Terms

These terms apply when you use the Legate website and platform. [Legate B.V.] (“Legate”, “we”, “us”) runs both. We are registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number [KvK number], at [Street and number], [postcode] Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

You accept these terms when you create an account or use the platform. If you do not accept them, do not use Legate.

Legate serves businesses and professionals. You use it for your company, your firm or your own consulting practice, and not as a consumer.

Three documents fit together. These terms cover the platform. The contract for an engagement, such as a framework agreement and a statement of work, covers that engagement, and where it says something different from these terms, the engagement contract applies. Our privacy policy covers your personal data.

Legate connects companies that need management, technology or AI consulting with independent consultants and consulting firms. We sharpen the brief with the company, vet the people on the network, propose a shortlist, provide the contract templates and stay involved through kick-off and check-ins.

The consultant or firm delivers the work and answers for its content. The engagement contract names the parties to an engagement and what each of them owes.

Our website describes how we work, including how fast we aim to deliver a shortlist. The engagement contract sets the dates and commitments that bind us.

To open an account you need to:

• be 18 or older;
• act for a registered business, or run your own practice registered with the Chamber of Commerce or its equivalent abroad;
• have the authority to bind the organisation you register for.

With an account, you:

• give us correct and complete information, and update it when it changes;
• keep your login details to yourself;
• tell us at once if you suspect someone else has used your account;
• answer for what happens under your account.

Independent consultants

• Your profile, CV and references are true, and you hold the experience and qualifications you list.
• You are registered with the Chamber of Commerce, and you keep professional liability insurance for the work you accept.
• You tell us when your availability or terms change, so we do not send you work you cannot take.
• You follow the laws and professional standards that apply to your work.

Consulting firms

• Your firm is registered, and the person who opens the account may act for it.
• What you tell us about your services, sectors and team is true.
• The consultants you put forward are your employees or work under your contract, and they follow these terms.
• Before you share a consultant's details with us, you tell that person and point them to our privacy policy.

Companies

• The person who opens the account may buy services for your organisation.
• You give us briefs, budgets and timelines in good faith.
• You give honest feedback after an engagement, since we verify it and add it to the consultant's record.

We use AI to structure profiles, to draft a first cut of a scope through the AI intake, and to score consultants against a brief. The Legate team validates each shortlist before it reaches you.

A shortlist is our recommendation. AI output can be incomplete or out of date, and our review cannot rule out every mistake. You decide who to hire and remain responsible for that choice.

Our vetting covers an interview, references we verify by hand, and checks on registration and insurance. A verified reference records what a client told us about past work. It does not promise how the next engagement will go.

The first-month promise: if the fit turns out wrong in the first four weeks of an engagement, raise it with the Legate team within those four weeks. We then replace the person or team and give up our fee for that period. The engagement contract sets out how the replacement runs.

You can contract an engagement through our templates, the framework agreement, statement of work and confidentiality terms, or through your own paper. Our templates cover what an engagement through Legate needs. Check that they fit your situation, and take your own legal advice where you need it.

The engagement contract sets who invoices whom, the payment terms and what happens to a payment when work or a milestone is in dispute. Where the platform records time or drafts invoices, you answer for the accuracy of what you submit or approve.

A licensed payment provider handles payments. Legate holds no client funds. You answer for your own tax, VAT, insurance and bookkeeping.

• Companies pay the consultant's rate plus a Legate fee per engagement. The Legate fee stays the same whatever the size of the team. Companies that buy often can take a subscription instead.
• Consulting firms pay a success-based amount when we place work with them.
• A firm that brings a client into the network receives an agreed share when that client engages someone else through Legate. We agree the percentage with the firm up front and record it in the ledger.
• Independent consultants pay nothing: no joining fee and no percentage of their rate.
• The scoping conversation costs nothing. Our fee attaches to an engagement.

You see the consultant's rate, our fee and any other cost before you sign. We quote in euros, excluding VAT.

We announce a change to our fees before it takes effect. A change applies to engagements signed after that date and leaves signed engagements as they are.

We charge nothing for scoping, and consultants pay us nothing, so our fee on the engagement pays for the work of making an introduction. This section protects that fee.

When we introduce a company to a consultant or a firm, both sides agree to contract any work between them through Legate for 12 months. That period runs from the introduction, or from the last day of an engagement between them through Legate, whichever comes later.

If you contract that work outside Legate within the period, you owe us the fee we would have charged had the work run through Legate.

