Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and Christopher Leigh Studios, LLC, which operates DealSherpa (“DealSherpa”, “we”,“us”). They cover this website, the DealSherpa application at app.dealsherpa.co, and everything we provide through them (together, the“Service”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you are accepting them for a company or other organization, you are confirming that you have the authority to bind it, and “you” means that organization.

1. What DealSherpa is — and what it is not

DealSherpa helps a buyer screen a small-business acquisition: it reads the documents you give it, extracts figures and terms, spots issues, grades what it finds, and answers your questions about the deal in front of you.

DealSherpa does not give legal, tax, accounting, investment or lending advice, and using it does not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, advisory or fiduciary relationship.We are not a law firm, an accounting firm, a broker, a lender, or a licensed adviser of any kind. Every analysis, grade, flag, score and answer the Service produces is issue-spotting to support your own diligence and your own professionals — it is not a substitute for either.

Have a licensed professional review any document before you sign it or rely on it. Decide for yourself. SBA 7(a) eligibility, loan terms and approval are determined by your lender and the U.S. Small Business Administration, and nothing the Service produces binds them or predicts what they will do.

2. Accuracy, and why you have to check

The Service uses artificial intelligence to read and reason over documents. AI systems make mistakes: they misread figures, miss clauses, and can state something confidently that is wrong. We design around this — extraction is linked back to its source, grades carry their rationale, and answers cite their evidence — precisely so you can check the work rather than take it on faith.

You are responsible for verifying anything you act on. We do not warrant that any output is accurate, complete, or fit for a particular deal.

3. Your account

You must be at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract. Give us accurate information, keep your password to yourself, and tell us at support@dealsherpa.co if you think someone else has got into your account. You are responsible for what happens under it.

An organization in DealSherpa is a workspace with members and roles. Whoever holds the Owner role controls billing and membership for that organization and can see, change and remove its data, including data added by other members.

4. Plans, billing and cancellation

Current plans and prices are on our pricing section. A plan sets how many deal analyses you can run in a period and the size of the pooled AI budget included with it. Reaching either limit pauses the work that consumes it until the next period or an upgrade; it does not delete anything you have already produced.

• Free. The free plan is limited to a single deal analysis and a fixed, one-time AI budget. It is meant to let you run a real deal before you pay for anything.
• Paid plans are billed in advance and renew automatically each period at the then-current price until you cancel. Payment is processed by our billing provider; we do not store your card details.
• Cancelling stops the next renewal. Your plan keeps working through the period you have already paid for. We do not give partial refunds for an unused part of a period except where the law requires it, or where we decide to — write to us and ask.
• Price changes apply from your next renewal, and we will tell you before one takes effect.

Taxes are your responsibility unless we are required to collect them. If a payment fails we may suspend paid features until it clears.

5. Your documents and your data

You own what you upload. Financial statements, contracts, notes, everything — it stays yours. You grant us only the licence we need to run the Service for you: to store, process, transmit, analyse and display your content, and to have our infrastructure and AI providers do the same on our behalf.

We do not sell your content, and we do not use it to train public AI models. OurPrivacy Policy explains who processes it and why.

You confirm you have the right to upload what you upload, including any confidential information a seller or broker has given you, and that doing so does not breach an NDA or any other obligation you are under. That judgement is yours to make, not ours.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• break the law with the Service, or use it to help someone else do so;
• upload material you have no right to, or that contains malware or another person’s personal data you have no basis to share;
• resell, sublicense or white-label the Service, or share one account across people who should have their own;
• scrape it, reverse-engineer it, work around its usage limits, or use it to build a competing product;
• attack, overload or probe the Service or the accounts of other users.

We may suspend an account that is doing any of these, immediately where the harm is ongoing.

7. Availability and change

DealSherpa is an early product and it changes often. We may add, alter or withdraw features, and we may take the Service down for maintenance. We aim for it to be available and we do not promise it always will be. We do not commit to any service level here.

8. Our intellectual property

The Service — the software, the models and prompts we build around it, the design, the mascot, the name and the marks — belongs to us and our licensors. These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service while your account is in good standing, and nothing more.

If you send us feedback, we may use it to improve the Service without owing you anything for it.

9. Third-party services

We run on other companies’ infrastructure and link to other companies’ sites. We are not responsible for what a third party does, and their terms govern their own service. OurPrivacy Policy lists the providers that handle your data for us.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied.To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that its output will be accurate or complete.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither we nor our suppliers are liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost business, lost goodwill, lost data, or the cost of substitute services — including any loss arising from a deal you did or did not do.

Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is capped at the greater ofone hundred U.S. dollars ($100) or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limits apply even if a remedy fails its essential purpose, and they do not limit liability that cannot be limited by law.

12. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims arising from your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms — including a claim that you had no right to share something you uploaded.

13. Termination

You can stop using the Service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if we are required to, or if we discontinue the Service.

After termination we delete or de-identify your content on the schedule in ourPrivacy Policy. Export anything you want to keep before you close an account. Sections 5, 8 and 10 through 15 survive termination.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material we will give notice — by email or in the app — before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the new version. The effective date at the top always tells you which version you are reading.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona, and each of us waives any objection to venue there.

Before filing anything, write to us at support@dealsherpa.co and give us thirty days to sort it out. Most things can be.

16. The rest

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing something is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them to a successor in a merger or sale of the business.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms go to support@dealsherpa.co.