SoloTech Solutions
Operations Consulting · Process Optimization · Software
Georgetown, Guyana
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Consulting & Operations Optimization Agreement

Terms and Conditions for Diagnostic, Process Audit and Operational Transformation Engagements
Covers advisory and process-optimization work. Pure build-and-deliver software projects are governed by the separate Software Development Agreement.

Sample agreement. The commercial terms — price, payment method and the parties — are completed for each project before signing.

1.Parties

This Consulting & Operations Optimization Agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered into as of (the “Effective Date”) by and between:

The Provider: Solo Tech Solutions, represented by , with contact email (the “Provider”); and
The Client: Full name / business name
Address:
Email:   Phone:  (the “Client”).

The Provider and the Client are each a “Party” and together the “Parties”.

2.Engagement Mode

The Parties select one of the following engagement modes:

If no option is selected, Mode A applies. If the Client engages Mode B within (default: sixty (60)) days of delivery of the Diagnostic Report, (default: one hundred percent (100%)) of the Audit Fee already paid is credited against the price of the Transformation Project.

3.Scope of the Engagement

Area, department, or process under review:
Sites / systems within scope:
Business objectives and description of the engagement:
Expressly out of scope:

Anything not listed above is outside the scope of this Agreement. Additional processes, departments, locations, or systems the Client wishes to include are welcome: the Parties will discuss them together and the Provider will confirm the price and any change to the timeline in writing (email or WhatsApp is sufficient) before starting the additional work (a “Change Order”, Section 7).

4.Phases, Deliverables & Approval

  1. Phase 1 — Discovery (no cost). An initial session in which the Parties review the Client's situation at a high level and the Provider issues a pre-quote with an estimated scope. This phase is free of charge and creates no obligation for either Party.
  2. Phase 2 — Process Audit & Diagnostic. The Provider maps the processes within scope through interviews, observation of the work as it is actually performed, and review of the systems and operational data the Client makes available. The deliverable is the “Diagnostic Report”: a process map, an inventory of the friction points and bottlenecks identified, a prioritized roadmap of recommendations, and an indicative estimate of the time and cost impact of each recommendation. Every such estimate is a projection and is subject to Section 11.

    If the audit concludes that no intervention offers a reasonable return for the Client, the Provider will say so in writing. That conclusion is a valid and complete deliverable under this Agreement and the Audit Fee remains due.
  3. Phase 3 — Requirements (BRD). (Mode B) Before development begins, the Parties define the requirements together — working hand-in-hand with the Client's team and designated personnel — in a Business Requirements Document (the “BRD”) covering the features, structure, content, and acceptance criteria of the Deliverables. Once confirmed in writing (email or WhatsApp is sufficient), the BRD becomes the shared reference for the project. It may be adjusted by mutual agreement as the work progresses; substantial changes are handled as Change Orders under Section 7.
  4. Phase 4 — Solution Design & Demo. (Mode B) The Provider delivers a working demonstration of the solution (the “Demo”) within the timeline the Parties agree when confirming the BRD, counted from the Client's delivery of the materials and access needed to begin the work (Section 6). The Client will review the Demo and share consolidated feedback within approximately five (5) business days. Feedback is addressed as revisions under Section 7. If the Client does not respond within ten (10) business days after a written reminder, the Demo is deemed approved so the project can move forward.

    The Demo and all related source code, system architecture, concepts, and designs remain the exclusive intellectual property of the Provider until the first implementation payment under Section 5 is received; until then, no license, title, or usage right of any kind is granted to the Client. If the Client decides not to continue before approving the Demo, this Agreement may be cancelled under Section 15.2 with no implementation payment due.
  5. Phase 5 — Build, Iteration & Operational Testing. (Mode B) The Provider builds and deploys the solution in iterative deliveries, validating each against the acceptance criteria recorded in the BRD.
  6. Phase 6 — Final Delivery, Training & Handover. (Mode B) The Provider hands over the Deliverables, trains the Client's team as set out in Section 12.4, and provides written documentation. The Warranty Period (Section 12) begins on final delivery.
  7. Estimated delivery date of the Diagnostic Report:   Estimated final delivery date, Mode B (adjustable by mutual agreement):

