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No. Your submissions are used to produce your assessment and to keep it in your account. An assessment is private to the account that ran it until that account shares it, with its team or by a link, unless it was paid from a team's credits, which puts it in that team from the start. TACTIC's own administrators can see each assessment's venture name, industry, sector, file name, tier, status, scores, and dates, the failure reason recorded when a run fails, and whether it is marked as one of TACTIC's own test runs; and each account's name, email address, organisation, role, credit balance, assessment limit, beta access, whether its email address is verified, the date it was opened, its last sign-in, and whether it is deactivated, with the credits it has spent and the adjustments made to its balance, its teams with their members, pending invitations, and seat plans, its credit purchases however paid and their refunds, any account terms, its invoices and invoice requests with their billing contact, and its daily usage, to run and support the service. You can export your data at any time, or delete your account and its assessments; payment and invoice records are kept, detached from your account, as accounting records.

An assessment is frozen as it was issued. Once it completes, its dimension scores, the findings, and the verdict it was issued with are stored and never rewritten, and a correction is issued as a new dated version beside the original rather than in place of it. The report is printed from those stored scores and findings each time you open it, so its layout and wording can improve, and where a fault in how a figure was worked out or printed is put right, the page shows the figure the stored scores support. Re-running a venture after you have revised it is a new assessment and can come out differently, which is the point of running it again.

A measure of how differentiated a venture is, delivered on Deep Assessment and Dossier. It is not a multiplier on the score. Two ventures can share the same base score and differ sharply on it.

Pay-per-assessment: $30 Screening, $90 Evaluation, $360 Deep Assessment and $720 Dossier, at 1, 3, 12 and 24 credits. A seat is a person on your team, and the team's owner buys seats on the team page. Seats are billed monthly or yearly, from $19 a seat a month, and a team starts at 5 seats. Credits pay for assessments. Each assessment costs credits by its depth, whoever runs it, and a seat comes with no credits.

Yes - secure shareable links (password, expiry, view tracking) and one-click investor-ready PDF export.

Yes - four depth tiers (Screening, Evaluation, Deep Assessment and Dossier) map to your decision stages.

The rubric scores what the submission evidences, not how it is presented. On the other tiers the reading is not checked against the submission that way, and we have not published a measurement of how far presentation moves a score.

Paid reports set out key strengths and risks, and reports on Evaluation and up add actionable recommendations, so a low dimension points to what to strengthen before you apply.

It is used to produce your assessment. An assessment is private to the account that ran it until that account shares it, with its team or by a link, unless it was paid from a team's credits, which puts it in that team from the start. TACTIC's own administrators can see each assessment's venture name, industry, sector, file name, tier, status, scores, and dates, the failure reason recorded when a run fails, and whether it is marked as one of TACTIC's own test runs; and each account's name, email address, organisation, role, credit balance, assessment limit, beta access, whether its email address is verified, the date it was opened, its last sign-in, and whether it is deactivated, with the credits it has spent and the adjustments made to its balance, its teams with their members, pending invitations, and seat plans, its credit purchases however paid and their refunds, any account terms, its invoices and invoice requests with their billing contact, and its daily usage, to run and support the service. You can export your data at any time, or delete your account and its assessments, which removes them as the privacy page sets out; payment and invoice records are kept, detached from your account, as accounting records.

Yes. The assessment guides you through what it needs and runs from a deck, a write-up, or a short questionnaire, so you do not need business expertise to complete it; gaps in commercial detail show up in the score rather than blocking it. Licensing or transfer staff can run it without the inventor present, though technical input sharpens the technology dimensions.

Your submissions are used to produce your assessment. An assessment is private to the account that ran it until that account shares it, with its team or by a link, unless it was paid from a team's credits, which puts it in that team from the start. TACTIC's own administrators can see each assessment's venture name, industry, sector, file name, tier, status, scores, and dates, the failure reason recorded when a run fails, and whether it is marked as one of TACTIC's own test runs; and each account's name, email address, organisation, role, credit balance, assessment limit, beta access, whether its email address is verified, the date it was opened, its last sign-in, and whether it is deactivated, with the credits it has spent and the adjustments made to its balance, its teams with their members, pending invitations, and seat plans, its credit purchases however paid and their refunds, any account terms, its invoices and invoice requests with their billing contact, and its daily usage, to run and support the service. Your assessments stay in your account so you can revisit, re-run, and share them, and you can export your data at any time. Deleting your account removes it and its assessments as the privacy page sets out.

