How we engage. In writing.

1. Specialism & scope

Intrepid Development is a Solidity studio. Our primary practice is audit-ready smart contracts on Ethereum and PulseChain. We also take engagements in full-stack software, web, and AI infrastructure where the work is a fit. If the work falls outside what we do well, we'll say so and refer.

2. How an engagement starts

Every engagement starts with a paid 5-Day Diagnostic at A$1,800 (ex-GST). The diagnostic produces a written diagnosis of your situation, a prescription for what to build, and a three-option engagement proposal. The A$1,800 is credited forward against the engagement that follows, so it is net-zero if you proceed.

We don't perform unpaid analysis, write speculative scopes, or send "thoughts" without a signed diagnostic. If you're not ready to engage on those terms, we'd rather you used a firm that fits your process.

3. Engagement letter

The engagement letter is one page. It is also the contract — there is no separate "long-form agreement". It names: the deliverable, the price, the payment milestones, the start and end dates, and which of the three options you've selected. It incorporates these Terms by reference.

We countersign first. You add the second signature. Work begins after both signatures and the deposit invoice is paid.

4. Pricing & payment

We price engagements as fixed fees, not hourly. The standard payment schedule is 40% deposit on signing, 30% at the mid-point milestone, and 30% on delivery. Retainers invoice monthly in advance. All prices are quoted in AUD and exclude GST unless otherwise stated; USD quotes are available for non-AU clients.

Invoices are due net-7. Work pauses on overdue invoices and resumes when the balance clears. Bank transfer, card, or stablecoin (USDC, USDT, DAI) are all acceptable rails.

5. Scope changes

Scope is what's named in the engagement letter. Anything outside that is a change order — priced separately, scheduled separately, invoiced separately. Change orders are never free, and they don't extend the original delivery date for in-scope work.

If a request is small and we're already in your code, we'll tell you what we'd charge before we touch it. If you decline the change order, the request doesn't get done. We don't carry out unpaid scope to "keep things moving".

6. Intellectual property

On full payment, all bespoke source code, contracts, designs, and deliverables produced under the engagement transfer to you. You own them outright, including the right to fork, modify, and resell. We don't retain a licence-back, and we don't lock you into our hosting or tooling.

We retain rights only in:

• Pre-existing libraries, internal tools, and methodologies we bring to the engagement;
• Generic, non-bespoke patterns and snippets reusable across clients;
• The right to reference the engagement publicly — name, logo, scope summary, and any non-confidential outcomes — unless your engagement letter specifies otherwise.

7. Confidentiality

We treat your business, code, customer data, and unpublished plans as confidential by default. We don't sub-contract without telling you. Mutual NDAs are fine; we sign them when asked. Our standard practice already covers most of what an NDA would.

8. Post-launch support

Project engagements include a 30-day warranty from delivery, covering bugs in delivered code at no charge. New features and changes requested after delivery are change orders. Ongoing maintenance and capacity is sold separately as a retainer (from A$3,950/month).

9. Termination

Either party can end an engagement with two months' written notice. We treat termination as a question of fit, not blame. On notice, we deliver a transition handoff: code in your repo, deployment access, runbook, and a written summary of where things stand.

Fees earned through the notice period are payable. Pre-paid fees for work not yet performed are refunded pro-rata.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by Australian law, our aggregate liability arising out of any engagement is limited to the fees paid by you for that engagement in the twelve months preceding the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages — including loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunity — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such loss. This limitation applies whether the claim arises in contract, tort, or any other legal theory.

11. Indemnification

You indemnify Intrepid Development and its principals against claims arising from your use of the deliverables in violation of applicable law, your instructions to deploy code we advised against, or your supply of materials (data, content, third-party assets) that infringe a third party's rights.

12. Governing law

These Terms and any engagement formed under them are governed by the laws of Western Australia. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Western Australia. We attempt mediation in good faith before litigation.

13. Updates

We update these Terms when our practice changes. The version in force for any engagement is the version dated above on the day the engagement letter is signed. Existing engagements aren't retro-amended by later updates.

14. Contact

Intrepid Development
ABN: as listed on issued invoices
Email: Jake@intrepiddev.com.au
Legal correspondence: legal@intrepiddev.com.au