The deal

Who we are

Dark Vector Systems LLC (“Dark Vector,” “we,” “us”), a Texas limited liability company. We build software with AI at a fraction of the old cost and time. You can reach us at hello@darkvectorsystems.com. By using our site, our portal, or our work, you agree to these terms. If you’re agreeing for a company, you’re saying you’re allowed to.

What we do

We scope, build, and hand over working software. Each project is set out in its own Statement of Work, which says what we’ll build, what it costs, what you owe us, and when. The Statement of Work sits on top of these terms; where the two meet, the Statement of Work wins for that project.

• You pay when it ships. We hand over the code when the invoice is paid. On projects over $40,000 we take a deposit up front; the rest is due on delivery.
• Thirty days of aftercare come free. For a month after we deliver, we fix what’s broken in the scope we built, on us. New features are a new order.
• Scope can change, in writing. Want more than the Statement of Work says? That’s a change order, priced and agreed before we build it.
• We move fast; the clock waits on you. When a project runs long, it’s almost always because we’re waiting on an answer, access, or a decision from your side. Your sign-off gates delivery and payment.

Your account

Keep your login to yourself and your password strong. You’re responsible for what happens under your account and for the people you bring into it. Tell us straight away if you think someone got in who shouldn’t have.

Fair use

Don’t use our work or our portal to:

• break the law, or help anyone else break it;
• probe, attack, or reverse-engineer our systems;
• upload code or data you have no right to; or
• pass your access to someone outside your company without asking.

Money

Quotes are good for the window named on them. Invoices are due as the Statement of Work says: pay on delivery, unless we’ve agreed otherwise. Late payment can pause the work and hold the handover. Refunds and credits, where they apply, are handled case by case and in good faith.

The tools you connect

The portal can link to services you already use, like GitHub, Stripe, and QuickBooks. When you connect one, you tell us we may act on it on your behalf for the job at hand (provision a repo, raise an invoice, sync the books). You stay bound by that service’s own terms, and you can cut the link at any time. We ask for the least access the work needs, and no more.

Who owns what

• You own the work we deliver: the code and the product built to your Statement of Work, in full, once it’s paid for in full.
• We keep our own kit: the tools, templates, methods, and know-how we bring to every job. Owning your project doesn’t mean owning the workshop.
• What you bring stays yours. Anything you hand us to work with is yours; you just give us the room to use it to build.

What we promise, and what we don’t

We stand behind the work: for the aftercare month we’ll fix what we built if it breaks. Past that, and for anything outside the scope, the software is given as it is. We can’t promise it will never fail, never go down, or fit a use we never agreed to. Nothing here takes away a right you have that the law won’t let us remove.

Where the line sits

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither side is on the hook for knock-on losses (lost profit, lost data, lost time) beyond what we could both see coming. And our total liability for a project is capped at what you paid us for that project. This is the trade that lets us price the way we do.

Ending it

You can stop using the portal whenever you like. Either side can end a project as the Statement of Work sets out; if you end one mid-flight, you owe us for the work done to that point. The parts of these terms that should outlive the account do: ownership, payment owed, and the line on liability.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, where Dark Vector Systems LLC is formed. Any dispute that can’t be worked out between us is settled in the state or federal courts seated there.

Changes

We may update these terms as the business grows. When we do, we’ll change the date at the top, and material changes we’ll tell you about directly. Staying on after a change means you take the new terms.

Talk to us

Questions, worries, or a line you’d argue with? Write to hello@darkvectorsystems.com. We’d rather hear it early.