VQ · Trust
The VQ Snapshot asks real questions about your business, and you deserve a real answer about where that information goes. This page is written in plain English, because that's the only honest way to write it. No legalese, no burying the important parts.
The Snapshot works from your answers: how your business runs, in bands and plain-language choices. Sharing precise financial figures is always optional and always invited, never demanded: you choose to provide them when you want a sharper value range.
Your answers, scores, and history produce your results, your reports, and, if you work with us, your advisor's preparation. This identified record is visible to you, and the Agora team serving you. Nobody else, ever.
We study answer patterns, with names removed, to keep the VQ scoring fair and accurate across industries. This work stays entirely inside Agora and never involves your identity.
Industry benchmarks are built from anonymous groups of ten or more businesses, a floor we hold so no statistic could ever point back at a single company. That's the only form in which assessment data ever leaves Agora.
We work with investment-banking partners to stay current on what buyers are paying for. They are never given your business. No partner sees your name, your numbers, or your answers without your express, case-by-case consent.
No. The conversation runs on a commercial AI service under terms that do not allow your data to be used for model training. The scoring itself isn't AI at all: it's a fixed, deterministic method we maintain, so your answers are measured, not interpreted by a black box.
The partners serving your engagement, and that's the list. Contract advisors working on a specific engagement see only that engagement's materials. There is no company-wide pool of client data that everyone can browse.
Your results link is private and unlisted, works for 60 days, and is sent only to the email you gave us. Treat it like a document you'd share deliberately. Your underlying record stays safe with us after the link expires. Sign in any time to see it.
Yes: one email, and the record goes. We delete your identified record fully, including our working copies, and we log the deletion. Two honest footnotes: de-identified statistics already computed can't be un-computed (there's no identity left in them to delete), and we keep the minimal billing records the law requires.
No. Not to brokers, not to buyers, not to marketers. The benchmarks we may publish are anonymous group statistics, and the value of Agora depends on owners trusting us with the truth, which is worth more than any list price.
Your record stays available to you. Many owners come back months later to re-score. Your de-identified answers help keep VQ calibrated. You'll hear from us a small number of times, and then we leave you alone. Want the record gone instead? See above: one email.
Data questions get answered by a partner, not a support queue. If anything on this page is unclear, or you want your record exported or deleted, write to us and a human will reply.
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