Privacy Policy

The Between

The short version

We map companies from public information and introduce them to each other. That means we hold information about businesses that never asked us to, and we think you should be able to find out exactly what, in language you don't need a lawyer to read.

• We use no cookies, no analytics and no tracking. There is nothing to opt out of.
• There are no accounts and no passwords.
• We collect what you type into our forms, and nothing else about your visit except the server logs our host keeps.
• The public map holds no email addresses and no personal contact details — we checked, and the launch process checks again on every deploy.
• We send what you write, and the pages we read, to OpenAI for processing. That is the only third party that sees the content.
• If you want your company off the public map, email us and it comes off within 7 days. You don't have to explain why.

If anything below turns out to be wrong, we'd rather know than be right: tristian@thebetween.ai.

Who we are

The Between is a network that finds companies their ideal clients, partners, investors, distributors and buyers, and evidences every introduction with a dated public source.

It is run by Tristian Kelly, trading as The Between, as a sole trader, from New York and across the United States and Australia.

Contact for anything in this policy — questions, corrections, removals: tristian@thebetween.ai

There is no company between you and him. When this policy says "we", it means Tristian and the systems he runs. He is the person who reads that inbox and the person who answers for what is written here — not a support queue, and not a legal department.

We don't publish a postal address, because during free early access there is no entity to attach one to. When The Between is incorporated and commercial terms replace these, a registered address will be published here with them. Until then, email reaches the only person who could answer anyway.

What we collect when you fill in a form

There are three forms on this site, and none of them ask for more than they need.

1. Reserve your agent

The public form on the home page. It collects:

2. Confirm your profile

The private page we send you after we've drafted your profile. It collects:

• Your corrections to the draft profile — in your words, replacing ours
• Your goals, which you can change from what you first picked
• What you're looking for, in your own words
• Your name and role, so your agent knows who it reports to

3. Correct your agent

The form on a member's own agent page. It collects what's wrong, what's missing, what your agent should hunt next, and your name.

On all three

Each form has a hidden field a human never sees. If it gets filled in, we treat the submission as automated and discard it. That is the whole of our spam handling — no CAPTCHA, no fingerprinting, no scoring of how you typed.

What happens to what you submit

Our forms are handled by Netlify, who host this site. Your submission is stored in our account with them, and we copy it onto the founder's own machine to work on it. Netlify also keeps ordinary web server logs, which include IP addresses. We don't use those logs for anything.

The words you write are then used in two ways:

1. A person reads them. Every hunt is started by a human being, not automatically by your submission.
2. They are sent to OpenAI, whose models we use to research companies and build search queries. Your correction text, your goals and your description of what you want all go into that processing, along with the text of public web pages we read.

We do not sell anything to anyone. We do not share your submission with other members. We have no advertising, no data partners and no analytics vendor.

What we collect about companies we haven't spoken to

This is the part most privacy policies skip, and it's the part that matters most here.

We build the map from public information. Company websites, trade press, business media, press releases, regulatory filings.

We check robots.txt before we read a page, and we do not read pages that tell us not to. If a site disallows the path, we stop and look for the same story somewhere that permits it, rather than fetching it anyway. This applies on every route our system takes.

For each company we may hold:

• Its name, website, location and a description of what it does
• The dated source we found, and what that source says
• Our assessment of who it might usefully meet, and why
• Where the source names one — a person's name and job title, such as a founder, a chief executive or a marketing lead
• Published business contact routes: a contact@ or partnerships@ address that appears on the company's own website, its contact page, or its LinkedIn company page

Two things we deliberately do not do:

• We never guess an email address. If a source doesn't publish one, we hold none. A pattern-guessed firstname.lastname@ is exactly what makes cold outreach look like a scam, and we don't produce them.
• We don't collect anything about you personally beyond your working role. We're interested in businesses. A person appears in our records because they are named in a public announcement about their company.

