diff --git a/examples/notebooks/AutoEval.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/AutoEval.ipynb
index 22d9a33e..c05132df 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/AutoEval.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/AutoEval.ipynb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
    "id": "28f1521a",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real OpenAI or Hegel AI API keys, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
+    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use a real OpenAI key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
     "os.environ['DEBUG'] = \"\"  # Set to \"1\" if you want to use debug mode.\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments\n",
     "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = \"\""
    ]
   },
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/HuggingFaceHub.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/HuggingFaceHub.ipynb
index a5db0d67..955301db 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/HuggingFaceHub.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/HuggingFaceHub.ipynb
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
    "id": "5edba05a",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real HuggingFaceHub or Hegel AI API keys, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
+    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use a real HuggingFaceHub key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
     "os.environ['DEBUG'] = \"\"  # Set to \"1\" if you want to use debug mode.\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments\n",
     "os.environ['HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN'] = \"\""
    ]
   },
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/HumanFeedback.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/HumanFeedback.ipynb
index 8634e530..8346326f 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/HumanFeedback.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/HumanFeedback.ipynb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
    "id": "d899afc2",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real OpenAI or Hegel AI API keys, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
+    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use a real OpenAI key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
     "os.environ['DEBUG'] = \"\"  # Set to \"1\" if you want to use debug mode.\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments\n",
     "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = \"\""
    ]
   },
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/LlamaCppExperiment.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/LlamaCppExperiment.ipynb
index 1638ebb9..5f708cdd 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/LlamaCppExperiment.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/LlamaCppExperiment.ipynb
@@ -34,31 +34,12 @@
     "## Setup imports and API keys"
    ]
   },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "5edba05a",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real Hegel AI API key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 2,
-   "id": "ed4e635e",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "import os\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments"
-   ]
-  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "id": "842f1e47",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Then we'll import the relevant `prompttools` modules to setup our experiment."
+    "We'll import the relevant `prompttools` modules to setup our experiment."
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/LlamaHeadToHead.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/LlamaHeadToHead.ipynb
index c72277f0..aef69a6f 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/LlamaHeadToHead.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/LlamaHeadToHead.ipynb
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
    "id": "5edba05a",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "Next, we'll need to set our API keys. Since we want to use GPT-4 for auto-eval, we need to set that one. We won't be using the Hegel AI API key for this example."
+    "Next, we'll need to set our API keys. Since we want to use GPT-4 for auto-eval, we need to set that one."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"\n",
     "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = \"\""
    ]
   },
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/OpenAIChatExperiment.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/OpenAIChatExperiment.ipynb
index 9733b17a..ae0dd4f8 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/OpenAIChatExperiment.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/OpenAIChatExperiment.ipynb
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
    "id": "5edba05a",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real OpenAI or Hegel AI API keys, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
+    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use a real OpenAI key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
     "os.environ['DEBUG']=\"1\"\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments\n",
     "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = \"\""
    ]
   },
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/SemanticSimilarity.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/SemanticSimilarity.ipynb
index 1488c19c..e901e197 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/SemanticSimilarity.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/SemanticSimilarity.ipynb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
    "id": "5edba05a",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real OpenAI or Hegel AI API keys, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
+    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use a real OpenAI key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
     "os.environ['DEBUG'] = \"1\"  # Set to \"1\" if you want to use debug mode.\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments\n",
     "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = \"\""
    ]
   },
diff --git a/examples/notebooks/StructuredOutput.ipynb b/examples/notebooks/StructuredOutput.ipynb
index fa4357ac..a4b38cd8 100644
--- a/examples/notebooks/StructuredOutput.ipynb
+++ b/examples/notebooks/StructuredOutput.ipynb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
    "id": "5edba05a",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use real OpenAI or Hegel AI API keys, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
+    "First, we'll need to set our API keys. If we are in DEBUG mode, we don't need to use a real OpenAI key, so for now we'll set them to empty strings."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
    "source": [
     "import os\n",
     "os.environ['DEBUG'] = \"1\"  # Set to \"1\" if you want to use debug mode.\n",
-    "os.environ['HEGELAI_API_KEY'] = \"\"  # Optional, it will be needed to use with `HegelScribe` to persist/visualize your experiments\n",
     "os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = \"\""
    ]
   },