5.Price & Payment Terms

Audit Fee (Phase 2): GYD  (in words: )
Transformation Project price (Mode B): GYD Leave blank if it is to be quoted from the Diagnostic Report
Accepted payment method(s):
  1. Audit Fee. Fifty percent (50%) is due on signature of this Agreement and the remaining fifty percent (50%) upon delivery of the Diagnostic Report. The Provider may withhold the Report until the final instalment is received.
  2. First implementation payment — fifty percent (50%) of the Transformation Project price is due upon the Client's approval (or deemed approval) of the Demo, before further development continues.
  3. Final implementation payment — the remaining fifty percent (50%) is due upon final delivery of the Deliverables, prior to the transfer of credentials, source code, domain/hosting configuration, or deployment to production (whether on Client-owned or Provider-managed infrastructure per Section 5.5). Where the transaction is completed in person, the Provider shall demonstrate the system functionality and operation in a controlled environment. Credentials and root passwords shall be handed over immediately following the verification of payment execution or valid proof of payment capacity, at which point the Provider shall ensure no unauthorized access is retained.
  4. If a payment is more than ten (10) days overdue, the Provider may, after written notice, pause the Services and any hosting it provides until payment is received.
  5. Hosting & infrastructure (Mode B). The Parties select one of the following options for the production infrastructure of the Deliverables:
    • Client-managed — the Deliverables are deployed to infrastructure owned or contracted by the Client, who is responsible for its costs, availability, backups, and security after final delivery.
    • Managed by Solo Tech Solutions — the Provider hosts and maintains the production infrastructure. The first three (3) months after final delivery are included; from the fourth month a maintenance fee of GYD per month applies. Either Party may end this service with thirty (30) days' notice, in which case the Provider will reasonably assist in migrating the Deliverables to Client-designated infrastructure.
    • Hybrid — the infrastructure (hosting, domains, third-party services) is contracted and paid directly by the Client, in the Client's own name, while the Provider operates and maintains it. The first three (3) months after final delivery are included; from the fourth month a fixed maintenance fee of GYD per month applies. Either Party may end this service with thirty (30) days' notice.
    If no option is selected, the Client-managed option applies. If a monthly maintenance fee remains unpaid, the Provider may pause the managed service after ten (10) days' written notice.

    Service level (Managed and Hybrid options). For infrastructure operated by the Provider, the Provider targets a monthly availability of 99.9% (equivalent to a maximum of approximately forty-eight (48) minutes of service downtime per month), excluding: (a) scheduled maintenance windows, notified at least forty-eight (48) hours in advance and performed, where possible, outside business hours; (b) failures of third-party platforms or services outside the Provider's control; and (c) outages caused by the Client (including non-payment of underlying infrastructure under the Hybrid option). Temporary interruptions within these margins do not constitute a breach of this Agreement.
  6. Third-party tools and licences. Software subscriptions, licences, payment gateways, cloud services, and any other third-party product recommended in the Diagnostic Report or required by the solution are contracted and paid directly by the Client, in the Client's own name, and are not included in the prices above unless expressly stated in Section 3.
  7. On-site work and expenses. The Audit Fee includes up to (default: three (3)) days of on-site work within Georgetown. Additional on-site days, travel outside Georgetown, and any out-of-pocket expenses are invoiced separately and require the Client's written approval in advance.
  8. Other recurring services (e.g., support plans, corporate email, SEO, change-management coaching), if contracted, are billed separately according to the plan selected and are not included in the prices above unless expressly stated in Section 3.

6.Client Obligations & Access

  1. Project Sponsor. The Client shall designate one person with authority to make decisions, grant access, and approve deliverables on its behalf: Name and role
  2. Access. The Client shall provide reasonable and timely access to the personnel, workflows, systems, documents, and operational data needed to perform the audit, including making staff available for interviews and allowing observation of the work as it is performed. The accuracy and value of the Diagnostic Report depend directly on the completeness and accuracy of this access.
  3. The Client warrants that the data and materials it supplies are accurate, are owned by or licensed to the Client, are lawfully held, and do not infringe any third-party rights, and that the Client has the authority to grant access to the systems concerned and to allow its personnel to participate. The Client shall indemnify the Provider against claims arising from materials or access supplied by the Client.
  4. Notice to personnel. The Client shall inform its personnel that the engagement involves the observation and mapping of their work, and shall obtain any consent or authorization required under applicable law.
  5. The Client shall also provide, in a timely manner, all content, credentials, approvals, and decisions reasonably required for the Provider to perform Phases 3 to 6.
  6. Timelines adjust automatically for any period in which the Provider is waiting on access, materials, feedback, or payments from the Client; the Parties will keep each other informed to keep the engagement moving.

7.Revisions & Change Orders

The price includes up to (default: two (2)) rounds of revisions to the Diagnostic Report and to the approved Demo, handled flexibly and in good faith. To keep the process simple, the Parties agree on the following distinction:

Included at no cost

  • Re-ordering the priorities of the roadmap within the agreed scope.
  • Wording, labels, reporting formats, and notification templates.
  • Interface adjustments: sizes, spacing, colors, typography, and layout.
  • User experience flows, navigation, and screen organization.
  • Form fields, filters, and options within existing modules.
  • Additional interviews or clarifications within the area already in scope.
  • Minor workflow refinements that do not add new systems.

