# Compliance Guardrails

This is an operating checklist, not legal advice. Before charging users or expanding into personalized services, consult a US securities / investment adviser lawyer.

## Product Boundary

CultureRadar is an information and investor-education product. It analyzes public culture signals, management language, employee sentiment, and external events. It does not provide personalized investment advice.

## Do Not Use

Avoid these terms in public copy:

- buy
- sell
- hold
- strong buy
- price target
- fair value
- upside
- downside target
- expected return
- position size
- add to portfolio
- exit the position
- should you own
- recommendation

## Safer Language

Use these terms instead:

- culture signal
- evidence line
- watch item
- inflection risk
- improving / stable / deteriorating culture signal
- public information review
- investor education
- falsifiable observation
- primary validation metric
- this judgment will be evaluated by

## Required Disclaimer

Use this footer on every public card and newsletter:

> This is public-information research and investor education, not investment advice. CultureRadar does not provide buy, sell, hold, price-target, portfolio, or personalized recommendations. All judgments are timestamped observations with explicit validation criteria and may be wrong.

Chinese version:

> 本文基于公开信息研究，仅用于投资者教育，不构成投资建议。CultureRadar 不提供买入、卖出、持有、目标价、仓位或个性化建议。所有判断均为带时间戳和验证标准的观察，可能出错。

## Pre-Publish Checklist

Before publishing, confirm:

- No personalized advice appears in the title, body, chart labels, or CTA.
- The card has a timestamp.
- The primary validation metric is objective.
- The threshold and deadline are locked.
- Source links support the evidence.
- The disclaimer is visible.
- The Chinese summary does not add stronger claims than the English version.

## Paid Product Red Lines

Do not launch paid features that include any of the following without legal review:

- "Tell me whether I should own this stock."
- Custom portfolio review.
- Personalized company requests tied to a user's holdings.
- Alerts framed as trade actions.
- Performance claims based on small sample sizes.