Terms of Service

Welcome to Foundly.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of Foundly, including our website, platform, idea validation tools, artificial intelligence features, research functionality, reports, credits, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, purchasing credits, accessing Foundly, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use Foundly.

1. About Foundly

Foundly is an AI-powered business idea validation and research platform designed to help users research and evaluate business, startup, product, software, application, and other commercial ideas.

Foundly may analyze information relating to markets, competitors, customers, demand, search behavior, trends, pricing, market opportunities, geographic opportunities, risks, scalability, and other factors relevant to evaluating an idea.

Foundly provides research and informational tools.

Foundly does not guarantee that any business idea, startup, product, investment, strategy, or commercial opportunity will succeed.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use Foundly.

By accessing or using the Service, you represent that you meet this minimum age requirement and have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms.

If you are using Foundly on behalf of a company, organization, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to accept these Terms on its behalf.

You may not use Foundly if applicable law prohibits you from receiving or using the Service.

3. Your Foundly Account

Certain features of Foundly require an account.

Foundly currently supports authentication through third-party providers such as Google and GitHub.

You are responsible for maintaining control over the third-party account used to access Foundly and for activity occurring through your Foundly account.

You agree to provide accurate information and not impersonate another person or create accounts through unauthorized means.

If you believe your account has been accessed without authorization, contact us at hello@foundly.pro.

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts where reasonably necessary to protect Foundly, our users, our infrastructure, or third parties, or where we reasonably believe these Terms have been violated.

4. Foundly Credits

Foundly operates using a credit-based purchasing system.

Unless clearly stated otherwise at the time of purchase: 1 Foundly credit = 1 complete idea validation.

A credit allows you to initiate one eligible idea validation using the functionality available through Foundly at that time.

Credits are not currency, cryptocurrency, stored monetary value, securities, or financial instruments.

Credits have no cash value outside Foundly and cannot be redeemed for cash.

Credits are intended solely to access eligible Foundly services.

5. Purchasing Credits

Users may purchase Foundly credits in the quantities and at the prices displayed within the Service.

Credit packages, prices, promotional offers, and available purchase quantities may change from time to time.

The price and number of credits displayed at checkout at the time you complete a purchase will govern that transaction, subject to applicable law.

Purchasing credits is a one-time transaction unless the checkout explicitly states otherwise.

Purchasing Foundly credits does not automatically enroll you in a recurring subscription.

Applicable taxes, duties, or similar charges may be added where required.

6. Credit Expiration

Purchased Foundly credits currently do not expire.

They remain associated with your Foundly account until they are used, your account is deleted, or access is otherwise terminated in accordance with these Terms and applicable law.

If Foundly changes its credit expiration policy in the future, we will not retroactively impose a shorter expiration period on previously purchased credits unless permitted by applicable law and appropriately disclosed.

7. Using Credits

When you initiate an eligible complete idea validation, the applicable credit is deducted from your Foundly balance.

For the current standard idea validation: 1 validation consumes 1 credit.

Your available credit balance may be displayed within your account.

You are responsible for confirming that you want to initiate a validation before submitting it.

Foundly may introduce additional research products or functionality in the future that use a different number of credits. If we do so, the required credit amount will be disclosed before the relevant action is initiated.

8. Failed or Incomplete Validations

We want users to receive the validation they paid to generate.

If a credit is deducted but the validation cannot be completed because of a verified technical failure attributable to Foundly, we may automatically restore the credit or otherwise provide an appropriate remedy.

A validation will not necessarily be considered technically failed merely because you disagree with its findings, score, analysis, recommendations, research, or conclusions.

AI-generated research can produce unexpected or imperfect results, and dissatisfaction with a conclusion does not by itself mean the Service failed to perform.

We reserve the right to investigate suspected technical failures, abuse, duplicate requests, or manipulation before restoring credits.

9. Payments

Payments for Foundly credits and other paid services are processed by third-party payment providers, including Dodo Payments.

Foundly does not directly store complete payment card numbers or card security codes.

Your payment may therefore also be subject to the applicable payment processor's terms, policies, fraud-prevention procedures, and payment requirements.

You agree to provide accurate billing information and authorize the applicable payment provider to charge the payment method you select for the amount displayed at checkout, including applicable taxes where required.

10. Refunds

Except where required by applicable law or expressly stated otherwise at the time of purchase, purchases of Foundly credits are generally final once completed.

