1Q
To measurable AI fluency lift across early-career staff
Become an AI-native Accountant. Developer. Analyst. Marketer. Teacher. Student. Lawyer. Administrator.
Anyone can learn AI.
An AI-native credential — for everyone learning to direct AI.
Train on the stack companies actually use. Earn a portfolio-backed credential. Land jobs employers are hiring for now.
or compare the three paths →"You're not going to lose your job to an AI. You're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI."
Jensen Huang · CEO, Nvidia · Milken Institute, May 2025
For teams
Looking for enterprise?
Train, hire, certify, and keep your workforce current — in one contract.
Join the waitlist
→
The three paths
Pick the shape
of your work.
All paths lead to their own credentials and talent pipeline.
PROFESSIONAL
Direct AI as the doing.
Operate primarily through Claude Code and ChatGPT. The AI does the heavy lifting — the skill is in directing it.
- Draft a quarterly memo via an agent — then defend it.
- Run contract analysis with auditable, cited reasoning.
- Build dashboards and screeners on real filings.
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BUILDER
Build with artifacts & low-code.
Ship real, working tools without writing production code. Internal dashboards, automations, domain-specific assistants.
- Stand up a domain assistant your team uses daily.
- Wire doc & data pipelines across Notion, Airtable, Slack.
- Replace the spreadsheet you keep rebuilding.
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DEVELOPER
Junior dev. Senior shipping.
Architect AI-first systems, integrate via Codex and MCP, ship production code with AI in the loop. Not autocomplete — agentic.
- Wire MCP integrations into a production codebase.
- Ship an agentic CI bot that reviews real PRs.
- Architect AI-first systems — not bolt-on copilots.
Explore →
How it works
Outcome-driven.
No seat time.
Every week ends with shipped work. Every program ends with a working capstone, a verified credential, and visibility to employers.
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01Join
Pick your path. No GPA, no pedigree, no prior AI experience required.
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02Train
Learn the actual stack companies deploy — Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, MCP. Graded on what you ship, not what you can recite.
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03Certify
Take a proctored, task-based exam. Earn the AI-Native credential. Renews annually.
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04Land a job
Use your credential and portfolio when applying for AI-fluent roles. Companies are hiring for these skills now.
Entry-level work is getting squeezed.
Postings for early-career roles are collapsing while AI-skill postings climb. The gap is opening in months, not years.
Entry-level postings · U.S.
−35%
↓ two-year decline
Revelio Labs · 2025
The numbers driving this
What's underneath the shift.
92M / 170M
Jobs displaced vs. created globally by 2030. Net: ~78M new roles — concentrated in AI-fluent work.
WEF · Future of Jobs · 2025
- +56% wage premium for AI-skilled workers (up from 25% last year). PwC AI Jobs Barometer · 2025
- +66% faster skill change in AI-exposed jobs. PwC AI Jobs Barometer · 2025
- 59% of workers will need new training by 2030. WEF Future of Jobs · 2025
The premium is compounding
AI-fluent workers earn more.
The gap is doubling every year.
PwC tracks the wage premium for AI-skilled roles vs. comparable non-AI roles in the same field. In 12 months it more than doubled. This is not a future trend — it's already in payroll data.
Wage premium · AI roles vs. non-AI roles
Same job title, same industry. The difference is whether you can use AI.
SOURCE · PWC GLOBAL AI JOBS BAROMETER 2025 · ANALYZED 800M+ JOB POSTINGS ACROSS 6 CONTINENTS
Timeline
Five years.
Five inflection points.
Each year, the gap between AI-native and AI-ignorant compounded. 2026 is the year the credential exists.
2022
ChatGPT launches
The public meets AI. Fear and excitement begin at the same time.
2023
AI enters the enterprise
Firms deploy Copilot, legal AI, ESG tools. Employees can't use them.
2024
Displacement reaches knowledge work
Layoffs in tech, consulting, and legal start citing AI capability gaps as a primary driver. "AI replacement" enters earnings-call vocabulary.
