The whole
job, in one
document.

Project agreement  ·  USG‑PA v1.0

In short.

You are buying A new five page website for SaltyDog Landscaping, designed, written and built by us, and put live on your own domain. for $3,500, no GST applies, with a deposit of $1,750 now and the balance on your sign-off of go live. Signed 1 September 2026, finished by 13 October 2026.

Everything you are agreeing to is in this one document. No page nine, no appendix, no clause 14.3 to go hunting for.

In short, continued

The only dates in here.

• You reply to us inside 5 days.
• We reply to you inside 5.
• Every other window is 10 days, including ending this.
• Your warranty runs 30 days from final sign-off, on the calendar.
• Everywhere else, days means working days, so weekends and NSW public holidays do not count.

What you get.

SaltyDog has a strong brand, a full portfolio of finished work and a crew covering nine trades, but no website that shows any of it. Enquiries come through word of mouth and Instagram, so the work is doing the selling without anywhere to send people.. You get Five pages, written and laid out by us: home, about, services, projects and contact. We write all of the words, so you do not have to sit down and draft anything. Your own photography is prepared and optimised so it loads fast on a phone on site. One enquiry form that delivers to the inbox you nominate. The site is set up so Google and AI search can read what you do and where you work. Two full rounds of your changes are included, one after the first draft and one before launch. At the end it goes live on saltydoglandscaping.com.au and the files are yours., and nothing beyond that unless it is written here. If that does not fit in eight lines, the job is two projects and we will say so.

Not included: Anything past those five pages, which we quote before we start rather than absorb. Logo or brand design, because you already have an identity we are building to. New photography or video, we work with the images you give us. Ongoing hosting, updates and search work after launch, which is a separate monthly plan you can start whenever you want. Buying or renewing your domain, which stays in your name and your control., plus any domain, hosting, stock, font, plugin or subscription cost, which stay yours. We buy those only with your written approval, at cost.

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If we said it and it is not in here.

We promise no commercial result: no ranking, traffic, enquiry or sales figure. This document plus any signed change is the whole agreement for this project and replaces the proposal, so anything we said the work would achieve is only promised if it is written into the sign-off criteria below. If a number matters to you, tell us before you sign and we will put it there. Nothing here removes a right you have at law.

What we need from you.

By 8 September 2026 we need The project photos you want on the site, and a line on each one telling us what SaltyDog actually built, so nothing on the site claims work that was not yours. Your services the way you sell them, and anything about the crew you want people to know. The inbox enquiries should land in. Access to point saltydoglandscaping.com.au at the new site. If you have the licensed brand font files from your designer, those too., plus your approvals inside 5 days of us sending work.

Your approver is Darcy, info@saltydoglandscaping.com.au, one person whose written yes closes a round and signs off a stage. Anything you hand us has to be yours to use, and any claim in your copy has to be true, because we will build whatever you write.

If you are late, your dates move back day for day, free, for as long as you need. We hold your slot until we tell you in writing that we cannot, and then we would quote you to reschedule, or you can decline and end this.

If we are late past 10 days for reasons within our control, you choose: end this, or stay and take 5% of that stage's fee a week, capped at that fee. There is no matching penalty on you, deliberately.

Working together

Feedback.

You get 2 review rounds. A round is: we send you the work, your approver comes back inside 5 days with one written list, and we action it inside 5 more and confirm it closed.

Past 2 rounds we charge $100 an hour, on the same GST basis as the price above. We quote it before you say go, and we warn you before your last included round goes out, so you never find out by invoice.

Free, and never a round: anything we got wrong, anything that does not match what you get above, faults you list inside your sign-off window, and warranty fixes. Only a change of mind uses a round. Changing your mind is allowed: it just costs after the second one.

Changing the job. Either of us can ask at any time and neither has to agree, so declining is never a breach. We come back within 5 days with the cost and the effect on your dates, and nothing binds until we both sign it.

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Sign-off and warranty.

You sign off against criteria, not taste. go live is accepted when all five pages are live on saltydoglandscaping.com.au over https, every page loads and reads correctly on a current phone and a current desktop browser, the enquiry form delivers a test message to the inbox you nominated, and every link in the navigation goes where it says it goes.

We test on current Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge, on phone, tablet and desktop. Need anything older, tell us before we start and we will price it.

You get working access as soon as a stage is done, and 10 days from then to accept it in writing or tell us what is wrong. Any written objection counts, in any words.

Hear nothing from you and the stage counts as accepted, because an unreviewed stage stops the next one starting. We remind you before that window closes, and if we forget, it starts again from the day we remember. Accepting approves nothing faulty and waives no right of yours, and the same runs the other way: tell us in writing that something is wrong, and if we do not answer within 10 days, your objection counts as accepted.

Your warranty is 30 days from sign-off on the final stage, and inside it we fix any defect free. A defect is the work not doing what this agreement says it does, so a change of mind is not one, and nor is breakage from a platform update or someone else's edits. We tell you which within 5 days so you can disagree. A stage accepted by silence starts its warranty the day that window closes. All of it sits on top of your Australian Consumer Law rights.

Money

Cost and payment.

$3,500, no GST applies. You pay $1,750 on signing and $1,750 on your sign-off of go live. Every invoice is itemised and due 10 days from issue.

Your deposit holds your place and pays for the first phase, and it is never simply forfeited. If you think an invoice is wrong, say so in writing with the items and why, then pay the undisputed part, and no interest runs on the rest.

