Terms

Using this site

Content on this site is provided for information. It is not advice for your specific situation, and it does not create an engagement, an offer, a warranty or a professional relationship.

How engagements actually start

No work begins until both of the following exist: a signed statement of work describing scope, price, hour cap and timeline, and a cleared deposit. Anything discussed on a call, in email, or in chat is non-binding until it appears in a signed document. No verbal scope, ever.

Pricing

The qualifying call is free and creates no obligation on either side. Every engagement is priced against a written scope agreed before any work begins, and that price is fixed for that scope. We do not bill hourly and we do not publish a rate card, because the scope sets the price. The figures that apply to you are the ones in your signed statement of work and nowhere else.

Invoices are milestone-based, billed as verified work lands, on Net-15 payment terms unless your statement of work says otherwise. Nothing is billed hourly.

Caps and change orders

The engineer-hour cap in your statement of work is a ceiling on what we will bill, not a target. If the work fits inside it, you pay the fixed price and nothing more.

Work outside the signed scope, or past any cap in it, requires a written change order priced and signed before that work is executed. We do not execute unsigned scope, and you are never billed for it.

Availability

We take one build at a time. If we are at capacity we will tell you and give you a written start date rather than accept the work.

Work runs in business hours, IST. No out-of-hours cover, on-call rota, incident response SLA or uptime commitment is offered or implied, in this document or anywhere else, including in conversation. Do not rely on one.

What we do not provide

We are engineers, not auditors. We do not issue an audit, an attestation, a certification or a formal opinion, and we hold none. A deliverable from us is engineering work and a replay you can run yourself. It is not a substitute for a security audit, legal advice, or regulatory approval.

No warranty is offered. Work is delivered as specified in the signed scope and accepted against it. Continuing support after handover exists only under a Watch retainer, and only for the scope that retainer names.

Intellectual property

On full payment, deliverables created for your engagement are assigned to you. We retain the right to reuse generic know-how, patterns, and tooling that contain none of your confidential material.

Confidentiality

NDA before repository access, always. Access is read-only by default, limited to the two people named in your engagement, and revocable by you at any time.

Ending an engagement

A retainer ends on 30 days' written notice from either side, with no exit fee. A fixed-price engagement can be stopped at any milestone boundary: you pay for milestones reached and accepted, we hand over the work produced to that point, and access is revoked.

Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability arising from an engagement is capped at the fees you paid for that engagement, and neither party is liable for indirect or consequential losses. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.