Yes. You can re-run an assessment after revising the venture, and both runs are kept, each opened on its own. Every run is scored against the same rubric and the same weights, so the comparison is like for like. A fresh run is not guaranteed to reproduce an earlier score exactly, so read a comparison as the direction the evidence has moved rather than as an exact difference, and treat a change that shows across several dimensions as the stronger signal. The earlier assessment is left as it was issued.

IP Position Assessment sits inside the Technical Innovation dimension (30% weight) and is delivered at the Deep Assessment tier. It scores the patent position and freedom to operate a venture describes against the rubric's bands, from no filings and unresolved freedom-to-operate concerns at the bottom to a substantive filing on the core invention at the top. TACTIC does not search any patent database, so it is not a prior-art or freedom-to-operate opinion.

It is used to produce the assessment. An assessment is private to the account that ran it until that account shares it, with its team or by a link, unless it was paid from a team's credits, which puts it in that team from the start. TACTIC's own administrators can see each assessment's venture name, industry, sector, file name, tier, status, scores, and dates, the failure reason recorded when a run fails, and whether it is marked as one of TACTIC's own test runs; and each account's name, email address, organisation, role, credit balance, assessment limit, beta access, whether its email address is verified, the date it was opened, its last sign-in, and whether it is deactivated, with the credits it has spent and the adjustments made to its balance, its teams with their members, pending invitations, and seat plans, its credit purchases however paid and their refunds, any account terms, its invoices and invoice requests with their billing contact, and its daily usage, to run and support the service. An account holder can export their data at any time, or delete the account and its assessments, which removes them as the privacy page sets out; payment and invoice records are kept, detached from the account, as accounting records. Our formal data-protection position is with our legal owner and is answered in procurement rather than here.

It is an input to that decision and not an answer to it. A high value is a reason to take the disclosure to a patent attorney, who can search the filings. It cannot tell you a field is crowded and should not be used to drop a disclosure.

Yes. An assessment can run from a technical write-up, an invention disclosure, or a guided questionnaire, so early-stage technology can be scored before a company exists. The Technical Innovation dimension, and the TRL section reported on Evaluation and up, are meaningful from the earliest stage; Team, Market, and Implementation simply score lower until they develop, which is itself a useful signal of what to build next.

Yes. The assessment guides you through what it needs and runs from a deck, a write-up, or a short questionnaire, so you do not need business expertise to complete it; gaps in commercial detail show up in the score rather than blocking it. Licensing or transfer staff can run it without the inventor present, though technical input sharpens the technology dimensions.

Yes. A team holds named members at one of three roles, and what a member may do follows the role. Reading the work other people have shared into the team is a separate grant an admin makes or withholds per member, so joining a team does not by itself hand somebody the assessments already in it.

Scoring is applied through a fixed rubric against the evidence in the submission, and the same criteria apply to every submission. The Team dimension reads the experience and expertise the submission evidences for the people named in it; no criterion scores a founder's age, gender, or nationality. Sector rubrics are written per field, so a venture is judged against the benchmarks for its discipline rather than a single generic bar. The rubric, the weights, and the arithmetic that combine the judgements are written down and the same for each submission, so a score can be examined and accounted for.

It does not search any competitor index either, so it cannot tell you a position is crowded; what it can tell you is whether the target's differentiation reads strongly enough to be worth checking.

A seat is a person on your team, and the team's owner buys seats on the team page. Seats are billed monthly or yearly, from $19 a seat a month, and a team starts at 5 seats. Credits pay for assessments. Each assessment costs credits by its depth, whoever runs it, and a seat comes with no credits. Continuous scouting beyond the largest pack is priced with us directly.

Submissions are isolated per account and used to produce the assessment, and an account can export its data, or delete itself and its assessments; payment and invoice records are kept, detached from the account, as accounting records. Our formal data-protection position, including a DPA and a sub-processor list, is answered in procurement rather than here.

Yes to both. TACTIC does not ask whose venture is being submitted: an assessment belongs to the account that runs it, so a founder can assess their own and a programme can assess a company it is considering. A submission can be a deck, a written description, or a guided questionnaire, and it can be filed into a cohort as it is submitted, so an application round stays together.

No criterion in the rubric marks a venture down for having few comparables. The Uniqueness Coefficient is reported on Deep Assessment and the Dossier, and on Deep Assessment it enters the overall once, as a sub-dimension of Technical Innovation, while the rubric still asks for evidence that the underlying science is sound.

