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Terms of Service
Effective date: April 28, 2026 · Last updated: November 8, 2026
Updated 8 November 2026. These terms now cover the free ticket, The Desk and the Desk Pro. If you joined the Residency before 6 October 2026, the terms you accepted still apply to your Residency, unchanged, in Schedule R.
Please read these terms before you work a free ticket or pay for the Desk or the Desk Pro. The Desk and the Desk Pro are monthly subscriptions: section 6 says what you pay, and section 7 how to stop.
1. Who these terms are between
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Zeloric LLC (“Zeloric”), “we”, “us”. Zeloric LLC is based in Houston, Texas. They cover the website at zeloric.io, the free ticket, the Desk and the Desk Pro.
Our Refund Policy and Privacy Policy form part of these Terms.
2. When you agree to them
You agree to these Terms when you start a free ticket, when you create an account, and again when you tick “I agree to the Terms and the Refund Policy” before you pay for the Desk or the Desk Pro.
At checkout we record which versions of these Terms and of the Refund Policy you accepted, before any payment is taken. If either document changed while the checkout page was open, the checkout is refused and you are asked to read the current versions.
3. What Zeloric is
Zeloric is a realistic workplace with five desks: Tech support, Fraud prevention, Anti-money laundering, Medical claims and Network engineering. You work tickets and cases for companies that are not real, on problems built from the faults and cases real teams handle. The companies and their customers are not real. The work you do, and the grade it earns, are.
Using Zeloric does not make you an employee, contractor or agent of Zeloric, and nobody is paid for working tickets.
4. Who can use it
You must be 18 or older. No degree, enrolment or work history is needed. You need your own computer (Windows 10/11 or macOS 12 or later, with at least 8 GB RAM) and a stable broadband connection. We do not reimburse equipment or internet costs.
5. The plans
- The free ticket. One free ticket per account, never one you have worked before. Five core checks, scored by the fixed checker the moment you close. No AI is spent on a free ticket. No card is taken, and nothing turns into a paid plan unless you choose one.
- The $1 first shift. One full shift beside a buddy, reviewed on every part. Your next shift goes on your Shift Record. $1, one time. No subscription starts. Refunded if you ask within 14 days.
- The Desk. A monthly subscription: graded shifts on the one desk you choose, scored part by part with notes and the dispute path; a review and replay after every shift; the Shift Record; the desk AI tools; Employer interest; AI résumé feedback scored out of 100; and interview prep (solo prep). AI trained for this work grades every part; a disputed score is graded again, and a person reviews any the recheck does not settle.
- The Desk Pro. Everything in The Desk, plus scored mock interviews, the quarterly human résumé review with a written review, live group calls, and the job board.
What each plan includes is described on the pricing page at the time you buy.
6. Price and billing
The Desk is $39 a month and the Desk Pro is $69 a month, plus sales tax or VAT where it applies. Tax is calculated and shown at checkout, before you pay.
You are charged by card through Stripe when you start, then once a month on the same date until you cancel. Zeloric never receives or stores your full card number.
Your price is locked
The price you join at stays yours for as long as you stay subscribed. If you cancel and rejoin later, you pay the price of the day.
Moving from the Desk to the Desk Pro
Starting the Desk Pro while you are on the Desk switches your plan in place, straight away. You pay the difference for the rest of the current month, and your record carries on.
Moving from the Desk Pro to the Desk
A move down takes effect at the end of the month you have already paid for. You keep the Desk Pro until then, your next charge is the Desk's price, and nothing is refunded for the move. You can change your mind from your account page until that date.
7. Cancelling
Cancel any time from your account page, in one click. You keep your plan to the end of the month you have paid for, and no further charge is taken.
Within 14 days of your first payment you can instead have it back in full, once, from the same page; that ends your plan straight away. Otherwise months already paid are not refunded, except as the Refund Policy says.
