This page is the detail underneath one clause of the terms of service: what you submit. It covers who owns the idea, what we put on air, what we refuse, and how to take a verdict back down. Where this page and the terms disagree, the terms win.
What counts as a submission
Anything you send us for a verdict: the one-liner from Roast my idea, or an audit you run yourself through the MCP server. Public signals we gather about a market on our own — search demand, complaints, funding, hiring — are not submissions and are not covered here.
You keep the idea
Submitting does not transfer ownership, and we do not claim a stake in anything you build. What you grant is narrow: a licence to run the audit, and — separately, only if you choose to share it — to publish the resulting verdict card. Those are two decisions, not one. An audit you never share stays unpublished.
Publication is opt-in
- Running a verdict does not put it on air. Nothing reaches an episode, a receipt page or The Roar until you share it.
- When you do share, what goes public is the idea title, the LRS score, the verdict, the stage it stopped at, a one-line punchline, and the public sources behind the call. Not your email, not the private notes of an audit you ran yourself.
- A shared verdict is quotable. Assume it can be screenshotted, cited and indexed by search engines — that is the point of a shareable card, and it cannot be undone for copies already made elsewhere.
Do not send us secrets
This is a broadcast product. Send the idea, not the crown jewels — no source code, no unfiled patent detail, no customer data, no material covered by someone else's NDA. A submission does not create a confidential relationship between us, and we cannot treat it as if it did. If an idea only works while nobody knows about it, a public verdict is the wrong tool.
What we refuse
- Anything illegal, or built to harm or harass people.
- Someone else's confidential business plan, or copyrighted material passed off as your own idea.
- Obvious spam, and bulk submissions aimed at gaming the leaderboard.
- Ideas naming a private individual as the target of the verdict. We score markets and businesses, not people.
We can decline any submission, and we do not owe a reason. A refusal is not a judgement about you.
How the verdict is reached
Six lenses — Team, Problem-Solution, Traction, Competition, Go-to-market, Financials — each scored against public signal, then combined into the LRS and a GO / PIVOT / KILL call. The reasoning runs on your own Claude; we supply the raw data, the arithmetic and the storage. A verdict is editorial judgement about a market at a moment in time. It is not investment advice, not a valuation, and not a promise about your outcome.
Taking it back down
Email [email protected] from the address you submitted with and ask us to unpublish. We remove the receipt page, drop the idea from the leaderboard, and stop serving its verdict card. Two honest limits: an episode that already aired stays in the archive as a record, and we cannot reach copies other people have already made or that search engines have already cached.
If you believe a published verdict uses material you own, write to the same address with enough detail to identify it and we will take it down while we look.
Corrections
Scores move as the underlying signal moves — that is the design, not an error. But if a verdict rests on a fact that is simply wrong, tell us what and why. We would rather re-run the audit and publish the change than defend a bad call.
Changes
We'll update the “Last updated” date when this policy changes. Material changes will be announced in the newsletter.