Takeoff Radar

Terms of Service

Short, readable, and mostly about one thing: the data is for your own use.

Last updated: 2026-08-17 · Operated by Takeoff Radar LLC, an Illinois limited liability company ("we", "us"). Mailing address: 225 West Randolph Street, Suite 2600, Chicago, IL 60606. Contact: nick@takeoffradar.com

1. What Takeoff Radar is

Takeoff Radar aggregates public SEC Form D filings and adds our own analysis: sector labels, verified company website and description, and a filterable feed. The underlying filings are public record; our enrichment, curation, and compiled datasets are our proprietary work.

Takeoff Radar is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or any government agency. "SEC," "EDGAR," and "Form D" refer to the public filing system we source from.

The hiring data

Some rows carry a count of open roles and sample job titles read from the company's own public job board (the public jobs feed its applicant tracking system publishes). The company does not supply it to us. The number is the count of open roles the board was showing on the date shown: we count open roles, not people, because repeats of the same role count once and contractor postings are left out, so the board itself can list more than we show, and one role can cover several hires. It is an observation on one day, never a forecast and never a statement of a company's hiring plans. A row with no count means we found or confirmed no board, not that the company is not hiring. Job boards change constantly, so a count can be out of date by the time you read it; verify anything you act on (§5). How we collect it, and what we do with job titles, is in the Privacy Policy (§4).

2. Your account & the plans

  • Free: the live feed and weekly digest, for your own use.
  • Max: a paid subscription adding saved-territory delivery the night a filing lands, the company watchlist, CSV export, and the weekly briefing covering one territory, described in "The Max plan" below.
  • MCP: a paid subscription for machine access: the MCP connector and the keyed REST API, with the redistribution license described in "The MCP plan" below.
  • (A retired Pro plan is no longer sold; if you subscribed to it, it keeps working as these Terms described it when you signed up, at your grandfathered price.)
  • All plans grant a non-exclusive, non-transferable, internal-use-only license to you and to the company you work for, to use the data and tools for your own recruiting, sales, or research. A plan covers one login; what that login produces (alerts, exports, saved searches) you may use and share inside your own company. Nothing more is granted, except the additional rights the "The Max plan" and "The MCP plan" sections below grant to those plans' subscribers.
  • You're responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials and API keys secure.
  • Paid alerts can deliver to email, Slack, or an outbound webhook you configure. The delivery channel doesn't change the license: the data stays yours to use internally, wherever we deliver it, and you're responsible for the endpoints you connect.

The Max plan: the weekly briefing and client deliverables

Max adds two things to the internal-use license above. Everything else in these Terms, including every prohibition in §3, applies to Max unchanged.

  • The weekly briefing. Max includes a briefing prepared for you each week covering one territory (a set of states or a sector focus, agreed with us when you start; one subscription covers one territory). It is prepared for you and your firm: use it internally, and excerpt it in Client Deliverables under this section, but don't forward, publish, or redistribute the briefing itself outside your firm. A person writes it, so it is a best-efforts weekly: if a week is missed, or your territory had nothing in it worth sending, we will tell you rather than pad it.
  • Client Deliverables. A Client Deliverable is a report, briefing, call sheet, or similar work product you prepare for a specific client of yours in the ordinary course of your recruiting, staffing, or sales business. On Max you may include Takeoff Radar data in one, subject to the four limits below.

The four limits:

  • Excerpts, not the corpus. A Client Deliverable may carry the data relevant to that client's engagement, up to 50 companies per deliverable, and may not amount to a substantial extract of the feed, the dataset, or its history, whether in one deliverable or across a series of them.
  • Human-readable only. Client Deliverables are documents people read: an email, a PDF, a slide, a printed sheet. Handing a client machine-readable data (spreadsheets of rows, JSON, API passthrough, database loads) is not licensed here. CSV export and the API stay internal-use under §2 and §3, always.
  • Your client is the end of the line. A Client Deliverable is for your client's internal use. Make that clear to them, and don't permit republication, resale, or further distribution. This line on the deliverable is enough: "This report contains licensed data from Takeoff Radar (takeoffradar.com), provided for your internal use; it may not be resold, republished, or redistributed."
  • People stay off-limits for eligibility decisions. The FCRA covenant in §3 applies to the briefing, to your Client Deliverables, and to your client's use of them. Any deliverable that names an individual carries the not-a-consumer-report line, and you won't let a client use one to make hiring, credit, insurance, or other eligibility decisions about a named person.