However, if you experience an unauthorized charge, duplicate charge, billing error, or verified technical issue preventing you from receiving the purchased credits, contact us at hello@foundly.pro.

Refund eligibility may be evaluated based on the circumstances, whether credits have already been consumed, payment-provider requirements, fraud-prevention considerations, and applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms limits refund, cancellation, withdrawal, or consumer rights that cannot legally be waived. See our Refund Policy for more information.

11. Chargebacks and Payment Disputes

If you believe a Foundly charge is incorrect, we encourage you to contact us at hello@foundly.pro before initiating a payment dispute so that we can investigate the issue.

Fraudulent chargebacks, deliberate misuse of payment disputes, or attempts to retain consumed services while reversing legitimate payments may result in account restrictions or termination where permitted by law.

We may provide relevant transaction and usage records to our payment processor or financial institutions when reasonably necessary to respond to a payment dispute.

12. Your Business Ideas

As between you and Foundly, you retain your rights in the original business ideas and content you submit to the Service, subject to any rights belonging to third parties.

Submitting an idea to Foundly does not transfer ownership of that idea to Foundly.

However, you grant Foundly the limited rights necessary to process the information you submit for the purpose of operating the Service and generating the validation you request.

These rights are limited to what is reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and support the Service, subject to our Privacy Policy.

13. Processing Your Ideas

Foundly must process the information you submit in order to generate an idea validation.

This processing may involve artificial intelligence systems, infrastructure providers, databases, external research sources, and other technologies necessary to perform the requested analysis.

Information submitted for analysis may therefore be transmitted to and processed by service providers involved in generating the validation.

The resulting validation may subsequently be stored within your Foundly account according to our security and privacy practices.

Additional information regarding how data is processed is available in our Privacy Policy.

14. AI Processing

Foundly uses artificial intelligence, including technology provided by third-party AI providers such as OpenAI, as part of its validation process.

By requesting a validation, you instruct Foundly to process the information you provide as reasonably necessary to generate the requested analysis.

Artificial intelligence systems are probabilistic and can make mistakes.

AI-generated information may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, inconsistent, or misleading.

You are responsible for independently evaluating information before relying upon it for significant decisions.

15. No AI Training on Your Ideas by Foundly

Foundly does not use your submitted business ideas or stored validation results to train proprietary Foundly AI models.

Information may nevertheless need to be processed by third-party technology providers in order to deliver the Service, as described in our Privacy Policy and subject to applicable provider arrangements.

16. Stored Validation Results

Foundly may store completed validation results so that you can access them through your account.

Stored validation results are protected using encryption as part of our security practices.

No electronic storage or transmission system can guarantee absolute security, and Foundly does not represent that any technical security system is impossible to compromise.

Users should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive personal information, credentials, financial account details, government identifiers, medical information, trade secrets belonging to third parties, or other information that is not necessary for business idea validation.

17. Research Sources

Foundly may use public information, third-party data, artificial intelligence, search technologies, APIs, databases, analytics, and other research sources when generating validation results.

Availability, accuracy, freshness, and completeness may vary by source.

Some information may represent estimates rather than directly observed facts.

Market sizes, website traffic, revenue estimates, search volumes, forecasts, growth projections, competitor performance, customer characteristics, geographic opportunities, and similar metrics may contain uncertainty.

Where appropriate, users should independently verify important information using primary or authoritative sources.

18. Validation Scores

Foundly may generate scores, ratings, classifications, indicators, or other assessments intended to summarize aspects of a business idea.

These outputs are analytical estimates.

A high score does not guarantee commercial success.

A low score does not guarantee failure.

A validation score should not be interpreted as a promise, certification, investment recommendation, professional opinion, or prediction of future financial performance.

Business outcomes depend on numerous factors beyond the information Foundly can analyze, including execution, timing, founders, competition, financing, product quality, regulation, customer behavior, economic conditions, and unexpected market changes.

19. No Guarantee of Business Success

Foundly cannot and does not guarantee that an idea will become profitable, receive investment, acquire customers, achieve product-market fit, generate revenue, scale successfully, or produce any particular business outcome.

The Service is designed to assist research and decision-making.

You remain solely responsible for deciding whether to pursue, modify, finance, build, launch, or abandon any business idea.

20. No Professional Advice

Foundly provides informational and research-oriented content.

Nothing provided through Foundly constitutes legal, financial, investment, accounting, tax, medical, regulatory, or other licensed professional advice.

