The terms of commission, stated plainly, and the questions most applicants ask, answered the same way. Nothing here binds anyone; a commission is agreed in writing before work begins.

§1Terms of commission

First commission

Fixed scope, delivered in days. The survey of works is included. One working part of your workspace, inspected and documented.

Fee fixed before work begins. Stated plainly on application.

Further works

The workspace grows lane by lane, after the first part has proved itself on your real material.

Charged by the delivered day.

Continued inspection

Tuning, additions, and a monthly check of the guardrails.

Monthly. Optional. Ends on notice.

A day means a day of delivered work, not a day on the clock.

The system runs without it.

§2Questions taken at the counter

Q. 01 Who owns the workspace?

You do. It is delivered as documented files in your own accounts and on your own machines. Nothing phones home to this office, and nothing about it needs us after handover. One entry on the register was commissioned on the express term that the system carry no reference back to the studio; the term was met.

Q. 02 What happens when the AI models change?

The workspace sits above the model, not inside it. Its parts state what must be done and to what standard; the model supplying the reasoning can be exchanged when a better one arrives. The small tools and the guardrails do not change at all, because nothing about them is a model.

Q. 03 Do we need to be technical?

No. Two of the systems on the register are operated daily by people who write no code. The runbook is written in plain English, and plainness is inspected before handover like everything else.

Q. 04 What if we stop working with the studio?

Nothing changes. The runbook exists so your team operates the system without us; that is a design requirement, not a courtesy. Continued inspection is optional and ends on notice, and the system runs without it.

Q. 05 Why not just use the chat window?

Use it; it is good. But it starts every session from zero, it holds no record of your business, and a mistake it made yesterday it will make again tomorrow. A workspace keeps the record and keeps the corrections. The difference compounds, which is the argument of the whole register.

Q. 06 Where does our data live?

In your accounts, under your keys, on your machines. The studio works inside your workspace while it is being assembled and holds no copy after handover. What an AI provider sees is governed by your agreement with that provider, and the runbook records which parts send what where, so the answer is written down rather than remembered.

Entry No. 005 is open. Commission a workspace