Honest answers, in plain English.

Yes — for founders, forever. Not freemium, not a 7-day trial, not a credit-card-required free tier. The cost of one missed clause is bigger than any fee we could charge. VCs and law firms pay for scale; founders use it free.

It's a structured rubric, not a verdict. The Score reflects how each material clause compares to a published market norm — built from 200+ analysed deals and reviewed by qualified counsel. A score of 47 doesn't mean don't sign. It means start renegotiating the highlighted flags before you do. The full methodology is at /methodology so you can audit any individual flag.

Never. Identifiable contents are encrypted at rest, never shown to the named investor or any third party, and auto-deleted 30 days after analysis unless you save the report to your own account. Anonymised aggregates power the regional benchmarks — no investor name, founder name, or company name is ever exposed.

No, and that's the wrong question. Turnsheet is intelligence, not legal advice. Use it before the lawyer's clock starts so you walk into the legal review with a structured agenda — score, flag list, dollar impact, regional benchmarks — instead of a 47-page contract markup. Your lawyer signs off, but you arrive prepared. Most lawyers who've seen the export want their other clients using it.

We cover Southeast Asia, Greater China, Australia/NZ, India, North America, and Europe at launch. If your deal is regional and we don't have a benchmark, the score still works — it just falls back to the global market norm rather than a regional one. We mark every flag with the data source so you can see what's behind the comparison.

Only if you were relying on asymmetric information. The funds with founder-friendly term sheets benefit most — Turnsheet surfaces clean deals as cleanly as it surfaces predatory ones. Funds that consistently issue >70 Founder Fairness Score deals can opt into the Founder-Endorsed badge in the firm directory.

No. The score is gated by actual deal terms only. The $5,000/month tier buys featured placement in the directory, the right to publicly respond to founder reports, and access to the verified-introduction program — but it does not, under any circumstance, modify a Fairness Score. We say this on every page for a reason.

No, and we won't ever build that. Founders run analyses anonymously by default. Verified VC profiles see aggregate signal — how many founders viewed your firm page this month, what regions, what stages — but never identifiable founders or their submitted documents.

Email team@unocu.com. We add free firm pages with public response rights for any fund that asks — no subscription required for the listing itself. The paid tiers add the Verified or Founder-Endorsed badge.

Most legal reviews start by extracting clauses, mapping them against precedent, and flagging items for partner review. Turnsheet does the first pass in 90 seconds and exports a structured handover: score, flag list, dollar impact, counter-language drafts. You verify the analysis, refine the language, sign off. Less time on extraction, more time on judgement. Founders pay you to negotiate, not to read.

The Firm tier (custom pricing) includes API access to the full clause library, white-label PDF exports under your firm's brand, and bulk upload for portfolio reviews. Email team@unocu.com.

The clause extraction model is proprietary; the rubric, weights, frequencies, and counter-language are all open at /methodology. Anything you can audit, you can argue with — and we'd rather you do that than treat the score as gospel.

Encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). Auto-deleted 30 days after analysis unless you explicitly save the report to your account. Identifiable contents are never used to train models — only the aggregated, anonymised clause-level data feeds the regional benchmarks.

Primary region is EU (Frankfurt). Founders in APAC can opt into Singapore-region storage at submission. We do not replicate to US-East under any tier. Full sub-processor list is on the privacy page.

Yes. Right to access, right to deletion, and a Data Processing Agreement available for any account. Email team@unocu.com to invoke either.

Only you, on your account, behind your password. We do not share analyses with VCs, lawyers, or investors — even with the founder's consent — through any in-product mechanism. If you want to share, export the PDF and send it yourself.

Each clause carries a penalty between 0 and 50, calibrated by (1) typical dollar impact at exit, (2) reversibility once signed, and (3) frequency of pushback success in the source dataset. We sum penalties, subtract from 100, and floor at 0. Equity and debt are scored separately, then combined 60/40 into the composite. Full formula at /methodology.

Material changes ship with a versioned changelog entry (currently v3.0). We re-calibrate weights quarterly based on the latest 90-day deal cohort. If your past analysis was scored under an older rubric, the report shows the version explicitly — and you can re-run on the latest at any time, free.

We probably should. The library is updated every release based on founder reports — if there's a clause you've seen that bit you and we haven't catalogued, write to team@unocu.com with the redacted text and we'll add it (with credit, if you want). Eight of the current red flags came from founder submissions.

Contract review tools find clauses. Turnsheet judges them — comparing each clause to a market norm, attaching a dollar consequence, and giving you the counter-language to push back. We're a negotiation tool, not a redlining tool. The two work together: redline what's broken, negotiate what's unfair.