The terms, before you ask for them.
Every question below gets asked in diligence. Answering them on a public page costs us nothing and saves you a round of email — and where an answer is unhelpful to us, it is written out anyway, because the ones a supplier hides are the ones that end a deal in week six.
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Warranty and indemnity
Texa warrants that it holds the rights it grants, and indemnifies the licensee against third-party claims arising from the rights chain — the claim a contributor or their representative brings that the material was never cleared. Liability is capped at fees paid under the agreement by default; an uncapped carve-out for rights-chain claims is available on execution against a retained holdback. We would rather negotiate this line in the first meeting than have it surface in diligence.
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Contracting entity
Texa Global Technologies Ltd, RC 8467566, Lagos. Where a buyer's procurement cannot onboard a Nigerian counterparty, we will contract through a UK or Delaware entity stood up for the agreement, with the Nigerian company named as sub-processor and the rights chain unchanged. Tell us early — it costs weeks, not months.
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Payment terms
Invoiced in USD or EUR. Net 30 against delivery acceptance; milestone-billed above a hundred hours. Contributor payment is made by Texa at the point of capture and is never contingent on a buyer settling.
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Security and custody
Masters are held encrypted at rest in a single named region, with individual named access and a retained access log. Buyer-side material — a schema, an internal evaluation set, an unreleased brief — is held under separate access, and returned or destroyed on request with a certificate. We complete a vendor security questionnaire before a pilot rather than after.
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Personal data and withdrawal
Processing is on a consent basis under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. A contributor may withdraw at any time. Withdrawal removes the asset from the catalogue, ends its onward licensing and triggers written notice to every licensee holding it. We also say plainly — to the contributor at signature, and to you here — that a model already trained on an asset cannot be untrained. No instrument we write will pretend otherwise.
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Exclusivity
Non-exclusive by default. Category, territory and term exclusivity are available and priced as a premium. An exclusive lot is withdrawn from the catalogue for the term, not quietly re-offered.
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Acceptance and redelivery
Delivery is accepted against the written specification. Assets that fail the spec are redelivered or credited at our cost inside an agreed window. A batch that fails on rights is not redelivered — it is withdrawn.
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Audit
A licensee may audit the chain on notice: name a sample of asset IDs and we produce the signed instruments, the payment references and the recorded verbal consents behind them, without a further negotiation.
Who is in front of the camera
Frontier buyers rank contributor recruitment, calibration and fair pay immediately after provenance, and treat weak labour practice as a disqualification rather than a deduction. It is also, in this region, the part of the operation most easily faked. So this is how ours runs.
- Recruitment
- Contributors are recruited in person, at their own place of work, by an operator who comes back. There is no crowd panel, no labour broker and no intermediary taking a margin out of a fee we set.
- Training and calibration
- Every operator runs identical locked settings and the same slate procedure, and is calibrated against a reference lot before any of their material enters a delivery.
- What is actually paid
- A fee agreed before recording, benchmarked against a working day's earnings in the trade being filmed, paid in full on the day — whether or not the material is ever used or ever sells.
- Who we do not film
- Nobody under eighteen contributes. We do not recruit through an employer who stands to benefit from a worker's participation: a fee routed through someone with authority over the contributor is not freely accepted.
- What the contributor keeps
- Title. We license, we do not buy out. A contributor may refuse a category of use at signature and the refusal is recorded against the asset rather than argued with.
Anything here you need changed, say so in the first meeting.
These are defaults, not a position. The indemnity cap, the contracting entity, the residency of the masters and the exclusivity terms are all negotiable, and we would rather negotiate them before a pilot than discover them in a redline eight weeks in.