Change Order — quoted separately

  • Extending the audit to departments, locations, or processes not listed in Section 3.
  • Payment gateway, ERP, or automated billing integrations.
  • AI features or services (chatbots, automated processing, translation engines, data analysis).
  • Development of documented REST APIs or public/third-party APIs (unless explicitly defined as a primary deliverable in the approved BRD).
  • New modules, features, or third-party integrations beyond the agreed BRD.
  • Native mobile applications.
  • Changes requiring a redesign of the data architecture.
  • Ongoing change-management or coaching beyond the training in Section 12.4.

Guiding rule: a change is included at no cost when it adjusts what already exists without affecting the delivery date. A change is a Change Order when it introduces new systems, external services, additional areas of the business, or additional effort that would delay the agreed delivery date — in that case the Provider will inform the Client of the cost and new timeline in writing before starting, and additional revision rounds beyond those included are quoted the same way.

8.Intellectual Property & Use of Deliverables

  1. Upon receipt of full payment, the Provider assigns to the Client all rights in the final Deliverables specific to the Client's engagement — including the Diagnostic Report, the process maps, the custom code, and the content created for the Client — for the Client's own internal business use.
  2. The Provider retains all rights to its pre-existing materials, audit and diagnostic methodology, frameworks, report templates, generic components, internal tools, and know-how used to produce the Deliverables, and grants the Client a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use them as embedded in the Deliverables.
  3. The Client may share the Diagnostic Report internally and with its own professional advisors, but shall not resell, publish, or distribute it, or the Provider's methodology, to third parties as a standalone product or service without the Provider's written consent.
  4. The Deliverables may include third-party and open-source components, which remain subject to their own licenses. The Provider shall only use components whose licenses permit the Client's intended use.
  5. Until full payment is received, all Deliverables remain the property of the Provider and the Client acquires no rights in them.

9.Portfolio & Publicity Rights

The Client agrees that the Provider may describe the completed engagement (including screenshots and a general description of the results) in Solo Tech Solutions' portfolio, website, and marketing materials, subject to the level of anonymization selected by the Client below:

If no option is selected, the Anonymized option applies by default. In every case, the confidential operational and financial details covered by Section 10 shall not be disclosed. The Client may change its selection at any time by written notice.

10.Confidentiality & Data Protection

  1. Each Party shall keep confidential all non-public business, technical, operational, and financial information received from the other Party, and use it solely to perform this Agreement. For the Client, this expressly includes its internal processes, costs, margins, supplier and customer terms, staffing structure, and any operational data observed during the audit. This obligation survives termination of this Agreement for five (5) years, provided that obligations regarding trade secrets, proprietary source code, and core infrastructure architecture shall survive indefinitely.
  2. The Provider shall use credentials and personal data supplied by the Client only for the purposes of the engagement, protect them with reasonable safeguards, and delete or return them upon the Client's request after final delivery (except as needed for agreed ongoing services or legal compliance).
  3. Personnel observed during the audit. Personal data concerning the Client's personnel that the Provider observes or collects while mapping processes is used solely to produce the Deliverables. Wherever it is possible to do so without defeating the purpose of the engagement, the Provider will report findings by role, team, or process step rather than by named individual. The Diagnostic Report is a tool for improving processes and is not an evaluation of the performance, conduct, or suitability of any individual employee.
  4. Third-party platforms. The Deliverables may rely on third-party cloud platforms and services (such as AWS, Cloudflare, or Supabase). Provided the Provider has followed reasonable, industry-standard security practices, the Provider is not liable for security breaches or data losses originating from vulnerabilities, failures, or incidents in those third-party platforms. Upon becoming aware of such an incident affecting the Client's data, the Provider shall notify the Client without undue delay and reasonably cooperate in mitigating its effects.

11.Estimates, Results & Client Decision-Making

  1. Estimates are projections, not guarantees. Any figure describing time saved, cost reduced, capacity gained, error rates, or return on investment — whether stated in the pre-quote, the Diagnostic Report, or any other document produced under this Agreement — is an estimate prepared in good faith from the data and statements supplied by the Client. It does not constitute a guarantee, warranty, or representation of actual results.
  2. Results depend on factors outside the Provider's control, including the Client's adoption of the recommendations, the training and supervision of its personnel, changes in the Client's business or market conditions, and the accuracy and completeness of the information supplied under Section 6.
  3. The Provider advises and implements; it does not manage the Client's business. The Provider does not direct the Client's personnel and does not make operational, commercial, staffing, or disciplinary decisions. All such decisions remain the sole responsibility of the Client.
  4. The Provider does not provide legal, accounting, tax, audit, regulatory, or human-resources advice. The Client shall obtain such advice from suitably qualified professionals before acting on any recommendation that has legal, fiscal, or employment consequences.
  5. Where a recommendation affects roles, headcount, or terms of employment, any resulting employment decision is taken by the Client alone, at its sole discretion and responsibility, in compliance with applicable labour law.

