LICENSING & TERMS OF USE

Use the tools freely.
License them for your work.

NWGS Grid™ and GridAI™ are free to view and cite. Organizations that build them into their work license them from FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC.

LICENSING AND ACCESS

Licenses for every kind of team.

Each license is a written agreement with FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC, priced by tier and by state. Choose one state, several states, or a national license covering all 50 states and DC. Pricing is shared on request.

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Government and enterprise

State and federal agencies and companies: statewide or multi‑state use, priority support, and security and accessibility documents.
02

Public health

City, county and state health departments: county views, weekly alerts and staff training.
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Academic

Universities, colleges and research labs, for noncommercial research. Classroom use is free with registration.
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Community

Nonprofits and community groups: licensed use for their service area. Free for nonprofits with annual budgets under $250,000.
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Reproducibility package

For any tier: the source code and pipeline, a ready‑to‑run environment, validation checks, the audit log and setup support, so your team can rerun and verify results itself.
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Add‑on modules

Every license includes the core tool. Advanced analytics, coverage and equity, genomics, data feeds and an API can be added, and new features are offered as add‑ons as they launch, with a free preview for current licensees.
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Projects & pilots

Fixed‑price deliverables without a subscription: a power‑outage and equity risk assessment chapter for a hazard mitigation plan (GridAI™), or a wastewater surveillance and coverage report for a county or state (NWGS Grid™). Early partners can join a discounted pilot.
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Services

Custom analysis, dashboards, local integration, training, and grant support that includes the tools.

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TERMS OF USE

Terms of use: NWGS Grid™ and GridAI™.

Last updated November 14, 2026.

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Who provides the tools

NWGS Grid™ (nwgsgrid.com) and GridAI™ (gridaitm.com) are provided by FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC. By using either site, you agree to these terms.
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Free public use

You may view the public pages, use them for personal, educational, research, journalism and public‑health purposes, and quote or show screenshots with credit.
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Credit

Cite the tool you use, for example: “NWGS Grid™, FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC, nwgsgrid.com, accessed [date]” or “GridAI™, FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC, gridaitm.com, accessed [date],” and credit the original data sources listed on each site.
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What needs a license

A written license is required to use the tools inside an organization’s operations or products; to download or access data in bulk or by automated means; to get custom views, alerts or integrations; or to receive the source code and reproducibility package. See Licensing and access.
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Not allowed

Reselling or republishing the tools or their outputs as your own service; scraping or overloading the sites; removing credits or trademarks; implying endorsement by NWGS Grid™, GridAI™ or Franklin HUB SMART Center; trying to identify any individual from the data.
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Data sources

The tools are built from public data that keep their own terms. U.S. government data, such as CDC data, is not subject to copyright. Some sources ask for specific citations, such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory for EAGLE‑I outage data. Data licensed for noncommercial use only is shown for noncommercial purposes.
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Not medical or emergency advice

The tools describe patterns in available data for research, planning and awareness. They do not diagnose anyone and must not be the only basis for medical, clinical or emergency decisions. Data can be delayed, incomplete or revised.
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No warranty, limited liability

The sites are provided “as is,” without warranties. To the extent the law allows, FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC is not liable for decisions made using them.
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Ownership

The software, designs, methods, processed data and the names NWGS Grid™ and GridAI™ belong to FRANKLIN HUB SMART Center LLC and its owner. Using the free public sites does not give you rights to them.
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Changes and contact

These terms may be updated; this page shows the latest version (November 14, 2026). Tennessee law applies. Questions and license requests: contact us.