2025
Claude Code & ChatGPT launch agents
Non-programmers build real tools with AI. The gap becomes teachable.
2026 · NOW
The credentialing vacuum opens
No standard for "AI-Native" exists yet. AI is now a routinely cited driver of U.S. tech layoffs (Challenger, 2025). Columba fills the vacuum — now.
Sign up →Who it's for
If this sounds like you,
you're early.
For final-year students, recent grads, and 0–3 year professionals whose work is changing faster than their resume can prove.
Final-year students
About to graduate. Want to land somewhere AI-native.
Your degree got you in the room. AI fluency gets you the offer. Build the skills the job posting actually wants.
Recent graduates
0–1 years in. Underleveraged.
You're capable of way more than your manager asks for. Learn how to ship 3× the output and prove it.
1–3 years in
Watching AI reshape your role.
Don't be the one who got displaced. Be the one whose colleagues come asking for help.
The toolchain
The tools you'll actually learn.
Foundation models — Claude, GPT, Gemini — and the editors, agent frameworks, and platforms that wrap them. The actual stack companies deploy, not classroom demos.
Every assignment is graded on what you ship inside these tools. Not what you can recite about them.
The day a new model ships, it's in the curriculum. When Anthropic, OpenAI, or anyone else releases a meaningful change, we update lessons and capstones the same week — not the next semester.
Across major AI surfaces
Beta · 2026
What you walk away with
A credential, a portfolio,
and visibility.
Three outcomes. All three matter to employers. None of them are theoretical.
01 · The credential
Verified. Renewable.
A task-based assessment, not multiple choice. Renews annually so it stays current as the tools change.
02 · The portfolio
Working capstone, public.
A real artifact employers can review. Plus the recordings of how you directed AI to build it.
03 · The proof
Take it into your job hunt.
Your credential and capstone are what you bring to the table when applying for AI-fluent roles. Employers can verify the cert, review the artifact, and see how you directed AI — long before the interview.
Hiring tools · In beta — releasing soon
Bring your credential to the job hunt.
Releasing soon. Every AI-Native graduate gets a public profile they can share with employers — credential, capstone artifacts, and a workflow reel showing how they directed AI. You apply; the profile is the asset that makes the application stand up.
Common questions
The basics,
up front.
Quick answers. More on the Paths page.
Do I need a technical background? +
No. The Builder and Professional paths are for people who don't write code. The Developer path is for early-career devs who want to go deeper.
How does enrollment work? +
Open enrollment. Anyone can join the waitlist now and start training when Columba opens — there's no admissions decision and no qualifying step. The bar is the certification exam: your work product is what gets graded, not your application.
What does a typical week look like? +
Hands-on, interactive lessons that teach you to think AI-first — not just chat with a bot. You ship real artifacts daily; the platform grades them the moment you submit. Self-paced.
Can I keep my current job while I do this? +
Yes — Columba is fully self-paced. Lessons are interactive and bite-sized; you progress as fast as you ship. Most learners run it nights and weekends.
How does the credential help me land a job? +
The credential and your portfolio are what you take into your job hunt — proof that you can ship AI-fluent work, not just talk about it. Employers can verify the cert, review the capstone, and watch how you actually directed AI. You apply; the credential makes the application stand up.
Soon, every job posting will say "AI-Native preferred."
Be ready before then.
Product
Your dashboard. Your portfolio.
Your credential, in motion.
Columba is a working environment for AI-native skill. Every lesson mirrors a real production task and every rubric is grounded in shippable output. You log in, ship a real artifact, and build a credential employers can verify.
The lesson surface
Ship real work.
Graded against the rubric.
Every lesson is built around the actual tasks teams ship every day. Each one drops you into a real task with real tools — Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex — and you ship an artifact graded against a published, real-world rubric.
01 · TASK
Every lesson starts with a brief.
"Build a compliance audit dashboard from this CSV. Use any AI surface. Submit by end of session." Each brief mirrors a real production task — not a textbook exercise.
lesson://builder/04 · audit-dashboardin progress
tools.allowedclaude-code, cowork
rubric.weightfunction 60 · clarity 25 · ai-direction 15
02 · GRADE
Your artifact is graded against the rubric.