12.Warranty, Adoption & Support

  1. The Provider warrants that the implemented Deliverables will materially conform to the approved scope for (default: thirty (30) days) after final delivery (the “Warranty Period”). Defects reported in writing during the Warranty Period will be corrected by the Provider at no additional cost.
  2. Diagnostic Report. If, within fifteen (15) business days of delivery, the Client identifies a material factual error in the process map or in the data on which the Report relies, the Provider will correct it and reissue the Report at no additional cost.
  3. The warranty does not cover modifications made by anyone other than the Provider, failures of third-party services not managed by the Provider, new features or content changes, issues caused by misuse, or outcomes affected by the partial adoption or non-adoption of the recommendations.
  4. Training. Phase 6 includes (default: one (1)) training session for the Client's team, together with written documentation of the new process. Further coaching, change-management, or refresher sessions are available under a separate plan.
  5. Ongoing support and maintenance beyond the Warranty Period is available under a separate support plan and is not included unless stated in Section 3.

13.Limitation of Liability

  1. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Party's total aggregate liability under this Agreement shall not exceed the total fees actually paid by the Client under this Agreement.
  2. Neither Party shall be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including loss of profits, revenue, data, or business opportunity.
  3. The Provider does not warrant any specific commercial outcome, level of savings, sales volume, search-engine ranking, or level of traffic resulting from the Deliverables or from the implementation of its recommendations.
  4. Nothing in this Agreement excludes liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or any liability that cannot be excluded under the laws of Guyana, including applicable rights of the Client under the Consumer Affairs Act.

14.Non-Solicitation of Personnel

During the engagement and for twelve (12) months after its completion or termination, neither Party shall knowingly solicit for employment or engagement any individual of the other Party who was directly involved in this engagement, without the other Party's prior written consent. This does not restrict general public recruitment advertising, nor the hiring of any person who responds to it on their own initiative.

15.Cancellation & Termination

  1. Client cancellation before the Audit begins. The Client may cancel this Agreement at no cost at any time before the Provider begins Phase 2; any amount already paid is refunded in full.
  2. Client cancellation before Demo approval. The Client may cancel at any time before approving the Demo, with no implementation payment due. The Audit Fee for work already performed under Phase 2 remains due and is not refundable. The Client acquires zero license, title, or usage rights over any part of the Demo, underlying source code, system architecture, or designs created by the Provider, all of which remain the exclusive intellectual property of the Provider.
  3. Client cancellation after Demo approval. If the Client cancels after approving the Demo, the first implementation payment (50%) remains due and non-refundable as compensation for work performed. If the cancellation occurs after substantial completion, the Provider may also invoice a proportional part of the final payment for work completed to date.
  4. Provider failure to deliver. If the Provider fails to deliver the Diagnostic Report, the Demo, or the final Deliverables and does not cure within ten (10) business days of written notice, the Client may terminate and receive a full refund of all amounts paid for undelivered work.
  5. Insufficient access. If the Client does not provide the access required under Section 6 and does not cure within ten (10) business days of written notice, the Provider may terminate this Agreement and invoice the work performed to date on a proportional basis.
  6. Breach. Either Party may terminate if the other materially breaches this Agreement and fails to cure within ten (10) business days of written notice. Sections 8 to 14 and 16 to 17 survive termination.

16.General Provisions

The Provider is an independent contractor; nothing in this Agreement creates an employment, agency, or partnership relationship, and the Provider's personnel remain under the Provider's sole direction. Neither Party is liable for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, provided it notifies the other Party and resumes performance as soon as reasonably possible. Notices are valid if sent in writing to the email addresses stated in Section 1. This Agreement (together with any Change Orders) is the entire agreement between the Parties and may be amended by written agreement of both Parties, including by email or WhatsApp. If any provision is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in force. Neither Party may assign this Agreement without the other's consent, except that the Provider may use subcontractors while remaining responsible for their work and bound by Section 10. “Business days” means Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in Guyana.

17.Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. The Parties shall first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute amicably within thirty (30) days of written notice of the dispute. Failing amicable resolution, disputes shall be submitted to the competent courts of Guyana.

18.Signatures

By signing below, each Party confirms that it has read, understood, and agrees to be bound by this Agreement.

The Provider — Solo Tech Solutions

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Name
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The Client

Signature
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Date
Initials — Provider:   Client:

This document is a general template provided for convenience and does not constitute legal advice. Solo Tech Solutions recommends that both Parties have this Agreement reviewed by qualified legal counsel in Guyana before signing, particularly regarding consumer protection, data protection, employment, and tax obligations applicable to their specific situation.