Client Participation Terms

Clients should submit structured, reviewable production work with approved or clearly bounded requirements, a named reviewer and approver, applicable standards, designer decision authority, escalation triggers, and a definition of ready-for-review completion.

DesignBench may classify a request as Green, Yellow, or Red, request clarification, narrow the scope, decline the request, or require additional review before matching.

The client retains technical direction, engineering standards, internal supervision, review responsibility, final approval, and responsibility for determining whether calculations, regulatory review, or licensed professional engineering oversight are required.

DesignBench assessments and badges are skill signals for production support. They are not warranties, professional licences, independent design certification, or substitutes for client review.

Clients must have authority to share submitted files and must identify confidentiality, security, export-control, PDM, software, and retention requirements before work begins. Clients should keep authoritative backups and released records in their own controlled systems.

Private files remain gated until the applicable review or release step. Client users must not share signed download links or account access with unauthorized people.

A site submission does not create a services contract. Scope, schedule, pricing, payment, changes, acceptance, confidentiality, intellectual property, liability, and termination must be documented in an accepted project proposal, statement of work, or other signed agreement before paid production work begins.