This section does not apply to:

• a relationship that existed before our introduction, if you can show it with correspondence, a contract or an invoice;
• a firm's own clients, which stay the firm's;
• work a consultant finds elsewhere. Nobody on Legate is exclusive to us.

You keep ownership of what you upload or write on Legate: CVs, briefs, documents and messages. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use that content to run and improve Legate. That includes structuring it into profiles, summaries and search indexes, and showing it to the people you approve.

The licence ends when you delete the content or close your account, apart from the copies we keep under the retention periods in our privacy policy.

When you share content, you confirm that:

• you have the right to share it, including the consent of anyone it names where the law requires that;
• it is correct as far as you know;
• sharing it breaks no confidentiality obligation, employment clause or right of someone else.

Briefs stay confidential in both directions. A consultant or firm who sees a brief uses it to decide on and deliver that engagement, and for nothing else. The confidentiality terms in the engagement contract add to this.

Legate owns the platform, its software, design and content, or holds a licence to them. You may not copy, sell or rebuild any part of it without our written permission.

The engagement contract decides who owns the work a consultant or firm produces for a client.

The references we verify belong to the consultant. You can take the credential that holds them and use it away from Legate.

If you send us ideas or feedback about Legate, we may use them without owing you anything for it.

On Legate, you may not:

• break the law or help someone else break it;
• give false information, or pose as someone else;
• contact people you met through Legate to contract around us, as section 8 describes;
• scrape, copy or collect data from the platform;
• try to reach systems or accounts you have no access to, or disrupt the platform;
• upload malicious code;
• share personal or confidential information you have no right to share;
• harass other users or send them unsolicited promotion.

Independent consultants work as independent contractors. They are not employees of Legate or of the client. Consultants a firm puts forward stay employees or contractors of that firm. These terms create no employment, partnership or agency between Legate and any user.

We write engagements as outcome-based statements of work, and we screen constructions with an independent against the Dutch rules on self-employment before contracting. When an independent setup would not hold, we propose delivery through a firm.

The screening covers the contract. How an engagement runs in practice is up to the parties. A client who directs an independent as an employee, or a consultant who works that way, creates a risk our screening cannot remove. Each party answers for its own conduct, and the consultant for their own tax and insurance.

We work to keep the platform available and correct, and we cannot promise it runs without interruption or error. We do not answer for the content of work a consultant or firm delivers, or for the outcome of an engagement. The engagement contract governs those.

Our total liability to you, for all claims together, stays within the fees you paid Legate in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim, with a minimum of €1,000. We do not answer for indirect loss, such as lost profit, lost revenue, lost data or missed opportunities.

These limits do not apply to damage caused by intent or deliberate recklessness of Legate's management, or to anything else Dutch law does not allow us to limit.

You compensate Legate for claims from third parties that arise because you broke these terms, shared content you had no right to share, or broke the law in an engagement through Legate.

Legate links to or connects with services run by others, such as the payment provider. Their own terms govern those services.

Raise a problem with the Legate team. They run the kick-off and the check-ins, and that is where we pick up a problem before it grows.

If the parties to an engagement still disagree, we help them find a solution. We have no power to decide the dispute, and the engagement contract governs how it gets resolved. The first-month promise in section 5 stays in place throughout.

If you have a complaint about Legate itself, email [legal@asklegate.co]. A person at Legate picks it up and answers you.

You can close your account at any time from your settings or by emailing us. Engagements you have already signed run on under their contracts, and fees you already owe stay due.

We can close your account with one month's notice. We can suspend or close it at once if you break these terms, give false information, put other users at risk, or if a consultant's delivery falls short of the standard we admitted them on.

When an account closes, your access ends and we handle your data as our privacy policy describes. Sections 7 to 10, 13 and 17 keep applying after that.

We update these terms when the way Legate works changes. We email you about a change that affects your rights or obligations at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you do not agree, close your account before that date. If you keep using Legate after it, the new terms apply to you.

• Dutch law governs these terms. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
• We try to settle a dispute with you by talking first. If that fails, the competent court in Amsterdam decides.
• These terms, the privacy policy and your engagement contracts form the whole agreement between you and Legate about the platform. Your own general terms and conditions do not apply.
• If a court finds a provision invalid, the rest stays in force, and we replace that provision with a valid one as close to its purpose as the law allows.
• If we do not enforce a right at one moment, we keep the right.
• You need our written consent to transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours to a company that takes over Legate's business.
• We send notices to the email address on your account. Send notices to us at the address below.

Questions about these terms go to [legal@asklegate.co].