Pre-Launch Tester Agreement

This Pre-Launch Tester Agreement (this "Agreement") governs your participation in the Pre-Launch Testing Cohort for the Fashion Week Blueprint Platform. It is a standalone agreement, separate from the Terms of Service that govern paying Members.

Plain English Summary

Informational. The binding terms are below. If anything here conflicts with the binding sections, the binding sections control.

You are testing a pre-release product. Here is the deal:

• What you do. Complete the testing phases assigned to your cohort within 15 days and give us honest feedback.
• What you get. A $100 Amazon gift card after we confirm you finished. Partial completion does not qualify.
• What you do not get. Continued platform access, founding-member status, lifetime perks, future discounts, or wages.
• What you keep confidential. Anything you see that is not already public: features, screenshots, methodology, roadmap.
• What you do not do. Build a competing product using what you observed here. California testers: this applies only to confidential information.
• Your feedback. We get a perpetual license to use it to improve the product.
• The product. It is pre-release. Do not run a live show on it.
• If something goes wrong. Our liability is capped at $100.
• If a third party sues us over your feedback or platform misuse. You agree to defend us in those specific cases, with your exposure capped at $5,000 (more if you acted in bad faith).

If you read nothing else, read that.

1. Who This Applies To

This Agreement applies only to individuals admitted to the Pre-Launch Testing Cohort (each, a "Cohort Tester") who have completed acceptance per Section 11. You are a "Cohort Tester," not a Member. You do not have a Membership account. Your access is limited to the 15-day testing window beginning the date you accept this Agreement.

Incorporation of Member Terms by Reference. The Terms of Service applicable to Members (the "Member TOS"), available at https://www.fashionweekblueprint.com/terms, apply to you during the testing window by reference, except as modified by this Agreement. Where this Agreement is more specific or in conflict with the Member TOS, this Agreement controls. Capitalized terms used in this Agreement but not defined here have the meanings given in Section 19.2 of the Member TOS.

2. The Deal: 15 Days, Complete the Phases, $100

Complete the testing phases assigned to your cohort within the 15-day window. We will send a $100 USD Amazon gift card to your email of record within 30 days of our confirmation that you finished.

Partial completion does not qualify. The $100 gift card is your full and complete compensation. No wages, hours, benefits, expenses, equity, ongoing access, founding-tier status, recognition piece, or future discount is owed to you. You are not an employee, contractor, agent, partner, or joint venturer of The Fashion Week Blueprint LLC.

3. Confidentiality

"Pre-Launch Materials" means anything you access through the program that is not already public, including pre-release features, test plans, in-product instructions, screenshots, recordings, exported documents, support conversations, roadmap previews, and any portion of our Proprietary Methodology (as defined in Section 19.2 of the Member TOS) exposed through pre-release functionality.

Pre-Launch Materials do not include information that is already public, that you possessed before this program, that you independently develop without reference to the program, or that becomes publicly available through Company's own subsequent release or general distribution (in which case the information is no longer subject to this Section as of the date of public availability).

You will not publish, post, share, screenshot, livestream, or otherwise disclose Pre-Launch Materials to anyone outside the cohort or our authorized staff. You will not use them for any purpose other than participating in the program in good faith.

Permitted Public Statements. You may state publicly that you are a participant in the Pre-Launch Testing Cohort. You may share our publicly available marketing materials. You may speak generally about the program in a manner consistent with the foregoing. You will not represent that you speak for the Fashion Week Blueprint LLC or commit it to anything.

These confidentiality obligations survive the program for five (5) years, or, for information qualifying as a trade secret under applicable law, for as long as it remains a trade secret.

4. No Competing Product From What You See

You will not, directly or indirectly, use Pre-Launch Materials, the Proprietary Methodology, or any pre-release feature observed during the program to design, build, license, distribute, operate, or help any third party produce a Competing Product (as defined in Section 19.2 of the Member TOS).

You may continue to operate your own fashion show, fashion week, agency, or production business using methods, workflows, and know-how you developed independently of this program. This is a non-use restriction on what you observed here, not a non-compete on your trade.

