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A Note from Professor Tyler Wry

Dear founders,

I’ve spent my career working with entrepreneurs — at Wharton, through Venture Lab, and through the Impact Investing Research Lab. The conversations I have with founders like you are some of the most rewarding parts of my work.

Innovation Algebra has built a platform that captures what I do as an advisor — how I ask questions, what frameworks I use, how I give feedback — so that more founders can benefit from that approach, even when I’m not in the room.

I want to be direct: your ideas are safe. The platform anonymizes your data before it’s used for anything. Your name, your company details, your financials — none of that goes into the model. What goes in is my advisory approach, not your secrets.

I agreed to participate because I believe this can help more founders get better guidance. But I would never ask you to participate if I thought your ideas were at risk. Please read the terms below, and if you have concerns, reach out to me directly.

— Tyler Wry Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School Co-Director, Wharton Impact Investing Research Lab
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Our Guarantees
Your ideas stay yours. We will never claim ownership of your intellectual property. Ever.
Your data is anonymized. Before anything touches our AI models, your name, company name, financials, and proprietary details are stripped out.
We will never share your details. Other participants, partners, and third parties will never see your conversations or venture information.
We will never compete with you. Your ideas will not be used to build competing products or passed to other founders, investors, or portfolio companies.
You can delete your data at any time. Request deletion and it's gone from our active systems within 30 days.
How It Works

We build Expert Models — AI systems that capture how a professor advises, not what you told them.

You have conversations with your advisor (emails, Zoom calls, feedback sessions, rubrics).
We anonymize everything — your identity and venture details are removed.
We extract the advisor's patterns — how they ask questions, what frameworks they use, how they give feedback.
The Expert Model learns the advisor's style, not your secrets.
The result: future participants can get guidance that reflects your professor's approach, even when the professor isn't available. Your specific situation never leaks into that model.
Common Questions
Will you steal my idea? No. We cannot and will not. We claim zero ownership over anything you submit. Your IP is yours — full stop. This is in our terms and it's non-negotiable.
What exactly goes into the AI model? The advisor's reasoning patterns, frameworks, questioning style, and domain knowledge. Your identity, venture details, financials, and proprietary information are stripped out before any model building begins.
Can other founders see my conversations? No. Your conversations are confidential. Other participants using the Expert Model have no access to your data. The model contains advisory patterns, not a database of individual conversations.
How does anonymization work? All data goes through a five-step pipeline: (1) Collection with your consent, (2) Transcription of audio/video to text, (3) Anonymization — names, companies, financials replaced with generic placeholders, (4) Pattern extraction from anonymized data only, (5) Model building from patterns, never from raw data.
How do I know the anonymization actually works? We maintain audit logs of the anonymization pipeline. You can request a summary of how your data was processed. If you believe anonymization was insufficient, raise a concern and we will investigate and remediate.
Can I delete my data? Yes. Request deletion at any time. Your data will be removed from active systems within 30 days. Advisory patterns already in the Expert Model don't need removal — they were built from anonymized data that doesn't contain your identity.
Is this legal advice? No. Analysis and recommendations from the platform or Expert Models are informational only. They don't constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.
Who has access to my data? Only the personnel and systems necessary to deliver the service and build Expert Models. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Access controls and audit logs protect against unauthorized access.
What types of data do we collect?
Emails Email exchanges between advisor and participant
Zoom / video meetings Recordings and/or transcripts of advisory sessions
Audio recordings Voice recordings of meetings or feedback sessions
Rubrics and evaluations Scoring sheets, feedback forms, structured assessments
Written feedback Comments on pitches, business plans, assignments
Chat / messaging Slack, Teams, or other text-based exchanges
Documents Shared documents with advisor annotations or comments
Full Terms The guarantees and FAQ above are the plain-language version. Below is the complete legal detail.
Your Ideas Remain Yours
  • All ideas, business concepts, and intellectual property you submit remain your sole property.
  • Innovation Algebra does not claim any ownership, license, or rights over your ideas.
  • We will never file patents, trademarks, or any IP claims based on content you provide.
What We Build: Expert Models
  • We use conversations between advisors and participants to build Expert Models — AI systems that capture an advisor’s reasoning patterns, domain expertise, and advisory style.
  • Expert Models allow future participants to receive guidance that reflects the advisor’s approach, even when the advisor is not available.
  • What goes into the model: The advisor’s questions, frameworks, feedback patterns, and domain knowledge.
  • What does NOT go into the model: Your identity, venture details, financial information, or proprietary ideas. All conversation data is anonymized before it is used for model building.
Confidentiality of Venture Details
  • Your venture-specific information (business plans, financials, competitive analysis, proprietary methods) is treated as confidential.
  • Conversation data is anonymized before being used for Expert Model building — your name, company name, and specifics are removed.
  • We will not share, publish, or distribute your venture details to third parties without your explicit written consent.
  • Other participants using the Expert Model will never see your conversations or venture details.
Data Sources and Processing

Advisory interactions come in many forms: emails, Zoom recordings, audio recordings, rubrics, written feedback, chat messages, and shared documents. All sources go through the same processing pipeline: collection with consent, transcription, anonymization, pattern extraction, and model building. Raw data is never used directly in the model.

Anonymization and Auditability
  • All data is anonymized before use in Expert Model building: participant names, company names, financial figures, proprietary details, and other identifying information are removed or replaced with generic placeholders.
  • Anonymization is logged and auditable. Participants may request a summary of how their data was processed.
  • If a participant believes anonymization was insufficient, they may raise a concern. We will investigate, remediate, and notify the participant of the outcome.
  • We continuously review and improve our anonymization methods to guard against re-identification.
Data Storage and Retention
  • Your data is stored securely on our infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • You may request deletion of your data at any time.
  • Upon deletion request, your data will be removed from active systems within 30 days.
  • Deletion of your data does not require removal of advisory patterns already incorporated into the Expert Model (since the model was built from anonymized data that does not contain your identity or venture-specific information).
AI-Generated Output
  • Analysis and recommendations generated by the platform or Expert Models are provided as-is for informational purposes.
  • They do not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.
  • You are free to use, share, or discard any output the platform produces for you.
No Competing Use
  • We will not use your venture details to build competing products or services.
  • We will not pass your ideas to other users, partners, or portfolio companies.
  • Expert Models provide general advisory expertise — they do not leak one participant’s specifics to another.
Security
  • All data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • Access controls and audit logs protect against unauthorized access.
  • Conversation data access is restricted to the personnel and systems necessary to build and maintain Expert Models.
Recourse
  • If you believe any of these terms have been violated, contact us at terms@innovationalgebra.com.
  • We will investigate and respond within 14 business days.
  • If the issue is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may escalate through formal arbitration.
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