Being on the map is not consent

We want to be plain about this rather than bury it. Appearing on our public map means our system found your company and fetched a public source that names it. It does not mean you agreed to anything, that you have a relationship with us, or that you are a member. Those are three different things and we keep them apart deliberately, in this policy and on the site.

What is public and what is not

Public, on thebetween.ai and in the data file the site reads:

company names · websites · city and country · a description of what each does · the source URL for each finding · the date of that source · how fresh it is · our fit score and the reason for it · which companies were matched to which.

That file contains zero email addresses and zero personal names, and this is not a promise we ask you to take on trust: our deploy refuses to publish the site if an email address or a personal-contact field ever appears in it. The check runs on every release, before anything reaches the web. We wrote it because a sentence in a privacy policy should not depend on somebody remembering to look.

Not public, held privately:

• Everything you submit through a form
• The names of our members
• Person names and published business contacts we hold on internal records
• Which companies were shown to which member

Members' names are not published

If you become a member, we publish that our member count went up. We do not publish that it was you. Joining is consent to be represented by an agent. It is not automatically consent to be listed as a customer. If you'd like to be named, tell us and we will; the default is silence.

Clients you tell us about stay confidential

Members tell their agent things the internet doesn't know, including who they already work for. When a member names a live client, we treat the relationship as confidential.

The company itself may still appear on our public map if we discovered it independently from a public source — that is a fact the open web published, and hiding it would corrupt the map. What never appears anywhere is the connection between our member and their client. Our deploy process checks this and refuses to publish if that pairing ever shows up.

Your private links

Members and companies awaiting a profile get their own page at a long, unguessable web address — /agents/… or /profiles/….

Please read this bit carefully, because it is a real limitation and not a formality.

Those pages are unlinked from the site, left out of our sitemap, and marked so search engines don't index them. But the address is the only thing protecting them. There is no password. Anyone who has the link can open it. That includes anyone you forward it to, anyone who reads over your shoulder, and in practice anything the link passes through: browser history, corporate proxy logs, the scanner attached to your email.

The links do not expire. They keep working until you ask us for a new one.

So: share the link with people you'd be happy to have read the page, and tell us if it gets out — we'll issue a fresh one and the old address stops existing on our next update.

Who else sees your information

That is the complete list. Nobody buys data from us, because we don't sell it.

Cookies, analytics and tracking

There are none. No cookies are set. There is no Google Analytics, no tag manager, no pixel, no session recording, no third-party script of any kind. Nothing is stored in your browser.

We mention it because "we value your privacy" usually precedes a list of thirty advertising partners, and we'd rather just show you the empty list.

How long we keep things

• Form submissions stay in our Netlify account and on the founder's machine until we have no use for them. Ask us and we'll delete yours.
• Member records are kept for as long as you're a member, and after that as a record of what we did and why.
• Map entries stay until the company asks to come off, or until we find they're wrong.

We don't have an automatic deletion schedule, and we'd rather say so than invent one we don't run.

Getting your company removed

Email tristian@thebetween.ai and say you want your company off the map. It comes off within 7 days. You do not need to give a reason, prove who you are beyond writing from a company address, or fill in a form.

You can also ask us to:

• Tell you everything we hold about your company
• Correct anything that's wrong — corrections from a company about itself outrank anything our system found on the web, always
• Delete a form submission you sent us
• Remove a named person from our records while leaving the company

Depending on where you are, you may have these rights in law — under the UK and EU GDPR, the Australian Privacy Act, or state privacy laws in the US. We'd rather do it because you asked than because a statute made us, so we don't ask which one you're relying on.

Children

This is a business-to-business service. It isn't for children and we don't knowingly collect anything about them.

Security, honestly

We keep member records in a private repository, we don't store payment details, and we have no accounts to be breached because there are no accounts. Set against that: the private links described above are protected by obscurity rather than by a password, and no small operation should claim its security is better than it is.

Changes to this policy

If we change how any of this works, we'll change this page and date it. If a change is significant and we hold your email because you've dealt with us, we'll email you.

Questions, corrections, removals: tristian@thebetween.ai

Last updated 27 August 2026.