1. Nature of the service
FUZZ.VC provides independent adversarial business-model stress-testing and consulting. We reconstruct a startup from the information supplied by the client, examine its business logic, incentives, dependencies, assumptions and failure surfaces, and actively attempt to identify credible ways in which the model can break under real-world behavior.
FUZZ.VC is a consulting and analytical service only. We do not act as a broker, dealer, investment adviser, financial adviser, lawyer, accountant, auditor, tax adviser, licensed cybersecurity provider, regulated due-diligence provider, fundraising intermediary, or other licensed professional. Nothing in the service or its deliverables is investment, securities, legal, tax, accounting, audit, regulatory, financial, or other licensed professional advice. The client must obtain any such advice independently where appropriate.
2. BREAK — $900
Under a BREAK engagement, FUZZ.VC reconstructs and attacks the client’s current business model. We may ask repeated follow-up questions, test the client’s answers, and classify issues as closed, partially answered, or open. The engagement ends with our findings on the model as tested. BREAK does not include repairing, redesigning, or validating a replacement business model.
If the client later changes the model, the changed model is a new object of testing. A further BREAK may be purchased separately and may produce different findings.
3. BREAK + REBUILD — $2,500
Under a BREAK + REBUILD engagement, FUZZ.VC first attacks the current model. Where we identify material failure mechanisms, we then use reasonable best efforts to propose changes intended to address those mechanisms and attack the changed model again. This break → rebuild → retest cycle may be repeated as reasonably necessary within the engagement.
The process may end because we reach a version for which we cannot identify another material failure mechanism within the scope of our testing, or because we cannot construct a credible further repair. Neither result is a guarantee that the startup is viable, investable, lawful, profitable, secure, or incapable of failing. FUZZ.VC is not the founder and does not assume responsibility for inventing or operating the client’s business.
4. Client materials and cooperation
The client is responsible for providing accurate, lawful, current, and sufficiently complete information and for having the right to share every submitted document, link, dataset, statement, and other material. Findings are necessarily limited by the information available to FUZZ.VC at the time of testing. Missing, inaccurate, outdated, misleading, or withheld information may materially change the result.
The client retains ownership of client materials. The client authorizes FUZZ.VC to access, process, analyze, summarize, and internally reproduce those materials only as reasonably necessary to perform and administer the engagement.
5. Confidentiality and non-disclosure
FUZZ.VC will treat non-public information supplied for a stress test as confidential and will not disclose it to third parties except: (a) information expressly authorized for the FUZZ LAB startup card under Section 6; (b) disclosure to technical service providers or processors strictly necessary to operate the service, process payments, transmit communications, host or access client-provided files, or perform the analysis, subject to their applicable terms and safeguards; or (c) disclosure required by applicable law, legal process, or a binding governmental request.
FUZZ.VC will not publish the client’s private documents, internal financials, private business logic, confidential findings, attack paths, vulnerabilities, or other non-public engagement materials merely because the client has agreed to appear in FUZZ LAB. Publicity permission is limited to the startup card described below unless the client separately authorizes broader publication.
The client should not submit personal data or third-party confidential information that is not reasonably necessary for the engagement. Third-party platforms used by the client to share files or make payments remain governed by their own terms and privacy practices.
FUZZ.VC uses Google Analytics to measure website traffic and non-sensitive funnel events, such as opening an application, selecting a plan, initiating and confirming a payment, opening the NDA, and submitting the ASK FUZZ form. FUZZ.VC does not intentionally send names, email addresses, startup URLs, payment addresses, recovery tokens, or other application content to Google Analytics.
FUZZ.VC does not require the client to submit sensitive engagement materials through the initial application form. After payment is confirmed, a Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement pre-signed by FUZZ.VC and the engagement contact email will be made available to the client. The client may countersign that NDA and return it to FUZZ.VC before transmitting a data-room link or other sensitive materials. Where the Parties execute that NDA, its confidentiality terms govern the protected information within its scope in addition to these Terms & Policies.
6. FUZZ LAB card and publicity permission
As a condition of submitting a paid stress-test application through this website, the client agrees that FUZZ.VC may create and display a startup card in the FUZZ LAB section of the FUZZ.VC website. The card may identify the startup by its name and may include its logo, stage, industry, public website and public social links, a short non-confidential description, and the fact that the startup was stress-tested by FUZZ.VC.
The FUZZ LAB permission does not authorize FUZZ.VC to publish confidential source materials or confidential stress-test findings. A testimonial, quotation, detailed case study, or disclosure of specific findings requires separate permission unless it was separately agreed as part of a free or discounted engagement.
7. No professional or investment advice; client responsibility
FUZZ.VC findings, proposed repairs, classifications, scores, conclusions, and deliverables are opinions produced through an adversarial consulting process. They are not a recommendation to buy, sell, issue, hold, or invest in any security, token, company, or financial product, and they are not a recommendation to raise or deploy capital in any particular manner.
The client remains solely responsible for all decisions concerning the startup, including product, strategy, fundraising, investment, legal structure, compliance, accounting, tax, cybersecurity, hiring, operations, pricing, contracts, and implementation of any FUZZ.VC suggestion. The client should independently verify conclusions and obtain qualified professional advice where required.
