DealIQ™ Tool Suite Terms

DealIQ™ Tool Suite – Terms of Use

Intended Use and Disclaimer

• • DealIQ™ is a tool that helps founders and investors optimize investment strategies by providing deep insights into potential ventures and market trends. DealIQ™ takes a hard data viewpoint to analyze the readiness of funding applicants to highlight strengths and weaknesses, resulting in better-focused, more efficient, effective, and complete due diligence. It is not intended for use in employment selection, promotion, termination, compensation, or investment decision-making.
  • ROI Waterfall™ provides Founders (and Investors) to visualize potential returns and manage expectations for realizing return on investment. The ROI Waterfall™ tool enables modeling for individual or sequential rounds of funding to both affirm planned actions and maximize investment outcomes. It is not intended for use in employment selection, promotion, termination, compensation, or investment decision-making.
  • TeamDNA™ is a behavioral assessment platform designed to support individual reflection, team development, and insights into group dynamics. It is not intended for use in employment selection, promotion, termination, compensation, or investment decision-making.

By using the platform, you acknowledge and agree that:

• • No element of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite provides legal, investment, or human resources advice.
  • The insights and outputs generated by the platform are not intended to diagnose, evaluate, or rank individuals for hiring or funding purposes.
  • You will not use the DealIQ™ Tool Suite as the sole basis for any employment-related or financial decisions.

No Liability for Decision-Making

You understand and agree that:

• • The creators, developers, and operators of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite are not responsible for how users interpret or apply the assessment results.
  • Any business or personnel decisions made using the tool are made solely at your own risk, and you accept full responsibility for those decisions.
  • To the maximum extent permitted by law, DealIQ™, ROI Waterfall™, TeamDNA™, and its creators disclaim all liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or relating to the use (or misuse) of the platform.

DealIQ™ Tool Suite Products Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

To maintain ethical use of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite products and safeguard the individuals and teams who use our platform, you agree to the following:

Permitted Uses:

• • Understanding behavioral dynamics in teams or founding groups
  • Enhancing communication, collaboration, and innovation practices
  • Gaining personal insight into working styles and team tendencies
  • Facilitating team coaching or feedback sessions with informed data

Prohibited Uses:

• • Using assessment results to hire, fire, promote, demote, compensate, or otherwise make employment-related decisions
  • Using results to approve, deny, or influence investment decisions (e.g., funding startup teams)
  • Attempting to extract, infer, or store protected class information (e.g., race, gender, age, religion)
  • Misrepresenting any element of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite outputs as diagnostic, evaluative, or prescriptive judgments
  • Using any element of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite in any way that violates applicable employment, privacy, or anti-discrimination laws

Responsibilities:

• • You are solely responsible for how you use the platform’s outputs and for compliance with local laws and regulations.
  • You must ensure that any teams, clients, or individuals you share any element of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite results with also understand these permitted and prohibited uses.
  • You agree not to hold the creators or operators of any element of the DealIQ™ Tool Suite liable for any consequences arising from your use of the platform.