THE PAPERWORK IS NOT COMPLICATED.

A letter of intent is not a contract. It does not obligate anybody to build anything or buy anything. It says, in writing: we intend to do this, and here is the shape of it.

Why bother? Because the date matters. Once it is in writing, there is a timestamped record of who intended what, and when — before deposits, before prototype hours, before anybody's idea walks out the door. It protects the person sending it as much as the person receiving it.

Fill this in and the letter writes itself. Send it to us — or keep the format for your own deals.

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The C-NDA folds the two protections into a single agreement: confidentiality — neither side can talk about what it was shown — and non-circumvention — neither side can go for the other's idea, or route around the other to a contact it was introduced to. One signature covers both.

Seven years is the usual term around here. It could honestly say ten thousand and change nothing — the promise is the promise.

An NDA gets used when a real conversation needs real details — the actual idea, the source code, the customer list, the numbers — before there is a contract in place. Around here it does two jobs: confidentiality says we can't talk about what you showed us, and non-circumvention says we can't run off and build it ourselves. That is the part people actually care about — I can't go for your idea.

This version is mutual: the same promise runs in both directions. That is the fair default when two businesses are evaluating each other. We usually sign for seven years — long enough that nobody has to think about it again.

Business runs on introductions. If we bring you to one of our specialists, suppliers, partners, or clients — or you bring us to yours — this agreement says neither side gets to route around the other and take the relationship direct. The person who made the connection stays in the deal they created.

For a two-man firm this one matters. We keep specialists around the firm instead of on payroll — the right tool when the job calls for it. Introducing you to that tool belt cannot come with an invitation to empty it. And when the "idea" is the thing being introduced, this is the clause that says it plainly: we can't go for it, and neither can you.

Most service jobs are the same five questions: who is doing it, what exactly they are doing, how much it costs, when it happens, and what changes the deal. This is the generic two-party agreement for that — a client on one side, a contractor on the other, a job in the middle.

Use it for a website, a fence, a repair, a consulting gig — any straightforward job where one side performs work and the other side pays for it.

Every theme on the themes board is free to download. What a business pays for is the hookup — installed, customized, their name and their info, live on the web. That hookup runs a flat $500 per site, billed to you as the partner. You sell the same site to your own client at whatever price you set. Upcharge all you want — the margin is your business, not ours.

Who this is for: an advertising or marketing firm with a book of clients, or a solo operator — one person, a laptop, and accounts that need websites. You keep the client relationship and the retail price. We stay invisible behind your name, or we can be credited as the build partner if you would rather show the engine. Your call.

Fill this in, then call or email for the partner interview. The paper is the easy part.

EAS takes technical work from law firms under contract, and only under contract. Contracted and public work, grey-hat and white-hat methods — that is the whole menu. We do not do black-hat work: no unauthorized access, no breaking into systems the client does not own or control, no games. We did not get twenty-five years in this business doing it the other way, and we are not starting for your case.

Most of this work is IPR — intellectual property rights. There is also one criminal matter on the record: Capt. found evidence in the course of contracted work that had to be turned in, and it turned criminal. That clause is in the agreement below and it is not negotiable — when the work finds a crime, the evidence goes to the law.

Capt. works with legal aid and attorneys from New York to the tip of Florida — learning how they fight these cases and translating the technical side past the big words, so the legal team, the client, and if it comes to it a jury actually understand what the evidence says.

A big share of this work is reviewing the people billing business owners. The number one finding: fake contracts full of fake line items — clients paying for services nobody is performing. If your client cannot explain what their IT vendor actually does for the money, that is a case.

A SWOT is available too — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, run against the operation — and it carries a padded contract of its own. The terms are not flexible: all company email and all CCTV footage has to be on the table, in writing, before we start. Partial access means partial truth, and Capt. will not take the case.

Fill this in and send it. The understanding writes itself — the interview is still required.