Columba runs your output against the rubric and leaves inline feedback. Pass and the next step unlocks. Fail and you see exactly what to fix.
The standard
How the credential
gets graded.
A credential is only as serious as the standard behind it. Columba grades on three axes — the artifact, your judgment, and how you direct AI. No content libraries. No completion certificates.
Methodology
Three-axis grading. Every capstone is scored on the artifact (does the work meet a published, real-world rubric), judgment (the decisions you defended along the way), and AI direction (how you scoped, prompted, retried, and corrected). The full rubric ships with every brief. Reviewers see your workflow recording before they see your result.
The capstone tracker
Your real project,
versioned and reviewed.
Your capstone lives on your dashboard from week one — drafted, reviewed, revised, shipped. Each version is checked against the rubric and surfaces notes inline, where you're working.
CapstoneVersionState
v3Compliance audit dashboardv0.3 · shippedapproved
v2Filters & empty-state passv0.2 · revisedreviewer note
v1First working draftv0.1 · reviewpassed
v0Brief accepted · scope locked—started
Every revision is preserved. You — and any employer you share with — see how the artifact evolved, not just the final cut.
The workflow recorder
How you directed AI
to build it.
As you work, Columba records every prompt, retry, edit, and correction. The recording is what employers ask to see.
WORKFLOW CAPTURE · SAMPLE TIMELINE
A timeline of every prompt, edit, and decision.
Replay any session, annotate the turns that mattered, tag the recording to a capstone version. When you need to show why you went this direction, the answer is on the timeline.
The credential, building itself
Your credential is everything
you've already shipped.
The AI-Native credential compounds. Every passed lesson, every reviewed capstone version, every annotated workflow advances it. You see exactly what's left.
Pillar 01 · Skill checks
Graded on what you ship.
42 of 60 lesson tasks passed. Each one is a real artifact in your work history, graded against a published, real-world rubric.
70% · ON TRACK
Pillar 02 · Capstone
Working artifact, public review.
v0.3 shipped, two review passes accepted. One revision left before final sign-off and credential lock.
75% · REVIEW STAGE
Pillar 03 · Workflow proof
Recordings worth showing.
Twelve sessions captured. You've labeled four — those become the highlight reel employers see on your public profile.
48% · LABEL MORE
The public profile · sample view
One link.
Everything an employer needs.
Toggle your profile public and hiring partners see the version of you Columba has verified — credential status, capstone artifacts, the workflow reels you chose to feature. The work is the application. Sample profile shown — illustrative.
columba.app/p/m-okafor
M. Okafor · AI-Native Builder, v2026.04.
Send this URL with your application. A hiring manager opens it and sees the credential, three featured capstones, and a 90-second workflow reel — proof you can do the work before the first interview.
credentialverified · v2026.04
featured capstones3
workflow reels4 · labeled
employer views · 30d147
You control the surface
Public, private, or shared by link.
Toggle the whole profile off while you're learning. Share a private link with one recruiter. Or flip public and enter the pipeline the moment your credential lands. Every workflow reel is yours to redact, label, or hide.
Show visibility controls
Next
Pick the path that fits how you work.
The dashboard is the credential.
Everything else is paperwork.
Everything else is paperwork.
Columba is the surface where the work happens, the verdict gets logged, and the employer eventually shows up. One product, three jobs.
The three paths
Pick the path that
fits how you work.
One pipeline. Three shapes of AI-native skill. Build with code, judgment, or no-code surfaces — and ship work that's verifiable from day one.
Sample review board · proof-of-concept view
What employer
review looks like.
Capstones are reviewed in public on Columba. Companies watch how learners direct AI as they ship. The board below is a representative sample — names and scores illustrate the format, not real graduates.
