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Benchmark network & data sharing

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Beacon's benchmarks let you see how your growth and retention compare to similar companies. They only work because companies contribute — anonymously. This page explains exactly what you'd be sharing, the protections around it, and the choice you make at sign-up.

Draft for review — launch-blocking. This is the plain-language basis for the consent step. The final wording, and its legal sufficiency under GDPR, must be confirmed by counsel and ratified internally before the corpus starts collecting on day one.

What you contribute

If you join the benchmark network, your workspace contributes pre-computed, aggregated statistics — figures like retention or growth for your metric and peer group. That's it. Your raw records never leave your workspace. Your company's identity, your individual customers, and your prices are never shared and never made identifiable.

The protections — how anonymity is kept

Aggregates only. Only pre-computed statistics leave your workspace — never rows, never records.
Safety in numbers. A benchmark for a group is only ever shown once at least seven companies are in it, so no single company can be picked out.
Never identifiable. Your company, your customers and your pricing are never visible to anyone in the network.
Your region, respected. Contribution honours your data-residency boundary.
Off until you say so. The network is off by default; nothing is contributed until you opt in.

Contributing and viewing are separate choices

Seeing the community benchmarks and contributing your own anonymised data are two different consents. On a paid plan you can do either, both, or neither — and change your mind at any time.

On Free, contributing is part of the deal

The Free plan exists because companies contribute to the benchmark corpus — that's what makes it free. So on Free, contributing your anonymised aggregates is a condition of the plan, and you agree to it, plainly, at sign-up. If you'd rather not share, Beacon isn't free for you — a paid plan is the option.

On paid plans, it's a reciprocal choice: contribute and you receive the full benchmark intelligence back; opt out and the benchmarks simply stay off for you.

Leaving the network

You can leave at any time, which stops any future contribution. Statistics already contributed remain in the pool in their aggregated, non-identifying form — because they can't be traced back to you, they don't need to be unwound. On the Free plan, leaving the network means moving off Free.

The consent you give

At sign-up, the choice is presented as an explicit, plain-language step — not buried in a long agreement. The wording shown is:

Free plan — shown at sign-up

I agree to contribute my workspace's anonymised, aggregated statistics to Beacon's benchmark network.

Only pre-computed statistics are shared — never my raw records, and never anything that identifies my company, my customers or my prices. A figure is shown to the network only when at least seven companies are in a group. This is a condition of the Free plan; I can move to a paid plan if I'd prefer not to contribute. Full detail is on this page and in the Privacy Notice.

Paid plan — optional, shown in settings

Contribute my anonymised aggregates and receive the full benchmark intelligence.

Same protections as above. I can turn this off at any time; if I do, benchmarks stay off for my workspace. Viewing and contributing are separate settings.

For counselConfirm this meets the GDPR standard for freely-given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent — including the "condition of Free" framing (which counsel should pressure-test against the "freely given" requirement), the separability of viewing vs. contributing, and the treatment of already-contributed aggregates on withdrawal. Round-size / valuation benchmarks, if offered, need their own separate consent scope.
Reminder — this is a draft. The exact consent text and its legal sufficiency are the launch-blocking item; this page is the plain-language foundation for counsel to finalise.