Still not licensed on Max. This section does not permit embedding or incorporating the data into any product, service, dataset, platform, or tool you offer to others; does not permit sublicensing; does not permit deliverables whose recipient resells them; and does not permit anything else §3 prohibits. Those uses are exactly what the MCP plan licenses for data retrieved through its connector and API ("The MCP plan" below, same price); anything beyond that license is a separate written Data License, which we paper individually. Ask at nick@takeoffradar.com.

Our data only. This license covers Takeoff Radar's own compiled data: filing facts, our classifications and provenance labels, officer names and roles from Item 3 of the filing, phone numbers exactly as filed, and websites and descriptions we verified. Takeoff Radar does not supply third-party contact data, and nothing in this section licenses any.

Term, and what survives. This section runs with an active Max subscription and ends when that subscription ends, downgrades, or is suspended under §7. After it ends the briefing stops and you stop making new Client Deliverables; briefings you already received and deliverables already delivered to a client may remain as completed work product, and anything you still hold stays governed by §2 and §3. Exceeding this section is a §3 violation and a §7 event. §5 applies throughout: amounts are stated offering targets and not confirmed closed rounds, enrichment is labeled and imperfect, and you and your clients are responsible for verifying anything you act on.

The MCP plan: machine access and redistribution

MCP is the plan for tools rather than readers: the MCP connector (for ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP client) and the keyed REST API, at the plan's posted rate limits. It changes one thing about the internal-use license above, and it is a big one:

  • The redistribution license. Data you retrieve through the MCP plan's connector or API you may keep, reuse, modify, republish, and redistribute, raw or transformed, including inside a product, service, dataset, or deliverable you offer or sell to others. This is a real exception to §3's redistribution, embedding, and competing-product rules, and it needs no separate paperwork.
  • What travels is the data, never the access. Your keys and connector links stay yours alone: don't share, resell, or proxy the credentials themselves, and don't circumvent rate limits or systematically extract beyond your plan's normal use. Redistribute what you pulled; don't hand others the pipe.
  • The FCRA covenant travels with the data. The "Not a consumer report" section below applies to whatever you build or pass on, and you agree to hold whoever receives the data from you to the same line: no eligibility decisions about named individuals.
  • No implied endorsement. Saying the data comes from Takeoff Radar is welcome; implying we built, endorse, or operate your product is not.
  • The briefing is not included. The weekly briefing is a Max deliverable and stays under "The Max plan" rules. This license covers what the connector and the API return.

Term, and what survives. This section runs with an active MCP subscription. When it ends, the license survives for data you already retrieved and for work you already built or delivered while it was active; retrieving new data and redistributing it needs an active plan again. §5 applies throughout, to you and to anyone you pass the data to.

3. Acceptable use: what you may NOT do

The license in §2 is internal-use only, with two exceptions: the Client Deliverables that "The Max plan" permits Max subscribers to prepare for their own clients, inside the four limits stated there, and the redistribution license "The MCP plan" grants MCP subscribers for data retrieved through its connector and API. Apart from those, you may not, without a separate written Data License from us:

  • Resell, redistribute, republish, syndicate, or sublicense the data, feed, exports, or any substantial part of them, whether raw or modified;
  • Embed or incorporate the data into any product, service, dataset, or platform you offer to others;
  • Scrape, crawl, bulk-download, or systematically extract the site, feed, or API beyond your plan's normal use, or circumvent rate limits, gating, or access controls;
  • Share, resell, or transfer your account credentials or API keys with anyone, inside or outside your company, or let anyone else sign in as you. Sharing what your login produces (alerts, exports, saved searches) inside your own company is permitted under §2;
  • Use the data to build or train a competing product, or to reconstruct our enriched corpus or its history.