CandidateCapstoneVerdict
MM. Okafor · BuilderCompliance audit dashboard98%
AA. Singh · DeveloperMCP-driven CI bot96%
RR. Tanaka · ProfessionalQuarterly close memo agent94%
LL. Mendes · BuilderHR onboarding tool92%
PP. Aboagye · DeveloperDoc-search w/ retrieval86%
Ready to start
All three paths share one waitlist while we're pre-launch.
What you'll learn
Outcomes that ship work, not certificates.
What you'll build
Capstone artifacts employers actually look at.
Tools you'll use
The actual surfaces — not screenshots from a deck.
A week in this track
Five days. One artifact. Real review.
Who this is for
Who fits this track.
How this differs
Why pick this over the other two.
Ready to start
Ready to start? One signup for all three paths during beta.
Enterprise plan
Your AI capability backbone.
Train, hire, certify, and keep your workforce current — in one contract.
Our enterprise team will reach out within one business day.
Beta · launching July 2026
Four pillars.
One contract.
Most vendors sell you one of these. Columba bundles all four — because AI capability isn't training, or hiring, or compliance. It's all of it, kept current.
PILLAR 01 · TRAINING
Send your existing staff through.
Enroll early-career employees in Builder, Professional, or Developer. Same standard as external grads — applied to the people you already have.
Specs
- · On-site or remote
- · Per-seat or team licensing
- · Programs end with a shipped capstone
PILLAR 02 · PIPELINE
The data to hire AI-Native talent.
One searchable pipeline — students, working professionals, and career-switchers across every track. We give you what an interview can't: rubric-graded artifacts, capstone projects shipped to production standards, and recordings of exactly how each candidate directs AI. Hire on evidence, not on a polished resume.
Specs
- · Every track — Builder, Professional, Developer
- · All experience levels, all backgrounds
- · Workflow recordings + rubric scores per candidate
- · Capstone artifacts + portfolio review
- · Reserved program seats
- · Placement fee per hire
PILLAR 03 · CONTINUUM
Keep everyone current.
Set proficiency bars by role. Track in real time. Get alerts before lapse. One dashboard for AI readiness across the org.
Specs
- · Quarterly content refresh
- · Role-based proficiency bars
- · SSO + HRIS integrations
PILLAR 04 · CUSTOM CERTIFICATIONS
Define your own AI-Native standard.
A bank's "AI-Native Credit Analyst." A law firm's "AI-Native Associate." You set curriculum and standards; Columba builds it on the same credential infrastructure.
Specs
- · Custom rubric & capstone design
- · Published as a recruiting funnel
- · You see every attempt & AI workflow
Pillar 03 · Continuum in action
One dashboard for AI readiness across the org.
The Continuum pillar is a live readout of where every team sits against the bar you set — refreshed as people train, certify, and renew.
The bar moves the moment the stack does. A new model, a new MCP capability, a new agent surface — the day it ships, we add it to the program and update the proficiency bar your team is measured against. Continuum stays current automatically; your team never trains against last year's tools.
SAMPLE CONTINUUM VIEW · ILLUSTRATIVE
Set the bar. The platform enforces it.
TeamScoreStatus
ENEngineering91%
ESESG Team82%
LCLegal & Compliance63%
HRHR & People Ops55%
FNFinance44%
Status legend — 80%+ Current · 60–79% Needs Renewal · <60% Action Required
Pillar 04 · Anatomy of a custom cert
From standard
to standing pipeline.
Six steps from defining what "AI-Native" means at your company to a live, ranked feed of credential-verified candidates ready to interview.
01
DEFINE
You set the bar.
Pick the role. Specify the AI tasks that matter — drafting, dashboards, agentic delegation. Define the proficiency thresholds.
cert://your-co/credit-analystdraft
tasks: 12 · threshold: 80%v0.1
02
BUILD
We build the assessment.
Columba's curriculum team converts your spec into graded tasks, rubrics, and a portfolio brief — on our credential infrastructure.
03
PUBLISH
It goes live in the ecosystem.
Your cert appears in the Columba catalog, tagged with your brand. Anyone in the network can attempt it.
04
CANDIDATES SHIP
Real work, not multiple choice.
Candidates complete the graded tasks and submit portfolio work. Every workflow is recorded.
