Consulting Services Disclaimer
This disclaimer explains what the business consulting services do and do not provide, including limitations relating to business outcomes, professional advice, research, implementation, and client decision-making.
1. Nature of the Services
970 Holdings provides business consulting and advisory services. The services are designed to help entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses think more clearly about planning, operations, workflow, organizational structure, project execution, market context, and growth.
Consulting may include discussion, written recommendations, planning documents, research summaries, process observations, project structures, organizational recommendations, and recurring advisory support.
2. Not Licensed Professional Advice
The company's business consulting services are not legal advice, tax advice, accounting services, audit services, investment advice, securities advice, lending advice, medical advice, engineering services, architectural services, or other licensed professional services.
A client should consult an appropriately licensed professional where a business decision depends on legal compliance, tax treatment, accounting standards, regulated financial activity, employment law, licensing, engineering, health, safety, or another specialized professional requirement.
3. No Guarantee of Business Results
No consultant can control all factors that determine business performance. Results depend on implementation, customer demand, competition, staffing, financing, pricing, product quality, contracts, technology, economic conditions, timing, management decisions, and many other variables.
The company does not guarantee revenue, profit, funding, market share, customer acquisition, cost reduction, productivity improvement, project completion, employee performance, growth, or any other specific commercial result.
4. Recommendations Depend on Information Available
Recommendations are based on the information available at the time of the engagement. If the client provides incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or misleading information, the analysis may be affected.
A recommendation may also become outdated if market conditions, staffing, budgets, customer demand, contracts, technology, or business priorities materially change.
5. Strategy and Business Planning
Strategy and business planning involve assumptions about future conditions. Forecasts, targets, timelines, scenarios, priorities, and resource plans are management tools rather than guarantees.
Clients should revisit strategic assumptions when material facts change and should not treat a plan as permanently correct merely because it was reasonable when prepared.
6. Operational Process and Workflow Advice
Operational recommendations may involve changing responsibilities, approvals, tools, handoffs, reporting, routines, or sequencing. Implementation can create temporary disruption, training needs, additional cost, or new dependencies.
Clients remain responsible for testing and adapting operational changes to their actual environment, staffing, technology, contracts, customer obligations, and compliance requirements.
7. Organizational Structure Advice
Organizational structure consulting may address roles, responsibilities, decision ownership, reporting logic, coordination, and workload distribution. It is not employment-law advice or human-resources legal advice.
A client should obtain appropriate professional advice before making employment decisions that may trigger legal, contractual, compensation, immigration, benefits, workplace, or regulatory obligations.
8. Project Planning and Coordination
Project plans are management tools intended to improve visibility, sequencing, ownership, and coordination. They do not guarantee that a project will finish on time, within budget, or without changes.
Delays may arise from staffing, vendors, approvals, technical issues, budget constraints, customer changes, or other dependencies outside the consultant's control.
9. Market and Competitor Research
Market and competitor research may rely on public information, client-provided information, third-party sources, estimates, observed market behavior, and other information available at the time.
Public information can be incomplete, delayed, inaccurate, or changed without notice. Research does not guarantee market demand, competitor response, pricing acceptance, customer behavior, or future market conditions.
10. Growth Strategy
Growth strategy may consider market opportunity, operating capacity, team structure, projects, workflows, and business priorities. Growth can increase risk, cost, workload, and organizational complexity.
A growth recommendation is not a guarantee that expansion will be profitable, financeable, or operationally successful.
11. Client Decision-Making Responsibility
The client remains responsible for deciding whether to accept, reject, modify, delay, or implement any recommendation. The client is responsible for final management decisions and for understanding the legal, financial, tax, contractual, personnel, and operational consequences of those decisions.
Consulting advice should be considered together with the client's internal knowledge and any specialist advice required by the situation.
12. Third-Party Tools, Vendors, and Platforms
A consulting engagement may reference software, vendors, public data, websites, research sources, communication tools, or other third-party services. The company does not control their availability, security, pricing, functionality, accuracy, or future operation.
The client is responsible for evaluating third-party providers before adopting or purchasing their products or services.
13. No Fiduciary or Agency Relationship
Unless expressly agreed in writing, consulting services do not create a fiduciary relationship, agency relationship, partnership, joint venture, employment relationship, or authority for the company to bind the client to contracts or obligations.
The client retains authority over its own business decisions and commitments.
14. Website Information Is General
Website descriptions, examples, pricing ranges, process explanations, and educational content are general business information. They are not individualized recommendations for a particular visitor.
A material decision should not be based solely on general website text without considering the facts of the specific business.