Watch out for fake acquisition interest turned into paid consulting pitches

Hi Indie Hackers,

I wanted to share a quick update regarding my product FORTRESS SDK. Yesterday I published our Red Team evaluation logs showing a fourteen out of fourteen passed score against client side runtime XSS attacks.

Shortly after a founder from a strategic consulting firm commented expressing interest in reviewing our evaluation and asked for my secure ProtonMail.

We initiated the conversation under a mutual NDA framework. However the tone shifted immediately. The firm assumed we wanted to hire them for a paid consulting engagement to evaluate our readiness.

I clarified our position immediately. FORTRESS is a completed production ready security asset. We offer a direct commercial license at fifty thousand dollars or an enterprise reseller partnership. We are not paying for outbound consulting.

As expected once the price and roles were clearly defined the firm backed out stating they do not distribute security software.

Lesson learned for all bootstrapped founders here. Be very clear about your pricing model and commercial frameworks early in the discussion. Do not let firms disguise sales pitches as acquisition or partnership interest.

The security engine remains fully available for enterprise licensing. Our secure contact information is listed in the main product section above.