Tell us which one you are.
A first conversation is short and specific. What we need at the start is which side of the interface you stand on — a machine maker, a kit company and a fleet owner each get a different conversation, and none of the three is a pitch.
Three doors, and they open on different rooms.
Each conversation starts from the same place — what your machine, your kit or your job already does — and ends on the same two questions: what would have to be built, and what would be counted.
Build to the interface
The first conversation covers what your machine already exposes at the controls, what it would present in order to accept a release and return a count, and what a buyer's counsel would be able to read off an hour it runs.
For machine makers A kit companyCarry the release path
The first conversation covers putting the release path onto machines already working in the field — what it touches, what it leaves alone, and where the line sits between fitting a path and making a machine new.
For kit companies A fleet ownerLicense by the job
The first conversation covers the work in front of you, which named way of working suits it, and what the hours are counted against, so that the clearance and the invoice come off one signed row.
For fleet ownersYour agreement is with Even Steven, and so is this conversation.
A person who works their own machine signs with Even Steven. Nobody else contracts with them — not their employer, and not us. Tacit Source holds no agreement with the person in the seat, takes no permission from them, and does not ask them for one.
So a question about your own record, your own consent, what you are paid, or ending any of it is not a question this form can answer. It goes to Even Steven, which is your counterparty and the party that can act on it. That is not a redirection out of politeness. We have no standing to answer it.
The interface specification is available under NDA.
The interface a machine presents in order to accept a release and return a count goes to parties that build against it, on the same terms to each, under NDA. Say on the form that you want it, and who will be reading it.
Counsel reading for a counterparty usually wants three pages before anything is signed, and all three are already public: who holds what, what a licence grants and what it does not, and where the law is genuinely open.
If you are none of the three, say so. Counsel, an agent, a journalist and anyone else with a question about the structure reach the same address, and the question is answered in the same words it would be answered in a room.
A name, an address to reach you, and which one you are.
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