What we do with your work

Plain version, because you are being asked to paste work you care about into a box.

The short answer

The work you submit is sent to a third-party AI provider to produce the verdict, and it is not saved on our side afterwards. We do not keep a copy of your copy, your page, your pitch, or your code. We do not train anything on it. We do not sell it or share it with anyone else.

What is processed, and by whom

Your submission (the text, the URL you give us, or the image you upload) is sent to a third-party AI provider that runs the model writing the verdict. They process it to return the verdict under a commercial agreement with us, and under that agreement your submission is not used to train their models.
If you give us a URL, our server fetches that page's public text so the board can read it. Some pages need a third-party reading service to load them first. Only the URL you typed is ever sent, never anything else about you.
The site itself is hosted by a commercial web host, so requests pass through their infrastructure like any website.
Payment happens on Gumroad. We never see or hold your card details. We check the license key you paste against Gumroad to confirm it is real.
Analytics counts page views without cookies and without tracking individuals across sites.

Named suppliers are not listed here. If you need the specifics for a vendor review or a compliance check, email and you will get them.

What we store, and for how long

Only what is needed to run the free limit, honour a paid license, and keep the bill from running away:

Counters of how many verdicts a visitor or a license has used. The visitor id is a random string generated in your browser, and it is stored on our side only as a one-way hash.
A one-way hash of your IP address, used to count free verdicts per month. The address itself is not stored.
A marker that a license key has been checked and is valid, so a payment provider outage never locks you out. The key is stored as a hash, never in the clear.
Running totals of usage and spend, so the service can cap its own costs.
Your email address, only if you type it into the email or waitlist box. Nothing is emailed to you automatically and it goes to no one else.

These are usage records, not content. None of them contain the work you submitted. They are kept while the service runs; ask and they will be deleted.

What is stored in your own browser

A random visitor id, so your free verdict is not counted twice.
Your license key, if you have one, so you do not have to paste it every visit.
Your email address, if you entered one, so the form can prefill it.

Clearing your browser storage removes all three. It will also make the site forget your license key, so keep a copy of it.

Confidential work

The submission box says not to paste confidential, proprietary, or personally identifiable information, and that advice stands. Much of a working creative director's material is under NDA. This is a small independent product that relies on an outside AI provider, and the honest position is that it is not the right place for anything you are contractually obliged to protect.

If a piece is sensitive, judge a rewritten version that carries the same structure without the client's name, numbers, or identifying detail. The verdict will be just as useful.

Children

This is a tool for professional work and is not intended for anyone under 13.

Asking for deletion, or asking anything

Email marc@edge9media.com. It reaches a person, not a queue. Ask for your usage records or your email address to be deleted and it will be done.

The Boardroom is made by Marc Chester (Edge9 Media), which is why checkout shows an EdgeMarc storefront. Last updated 20 July 2026. If this page and the product ever disagree, the product is the bug: email me and I will fix it.