Kynd Share

Kynd Share terms

Version 1.3 · 7 September 2026 · between you and Kynd (the trading name of the business operating kyndagent.com)

Kynd Share lets Kynd Agent users lend each other spare computing time. These terms cover both sides of that: buying computing time, and sharing your own Mac. They are written to be read, not to be survived.

Part one — buying computing time

A1. Your Kynd Share account

One account covers both sides of Kynd Share. To buy computing time, or to be paid for sharing your own Mac, you add a payment card and accept these terms. Sharing itself needs only the terms. That is the whole account: there is no separate username or password, and the card is held by Stripe, our payments provider, not by Kynd. Kynd stores only the card's brand and last four digits so you can see which card is on file.

If you are only sharing your Mac and never buying, you do not need a card to start — only to be paid. Nothing is ever charged to it. It is there because a host is otherwise anonymous to Kynd, and Kynd needs to know who it is paying: for its own records, and because the law requires it to know who it pays money to.

You buy credits, and credits pay for work. Nothing is charged automatically: every top-up is a payment you make deliberately. Prices are shown in your own currency before you pay.

A2. Where your work runs

When your Mac is busy, a job you start may run on another Kynd Agent user's Mac. Your prompt, any images you supply, and the result are encrypted with a key only that machine can open, and are deleted there when the job finishes. Kynd's servers hold sizes, prices and progress, never readable content.

That other machine belongs to another person, not to Kynd and not to a data centre. Every job is priced before it runs and you are only charged for work delivered. If nobody finishes it, you are not charged.

A3. What you pay

Rates are published in the app and are the same for everyone: video by the second at the tier you choose, images by the megapixel. You see the price of a job before it runs and you set a spending ceiling that Kynd will not exceed without asking. Part of what you pay goes to the person whose Mac did the work, at their published rate; the rest is Kynd's, and covers running the marketplace, the payments, the tax on the sale and the support.

Credits are non-refundable once spent on a completed job. Unspent credits stay on your account. If Kynd ends Kynd Share, unspent credits are refunded.

A4. Stopping a render part-way

You can watch a render develop and stop it at any point. Stopping before a Mac has picked the job up costs nothing. Stopping one that is already running is charged on the proportion completed at that moment, with a minimum of 10% of the quoted price — the host really did run its graphics card for you, and is paid for that part. The rest of the reserved credits are returned to your balance immediately. A stopped render is not delivered to you.

A5. Fair use

Do not use Kynd Share for anything unlawful, or to produce material that is illegal where you or the host lives. Because jobs are encrypted, hosts cannot see what they are running and cannot consent to it individually — so this responsibility is yours. Kynd may suspend an account it reasonably believes is breaking this.

Part two — sharing your Mac

1. What this arrangement is

Kynd buys computing capacity from you and sells computing capacity to its customers. You are an independent supplier: you decide whether your Mac is available, and Kynd pays you a published rate for the work it completes.

This is not employment, a partnership, an agency, or a franchise. You are not Kynd's agent and Kynd is not yours. You are not selling anything to Kynd's customers, and they are not your customers. Nothing here stops you doing the same for anyone else.

2. Who can be a host

• Anyone can share a Mac. No licence is required to host, and none is required to buy.
• Sharing itself asks nothing of you beyond accepting these terms. Before your first payout — cash, credits or a licence — you add a payment card, because Kynd has to know who it is paying. Nothing is ever charged to that card for sharing: it is held by Stripe, who verify it, and Kynd sees only its brand and last four digits.
• You must be 18 or over and legally able to enter a contract where you live.
• The Mac must be yours to lend, on a connection you are allowed to use this way.
• To be paid in cash your bank must be in one of the 34 countries our payments provider reaches. Anywhere else you can still host and take your earnings as Kynd credits.

3. What runs on your Mac, and what you can see

Kynd Share is blind by design. A job arrives encrypted with a key only your Mac can open, runs without appearing on screen, and the working files are deleted when it finishes. Kynd's servers never hold readable content at any point.

