using the cloud service before they apply.
- Company
- AGROINTEL AS (org.nr 932901129)
- Address
- Fåholmen 3, 4160 Finnøy, Norway
- hello@barnstar.dev