8. If a payment fails
If a monthly payment fails, we email you once to say so and how to update your card, and Stripe retries the card on its own schedule. You keep your plan while it retries. A successful retry changes nothing. If Stripe's retries run out without a payment, the subscription ends and your plan ends with it. Your record stays yours.
9. Grading and disputes
Paid tickets are scored dimension by dimension on the same rubric. A free ticket is scored on five core checks by the fixed checker. Desk tickets are scored automatically, and not every grade is reviewed by a person.
You can dispute any grade from your past tickets. If the regrade does not settle it, a person reviews it. A grade measures the work on that ticket. It is not a qualification or a licence.
10. Your record
Your record of graded work is yours. It is private until you publish it. Publishing creates a page anyone with the link can read, and unpublishing removes it. Your name appears on the workbench leaderboard only if you turn that on.
Your record stays while your account is open, whether or not you pay: if you cancel, it stays yours, and a published page stays live until you unpublish it. Closing your account is how the record is deleted; the Privacy Policy says how and how fast.
11. Your work
You own the work you create on Zeloric. You give Zeloric a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, display and grade it only to run the service for you. We do not use your work to train AI models. Closing your account ends the licence; the Privacy Policy explains how and how fast (via /data-request/).
The tickets, scenarios, company that is not real and rubric belong to Zeloric. You may describe your work and link your record anywhere, but you may not copy or publish the tickets themselves.
12. AI and the tools you need
Zeloric includes AI tools, among them the Career Copilot and the Interview Gym, that generate responses, feedback and scores. AI output can be wrong: check it before you rely on it, and do not paste other people's personal data into it.
Every graded task can be completed with the tools Zeloric provides. You do not need to buy a subscription to any third-party AI service, or any other paid software, to work or be graded on any ticket.
13. Fair use
Accounts are personal. Do not share your login, let someone else work your tickets, automate ticket work, scrape the site, probe or attack its security, or harass anyone. We may suspend or close an account that does any of these.
14. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict of law principles.
A dispute is brought in the state or federal courts in Harris County, Texas, except where applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim in your home jurisdiction.
If you have a dispute with us, please contact us first at info@zeloric.io so that we can try to resolve it informally.
15. No promise of a job
Zeloric is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not promise that using it will lead to an interview, a job or any particular outcome, or that it will always be available or free of errors.
16. Our liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Zeloric is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising from your use of Zeloric or our website. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the fees you have paid Zeloric.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or any other liability, or any right you have as a consumer, that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited.
17. Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms. When we make a material change, we update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and email the people it affects. A new version applies to a paid plan from your next monthly charge; if you do not accept it, cancel before then.
What changed, and when
- 1 October 2026 - the Residency fee clause (now R6) said grading covered six dimensions. The rubric has scored 11 since 12 September 2026, and the clause now states that number. The grading you receive is unchanged; the sentence describing it was out of date.
- 5 October 2026 - “If an instalment fails” (now in R6) says that notices of a failed payment are also sent to you directly by our payment processor. What happens when a payment fails is unchanged.
- 20 October 2026 - sections 1 to 18 rewritten to describe the free ticket, the Desk and the Desk Pro, which Desk buyers had been accepting under Residency wording. The Residency terms moved, unchanged, to Schedule R.
- 20 October 2026, later the same day - the first-month refund (sections 7 and the Refund Policy), moving from the Desk Pro to the Desk at the end of the paid month (section 6), how long a record is kept (section 10), and support@zeloric.io as the contact address.
- 20 October 2026, evening - section 8 says we email you when a monthly payment fails. Until then it said only that Stripe may.
- 29 October 2026 - Schedule R no longer promises an assessment letter or certification, neither of which Zeloric issues, and says a person reviews a disputed grade rather than every grade. Grades are scored automatically, as section 9 already said.
