The terms,
in plain language.
How a fixed-fee engagement works here: scoped in writing before anything starts, priced once, paid by invoice, and yours when it ships. Short enough to read before you send a brief.
Version
2026-09-08
Status
Draft, owner review
Operator
Project Lavos LLC
Law
Kentucky
Draft, 2026-09-08
Draft for the owner's review, dated 2026-09-08. These terms were written from how the engagements are already described on this site. They bind nothing until I approve them; until then, the written scope agreed for each engagement is the agreement.
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Who these terms are between
Project Lavos LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company operated by one person from Louisville, and the business that engages it. "You" is that business. "The work" is whatever the written scope for the engagement names.
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Scope, in writing, before anything starts
No engagement begins without a written scope: what is being made or done, what is not, what is delivered at the end, and the dates. The scope is agreed by email or in a signed proposal before work starts. Anything outside it is a new scope, agreed the same way, never assumed.
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The fee
Each engagement is a fixed fee, quoted once, in conversation, after the need has been scoped. There is no rate card and no hourly billing. The fee does not move after it is agreed unless the scope does, and a changed scope carries a changed fee in writing before the extra work begins.
Advertising spend is never part of the fee. Google, Meta and any other platform are paid by you, directly, on your own accounts. Third-party subscriptions the work depends on are billed to you by the vendor.
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Payment
Payment is by invoice. A build is invoiced in two halves: half at signing, half on delivery. An audit is invoiced or paid at order. A retainer is invoiced monthly. Invoices name what they cover and are due on the date they state.
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You own the work
Every engagement ends with a delivery list: repositories, URLs, domains, accounts, credentials, files, fonts, formulas and written runbooks. On handoff, all of it is yours. Accounts are opened in your name or transferred to it. Nothing is held back as leverage, and there is no proprietary platform you have to keep renting to keep what was built.
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No promised outcomes
Nobody can promise a ranking on a search engine, a citation in an AI answer, or a number of leads, and I do not. What is promised is the work in the scope, done to the standard described on this site, with the numbers reported as they are. Be careful with anyone who promises the rest.
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Refunds, as each engagement states them
Each engagement page states its own refund, and that statement at the time of purchase is the one that applies. Today that is: the audit's Baseline tier carries a seven-day, seventy-five percent refund if the read is not useful, asked for by replying to the delivery email within seven days; the Extended and Deep tiers are non-refundable once the analyst time has been put in. A build's halves are for the halves of the work delivered. A retainer month is for that month.
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Stopping
Work is broken into pieces that finish. Either side can stop at the end of any piece with nothing further owed in either direction. A retainer runs month to month and ends on thirty days' notice from either side, with the final report delivered, credentials returned, and no exit fee. There is no minimum term unless the written scope for that engagement says so.
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Governing law
These terms and every engagement under them are governed by the law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Version 2026-09-08. Questions about these terms go to matthewdscott7@gmail.com. What the site collects is on the privacy page; the standard the site is built to is on the accessibility statement.