The free weekly digest email is an exception: forward it to whoever you like. Everything else §3 covers still applies, including the feed, paid alerts, exports, API responses, the compiled dataset, and your login itself.

Any API or export access used on Max stays own-use: the Client Deliverables exception covers documents people read, never machine-readable data handed to a client. Machine-readable redistribution is what the MCP plan is for ("The MCP plan", §2). Anything neither plan's license covers requires a separate Data License; contact us at nick@takeoffradar.com.

Not a consumer report; no FCRA-covered use

Takeoff Radar is not a consumer reporting agency, and the feed, alerts, digests, exports, and API are not "consumer reports" under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or any equivalent state law. The people named in a filing are listed as the offering company's own officers, directors, or promoters (from Item 3 of the public filing) so you know who is behind a newly funded company, not as the subjects of a background screening.

If you are named in a filing and are concerned about how you appear on Takeoff Radar, contact support@takeoffradar.com. The names are part of a public federal record and we do not remove accurately extracted names on request, but we will review your report and fix anything we extracted wrong. Takeoff Radar is below the applicability thresholds of the state consumer privacy laws and is not governed by them; the Privacy Policy (§3 to §6) has the details.

You agree that you will not use the data, in whole or in part:

  • as a factor in establishing any individual's eligibility for employment, credit, insurance, housing, or any other purpose covered by the FCRA;
  • to make decisions about a named individual (for example, screening, evaluating, or vetting that person), as opposed to identifying a company that just raised capital; or
  • in any manner that would cause Takeoff Radar to be treated as a consumer reporting agency.

4. Our data & IP

Public filings remain public. Our enrichment, descriptions, compilation, and the service itself are our intellectual property, protected by our rights in the compiled database and original work. The §2 license does not transfer ownership of any of it.

The underlying Form D filings are freely available to anyone directly from SEC EDGAR at sec.gov. We don't fence the public filings, and every row links to its original document. What §2 and §3 protect is our compiled dataset, enrichment, and the service, not the public record itself.

5. No investment, professional, or eligibility advice

Takeoff Radar is an information tool, not investment, legal, or financial advice, and not a recommendation about any security, company, or person. It is likewise not a background check and not advice about any individual's eligibility for anything (see §3). Filings can contain errors or omissions; amounts may be undisclosed; enrichment is a heuristic aid, not a rating. You are responsible for verifying anything you act on. The service is provided "as is," without warranties, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

6. Billing

How paid subscriptions work, in plain terms:

  • Billing cycle. Max and MCP are monthly subscriptions, billed in advance through Stripe, our payment processor. Your card details go to Stripe directly; we never see or store them. Your subscription renews automatically on the same day each month until you cancel.
  • Price protection. If we raise a plan's price, the new price applies to new subscriptions only. As long as your subscription stays active, you keep the monthly price you signed up at; we will never move an active subscription's renewals to a higher price. If we ever lower a plan's price, you get the lower price automatically at your next renewal. If you cancel and later resubscribe, the price current at resubscription applies.
  • Switching plans. You can switch between Max and MCP anytime from the billing portal. A switch bills at the then-current price of the plan you are switching to, prorated for the remainder of the billing period.
  • Cancelling. Cancel anytime from the billing portal; no email or phone call required. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period: you keep paid features until then, and you are not charged again. We do not refund partial months. Your saved filters and watchlist are kept; alerts, export, API access, and the Max weekly briefing pause until you resubscribe.
  • Failed payments. If a renewal charge fails, Stripe retries it automatically. If it still cannot be collected, the subscription cancels and your account reverts to the Free plan. Your saved filters are kept, but alerts, export, API access, and the Max weekly briefing pause until you resubscribe.
  • Billing mistakes. If you believe we charged you in error, contact billing@takeoffradar.com and we will make it right.

7. Suspension & termination

We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms; a §3 violation (resale, scraping, sharing your credentials) especially. You may cancel anytime. Sections 3, 4, 5, and 8 survive termination.

8. Changes, liability & contact

We may update these Terms; material changes will be posted here with a new date. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability is limited to the fees you paid us in the prior 12 months. Questions: nick@takeoffradar.com.