This means you cannot see what you are rendering, and you are not asked to police it. You are supplying computing time, not reviewing material. Kynd is responsible for its relationship with the customer who submitted the work, including handling complaints and misuse, and for the terms those customers agree to.

4. What you are paid

You are paid a published rate for the work your Mac completes — the rate in the table below, fixed and the same for every host in the same speed band. Nobody sets their own price, and your rate does not depend on what any particular buyer paid. What Kynd charges its customers is a separate matter between Kynd and them.

Kynd places your Mac in a speed band from how fast it actually completes work. The band is measured, not claimed, and it can move up or down as your Mac's real performance changes.

Images are paid per megapixel, on the published scale shown in the app. You are paid for work actually delivered and accepted. A job you do not finish earns nothing.

A job the buyer stops part-way is different: you are paid for the proportion your Mac completed, with a minimum of 10% of the job's price, because the work was genuinely done. A stopped job does not count against your completion record or your rating — it was the buyer's decision, not a fault of yours — and your Mac is released for the next job straight away.

Credits are the unit of account: 1,000 credits is about £0.77 at Kynd's fixed book rate. Kynd may change the rates or the bands, and will give at least 14 days' notice in the app before a change that reduces what you are paid. Work already completed is always paid at the rate quoted when it ran.

5. When you are paid

• Earnings settle for 14 days before they can be withdrawn. Kynd is the merchant of record for the customer's purchase, so this covers the window in which a payment can be reversed.
• The minimum cash withdrawal is 10,000 credits (about £7.69), because bank transfers have a fixed cost. There is no minimum for taking your earnings as Kynd credits.
• New hosts can withdraw up to 50,000 credits (about £38) in their first 30 days. After that the limit is removed.
• Cash is paid through Stripe to an account you set up in your own name. Stripe collects your identity and bank details directly; Kynd never sees them. Stripe's own terms apply to that account.
• Payouts leave in pounds and Stripe converts to your currency. Cross-border payouts carry a small provider fee, which is deducted from the amount sent.

6. Finishing what you start

The one thing Kynd asks is that a job you accept gets finished. A customer is waiting, and their money is held while it runs.

• If your Mac accepts a job and then stops, crashes, or goes quiet, that is recorded as a strike and the job is passed to another Mac.
• Three strikes within seven days pauses your sharing for 24 hours. Strikes stop counting after 30 days.
• Each Mac carries a reliability rating from 0 to 100, built from finished jobs, strikes, rejected deliveries and work delivered far slower than your band. At the same price, better-rated Macs are offered work first.
• You will not be given work your Mac cannot finish before your sharing hours end, or while it is busy with your own work.

7. Your control

You decide when your Mac is available. You can set sharing hours, cap how much time a day you give, and switch sharing off at any moment. A job already running finishes first; nothing new is accepted after you switch off. None of this counts against you.

8. Tax

What you earn is your income and your responsibility. Kynd does not deduct tax and is not your employer. Depending on where you live, Stripe may report your earnings to your tax authority and may ask you for tax details before paying you.

9. What Kynd does not promise

• Any amount of work, or any work at all. The figures shown in the app are what a busy hour pays, not a forecast.
• That Kynd Share will continue. Kynd may change or end it, and will pay any settled balance you have earned.
• Kynd is not responsible for your electricity, your hardware, your internet, or wear on your Mac. Renders are demanding work; you choose to run them.

10. Ending this, and suspension

You can stop hosting whenever you like and withdraw whatever has settled. Kynd may suspend or end your hosting if you break these terms, if your Mac repeatedly fails to finish work, or if Kynd is required to by law or by its payment provider. If Kynd ends it, you keep everything you have earned; unsettled earnings are paid once they settle.

Kynd may withhold a payment where it has reasonable grounds to suspect fraud, and will explain why.

11. Liability

Neither side excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow to be excluded. Beyond that, Kynd's total liability to you is limited to what it has paid or owes you for hosting in the 12 months before the claim.

12. Changes and law

Kynd may update these terms. Material changes are shown in the app before they take effect, and continuing to host after that is acceptance. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer you keep the protections of your own country's law.

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