You should consult appropriately qualified professionals when making decisions requiring professional advice.

Foundly should not be used as a substitute for such advice.

21. No Investment Advice

Foundly does not operate as an investment adviser, broker, securities analyst, or financial adviser.

Validation results should not be interpreted as recommendations to invest money in a business, company, security, cryptocurrency, asset, or other financial opportunity.

You are responsible for your own investment and financial decisions.

22. Accuracy of Information

We work to provide useful research, but we do not guarantee that every result will be accurate, complete, current, available, or appropriate for your particular circumstances.

Third-party websites may change. Competitors may change prices. Companies may launch or discontinue products. Search behavior may change. Market conditions may change. Public datasets may contain delays. AI systems may interpret information incorrectly.

Research should therefore be treated as decision-support information rather than unquestionable fact.

23. User Responsibilities

You are responsible for the information you submit to Foundly and for ensuring that your use of the Service complies with applicable law.

You agree not to submit information that you do not have the right to process or disclose.

You are also responsible for reviewing validation results and independently verifying information where necessary before making material business, financial, legal, investment, or operational decisions.

24. Acceptable Use

You may not use Foundly to violate applicable laws or regulations, infringe intellectual property or privacy rights, impersonate others, distribute malware, interfere with the Service, attempt unauthorized access to accounts or systems, bypass security controls, manipulate Foundly's credit system, fraudulently obtain credits, scrape the Service through unauthorized automated means, reverse engineer protected portions of the Service except where such restriction is prohibited by law, or use Foundly in a manner designed to damage, overload, or disrupt our infrastructure.

You may not attempt to exploit technical errors to obtain unlimited validations, credits, data, or paid functionality without authorization.

25. Automated Access

Unless Foundly expressly provides an API or otherwise grants permission, you may not use bots, scripts, crawlers, automated agents, or similar systems to systematically extract Foundly's proprietary interface, reports, functionality, or data in a manner that materially burdens the Service or circumvents access restrictions.

Normal browser functionality and legitimate search-engine indexing authorized by Foundly are not prohibited by this section.

26. Intellectual Property

The Foundly Service, including its software, interfaces, design, branding, logos, original text, research presentation, scoring systems, proprietary workflows, and other Foundly-created materials, is owned by Foundly or its applicable licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

These Terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use Foundly for its intended purposes.

Except where permitted by law or expressly authorized by Foundly, you may not copy, sell, sublicense, distribute, reproduce, modify, or commercially exploit Foundly's proprietary software or protected materials.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Foundly's intellectual property to you.

27. Your Validation Reports

Subject to these Terms and third-party rights, you may use the validation results generated for your account for your own personal or business purposes.

This permission does not grant ownership of third-party source material, trademarks, datasets, copyrighted materials, or other intellectual property that may be referenced in research.

You remain responsible for ensuring that your downstream use of third-party information complies with applicable law.

28. Third-Party Names and Trademarks

Validation results may reference competitors, companies, products, websites, applications, trademarks, or other third-party entities as part of legitimate research.

All third-party names, trademarks, and intellectual property remain the property of their respective owners.

Reference to a third party does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or partnership with Foundly unless expressly stated.

29. Third-Party Services

Foundly depends on third-party services and infrastructure.

These may include AI providers, database providers, authentication providers, analytics services, payment processors, hosting providers, search services, APIs, and external information sources.

Third-party services may become unavailable, change their functionality, impose limitations, experience outages, or discontinue services.

Foundly is not responsible for independent third-party services outside our reasonable control.

30. Service Availability

We aim to keep Foundly available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.

The Service may occasionally become unavailable because of maintenance, infrastructure failures, third-party outages, software errors, security incidents, upgrades, or circumstances outside our reasonable control.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features where reasonably necessary.

Where practical, we may attempt to minimize disruption, but continuous availability is not guaranteed.

31. Changes to Foundly

Foundly will evolve over time.

We may add, remove, modify, redesign, or replace features, research methods, interfaces, data sources, credit packages, or other aspects of the Service.

We may also introduce new products or services with separate or additional terms.

Material changes affecting existing purchases will be handled subject to applicable law and any commitments made at the time of purchase.

32. Changes to Pricing

We may change the price of future credit purchases at any time.

Price changes will not retroactively increase the amount already paid for previously completed purchases.

The applicable price for a new purchase will be the price displayed when that purchase is made.

Promotional pricing may be temporary and may contain additional conditions disclosed with the promotion.

