Your nomination stays private.
The nomination form collects the entrepreneur’s name, company or project, a public professional link, your explanation, your name, and your email address. This information is saved for Discuss Next to review potential guests and contact you about your submission. Nominations are not displayed publicly, and submitting one does not add you to a marketing mailing list.
Share only what’s needed.
Please use public professional information about the nominee. Do not submit private contact details or sensitive information about them. You can nominate yourself. A submission does not guarantee an invitation or a response.
Spam prevention and access.
We store a daily hash of the submitting connection’s IP address alongside nominations to limit repeated submissions. The raw IP address is not saved in the nominations database. Hosting providers may process connection data to operate the site. Nomination records are accessible only to the signed-in Discuss Next owner.
Pitch Coach.
Pitch Coach sends your uploaded deck content to an external AI service provider to check whether it is a pitch deck and generate a review. We do not save uploaded decks or generated reviews in our database, application logs, or browser storage. Response storage is disabled. The provider may retain content for abuse monitoring, typically up to 30 days unless longer retention is legally required. Hosting providers may process connection metadata.
To control usage, we store only daily attempt counts and a daily hash of your signed-in account ID. No pitch or review is included. Uploads are limited to 50 MB and 20 slides or PDF pages, 5 processing attempts per account per day, and 100 attempts site-wide per day, resetting at midnight UTC. Failed processing attempts count. Uploads are processed in memory without writing files to storage. PDF reviews include slide text and visuals; PPTX reviews use extracted text only. Filenames are replaced with a generic name before sending to the AI service provider. Each request has a bounded output allowance and no automatic retries. These are website usage limits, not an account-wide dollar budget. Avoid confidential and sensitive personal information. AI feedback may be inaccurate; verify every claim before using an improved pitch.
External content.
Episode links open YouTube, which has its own privacy practices. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. No YouTube player is loaded on this website before you choose to visit YouTube.
Questions or removal requests.
Contact Shrutik Trivedi through his LinkedIn profile to request a correction or removal of your nomination. Include enough information to identify your submission.
Content & imagery.
Episode titles and thumbnail artwork come from the Discuss Next YouTube channel. Blog articles are original editorial perspectives, not transcripts or attributed guest quotes. The November 25, 2026 release date is provisional. Atmospheric studio photography is from Starlight and is illustrative; it does not depict a Discuss Next recording.