Backstory terms

What a report is for

Backstory helps investors and backers check a founder’s or operator’s public professional claims before committing. A report informs your decision; it never recommends an investment.

It is not a financial audit, a valuation, or a credit, litigation or criminal search, and it does not satisfy a legal or compliance diligence duty of yours or your fund’s.

The purpose limit

You may not use a report, or anything in it, to decide whether to hire, promote, keep or engage someone for work, or to decide on anyone’s housing, credit, insurance or a licence. We may refuse an order we learn is for one of these purposes.

A report is not a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act, and we are not a consumer reporting agency.

You must be 18 or older to buy a report.

Before paying, you confirm: “I won’t use this report to decide on anyone’s employment, housing, credit or insurance, and I’m 18 or older.”

What a report is, and is not

A report is an AI-assisted summary of public professional sources. It lists the sources it read, compares them with the claims you gave us, and marks each finding supported, conflicting or unverified.

It is not identity verification or a safety check: a match with a public profile does not prove who someone is, and a report can miss sources. Check the original sources before relying on a finding.

Using a report

Research only people you have a genuine reason to get to know, and never a minor. Never use a report to locate, contact, monitor or pressure anyone.

Share a report only through its own share links, and don’t publish it or use it to make public claims about the person.

Payments and refunds

Reports are paid for with credits, and one credit unlocks one completed report. You buy a pack of credits, or a single report from its free preview, on Stripe’s checkout page; we never see your card number.

To ask for a refund, email us; a person reviews every request. A refund returns the whole purchase to the card you paid with and takes back the credits it bought, so a report unlocked with those credits may be locked again.

Contact

Questions about these terms, and refund requests, go to backstory@auto-units.com. If a report is about you and you want to see, correct or remove it, write to the same address.