33. Promotions and Free Credits

Foundly may occasionally provide promotional, trial, bonus, referral, or free credits.

Unless otherwise stated, promotional credits may be subject to different conditions from purchased credits, including expiration dates, eligibility requirements, account restrictions, or promotional limits.

Promotional credits have no cash value and cannot be redeemed for money.

We may revoke promotional credits obtained through fraud, abuse, duplicate accounts, manipulation, or violation of promotional terms.

34. Account Deletion

You may delete your Foundly account using the functionality provided through the Service.

Deleting your account may permanently remove access to stored validation results, unused credits, account information, and other account-related content.

Because purchased credits are associated with your account and are not cash, deleting an account with unused credits may result in loss of those credits, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Before deleting your account, you should therefore ensure that you understand the consequences displayed during the deletion process.

35. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate access to Foundly where reasonably necessary if you materially violate these Terms, engage in fraud, abuse the credit system, threaten the security or availability of the Service, infringe the rights of others, create legal or regulatory risk, or use Foundly for unlawful purposes.

Where appropriate and reasonably possible, we may provide notice or an opportunity to remedy a violation.

Serious security, fraud, abuse, or legal issues may require immediate action.

Termination does not eliminate obligations or liabilities that arose before termination.

36. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Foundly is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

We disclaim warranties not expressly provided in these Terms, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted availability, to the extent such disclaimers are legally permitted.

We do not warrant that Foundly will identify every competitor, opportunity, risk, customer segment, trend, market condition, or relevant source.

We do not warrant that validation results will predict future outcomes.

Some jurisdictions do not permit certain warranty exclusions, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

37. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Foundly will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or relating to your use of the Service, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost business opportunities, lost data, loss of goodwill, or business decisions made in reliance on validation results.

Foundly is a research and decision-support tool, and you remain responsible for decisions made using information provided through the Service.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Foundly's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to Foundly during the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim or US$100.

This limitation does not apply where liability cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

38. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Foundly from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the Service, material violation of these Terms, infringement of third-party rights through content you submit, or fraudulent or abusive conduct.

This provision does not require you to indemnify Foundly for conduct for which indemnification cannot lawfully be required.

39. Privacy

Your use of Foundly is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, processed, stored, shared, and protected when you use the Service.

By using Foundly, you acknowledge that data processing necessary to provide the Service will occur as described in that policy.

40. Electronic Communications

By creating an account or using Foundly, you agree that we may send transactional and service-related electronic communications reasonably necessary to operate your account.

These may include security notices, payment confirmations, account notices, changes to the Service, legal notices, and support communications.

Marketing communications, where used, will be handled in accordance with applicable law and available opt-out requirements.

41. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to Foundly, our business model, functionality, legal requirements, or operational practices.

When we update the Terms, we will update the "Last Updated" date.

For material changes, we may provide additional notice where required or reasonably appropriate.

Changes will apply prospectively as required by applicable law.

If you do not agree with updated Terms, you should stop using the Service.

42. Governing Law and Disputes

Foundly is intended to serve customers in the United States and internationally.

Because Foundly has not identified a specific incorporated U.S. entity or state of formation in these Terms, these Terms do not designate an arbitrary U.S. state as Foundly's place of incorporation.

Applicable governing law, jurisdiction, venue, and mandatory consumer protections may depend on the circumstances and applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms deprives consumers of mandatory protections or rights that cannot legally be waived.

Foundly may update this section when an appropriate legal entity and jurisdiction are formally established.

43. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

The invalid provision will be interpreted or modified only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable where legally permitted.

44. No Waiver

If Foundly does not immediately enforce a provision of these Terms, that does not mean Foundly waives the right to enforce that provision later.

Any waiver must be valid under applicable law and does not constitute a continuing waiver unless expressly stated.

45. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any additional terms expressly presented for specific Foundly products or services, constitute the agreement governing your use of the Service.

If specific additional terms conflict with these general Terms, the specific terms will control for the relevant product or functionality to the extent of the conflict.

46. Contact

Questions regarding these Terms may be sent to:

Foundly
Email: hello@foundly.pro

Important Notice. Foundly provides AI-assisted business research and idea validation for informational purposes. Validation results, scores, market analyses, competitor research, demand signals, opportunities, risks, forecasts, and other outputs are not guarantees of business performance.

You are responsible for your business decisions and should independently verify information that could materially affect those decisions.