Privacy policy.

Who we are

Byteforce is a co-founding venture studio and technology partner, operating at byteforce.dev. For anything in this policy, contact us at [email protected].

What we collect

When you pitch Byteforce through the Pitch Room, we collect:

• Your first name, full name, email address, and company or idea name.
• Your answers to the pitch questions, including the follow-up question.
• Your marketing consent choice, the policy version you agreed to, the page you submitted from, your browser's user agent, and your IP address.

If you answer by voice, your speech is transcribed to text by your own browser. We do not record, store, or receive audio — only the text you choose to send.

AI processing

During a pitch conversation, your answers are processed by an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) to generate short acknowledgments and one follow-up question. The room's spoken lines are turned into audio by ElevenLabs' text-to-speech; because acknowledgments reference your answers, parts of what you share may be processed by ElevenLabs for that purpose. The AI never evaluates, accepts, or rejects your pitch — every selection decision is made by the Byteforce studio team. We do not use your pitch to train AI models.

How we use your information

• To review your pitch and respond to you.
• To assess a potential venture partnership — by humans, not algorithms.
• To send occasional Byteforce updates, only if you ticked the marketing consent box. You can unsubscribe at any time from any email.

Where your information lives

We use a small number of service providers to operate the site and review pitches:

• Notion — our private pitch review database.
• MailerLite — email, only if you gave marketing consent.
• Anthropic — AI processing of pitch answers during the conversation.
• ElevenLabs — voice generation for the room's spoken lines.
• DigitalOcean — website hosting and serverless infrastructure.
• Cloudflare — content delivery and security in front of our hosting.
• Google Analytics — aggregate website usage statistics (see the cookie policy).

We never sell your information.

Retention

We keep pitch submissions for up to 12 months after our last contact with you, or for the life of an ongoing partnership conversation. You can ask us to delete your pitch at any time.

Your rights

You can ask us to access, correct, export, or delete the information we hold about you. Email [email protected] and we will act on it promptly.

Children

The site and the Pitch Room are not directed at anyone under 16.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with an updated date. Material changes to how we handle pitch data will be flagged in the Pitch Room itself.