Terms of Engagement

Last updated 6 August 2026

1. What the engagement is

I provide advice: launch and distribution strategy, AI-use guidelines, technical architecture direction, and acting as a technical decision-maker where you need one. The output is judgment — conversations, written recommendations, documents and decisions — not a software deliverable, unless we've separately agreed one in writing.

2. How work is agreed

Every engagement starts with a conversation and is confirmed in writing — an email is enough — setting out what we're doing, roughly how much of my time it takes, and what it costs. That written confirmation plus these terms is the agreement. There are no packages and no minimum commitment beyond what we confirm.

3. Fees and payment

Fees are agreed per engagement before work starts, and invoiced in euro, excluding VAT where VAT applies. Invoices are payable within 14 days of the invoice date.

If an invoice goes unpaid past that, the statutory commercial interest under Article 6:119a of the Dutch Civil Code applies from the day after the due date, along with reasonable extrajudicial collection costs. I'd rather send you a reminder than an interest calculation, and normally do.

4. What you can rely on, and what you can't

I give you my honest professional opinion based on what you've told me and what I can see. I don't guarantee outcomes — not a launch result, not press coverage, not revenue — because nobody honestly can.

I'm also not your lawyer, accountant or tax adviser. Where advice touches legal or regulatory questions — distribution rules, data protection, employment, anything of that kind — I'll tell you what to be careful about and where to look, and you should get a qualified professional to confirm it before you act. Decisions remain yours.

5. Confidentiality

Anything non-public you tell me stays between us, and I'll treat your plans, code, numbers and documents as confidential without needing an NDA. I'll sign yours if you'd rather have it in writing. The same runs the other way: recommendations and materials I produce for you are for your organisation, not for redistribution.

I won't name you publicly as a client without your agreement. If you're happy to be named, say so and I'll ask before anything goes on the site.

6. Ownership

Documents, guidelines and recommendations I produce specifically for you are yours to use inside your organisation once they're paid for. Methods, frameworks and general know-how I bring with me stay mine — I'll keep using them with other clients, without carrying anything confidential of yours into that work.

7. Independence and conflicts

I work with more than one client at a time and I'm not exclusive to anyone by default. If I think there's a real conflict between an engagement and something else I'm doing, I'll say so before taking the work. Exclusivity in a defined market is possible, but it has to be agreed and paid for.

8. Ending it

Either of us can end an engagement in writing. For an ongoing arrangement, the notice period is 30 days; work already done and time already committed within that period is invoiced as normal. For a short, defined engagement, it runs until it's finished or until we agree it's finished.

No notice is needed for either of us to simply not start something new. This clause is about winding down an arrangement that's already running.

9. Liability

Because this is advice you choose whether to act on, my liability is limited to the fees paid for the engagement the claim relates to, and I'm not liable for indirect or consequential loss such as lost profit, lost data or lost opportunity. Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited under Dutch law, including for intent or deliberate recklessness.

10. Governing law

Dutch law applies, and disputes go to the competent court in Amsterdam unless we agree otherwise. If something isn't working, though, email me first — most of this never needs to be looked at.

Questions

Ask: [email protected]. Plain answers, no clause-quoting.