8. No guarantee of outcome
FUZZ.VC does not guarantee fundraising, investment, revenue, profitability, product-market fit, regulatory approval, legal compliance, security, commercial success, or survival of the business model. A model that survives our testing can still fail for reasons we did not identify. A model that we break may still be repairable by the founder or another party.
Likewise, FUZZ.VC’s inability to find a credible repair is a valid result of the purchased analysis and does not mean that no repair exists. Conversely, a repair proposed by FUZZ.VC is not a warranty that the repaired model will work in practice.
9. FUZZ PROOF certificate
FUZZ PROOF is available only as a possible outcome of a paid BREAK + REBUILD engagement. It is not included in BREAK and is not automatically issued merely because BREAK + REBUILD was purchased.
FUZZ.VC may issue a FUZZ PROOF certificate only for the specific business-model evolution, scope, evidence set, and testing date identified by FUZZ.VC when, after the final rebuild and regression cycle, FUZZ.VC has not identified an open P0 or P1 failure mechanism that it can reproduce against that tested version within the defined scope and evidence available to the engagement. Evidence still required for a material issue, an unresolved P0/P1 issue, or termination because FUZZ.VC cannot construct a credible repair may prevent issuance.
FUZZ PROOF means only that the identified version survived the FUZZ.VC adversarial process described above. It is not a warranty, certification of legal or regulatory compliance, audit opinion, security certification, investment recommendation, valuation, guarantee of fundraising, guarantee of commercial success, or statement that the startup is risk-free or cannot fail.
A FUZZ PROOF certificate is tied to the tested version and date and is not transferable to a materially different business model. Material changes to pricing, incentives, counterparties, money flows, product architecture, regulation, dependencies, market structure, or other assumptions may make the prior result obsolete. FUZZ.VC may identify a certificate as SUPERSEDED or RETEST REQUIRED where the tested model has materially changed or where later information materially affects the basis of the result. A new or updated FUZZ PROOF result may require a new paid engagement.
10. Sanctions and restricted jurisdictions
FUZZ.VC does not accept or provide services where doing so would violate applicable sanctions, export controls, trade restrictions, or other applicable law. The client represents that neither the client, the startup, nor any person or entity acting on their behalf is subject to applicable sanctions or located, organized, or ordinarily resident in a jurisdiction or territory where FUZZ.VC is prohibited from providing the service.
If, after payment, FUZZ.VC determines that the engagement cannot lawfully proceed because of applicable sanctions or restrictions, FUZZ.VC may immediately suspend the engagement and withhold performance for as long as the applicable restriction remains in effect. Payments will not be refunded except where a refund is required by applicable law. FUZZ.VC may request additional information reasonably necessary to determine whether the engagement may lawfully proceed.
11. Payment and commencement
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the applicable fee must be paid using the payment method and network specified by FUZZ.VC. The client is responsible for using the correct network, address, amount, and transaction details. An engagement begins only after payment is verified, required materials are available, and the application is accepted for processing.
Partial cryptocurrency payments. If less than the required amount is received, the order remains incomplete and the engagement will not begin until the outstanding balance is paid. The client may complete a partially paid order within 30 days after FUZZ.VC first detects the partial payment. Additional payment attempts do not restart that period. If the balance is not completed within that period, FUZZ.VC may close the order and disable online completion. A payment detected before the deadline may continue through blockchain/provider confirmation after the deadline without being treated as late. FUZZ.VC may, at its discretion, reopen a closed partial order for an additional period. Amounts received for a partial order are final and non-refundable except where a refund is required by applicable law.
12. Refund policy — no refunds
All payments are final and non-refundable, except where a refund is required by applicable law. FUZZ.VC does not provide refunds because findings are negative, the model is broken, no credible repair is found, the client disagrees with a finding, the client changes the startup or fundraising plan, or the client chooses not to implement or use the analysis.
The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. FUZZ.VC nevertheless aims to perform each accepted engagement in good faith and to a high analytical standard. A good-faith effort to address a reasonable service concern does not create a right to a refund.
13. Intellectual property
FUZZ.VC retains ownership of its methodologies, frameworks, templates, processes, internal prompts, attack libraries, working papers, know-how, and other pre-existing or generally applicable analytical materials. The client retains ownership of its startup and client materials and may use final deliverables supplied by FUZZ.VC for its own business purposes.
14. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, FUZZ.VC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, lost-profit, lost-opportunity, fundraising, investment, or business-interruption damages arising from the service, its findings, or reliance on them. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
15. Acceptance and electronic agreement
By checking the required Terms & Policies box and submitting an application, the client confirms that the client has read, understood, and agreed to the version of these Terms & Policies presented at the time of submission. The person submitting the application represents that they have authority to submit the startup’s materials and agree to these terms on behalf of the relevant client where applicable.
16. Changes
FUZZ.VC may modify these Terms & Policies from time to time. Changes may apply to existing engagements where reasonably necessary to address changes in applicable law, sanctions, regulatory requirements, security, fraud prevention, payment processing, platform operation, or other compliance or operational requirements. Where a change materially affects an existing paid engagement, FUZZ.VC may provide notice to the client where reasonably practicable. No amendment will retroactively reduce services already fully performed or eliminate rights that cannot lawfully be waived. Except where expressly stated to apply to existing engagements, the version accepted when an application was submitted continues to govern that engagement.