05
YOU REVIEW
Ranked, scored, transparent.
A live dashboard of everyone who's attempted your cert — score, portfolio, full AI workflow. Filter, shortlist, reach out.
06
HIRE
Interview from a verified pool.
No cold sourcing. No guessing if a candidate can use AI. The cert already proved it.
Sample cert dashboard · illustrative
Your firm · AI-Native Credit Analyst.
A standing pipeline, refreshed each time someone in the network completes your cert. Names and scores below illustrate the format, not real candidates.
CANDIDATESCOREPORTFOLIOSTATUS
M. Okafor943 projectsverified
S. Reyes912 projectsverified
A. Chen894 projectsverified
J. Müller822 projectsin review
K. Patel783 projectsin review
Beta · July 2026
Get your team in on the beta. Earliest access goes to teams ready to onboard.
The Continuum · in detail
Proficiency,
by role.
Set the bar per function. Track every employee against it. Different roles need different AI fluency — Continuum encodes that.
ROLE
BUILDER
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPER
BAR
Junior Analyst (Finance)
required
required
optional
Junior SWE
required
optional
required
Marketing / Comms
required
recommended
—
Compliance / ESG
required
required
—
SAMPLE CONFIGURATION · MID-MARKET PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM · CONFIGURABLE PER CUSTOMER
The math
Why the
ROI is fast.
Existing research has already measured the productivity delta. Columba operationalizes it across your workforce.
DEV PRODUCTIVITY
+30–55%
Speed lift on scoped tasks — GitHub / MSR 2025
CONSULTANT QUALITY
+40%
Quality lift with GPT-4 — HBS / BCG 2024
SUPPORT NOVICES
+34%
Issues resolved by novice agents — Stanford / MIT
SKILLS GAP CLOSED
~75%
Of gap between high- and low-ed workers, with AI
Built for
Who runs
the enterprise plan.
Different orgs use different combinations of pillars. Here's how three archetypes typically configure.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bank · 8,000 employees
All four pillars in own tenancy. "AI-Native Credit Analyst" custom cert. Hundreds of seats per year through training.
Pillar 01
Pillar 02
Pillar 03
Pillar 04
TECHNOLOGY
Growth-stage · 800 employees
Pipeline-first. Reserved seats in every Developer program. Continuum for engineering. No training of existing staff yet.
Pillar 02
Pillar 03
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Law firm · 2,400 attorneys
Training-heavy. Send entire associate class through Professional Path. Custom "AI-Native Associate" cert. Continuum for compliance.
Pillar 01
Pillar 03
Pillar 04
CUSTOM TEAM SIZE
Don't see your shape? We size to your team.
From a single squad to a multi-region rollout, every engagement is scoped to the team you actually have. Pick the pillars that fit, set the proficiency bar that matters, and we'll build the plan around it — including tailored hiring funnels for non-standard role shapes.
Any team size
Any pillar mix
Custom roles
Phased rollout
Squad pilot5–25 seats
Departmental rollout50–500 seats
Enterprise-wide500+ seats
Multi-region / federatedscoped per BU
Join the waitlist →
Outcomes
What changes
after you sign.
A measurable shift in capability across your org — within one quarter. Across four pillars, all at once.
3 paths
Available for any team — Builder, Professional, Developer
∞
Custom certifications, defined by you, verified by us
365d
Continuum keeps the credential current as tools evolve
FAQ
The questions
procurement asks.
Short answers. Longer ones in the MSA. Send us your security questionnaire and we'll fill it.
How does Columba differ from a generic learning vendor? +
Generic vendors sell content libraries. Columba is a credential + pipeline. We train, certify, and place — and we operate the standing recruiting funnel for your custom certs. No content library does any of that.
Do you support our existing LMS / HRIS? +
Yes — Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, SuccessFactors, and Greenhouse out of the box. SCIM provisioning. SSO via Okta, Azure AD, or any SAML 2.0 IdP.
How are assessments evaluated? +
Assessments are auto-graded by Columba against published, real-world rubrics, with full workflow capture so reviewers can see exactly how a candidate directed AI. Rubrics published per cert.
