Terms

Engagement terms

Version 1.0 · 18 September 2026

These are the terms every engagement runs on. Contracts cite them by section, for example "Terms §3.2".

1 The rule everything follows

Scipioform does the demand work itself. It never does build work, and it always tells you who does.

2 Conflict-of-interest rules

Client demand belongs to the client. Any lead, reply or conversation generated inside a paid engagement belongs to that client. It is never routed to a partner, never resold, never reused.

Referrals come only from direct requests. The panel receives introductions only from people who come to Scipioform themselves asking for build work. Referrals are never harvested from client campaigns.

Disclosure before signature. A software-house client is told before signing that the panel exists and what R1 and R2 guarantee them.

Fee disclosure to the referred buyer. The person introduced to a partner is told that Scipioform receives a fee from the partner. The exact amount can stay private. The existence of the fee can't.

Every partner pays the same fee structure, and routing is by fit, not by fee size. Every panel partner sits on the same referral-fee terms. No partner can buy preferential routing by offering Scipioform a better cut. A referred buyer is matched to a partner on stated fit criteria (tech stack, relevant industry experience, current capacity), and those criteria are the ones told to the buyer.

3 Refunds and commitments

G-B · Also on How it works, section 3

3.1 Diagnostic refund

The diagnostic is one fixed fee. If you don't find it worth acting on, we refund the fee in full, and you keep the document.

G-C · Also on How it works, section 4

3.2 The pilot, and the at-risk portion

The pilot is one fixed fee for a fixed term. The fee is split into a build portion and an at-risk portion. The build portion pays for research, targeting, infrastructure and messaging, and isn't refundable. We set the size of each portion per pilot, in writing, before you sign.

After the diagnostic, we agree with you, in writing, what counts as a qualified conversation for your business and how many the pilot should produce. That number is the threshold. "Qualified" means whatever we agree in writing, for your business, before we start. We don't use the word without a definition.

If the pilot doesn't reach the threshold, we refund the at-risk portion.

G-D · Also on How it works, section 4

3.3 Named deliverables by named dates

We commit to named deliverables by named dates: your target list, your messaging, sending infrastructure live, and a weekly report. If we miss one, you get a pro-rata refund for it.

G-E · Also on How it works, section 5

3.4 No lock-in

After a pilot, ongoing work is a monthly fee, month to month. You can cancel with notice. There's no lock-in.

Also on How it works, section 4

4 What we need from you

The at-risk refund depends on three things from your side: approving messages and lists on time, agreeing the target list with us, and following up on the conversations we hand over to you.

5 Ownership and handover

You own everything we build, from day one. Everything is built in your own accounts and on your own domains, so nothing is lost if you leave or if we stop working together. When an engagement ends, you get a written handover.

6 Sending and domain practice

You approve every message before it goes out. Sending runs from separate secondary domains, never your primary domain. Sending volume and warm-up practice are set in writing for each engagement.

7 Data access and publishing

Every engagement contract gives Scipioform read access to the relevant results data and permission to publish anonymised or named figures with denominators. Figures are always published with their denominator, and misses are published too.

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