Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (the AUP) sets out the rules that govern your use of the GoPresent Platform, the Scout Portal, the Founder Portal, the Consultant Portal, and any related services (collectively, the Services).

It supplements and is incorporated into the GoPresent Terms of Service at /legal/terms-of-service. Where the Terms and the AUP conflict, the more restrictive provision applies.

By using the Services you agree to comply with this AUP. Breach is grounds for immediate suspension of your account and, at our discretion, termination of your subscription without refund per Section 7.

GoPresent is a tool for founders, scouts, and the consultants who serve them, intended for the legitimate purpose of preparing pitch decks, gap analyses, investor narratives, and investment-committee notes.

You may use the Services to: prepare your own fundraising materials; analyse and prepare materials for portfolio companies and prospects you have a professional relationship with; produce internal investment-committee documents from prospects' submitted materials; and store related conversation history, project memory, and uploaded source materials.

You may not use the Services to:

(a) Submit, generate, or distribute content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harassing, threatening, infringes third-party intellectual-property rights, or otherwise violates applicable law.

(b) Submit personal data of third parties without an appropriate lawful basis under UK GDPR or equivalent law (this includes pitch decks containing consultant personal data, customer lists, or candidate-pipeline data, where consent or legitimate interests have not been established).

(c) Submit special category data (health, biometric, genetic, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or criminal records). Our DPA explicitly excludes special category data from the categories we are willing to process.

(d) Submit content that is materially false, misleading, or known to you to be inaccurate, with intent to deceive an investor, partner, customer, or other third party who would view the resulting deck or analysis.

(e) Submit content owned by a third party without permission to incorporate it into your generated materials (e.g. copying a competitor's deck verbatim, using third-party logos or brand assets without licence).

(f) Attempt to discover, exploit, or report-without-authorisation security vulnerabilities in the Services. Coordinated security disclosure is welcomed via security@gopresent.ai under our public disclosure policy.

(g) Reverse-engineer, scrape, decompile, copy, or attempt to derive the source code, model weights, prompts, or other proprietary materials underlying the Services.

(h) Use the Services to develop a competing product, train a third-party AI model on outputs of GoPresent, or systematically extract Service outputs at machine speed.

(i) Send automated or scripted requests to the Services in excess of your rate-limit allocation, or otherwise interfere with the availability or performance of the Services for other users.

(j) Attempt to circumvent any access control, billing enforcement, quota, capability gate, or rate limit imposed by the Services, including by using multiple accounts to evade per-account limits.

(k) Inject prompts intended to cause the underlying AI model to disregard its instructions, leak the system prompt, exfiltrate data, perform privileged actions on behalf of other users, or generate output that violates this AUP.

(l) Use the Services in any way that could reasonably damage the reputation of GoPresent, our investors, our other customers, or the founders / portfolio companies whose materials we process.

GoPresent is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Services do not constitute investment advice, financial promotion, or a regulated activity under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. You may not use the Services to:

(a) Make a direct offer or invitation to an investor that constitutes a financial promotion under FSMA s.21 unless you are yourself authorised or exempt and have approved the communication accordingly.

(b) Generate materials marketed to retail investors without satisfying the high-net-worth or sophisticated-investor exemptions where required.

(c) Generate analysis, narratives, or 'fact-check' results in any sector that is materially regulated (defence, healthcare, financial services, gambling) without independent professional review of the output before relying on it.

Our AI generates content at a model's best inference. It is not legal, financial, tax, or regulatory advice. Section 3 of our Privacy Policy and Section 8 of our Terms of Service explain the limits of model output and the steps we take to disclose AI-generated content.

Where you take a deck, gap analysis, narrative, presenter script, IC memo, or other Service output and share it with a third party (an investor, a portfolio company, a colleague), you should disclose that the materials were prepared with the assistance of GoPresent's AI tooling. Section 50 of the EU AI Act applies a similar disclosure obligation to providers of generative-AI systems with effect from 2 August 2026; we already render an in-product 'Generated by AI' badge on every output to support that disclosure.

If you believe a user is breaching this AUP — for example, sharing a fraudulent deck, exfiltrating data, or distributing prohibited content — please email abuse@gopresent.ai with the relevant evidence. We aim to acknowledge reports within one UK business day.

We may, at our reasonable discretion, suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the Services for any user we believe has breached this AUP. For minor breaches we will normally warn first; for serious breaches (security, special-category data, fraud, regulated-activity violations) suspension is immediate.

Termination for breach of the AUP is not grounds for a refund of pre-paid fees. We may pursue any legal remedies available to us in addition to terminating the account.

We comply with lawful requests from UK and overseas law-enforcement and regulatory authorities. Where the law permits, we will give the affected user advance notice of any disclosure of their data so they can seek to challenge it. Where legal process requires confidentiality (e.g. national-security letters, gagging orders), we will not disclose the existence of the process.

We may update this AUP from time to time, primarily to address newly-identified abuse patterns. The version and last-updated date at the top of this page indicate the current version. Material changes will be communicated by email to active customers. Continued use of the Services after a change indicates acceptance.