Terms of engagement

A free discovery call, with an NDA first if you want one.

Then a clickable prototype of the key screens, so you can judge the real thing rather than a slide.

Then one written quotation: scope, price, milestones and dates in a single document. Nothing is binding until that quotation is accepted in writing by both of us.

We do not publish prices. Every project is quoted after a call, because the price depends on the scope and we would rather be right than quick.

Work runs in two-week sprints with a live staging link at the end of each one, and a weekly call.

Payment is by milestone, as set out in your quotation. Each milestone names what is delivered for it.

Studio currently takes enquiries only. There is no checkout on this site and no invoice is raised from it.

On final payment we give you a written assignment of copyright in the work made for you: worldwide, perpetual, with the consideration stated, and saying that the rights do not lapse for non-use. That is what s.19 of the Copyright Act, 1957 requires of an assignment, and it is why the assignment is a signed document and not a line in an email.

Our own pre-existing tools and libraries are not assigned. They are licensed to you, perpetually and irrevocably, for use in the thing we built. You never need our permission to keep running it.

Where any part of the work is written by another company's staff, we obtain a written assignment from that company first, because under s.17(c) their employer owns it and not us.

We will not tell you that you own everything from day one, because until final payment and signature you do not, and a promise we cannot keep is worth nothing to you.

The source code and its repository, deployment notes and admin access.

A licence file listing every open-source package and its licence. We will not put GPL, AGPL or SSPL code into your product without your written sign-off, because those licences have consequences for what you can then do with it.

Fonts, photographs and music licensed in your name, not ours.

We will sign your NDA, and we are happy to sign it before the first call.

Every person who works on your project is under a confidentiality agreement with us.

We do not name clients, show logos or publish testimonials without written permission. The work shown on this site is our own concept work, and it is labelled as such.

Where we process personal data on your behalf we sign a data processing agreement first, and we process that data only on your written instructions. See the data processing page.

These terms, and any engagement under them, are governed by the law of India, and the courts at Jaipur, Rajasthan have jurisdiction.