Built to earn your trust. Designed so you can verify it.
Payments go through Stripe. Marketing pages collect almost nothing. The product itself is a collaboration between Valuethropy and VCI Institute. Here is what that means in practice.
- Stripe secure checkout
- Card details never touch our servers
- 7-day refund window
- Delete your data anytime
- Trust center
Payments and billing
Checkout for Student and Professional runs inside the simulator app through Stripe. Card details are processed by Stripe. They do not pass through or get stored on PE Simulator marketing servers.
Paid plans include a 7-day refund window. Cancel anytime from the app. The 7-day trial requires a card to start and does not charge until day 8 if you cancel before then.
The timed demo needs no signup and no card. It is the fastest way to see the product before you commit. The Daily Deal under Free tools is another no-signup mini-deal if you want a shorter drill.
Security posture
We design and operate toward SOC 2-aligned practices for access control, change management, and data handling. This is not a claim of current SOC 2 certification.
Production app traffic uses HTTPS. Account and billing flows live in the simulator application, not on this marketing site.
For enterprise needs (SSO, MSA, invoice billing), contact us and we will scope what fits your firm or program.
Your data and rights
This marketing site collects almost no personal data. Analytics use Google Consent Mode. You can accept or decline analytics cookies.
To request deletion of marketing contact data, email support@vciinstitute.org with the subject "Delete my data". We aim to complete requests within 30 days.
Account deletion and in-app data rights for the simulator are handled through the product support channels documented in our privacy policy.
How this was built
PE Simulator is the product of a collaboration between Valuethropy (AI and PETech systems for private equity) and VCI Institute (PE curriculum, certifications, and ontology). That pairing is why 9 desks, 8 practice arenas, and 4 AI advisors can sit in one connected deal sandbox.
It took roughly one year to reach the functional platform you can trial today: about six months of product and curriculum design, followed by six-plus months of continuous engineering to make the desks, arenas, and advisors work as one system.
That depth is hard to copy from a video course or a spreadsheet pack. It is also why we keep the marketing site focused and push you into a real demo or trial instead of a longer pitch.
Ready to verify it yourself.
Open the 10-minute demo with no signup, or start the 7-day trial when you are ready.