If an invoice goes a further 10 days overdue and is not genuinely disputed, simple interest of 8% a year runs on it daily, there is no other charge, and we may pause work on 10 days notice. Nothing of yours goes offline, because we restart as soon as you pay and your dates move by the pause, unpaid. Both mirrors: that same rate applies to us on a late refund, and if we stop for more than 10 days without agreeing it with you, you may hold the next payment.

Ownership

Who owns it.

You own everything we make specifically for you, once you have paid in full, because copyright transfers automatically on that payment. Until then you hold a licence to use it, and we will sign anything reasonable to confirm the transfer.

Our reusable tooling stays ours: the component library, boilerplate, build tooling and processes we bring to every job. You get a free, permanent licence to it inside your project, which we cannot take back and which travels with the project if you sell the business. Use it however you like, you just cannot resell it on its own.

Third-party material (stock, fonts, plugins, themes, open source) was never ours to give, so it reaches you on its own licence terms and some will not survive a change of owner. We tell you which, and what it costs, before we buy, and neither of us stands behind material neither of us wrote.

Moral rights stay with Joshua Seage as the author. The law lets him consent to how the work is treated but never sell that right, so he consents at the end in his own name, to editing, restyling, rebranding, using the work uncredited, having someone else maintain or replace it, and taking it offline. Anyone we bring in signs the same consent and a copyright assignment first, and their work is our responsibility.

Data

Private information.

We each keep the other's private information confidential, use it only for this project, and share it only with someone who needs it and is bound to the same terms in writing. That does not cover anything already public, anything we already knew, or anything the law makes us hand over.

Your customers' data, where this project touches any. We use it only to do this job, and it is never sold, never marketed to, never used for another client and never used to train an AI model. Your customer records go through the hosting, email and analytics providers named here and nothing else: Vercel (United States), which hosts the site, and Google Workspace (United States), which carries our email. Never a service that trains on what it is given.

We handle it as though the Australian Privacy Principles bound us, whether or not they do, which means multi-factor authentication, a password manager and encrypted disks. Most of those providers store data overseas, which is why they are named. If something goes wrong you hear from us within 5 days, so your own notification clock starts with you, and you owe us the same. At the end you get back, or we delete, everything we hold.

Liability

If something goes wrong.

This paragraph beats every other part of this agreement, wherever it appears. Our services carry Australian Consumer Law guarantees that cannot be excluded: due care and skill, fitness for a purpose you told us about, and supply in a reasonable time. Nothing here excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy of yours. Where the law allows a limit, our liability for failing a guarantee is limited to doing the work again, or paying for someone else to do it, if a court thinks that fair.

The ceiling on what either of us can be made to pay the other is the greater of $2,000 and the total fees on this project. It sits there because we hold no insurance, and a number a one-person studio can actually pay is worth more than a bigger one it cannot. It does not cover fraud, deliberate or reckless misconduct, a breach of the confidentiality or customer data promises, injury caused by negligence, fees you owe us, or anything a court says cannot be capped.

Neither of us is liable to the other for lost profits, revenue, savings, goodwill or business opportunities. If your data goes because we did not keep the backups or the security we promised, that exclusion does not apply to your claim, because we hold your keys and that one is on us.

If someone claims material used here was theirs, whoever supplied it covers the other's reasonable direct loss and legal costs, both ways and capped as above unless they acted deliberately or unlawfully. Each of us tells the other as soon as we know, and neither settles alone. Nothing here limits your right to claim, go to a court or tribunal, or rely on any evidence you choose.

Leaving

Ending this.

Either of us can end this on 10 days written notice, for any reason, with no exit fee and no minimum term, or immediately if the other seriously breaches and has not fixed it within 10 days of being told in writing, or becomes insolvent. Neither of us decides alone that the other is in breach, and neither is in breach for something genuinely outside their control.

We are one person and would rather name that risk than hide it, so if Joshua Seage cannot work for more than 10 days we tell you, and you can wait or end this immediately.

However it ends, you pay for work actually done, work in progress included, and within 10 days you get back everything you paid for work not done, unearned deposit included, with the working shown. If we were the cause, you do not pay for work in progress you never received.

Inside that same window you get the handover pack: the editable work and source files, every credential and account, the third-party licences with costs and renewal dates, and the date your warranty ends. Before we revoke any access you get a written record of what changed hands.

We will not hold your work hostage, not your domain, site, accounts or data, and we will never take something live down over an invoice. Unpaid, our remedy is the debt, not your business. Your customers should never be able to tell that the two of us are arguing.

Portfolio. Once the project is publicly live we may show it in our marketing, never anything confidential and never an unapproved figure. Tick the box below to opt out, free.

The rest

The mechanics.

If something goes wrong between us, tell us and we will work it out. Nothing stops you going to a court, a regulator or the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which is cheap and quick. NSW law applies.

Notices go by email to the addresses at the top and count as received the next day unless a bounce comes back. Anything unenforceable or unfair is cut out and the rest keeps working. Electronic signatures are fine. Ownership, warranty, confidentiality, data and liability outlive this agreement.

What we changed for you.

Nothing yet. This is the first version you have seen. All of it is open to discussion, so tell us what is wrong before you sign and we will replace this paragraph with what changed.

Signing

Signing.

By signing, each of us confirms we have read this, could ask questions and negotiate it, and agree to it.