On Screening, Evaluation, Deep Assessment and Dossier every dimension carries its score and a written rationale, and so does every sub-dimension on Evaluation, Deep Assessment and Dossier; a Preview carries no rationale per dimension. The weights that combine them are fixed and published, so a result can be walked through line by line with an applicant. On Evaluation and Deep Assessment, a sub-dimension scored against the documented components also prints the passage of the submission its score rests on, once that passage has been checked against the submission, or says why none is printed.

Applicant submissions are isolated per account and used to produce the assessment, and an account can export its data, or delete itself and its assessments; payment and invoice records are kept, detached from the account, as accounting records. Our formal data-protection position is answered in procurement rather than here.

IP Position Assessment is delivered at the Deep Assessment tier, inside the Technical Innovation dimension. It scores the patent position and freedom to operate a venture describes against published rubric bands, so applications can be compared on the same IP criteria.

Scoring is applied through a fixed rubric against the evidence in the submission, and the same criteria apply to every submission. The Team dimension reads the experience and expertise the submission evidences for the people named in it; no criterion scores a founder's age, gender, or nationality. Sector rubrics are written per field, so a venture is judged against the benchmarks for its discipline rather than a single generic bar. The rubric, the weights, and the arithmetic that combine the judgements are written down and the same for each submission, so a score can be examined and accounted for.

TACTIC informs decisions, it does not make them. The report gives a score per dimension, and on Screening, Evaluation, Deep Assessment and Dossier a written rationale for each, so the reasoning behind a result is visible to your panel. Nothing in TACTIC awards or refuses anything: the assessment is an input and your panel keeps the decision.

Invoicing instead of card payment is available: an account can be placed on terms carrying a credit limit, net payment days, and a purchase-order reference, and it then has a billing page showing those terms, what has accrued since the last invoice, what is outstanding, and each invoice with its status and a PDF. Framework agreements and a local entity are commercial matters, answered in procurement rather than here.

A seat is a person on your team, and the team's owner buys seats on the team page. Seats are billed monthly or yearly, from $19 a seat a month, and a team starts at 5 seats. Credits pay for assessments. Each assessment costs credits by its depth, whoever runs it, and a seat comes with no credits. Running cohorts continuously beyond the largest pack is priced with us directly.

Assessments are isolated per account.

Yes to both. TACTIC does not ask whose venture is being submitted: an assessment belongs to the account that runs it, so a founder can assess their own and a programme can assess a company it is considering. A submission can be a deck, a written description, or a guided questionnaire, and it can be filed into a cohort as it is submitted, so an application round stays together.

Every venture is scored on the same dimensions and the same scale, so cohort companies compare directly, dimension by dimension and overall. A cohort has its own view: the ventures in it are ranked, the table filters by score, sector, sub-sector, and readiness level, and the filtered set exports to CSV or XLSX. An assessment is filed into a cohort when it is submitted, or moved into one afterwards from the grouping it is in.

Yes. An assessment can run from a technical write-up, an invention disclosure, or a guided questionnaire, so early-stage technology can be scored before a company exists. The Technical Innovation dimension, and the TRL section reported on Evaluation and up, are meaningful from the earliest stage; Team, Market, and Implementation simply score lower until they develop, which is itself a useful signal of what to build next.

Yes. You can re-run an assessment after revising the venture, and both runs are kept, each opened on its own. Every run is scored against the same rubric and the same weights, so the comparison is like for like. A fresh run is not guaranteed to reproduce an earlier score exactly, so read a comparison as the direction the evidence has moved rather than as an exact difference, and treat a change that shows across several dimensions as the stronger signal. The earlier assessment is left as it was issued.

On Screening, Evaluation, Deep Assessment and Dossier every dimension carries its score and a written rationale, and so does every sub-dimension on Evaluation, Deep Assessment and Dossier; a Preview carries no rationale per dimension. The weights that combine them are fixed and published, so a decision can be explained in full. On Evaluation and Deep Assessment, a sub-dimension scored against the documented components also prints the passage of the submission its score rests on, once that passage has been checked against the submission, or says why none is printed.

IP Position Assessment is delivered at the Deep Assessment tier, scoring the patent position and freedom to operate a venture describes against published rubric bands. It applies the same IP criteria across a portfolio rather than one reviewer's.

Invoicing instead of card payment is available: an account can be placed on terms carrying a credit limit, net payment days, and a purchase-order reference, and it then has a billing page showing those terms, what has accrued since the last invoice, what is outstanding, and each invoice with its status and a PDF. Framework agreements and a local entity are commercial matters, answered in procurement rather than here.