- 30 October 2026 - Schedule R and the Refund Policy no longer mention certification, which Zeloric does not issue. In both, Community is included for six months after you complete the programme, not after you certify; the Refund Policy also says that if you leave early you have not completed the programme. Who receives Community, and for how long, is unchanged. This corrects the wording on this page. It does not rewrite the version a Resident accepted at checkout, which still governs that Resident.
- 30 October 2026 - the Privacy Policy, section 3, reads “To issue your Zeloric record”; a missing space is restored. Nothing else in that sentence changed.
- 30 October 2026 - these changes are recorded at checkout as version 2026-10-v4 of these terms, and the Refund Policy as version 2026-10-v3. Version 2026-10-v4 also covers the 29 October wording above, which went live without a new version number.
- 2 November 2026 - section 3 names all four desks. Zeloric was described as a support desk only; it is a realistic workplace with Tech support, Fraud prevention, Anti-money laundering and Medical claims desks. Nothing else in section 3 changed.
- 4 November 2026 - section 3 names the Network engineering desk, which opened that day. Nothing else in section 3 changed.
- 2 November 2026 - the licence in R8 matches section 11. It runs the service only. It does not let us operate or improve the programme with your work, and we do not use that work to train AI models.
- 2 November 2026 - section 14 is governed by the laws of the State of Texas. A dispute is brought in the state or federal courts in Harris County, Texas, except where applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim in your home jurisdiction. Section 5 no longer states a monthly allowance. A plan includes graded shifts on the desks it covers, scored the same way.
- 2 November 2026 - these changes are recorded at checkout as version 2026-11-v1 of these terms.
- 8 November 2026 - The full legal set goes live in these terms: the company is named as Zeloric LLC, based in Houston, Texas; the $1 first shift, refunded if you ask within 14 days; and the wording across the legal pages now says the companies are not real and the work is realistic. These changes are recorded at checkout as version 2026-11-v2 of these terms.
- 8 November 2026 - Section 5 now describes the two plans exactly as the product sets them: The Desk includes AI résumé feedback scored out of 100 and interview prep, and Desk Pro adds scored mock interviews, the quarterly human résumé review with a written review, live group calls, and the job board. These changes are recorded at checkout as version 2026-11-v3 of these terms.
18. Contact us
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us:
- Email: info@zeloric.io
- Subject line: Terms of Service Enquiry
Schedule R. The Residency
This schedule applies only to Residents who joined the Zeloric Residency Programme before 6 October 2026. For them, it continues to govern the Residency, and where it and sections 1 to 18 differ about the Residency, this schedule wins. The Residency is no longer sold.
R2. About Zeloric & the Residency Programme
Zeloric runs a support engineering residency (“the Programme”): a structured experience in which you work a service desk inside a software company that is not real, on problems built from the faults and cases real teams handle. The work you do is real work.
The company you do it for is not a real company, and there are no clients and no live projects.
The Programme is fully remote and runs month to month. One specialisation track is currently offered. Participation does not create an employment relationship between you and Zeloric.
R3. Eligibility
To be eligible to apply to the Zeloric Residency Programme, you must:
- Be 18 years of age or older. There is no enrolment, degree or qualification requirement: students, graduates, career changers and people already working in support are all eligible
- Have a personal computer (Windows 10/11 or macOS 12 or later) with a minimum of 8 GB RAM
- Have a stable broadband internet connection sufficient for video conferencing
- Be able to commit to the programme's time requirements
Meeting eligibility requirements does not guarantee acceptance. Admission decisions are made at Zeloric's sole discretion based on the strength of each application.
R4. Application Process
By submitting an application, you confirm that:
- All information provided in your application is accurate, truthful, and complete to the best of your knowledge
- Any resume, portfolio, or work samples you submit are your own work or clearly attributed to others where applicable
- You understand that submitting an application does not guarantee an offer of a place in the programme
Zeloric reserves the right to reject any application at any stage of the process without providing a reason. Applications that contain false, misleading, or plagiarised information will be immediately disqualified and the applicant may be permanently barred from future applications.
