Terms of Use.

1. What NEXUS is

SZM NEXUS (“NEXUS”, “we”, “the platform”) is an information, discovery and introduction platform focused on technology commercialization and industrial implementation, with an emphasis on the United States. NEXUS is operated by Shuaizheng Meng. The publicly accessible site is published at https://szmnexus.com/.

NEXUS lets visitors browse published project and resource records, register an account, submit their own records for review, and request platform-mediated introductions to other members. NEXUS may also publish editorial and educational content about commercialization pathways and regional innovation ecosystems.

2. What NEXUS is not

NEXUS is not any of the following, and should not be relied upon as such:

• Not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, fund manager, placement agent, lender or financial intermediary.
• Not an attorney, accountant, auditor or professional services firm.
• Not a standards body, certification body, testing laboratory or accreditation agency.
• Not a party to any transaction, agreement, licence, investment or employment relationship between members.

NEXUS is an advisory and connection layer. It helps make information findable and introductions possible. It does not itself execute, fund, validate, insure or guarantee any outcome.

3. No outcome guarantees

You acknowledge and agree that NEXUS provides no guarantee or warranty of any result, including without limitation:

• No guarantee of project authenticity. Most records are submitted by users. Verification labels describe the platform’s own review activity; they are not a legal or technical certification, and they do not certify that any statement is true, complete or accurate.
• No guarantee of funding or investment. NEXUS does not raise capital, commit capital, recommend securities, or promise that any project will receive funding or achieve a valuation.
• No guarantee of return. Nothing on this platform is an offer, solicitation, inducement or promise of financial return, profit, revenue or investment performance.
• No guarantee of partnership or commercialization. NEXUS does not promise that any introduction will occur, be accepted, lead to a contract, or lead to successful commercialization, technology transfer or industrial deployment.
• No guarantee of accuracy or availability. Records may be incomplete, out of date, withdrawn, archived or removed. Availability on the platform today does not guarantee continued availability.

You are responsible for your own diligence. Before relying on any record, counterparty or opportunity, conduct your own independent technical, legal, financial and commercial due diligence. NEXUS does not replace due diligence.

4. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to form a binding agreement to create an account. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity conducted through your account. Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

You agree that the information you provide is accurate to the best of your knowledge at the time you provide it, and that you will keep it reasonably current where it could materially mislead others.

5. Your responsibilities

You agree that you will not:

• Submit content you do not have the right to share, or that infringes any patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark or other right.
• Disclose a third party’s confidential or personally identifying information without authority.
• Misrepresent your identity, role, organisation, affiliation, credentials, results, customers, funding status, intellectual property position or regulatory status.
• Use the platform to market securities, solicit investments in violation of applicable law, or make unlawful offers.
• Upload malware, attempt to breach security, exceed rate limits, scrape aggressively, or interfere with the operation or integrity of the platform.
• Use the platform for harassment, discrimination, defamation, fraud, export-control evasion, sanctions evasion, or any unlawful purpose.
• Impersonate NEXUS, its founder, its administrators or another member.

6. Your content and licence to NEXUS

You retain ownership of the content you submit. By submitting content you grant NEXUS a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, reproduce and distribute that content solely to the extent you have permitted through your disclosure settings, and to operate and improve the platform. You may change your disclosure settings or request removal of your content; removal from public view does not undo disclosures that already occurred.

7. Disclosure controls

Project owners select what is disclosed. At the time of writing, available layers include Public, Matching and Service Review. You are responsible for choosing the layer appropriate to the sensitivity of your information. Do not submit information to a public layer that you intend to keep confidential. Once information has been made public it may be cached, indexed or copied by others, and NEXUS cannot guarantee its withdrawal from third-party systems.

8. Platform review and moderation

Submitted records enter Pending Review. Administrators may approve, publish, request updates, restrict, reject or archive records, and may set a verification or review label. Administrative review is a moderation and trust signal only. It is not endorsement, accreditation, sponsorship, professional advice or a warranty of accuracy.

NEXUS may remove content, suspend accounts or decline submissions at its discretion, including where content appears unlawful, unsafe, abusive, duplicative, misleading or inconsistent with these terms. NEXUS is not obliged to publish anything.

9. NEXUS Assistant (AI) limitations

The NEXUS Assistant is an AI feature powered by a third-party large language model. You must understand its limits:

• The Assistant can make mistakes. It may produce incomplete, outdated or incorrect statements. Always verify anything material.
• Statements about currently listed NEXUS projects come only from the platform’s own public project data. When there is no matching public record, the Assistant should say so. If it ever appears to invent a project, treat that as an error and report it.
• General commercialization guidance from the Assistant is generic reasoning, not platform data, not professional advice and not a representation about any specific opportunity.
• Do not submit confidential, privileged, export-controlled, personal or otherwise sensitive information into the Assistant. Queries may be transmitted to a third-party AI provider for processing.
• The Assistant is not a substitute for legal, financial, technical, regulatory or investment advice.

For details on how your information is handled, see the Privacy Notice.

10. Third-party services

NEXUS relies on third-party infrastructure providers for hosting, authentication, database storage and AI processing. Their availability and behaviour are outside NEXUS’s full control. NEXUS is not responsible for third-party outages, data handling practices or terms, and links to third-party sites are provided for convenience, not endorsement.

11. Availability and changes

NEXUS is provided on an as-is and as-available basis during public beta. Features may change, be limited or be withdrawn. We may update these terms; material changes will be reflected by updating the date above. Continuing to use the platform after a change means you accept the updated terms.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, NEXUS disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness and uninterrupted availability.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, NEXUS and its founder, administrators and contributors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost funding, lost opportunity, business interruption or loss of data, arising from your use of or inability to use the platform, even if advised of the possibility. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

14. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold NEXUS harmless from claims, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from content you submit, your use of the platform, or your breach of these terms or of any third party’s rights.

15. Termination

You may stop using the platform at any time and may request deletion of your account. NEXUS may suspend or terminate access for breach of these terms. Provisions that by nature should survive, including sections 3, 12, 13 and 14, survive termination.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, unless a mandatory consumer protection rule in your jurisdiction provides otherwise. Courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any non-waivable right to bring or defend proceedings in your country of residence.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms can be directed to the platform founder, Shuaizheng Meng. Public contact details are published on the Founder page.

Summary: what you should take away

• Project records are user-submitted and are not certified by NEXUS.
• NEXUS does not promise funding, returns, partnerships or commercialization success.
• Do your own diligence on every opportunity and counterparty.
• Never put confidential information into the AI Assistant.
• Follow the disclosure controls and respect others’ confidentiality.