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Effective August 14, 2026. Operator: Paul W. Bishop, III, Addison, Texas, United States.

Educational research tool. Not medical advice, not a diagnosis, not a device, not a cure. Do not change care based on this site. Emergencies: 911. Crisis: 988 (U.S.).

Important notice

TomSyn is an educational research tool. It is not a medical device, not a diagnostic, not a treatment, and not a cure. Nothing on this site, in any brief, atom, score, gate, or court opinion constitutes medical, psychiatric, pharmacological, or legal advice.

Do not start, stop, or change any medication, therapy, or care plan based on TomSyn. Decisions about schizophrenia or any other condition belong to a licensed clinician and the person in their care.

Not a medical device

TomSyn is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent any disease or condition. It is not cleared, approved, or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other regulator. It is not software as a medical device (SaMD). Confidence percentages, gate statuses, and briefs are research-organization aids, not clinical findings.

No professional relationship

Use of TomSyn does not create a physician–patient, therapist–client, pharmacist–patient, or attorney–client relationship with Paul W. Bishop, III, GrokBuild, xAI, or any data provider. No duty of care is assumed toward any individual whose illness is discussed in the literature the engine reads.

Emergencies and crisis care

If you or someone near you is in immediate danger, call local emergency services (911 in the United States).

If you are in emotional distress or thinking about suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988 in the U.S.) or https://www.iasp.info/suicidalthoughts/ for international resources. TomSyn cannot see you, cannot intervene, and cannot replace a human on a line.

Intended use

TomSyn continuously reviews published literature, trial registries, and public chemical records related to schizophrenia research. It distills discrete cited facts, scores a conservative evidence rubric, and refuses a 95% “cure claim” unless hard gates are met. That refusal is a product rule, not a clinical prognosis.

The intended audience is adults seeking an honest map of a scientific field. It is not for assigning a diagnosis, a biotype, a risk score, or a drug to any named person.

Manner of work

This engine is meant to be run with integrity: tell the truth about what the vault holds, and stay silent where it does not. The person living with this illness is not a percentage, not a token, and not a prize. False hope is a kind of theft. Excellence here means a smaller, kinder, more accurate file — and a lock that does not open early. Truth without love is cruelty; love without truth is deception. One paper is not two witnesses. A recruiting record must not leaven the lump.

No warranty of accuracy

Literature APIs, registries, and chemical databases contain errors, delays, retractions, and incomplete records. TomSyn may mis-classify a paper, miss a trial, strip context, or mint an atom that later proves wrong. Scores use diminishing returns and caps by design; they are not probabilities of recovery for any person.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant uninterrupted operation, error-free output, or that a brief is complete.

Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PAUL W. BISHOP, III, GROKBUILD, AND THEIR CONTRACTORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR HEALTH OUTCOMES, ARISING FROM USE OF TOMSYN, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

If liability cannot be fully excluded, it is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid to use TomSyn in the twelve months before the claim (currently zero) or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Paul W. Bishop, III and GrokBuild from claims, damages, and reasonable legal fees arising from your misuse of the service, your reliance on it as medical advice, or your violation of these terms.

Acceptable use

You may not: attempt to extract secrets or API keys; overload or scrape the service beyond ordinary use; upload protected health information or any other person’s medical record; use TomSyn to target, rank, or deny care to an individual; present a TomSyn brief as a clinical certificate; or reverse engineer the service except as allowed by law.

Queries are allowlisted. Free-text clinical questions about a named person are not accepted.

Intellectual property

TomSyn, its Key grammar, rubric, court design, and original copy are © 2026 Paul W. Bishop, III. All rights reserved except as granted here. You may download briefs for personal, educational, or non-commercial research use, provided you keep the disclaimer text intact and do not imply endorsement or clinical certification.

Third-party paper titles, abstracts, trial records, and chemical properties remain the property of their publishers, investigators, and databases. TomSyn does not claim those works.

Third-party sources

When configured, TomSyn may query Consensus, Europe PMC, ClinicalTrials.gov, and PubChem. Those services have their own terms. A citation in an atom is a pointer, not a license to republish the full paper. Registry status (including RECRUITING) is not a result. Computed chemical properties are not measured clinical facts.

Privacy

TomSyn is built not to want you as a patient record. Do not enter names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, genetic results, or any other information that could identify a person in care.

The engine stores research artifacts (papers, rounds, atoms, caches, quota state) on the server disk for continuity of the loop. Your browser may keep a local copy in IndexedDB and a small localStorage backup so the screen can paint after a refresh. That copy is research state, not a health record.

We do not sell personal data. We do not build advertising profiles. Server logs may include ordinary technical metadata (time, coarse IP for rate limits). Rate-limit counters are in-memory and expire.

If a key for a literature API is present, it lives in the server environment, not in the page you download.

If a Postgres URL is configured (Neon or compatible), the literature vault and atoms are stored there so a publish cannot wipe the library. That database is research state, not a health record. Prefer a personal Neon project — do not use a work Google account as the store.

Cookies and local storage

TomSyn uses localStorage and IndexedDB to persist the learning vault in your browser. These are functional, not advertising cookies. Clearing site data will remove the local copy; the server vault, if present, remains. Auth cookies, if any unused template auth is enabled in a given deploy, are session/security cookies only.

Children

TomSyn is not directed to children under 13 and is not intended for anyone under 18 as a health tool. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information, stop use and clear site data.

Changes

These terms may change. The effective date below will move when they do. Continued use after a change is acceptance of the revised terms. Last updated August 14, 2026.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, U.S.A., without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Exclusive venue for disputes that cannot be resolved informally lies in the state or federal courts sitting in Dallas County, Texas, except where prohibited by consumer-protection law in your place of residence.

Operator

TomSyn is operated for educational purposes by Paul W. Bishop, III, Addison, Texas, United States, built with GrokBuild. This notice is a legal and safety statement, not an invitation to send protected health information.

Built by Paul W. Bishop, III in Addison, TX with GrokBuild

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