Application deadlines are stated on the website. Zeloric may close applications early if all available spots are filled before the stated deadline.
R5. Nature of the Residency
A Paid Programme
The Zeloric Residency Programme is a paid programme. You pay Zeloric a fee to take part, and Zeloric does not pay you. What you are buying is a place on a structured, supervised programme.
It is not a job, and no wages, salaries, or stipends are payable to you for taking part.
The fee, the instalment schedule, what happens if a payment fails, and how refunds and cancellation work are set out in R6, which you should read before you pay.
Tools You Need
Every graded task can be completed with the tools Zeloric provides. You do not need to buy a subscription to any third-party AI service, or any other paid software, to complete the programme or to be graded on any part of it.
Where the programme teaches you to work with AI, the tools are hosted by Zeloric and included in the fee. You are free to use tools of your own in addition, and doing so is neither required nor rewarded.
No Employment Relationship
You are not an employee, contractor, or agent of Zeloric. Participation in the programme does not create an employment relationship, agency relationship, partnership, or joint venture between you and Zeloric.
You are not entitled to any employment benefits, including but not limited to health insurance, paid leave, workers' compensation, or severance.
Remote Participation
The programme is conducted entirely remotely. You are responsible for providing your own equipment, internet access, and workspace. Zeloric will not reimburse costs associated with your personal equipment or internet connection.
Time Commitment
Residents are expected to dedicate approximately 20–30 hours per week to programme activities. Specific expectations will be detailed in your onboarding materials. Work is asynchronous and is scheduled against the service desk queue rather than against fixed meetings.
R6. Fees, Payment & Refunds
Applying is free, the Residency is not
There is no charge to submit an application. If you are offered a place and decide to take it, you pay for the programme. The founding-cohort fee is US$665 per month, charged three times, which is approximately US$1,995 in total.
The price that applies to you is the one shown on your offer page at the time you accept it. Amounts shown are exclusive of sales tax; where tax applies, it is calculated and shown at checkout, before you pay.
How and when you are charged
Payment is taken through our payment processor. Zeloric does not receive or store your full card details. Your first instalment is charged when you complete checkout, and it is that payment which secures your seat: your Zeloric Workspace account is created once the payment succeeds.
The two remaining instalments are then charged on the same monthly cycle.
Billing ends by itself after the third instalment
This is a three-instalment subscription, not an open-ended one. A cancellation date is set on your subscription with our payment processor at the moment the subscription is created.
It falls after the third charge and before a fourth would ever come due, so there is no fourth charge and you do not have to cancel anything to make the billing stop.
Stopping your remaining instalments
You may cancel your remaining instalments at any time from the billing page in your Zeloric Workspace. What then happens to your access, and to instalments you have already paid, is governed by the Refund Policy.
Refunds
Our Refund Policy forms part of these Terms and is incorporated into them by reference.
It sets out the onboarding guarantee and the window in which you can ask for a full refund of everything you have paid, how instalments already paid are treated after that window, what happens if you leave the programme, and deferral to a later cohort.
Please read it before you pay.
Community membership after the Residency
Community membership is included at no additional cost for the duration of your Residency and for six months after you complete the programme. It does not convert to a paid subscription and no charge follows that period.
If an instalment fails
If we cannot collect an instalment, your account is marked past due and we email you. We send reminders three days and seven days after that. Notices that a payment has failed are also sent to you directly by our payment processor.
If the instalment is still unpaid after ten days, your Residency access and the programme tool accounts issued to you are paused. Nothing is deleted, and a successful payment clears the past-due state and restores your access.
If payment ultimately cannot be taken and our payment processor exhausts its own retry attempts, the subscription ends and your access to the programme ends with it.
The versions you agree to
At checkout you are shown, and asked to affirmatively accept, the versions of these Terms and of the Refund Policy that are in force at that moment. Your acceptance is recorded before any payment is taken.
