These Terms govern your use of Austin Development Watch ("ADW") products and services — the free weekly intelligence brief, the one-time intelligence reports sold through this storefront, the subscription tiers (Founder's Annual Pro, Predictor, Enterprise), the subscriber portal, and the API. By purchasing a product, subscribing to a tier, or signing into the portal, you agree to these Terms.
Austin Development Watch is operated by Michael Msebenzi as an independent publication. Contact: info@bytecraftresults.com.
ADW publishes intelligence on the Austin land use entitlement market, drawing on a structured database of public Planning Commission and Zoning & Platting Commission meeting records. The weekly brief is the spine; one-time reports go deeper on individual firms, frameworks, or corridors; subscription tiers add a searchable database, a similarity layer, and a calibrated outcome predictor.
All content is intended for sophisticated commercial-real-estate and legal professionals. The brief, the reports, and the predictor are decision support, not legal advice and not decision automation. Nothing in any ADW product is a substitute for counsel on any specific matter.
Each one-time report is sold under a single-buyer license. The license permits internal use by the named buyer and their immediate working group at one firm or organization. Citation is permitted with attribution to "Austin Development Watch [Report Name], Edition [N], [Month Year]." Resale, redistribution, sharing the file beyond the immediate working group, posting to public file shares, or training machine-learning models on the report's contents are not permitted.
If your firm requires multi-seat licensing or white-label data extracts, see the Enterprise tier or contact info@bytecraftresults.com.
Subscriptions are single-seat unless explicitly Enterprise. The tier (Pro, Predictor, Enterprise) binds to the email address used at PayPal checkout. The magic-link sign-in token and the API key both bind to that email. Sharing your sign-in link, JWT, or API key with another person violates these Terms and may result in subscription termination without refund.
The Enterprise tier permits up to five named seats per the contract terms. Adding seats beyond five requires written amendment.
The case database is sourced from publicly-published City of Austin meeting minutes. ADW has parsed, structured, and canonicalized roughly 10,000 cases across the 2016-2026 window. Where a count is exact, the publication states so. Where a per-attorney or per-year cell is estimated, the estimate band is disclosed.
Approximately nine percent of historical 2016-2018 cases have no district tag. This limitation is acknowledged in the methodology page of every report and in the dashboard.
The Case Outcome Predictor is decision support only. The model predicts hearing-level outcomes at Planning Commission and Zoning & Platting Commission only — Council-stage outcomes are not in scope. Predictions for rare framework combinations return wider confidence intervals. ADW makes no warranty that the model's prediction for any individual case will match the actual outcome.
If you identify a parser error, misattribution, or fact the public record contradicts, send the correction to info@bytecraftresults.com. Corrections are acknowledged in subsequent editions of the affected report or the next applicable weekly brief.
Subscriptions are billed annually via PayPal. PayPal is the merchant of record for all subscription transactions. Renewal occurs automatically on the anniversary of the first charge at the then-current published price.
Cancellation can be processed at any time directly inside PayPal. Cancellation takes effect at the next renewal date; the current cycle's access continues unchanged through that date.
If a subscription is downgraded mid-cycle, the change takes effect at the next renewal. If a subscription is upgraded, the new tier activates immediately with a pro-rated charge for the remainder of the current cycle.
Refund policy is summarized below and stated in full at refund.html:
API access is granted via a personal API key bound to your subscription email. Rate limits and usage quotas are documented in the dashboard. ADW reserves the right to suspend API access for any account exceeding fair-use thresholds, distributing the API key, or using the API in a way that materially impairs service for other subscribers.
API responses are intended for internal use within the subscriber's business. Resale of API output, white-labeling without an Enterprise contract, or training third-party machine-learning models on aggregated API output are not permitted.
The subscriber list is private. ADW does not disclose subscriber identities to other subscribers, to third parties, or in marketing materials. The launch-list notification for new reports uses BCC; recipients cannot see each other's email addresses.
For full data-handling practices, see privacy.html.
ADW operates under a conservative analyst voice. Quantitative claims trace to verifiable public records. The publication does not characterize individuals, firms, or actions subjectively beyond what the public record supports. If a third party objects to factual content in any ADW product, the editorial standard is to correct demonstrable factual errors and to acknowledge corrections in subsequent editions.
ADW is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from the use of any product or service. Total liability is limited to the amount paid for the affected product or subscription cycle.
These Terms may be updated. Active subscribers receive notice of material changes by email at least 30 days before the change takes effect. Continued use after the change constitutes acceptance.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas. Disputes that cannot be resolved by good-faith discussion will be referred to arbitration in Travis County, Texas, before a single arbitrator under the American Arbitration Association's commercial arbitration rules.