What you agree to

The short version: it's free to come on — though you'll need your own AI subscription, which may be a paid one. It's live, it's recorded, and it goes out to the public. The work happens on your computer and you approve every step. Don't bring anything you wouldn't want the whole internet to see. I'm not your developer, and what you do with it afterwards is your call to make.

Where the contract fits

Nothing binds either of us until you've signed something, and that happens near the end rather than the start. In order:

• You send a request through the form on the show page. That's all it is — a request. Filling it in doesn't sign you up to anything.
• I get back to you and we have a chat, 10 to 20 minutes, to talk through the details and find a time that works.
• The more you tell me up front, the better the show is. Say what the problem actually is rather than the tidy version of it — that's the bit I'm working from.
• Once we've both agreed it's happening, I send you a contract setting out the terms of the show. You sign that, and then you come on. This page is the preview of it.

One thing worth knowing before we look at the diary: I do the shows overnight, Brisbane time. That's when I work on them. It suits a fair chunk of the world and it's the middle of the night for the rest, so it's the first thing to check if you're deciding whether you can realistically do this.

If the contract ends up saying anything this page doesn't, read the contract — it's the document that counts, and I'd rather you spotted the difference than shrugged at it. Tell me and I'll fix the page.

Who this is between

Mate Wish Key is a show run by Mergodon Pty Ltd, a company in Brisbane, Australia. The contract is between you and that company. I write "I" all the way down this page because it is one bloke doing the work — but it's the company on the other side of it, and I'd rather say that here than tuck it into small print.

You need to be eighteen or over to come on the show.

It's recorded, and it goes out

The session is recorded, and publishing it is the whole point of doing it. Coming on means giving me permission to record it and to put it out publicly.

That permission covers the ordinary things I'll do with it: edit it, cut it into clips, caption it, republish it, and use it to promote the show — on YouTube, on Twitch, on social, or on whatever comes along later. I don't have to ask you again each time, it doesn't expire, and neither of us pays the other for it.

The recording is mine. What we build is yours. I'm not taking a share of your business, your files or the thing we made. That all stays yours, and you can use it, change it, sell it or bin it without me in the picture.

One honest wrinkle in that: if we start from somebody else's open-source work — which is often the quickest way to get somewhere — then their licence still applies to whatever we build on top of it, and some licences have real conditions attached. That's between you and them, not me holding something back. Check the licence before you sell anything.

I don't promise to publish. Sometimes a session doesn't make a good episode, or the internet falls over, or I never get to the edit. If yours never goes out, that isn't a broken promise — nothing here or in the contract obliges me to publish anything.

Your name, your face, your screen

Camera on is a requirement, so your face, your voice and your name are in the recording, and I'm allowed to use them in it and in anything I cut out of it. If you'd rather be introduced by a first name or a handle, tell me before we record and that's what I'll use.

Your screen is in it too, and that catches people out more than the camera does. Every notification that pops up, every open tab, every bookmark along the top, whatever happens to be in the folder you open. Close what you don't want on camera before we start, and log out of anything you're not using.

Bring nothing you can't publish

Everything you bring goes out publicly, so you'll be confirming two things: that it's yours to share, and that sharing it doesn't break a promise you've made to somebody else.

In practice that rules out:

• customer data, or anyone else's personal information;
• passwords, API keys, tokens — anything that gets someone into an account;
• material under a confidentiality agreement, or an employer's or a client's private work;
• anything you don't have the right to show.

If it appears on screen, treat it as published. If you spot something and tell me straight away I'll cut it, and I would much rather do that than not — but an editing pass is not a substitute for closing the file beforehand, and anything that went out on a live stream is already out.

And the obvious one: don't bring anything illegal, and don't use the show to have a go at someone. I'll stop the recording.

Your machine, your call

We work on your computer, with your screen shared. You're the one at the keyboard. An agent — the kind of AI that can open and change real files on your machine — asks before it acts, and you are the one who says yes. I'll suggest; I don't press the key.

An agent that can change real files can also wreck real files, and it can be confidently wrong. So back up anything you'd be upset to lose before the show, and don't bring the only copy of something. Backups are yours to sort out — I can't do that for you from the other side of a video call.

You're responsible for what you choose to run, on the day and afterwards. If you're not comfortable with what's about to happen, say stop. That is always the right call, and I'll never make it awkward.

No warranty, and none of this is advice

Nothing on the show is professional advice — not legal, financial, accounting or tax advice, and not advice about your particular business or your particular setup. It's a bloke showing you how he'd approach it, on camera, in one sitting.

Anything we build is as-is. I don't warrant that it works, that it keeps working, that it's secure, that it suits what you want it for, or that it won't cause you a problem later. Nobody tested it. It was built live in a couple of hours, and you watched every step of that happen.

I'm not your developer and there's no support afterwards. When the show ends, the thing is yours to maintain, change, replace or ignore. To the extent the law allows, I'm not responsible for what comes out of the show or out of what you do with it later — and the section below is the honest limit on that sentence.

Nobody pays anybody

It's free. You don't pay me to come on, and I don't pay you for being on it — not for your time, and not for the recording, however well it ends up doing. That's the deal in both directions.

You may need a paid AI subscription of your own to take part, and where that's true it's between you and whoever you pay. It isn't a payment to me.

Beyond that, neither of us owes the other anything. There's nothing exclusive about it either — go on somebody else's show, publish your own version, write about it however you like.

Changing your mind

Before we record: any time, for any reason, no explanation wanted. Email me and it's off — signed contract or not. Nothing happens to you and I won't take it personally.

On the day: say stop and we stop. That's it.

After it's published: tell me and I'll listen, properly. If something genuinely shouldn't be out there — a credential flashed up, somebody's personal information on screen — I'll cut it or take it down as fast as I can get to it.

What I can't promise is that it disappears. Once a video has been public, people download it, clip it, re-upload it and quote it, and I have no way to reach those copies. I can only act on the ones I control. I'd rather tell you that now than hand you a delete button I don't actually have — and it is the real reason the confidential bit further up matters more than anything else on this page.

Your rights under Australian law

Nothing on this page, and nothing in the contract, takes away rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law, or any other rights that can't legally be excluded. Where a right like that applies, it wins over anything written above, and none of the as-is or not-responsible wording here is meant to read otherwise.

This page is not legal advice

This is a preview of the contract, not legal advice. I'm not a lawyer, and this is the plain-English version of what you'll be agreeing to — written to be understood rather than to be airtight. If any of it matters to you, or you're saying yes on behalf of a business and you're not certain what that means, get your own advice before you sign. That's not me being cagey. It's what you'd do with any agreement worth signing, and it is exactly why the contract turns up before the show rather than after it.

Which law applies

The contract is governed by the law of Queensland, Australia, and the courts of Queensland can deal with anything that arises out of it. That's not meant to send you somewhere inconvenient to complain — if you're in Australia, wherever you'd normally be able to take something is still open to you.

Changes, and asking first

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. It's a preview though, so it isn't the record of anything: the contract you signed is, and you'll have your own copy of that in your email. If the two ever disagree, the contract wins and the page is the one that's wrong.

Anything here you want to talk through before you commit, email contact@matewishkey.com and ask. Asking beforehand is the entire reason this is written down. What the site itself does with your details is on the privacy page; what to bring on the day is on the show page; and if you're running the prompts from the wishes at home rather than coming on, the disclaimer is the one for you.