If either document has been updated since the checkout page was loaded, the checkout is refused and you are asked to review the current versions before continuing.
What the fee covers
The fee covers your place in the cohort and the Residency as described on our website:
- the supervised programme itself
- grading of every ticket you close on 11 dimensions
- a person reviewing any grade you dispute that a regrade does not settle
- an appeal route if you disagree with one
- Community membership on the terms above
On completing the programme you keep your Zeloric record. The record is the verified account of the work you did and the grade on each ticket. It is yours to keep, and you decide whether to publish it.
None of this is a guarantee of employment or of any particular outcome: see section 15.
R7. Resident Obligations
Upon acceptance into the programme, you agree to:
- Work your queue against the SLA clocks you are given
- Complete assigned tasks and deliverables to the best of your ability and within agreed timelines
- Raise blockers early, through the channels given at onboarding, rather than waiting to be asked
- Conduct yourself professionally in all interactions with Zeloric team members, and fellow Residents
- Comply with Zeloric's internal policies, communication guidelines, and tool usage policies as communicated during onboarding
- Not engage in any activity that conflicts with your obligations to Zeloric during the programme, including sharing confidential information (see R9)
- Immediately disclose to your team lead any conflict of interest that arises during the programme
R8. Intellectual Property
All work, code, designs, documentation, analyses, and other materials you create during your residency (“Work Product”) are considered work made in the context of the programme. You own your Work Product and all intellectual property rights in it.
This is deliberate, and it matches what we tell you everywhere else: the record of your work is yours to keep, wherever you go next.
You grant Zeloric a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, display and grade your Work Product only to run the service for you. We do not use your work to train AI models. Closing your account ends the licence; the Privacy Policy explains how and how fast (via /data-request/).
Zeloric grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reference your contributions in your personal portfolio, resume, and LinkedIn profile for the purpose of demonstrating your skills and experience.
You may describe the nature of your work but may not reproduce, publish, or share any proprietary code, data, or confidential materials belonging to Zeloric.
Any pre-existing intellectual property you owned before the programme (“Background IP”) remains your property. You grant Zeloric a licence to use such Background IP only to the extent necessary to incorporate it into the Work Product.
R9. Confidentiality
During and after the programme, you may have access to non-public information about Zeloric's business, technology, strategies, or operations (“Confidential Information”). You agree to:
- Keep all Confidential Information strictly confidential
- Not disclose Confidential Information to any third party without Zeloric's prior written consent
- Use Confidential Information only for the purposes of your residency activities
- Promptly notify Zeloric if you become aware of any unauthorised disclosure of Confidential Information
This obligation survives the termination or completion of your residency for a period of three (3) years.
It does not apply to information that is or becomes publicly available through no fault of yours, or that you are required to disclose by law or court order.
R10. Programme Changes & Cancellation
Zeloric reserves the right to:
- Modify the structure, timeline, tracks, or content of the programme at any time
- Change mentor assignments, team structures, or project scope during the programme
In the event of programme cancellation, Zeloric will notify all affected accepted Residents as promptly as reasonably possible. Zeloric will not be liable for any losses, expenses, or damages arising from a programme cancellation.
R11. Termination
Zeloric may terminate your participation in the programme immediately and without prior notice if you:
- Breach any provision of these Terms
- Engage in dishonest, fraudulent, or seriously unprofessional conduct
- Repeatedly fail to meet your programme obligations without reasonable justification
- Disclose confidential information in breach of R9
- Engage in behaviour that is harmful, harassing, or discriminatory toward any member of the Zeloric community
You may also voluntarily withdraw from the programme at any time by notifying your team lead in writing. Upon voluntary withdrawal or termination for cause, you will not be treated as having completed the programme.
The effect of withdrawal on your instalments, both those already paid and those still to come, is governed by R6 and by the Refund Policy.
Upon completion or termination for any reason, you must immediately return or delete any Zeloric confidential materials in your possession and cease use of any Zeloric systems or tools.