What's the minimum contract length? +
12 months for the platform license. Pilots can run as short as 30 days for a single program, no platform commit.
Ship an AI-native workforce
in one quarter.
in one quarter.
Bring procurement to the second call.
Join the waitlist — notified at launch
A few questions.
Then you're on the list.
Tell us who you are. We'll email you when your path is live so you can start training.
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Privacy
What we collect, why, and how to make us forget.
Plain English. No legalese. If you'd rather we delete what we have, contact us and we will, within 30 days of the request.
Last updated: April 30, 2026 · Beta
Who we are
This site is operated by Columba AI Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Columba", "we", "us"). We're the data controller for any personal information we collect through this website.
What we collect
If you sign up to be notified
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- · AI tools you already use
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If you just visit
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Captured by PostHog: autocapture for events, session replay for recordings. Used to understand what's working on the site so we can fix what isn't.
What we don't collect
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Why we collect it (legal basis)
For people in the EU, UK, or other GDPR-aligned jurisdictions, here's the basis we rely on for each use:
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How long we keep it
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PROCESSOR · DATABASE
Supabase
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How we keep it safe
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Contact us to make any of these requests. We'll respond within 30 days, usually a lot faster, and we won't charge you for it.
Children
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Last updated: April 30, 2026 · Beta
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- · Submit false, deceptive, or automated/bot-generated entries
- · Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Site or break any security or authentication measure
- · Attempt to access data not intended for you, including other users' submissions
- · Reverse-engineer, decompile, or scrape the Site beyond what robots.txt permits
- · Interfere with or disrupt the Site, our servers, or our processors (including denial-of-service attempts)
- · Use the Site to transmit malware, spam, or harassing content
We may suspend or block access at our discretion if we believe you're violating these rules.
6 · Intellectual property
The Site, including its text, graphics, code, design, and the Columba name and logo, is owned by Columba or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to view and interact with the Site for your own non-commercial purposes. No other rights are granted.
Your submissions: you keep ownership of any information you submit. You grant Columba a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use that information to operate, improve, and provide the Site and the future product (for example, to send you beta invites and to evaluate fit). We will not publish your individual submission as a marketing testimonial without your separate consent.
7 · Beta and pre-release nature
The Site, the waitlist, and any pre-release access we offer are provided as a preview of a product still in development. Features, pricing, and policies may change. We may add, remove, or modify functionality at any time, and we may delay, defer, or decline to launch the product. Anything you read on the Site about the future product is forward-looking and not a promise.
8 · Third-party links and services
The Site links to or relies on services we don't operate (PostHog, Supabase, Vercel, and any sites we link out to). We're not responsible for those services' availability, content, or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
9 · Disclaimers
The Site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Columba disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation. We do not warrant that the Site or any content will meet your requirements or that any errors will be corrected.
Nothing on the Site is professional advice — career, legal, financial, educational, or otherwise.
10 · Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Columba and its officers, directors, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or related to your use of the Site, even if we've been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Site or these Terms will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).
Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so part of this section may not apply to you. In that case our liability is limited to the smallest amount permitted by law.
11 · Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Columba and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of (a) your use of the Site, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or third-party right, or (d) any content or information you submit.
12 · Termination
You can stop using the Site at any time and ask us to remove your information by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including suspected violation of these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (IP, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law, dispute resolution, and these miscellaneous terms) will survive.
13 · Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The federal and state courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute that isn't subject to the informal-resolution process below — and you and Columba consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Try to work it out first: before filing anything, contact us in writing describing the issue. We'll try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days.
Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in court for IP infringement or unauthorized access, or from pursuing a small-claims action where eligible.
14 · Changes
We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material, we'll update the date at the top and notify waitlist members by email before the change takes effect. Continued use of the Site after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. If you don't agree, stop using the Site and email us to remove your data.
15 · Miscellaneous
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Columba about the Site and supersede any prior agreements on this subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision isn't a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Questions? Contact us through the Site.