Services Agreement
v1.1The master agreement for a fractional product leadership engagement: term, notice, IP assignment, confidentiality, and the liability cap a founder can actually sign.
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The Engagement Standard
The contracts a fractional engagement actually needs, written once and given away. Use them, fork them, send them to your lawyer.
Edition
August 2026 · v1.2
This is the standard every engagement I sell runs on: $8,000 a month for 25 hours, a 3 month minimum then monthly, 30 days' notice both ways, and 60 to 80 customer interviews inside the first quarter. The actual contracts are on this page, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.
The Terms, In Full
| Term | The standard | Why it is built this way |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8,000 a month for 25 hours | One published price; pricing opacity is a sales tactic and I would rather compete on the work |
| Minimum | 3 months, then monthly | The first quarter builds the evidence engine; an engagement ending at week ten leaves findings, not a working function |
| Notice | 30 days, both directions | Either side can end it cheaply; nothing complicated to unwind |
| IP | Assigned to the company | Everything produced inside the engagement is yours |
| Evidence commitment | 60 to 80 customer and prospect interviews inside the first quarter | Decisions run on evidence, not opinion |
| Capacity | A maximum of three companies at a time | The only reason the answers stay specific |
Most of this market publishes nothing: in our Fractional Rates Index, of 1,577 fractional executive providers whose sites we read, only 10.7% publish any price at all. Publishing the standard, the price and the contracts together lets a founder qualify or disqualify me in thirty seconds.
The full market comparison lives on the cost and contract terms pages.
We could not find a single provider in the Index that publishes the services agreement it asks clients to sign. These two are the exception, and they are yours.
Scope of Work
v1.1One page that says what the engagement covers: days per week, decision rights, what stays with the founder, and the 3-month minimum with an exit at the first review.
Next: Diagnostic Statement of Work, Mutual NDA, Advisory Agreement.
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The Fractional Rates Index: what the market charges, from published prices only.
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