The one-pager, in public.

1. What is being bought

One of: a Diagnostic ($2,497), a Rescue Run ($7,997), a Prototype Run ($4,997), or the Roundhouse ($1,497 per month). Each is described on its own page and, for runs, in a one-page scope agreed before booking. The scope names what is included, what is explicitly excluded, the departure date, and the fare. Founding rates apply to the first ten clients and are stated on the scope.

2. Fixed price

The fare on the scope is the price. If the work takes me longer than five days, that is my cost, not yours. If you change the scope during a run, we write down what was added and what was removed to make room, and the fare does not change. Work that does not fit is written onto the Later list and can be quoted separately.

3. Payment

The Diagnostic is paid in full at booking. Runs are paid half at booking and half at handoff, after you have had the chance to inspect the deliverables against the Handoff Standard. The Roundhouse is billed monthly in advance from the start date and stops at the end of the month in which you cancel. Invoices are payable by card or ACH in USD. Third-party costs (hosting, domains, email providers, payment processors) are billed by those providers directly to your accounts and are not part of the fare.

4. The diagnostic credit and refund

If you book a run within 30 days of receiving the diagnostic document, the diagnostic fee is credited against that run's fare. If the diagnostic concludes that you do not need a run — that the app should be kept as it is, or fixed by a few specific changes you can make without me — the fee is refunded in full. That has to be a real possibility or the diagnostic is worthless.

5. Ownership

All code, documentation, and other work product created during an engagement is yours from the moment it is created. It is committed to a repository in your GitHub organization, and I am a collaborator you may remove at any time. I retain no license to it. Standard, publicly available open-source libraries used in the work remain under their own licenses. If any pre-existing tooling of mine is included, it is included under the same terms as the rest: yours, no strings.

6. Access and data

You will provide the access needed to do the work: repository, hosting, and third-party accounts as relevant. I use that access only for the engagement. Production data is not copied off your infrastructure unless the work requires it and you agree in writing, and it is deleted at handoff. Credentials are stored in a password manager and removed at the end of the engagement; you should rotate them, and the runbook says how.

7. Confidentiality

Everything I learn about your app and your business is confidential. A mutual NDA is available on request, yours or mine. Nothing about the engagement is published, referenced, or used as a case study without your written agreement. The founding rate is offered in exchange for that agreement; you may still decline it, at the standard rate.

8. Your part

Runs depend on you being reachable during the five days: a working session on day one, quick answers to questions, and someone with authority to approve scope cuts. If you cannot be available in the booked week, we move the departure. If a run stalls for more than two working days because access or answers are not available, it is rescheduled to the next open slot, and the deposit carries over.

9. Cancellation

You may cancel a run up to five working days before departure for a full refund of the deposit. Inside five days, the deposit is retained, because the slot cannot be resold. If I have to cancel for reasons on my side, the deposit is refunded in full and, if you like, you go to the front of the queue. The Roundhouse can be cancelled any month by email; you keep everything.

10. Warranty and limits

The deliverables at handoff will match the Handoff Standard and the agreed scope, and any defect in the delivered work that you report within 30 days of handoff is fixed at no charge. Beyond that, the work is provided as is. I am one person and cannot promise your app will succeed, scale, or pass every audit; the runbook and tests exist so that you and any developer you choose can keep it healthy. My total liability under any engagement is limited to the fees you paid for that engagement.

11. The obvious

These terms and the one-page scope are the whole agreement. Texas law applies. Disagreements get a phone call first. Atomic Locomotive is a Boffo Digital company, based in Austin, Texas, operated by Bill Eisenhauer.