Terms

Preliminary audit limitation

Preliminary output may contain generated interpretation and draft capability or constraint information. It must not be treated as a price, technical approval, delivery commitment, manufacturing instruction, contractual offer or final Decision Record.

Service description

Specify provides a preliminary Enquiry Audit, an optional founder-reviewed version of that audit, and a paid Request Readiness Sprint. Software implementation is offered only after a Pilot Decision Brief recommends expansion, and is contracted separately.

No price, delivery or technical commitment

Nothing produced by Specify constitutes a price, a lead time, a delivery date, a capacity confirmation or a technical approval. Those decisions belong to the responsible owners in your business and to your approved Constraint Record.

Capability Maps and Constraint Records

Capability Maps and Constraint Records remain subject to your review and approval. Specify does not independently acquire authority to determine what your business can manufacture, price, deliver or contractually offer. Draft rules are marked as drafts and require your approval before they govern any offer.

The Request Readiness Sprint

The Sprint may conclude with an expand, revise or stop recommendation. Payment is for the evaluation process and the retained deliverables, including the Pilot Decision Brief, not for a guaranteed recommendation to implement. You keep every map, record, prototype and recommendation, and there is no obligation to implement.

The Sprint price is €2,000. If implementation proceeds, that amount is credited against the implementation price.

The founding-partner programme

A founding partner receives €100,000 in Specify credits. Credits are applied against our own invoices for consulting, the platform subscription and the transaction fee. Consulting is charged at €400 per hour excluding VAT, so the credit is 250 hours of our time at that rate. Credits have no cash value, are not transferable and are not refundable.

No credit balance exists

There is no system today that holds a credit balance or tracks drawdown, and there is no billing system to draw it down against. Applying records your interest. Acceptance is by a separate written partnership agreement, and nothing is credited to anyone before that agreement exists. Drawdown is reconciled manually against invoices.

In exchange, a founding partner commits to a recurring feedback conversation at an agreed cadence, to sharing redacted examples of real customer enquiries, to naming an internal owner who can approve what the business is able to deliver, and to being named as a founding partner once there is something to show. Any specific use of your name, logo or story is agreed separately in writing each time.

We intend to take three founding partners per sector. How sectors are grouped is our judgement rather than the label an applicant uses, and we will tell you how we grouped yours. Joining the list is not an offer, records no position in a queue and creates no obligation on either side.

Needs confirmation before publication

The duration and termination of a partnership, the treatment of unused credit when either side ends it, survival on a change of control, the VAT treatment of drawdown, the refund position, and what happens to the credit if billing opens at different prices are all still to be drafted. The statement that credits do not expire while a partnership is active depends on a termination clause that does not yet exist, and this page must not go live without these.

The platform subscription

A Specify storefront subscription is €1,000 per month, or €10,000 paid once for twelve months, billed in advance. Prices exclude VAT, which is applied according to your billing country. There is no minimum term on the monthly plan and it can be cancelled at any time. The annual plan is paid once and fixed for the twelve months it covers. A 5% fee applies to qualifying commercial value facilitated through the platform; what qualifies, how a transaction is attributed and how a disputed line is handled are set out on the pricing page and govern only once a signed agreement records them.

Billing is not switched on

Specify cannot currently charge anyone. Creating a store and choosing a plan records your choice; it does not start a subscription, does not create a payment obligation and does not charge you. If you enter card details during signup they are validated in your browser and discarded. No card number, expiry, security code or cardholder name is stored.

Before the first invoice we will email you at least 14 days beforehand, ask for payment details again, and give you the opportunity to change or cancel the plan you selected. Any free first month begins when billing opens, not when the store is created.

Needs confirmation before publication

The subscription clauses above describe the commercial intent but have not had legal review. Refund terms, service levels, suspension and termination for a subscription, and the treatment of merchant data after cancellation are not yet drafted.

Your responsibilities

• Redact historical enquiries before sharing them.
• Confirm you have the right to share any material you provide.
• Nominate the commercial and technical owners who can approve constraints.

Confidentiality

Material you share is treated as confidential and is not published or reused publicly without your separate written permission.

Needs confirmation before publication

Payment terms, intellectual property, limitation of liability, termination, governing law and the company's legal contact details still need drafting and legal review. This page must not go live in its current state.