This obligation survives the program for five (5) years.

California Testers. If you reside in California at the close of the program, this Section 4 is enforced only as a confidentiality and non-use-of-confidential-information restriction. It will not be construed to restrain your engagement in any lawful profession, trade, or business, consistent with California Business and Professions Code Sections 16600 and 16600.5.

5. Feedback License

"Feedback" means any suggestion, comment, idea, bug report, screenshot annotation, video, written response, survey response, or other communication you provide in connection with the program.

You grant The Fashion Week Blueprint LLC a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, sublicensable, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, distribute, and incorporate the Feedback into the Platform, the Proprietary Methodology, our marketing and educational materials, and any current or future product or service, in any medium.

We may attribute Feedback to you anonymously. Public attribution by name requires your prior written consent.

You represent that the Feedback is your original work or that you have all rights necessary to grant this license, that it does not infringe any third-party right, and that it does not include personal data of any third party unless you have legal authority to share it. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you waive moral rights in the Feedback.

6. Pre-Release Disclaimer (Read This)

The pre-launch version of the Platform made available to Cohort Testers during the testing window (the "Pre-Launch Platform") is provided AS IS. The conspicuous disclaimer below applies specifically to the Pre-Launch Platform.

THE PRE-LAUNCH PLATFORM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY. THIS DISCLAIMER IS CONSPICUOUS AND IS A MATERIAL PART OF THE BARGAIN. WE WOULD NOT OFFER THE PRE-LAUNCH TESTING COHORT ON ANY OTHER TERMS.

You are specifically on notice that pre-release software may, without limitation:

1. contain defects and fail unexpectedly;
2. lose, corrupt, or duplicate data;
3. include features that are removed, altered, or replaced before public launch; and
4. produce output that is incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise unsuitable for production use.

This enumeration is illustrative, not exhaustive. It identifies risk categories of which you are expressly warned, and does not narrow the scope of the AS-IS disclaimer above.

Do not rely on the Pre-Launch Platform for live productions. Do not use the Pre-Launch Platform during the testing window as the system of record for any fashion show, fashion week, or other event for which Pre-Launch Platform failure would cause operational, financial, or reputational harm. Maintain independent backups of anything important you choose to enter.

7. Liability Cap

Our aggregate liability to you arising out of or relating to the Pre-Launch Testing Cohort will not exceed one hundred United States dollars ($100 USD).

The parties agree that, given that this is a volunteer testing program and the $100 gift card under Section 2 represents the entirety of compensation, the $100 cap reflects parity between consideration received and liability allocated as a defensible balance of risk.

Carve-out. This cap does not apply to liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or violations of consumer-protection statutes prohibiting such limits.

8. Limited Indemnification

Plain-language lead. This Section says when you (the tester) pay our (FWB's) legal costs if a third party sues us over your conduct. It does not apply to disputes between you and us; those are governed by Section 7 (Liability Cap) and Section 12 (Governing Law and Disputes).

Operative terms. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless The Fashion Week Blueprint LLC and its officers, members, managers, employees, and agents from and against any third-party claim, demand, or action, and any associated losses, damages, settlements, and reasonable attorneys' fees, that arises out of:

(a) any Feedback you submitted in violation of your representations in Section 5 (specifically: that the Feedback is your original work or that you have all rights necessary to grant the license, that it does not infringe any third-party right, and that it does not include personal data of any third party without legal authority); or

(b) any unlawful use of the Pre-Launch Platform by you during your cohort participation, including but not limited to upload, transmission, or storage of content prohibited by applicable law.

Cap. Your aggregate indemnification obligation under this Section is capped at five thousand United States dollars ($5,000 USD). The cap does not apply to liability arising from your willful misconduct or fraud, in which case your indemnification obligation is uncapped.

Scope. This Section applies only to third-party claims of the kinds described in (a) and (b) above. It does not apply to disputes between you and the Fashion Week Blueprint LLC.

9. No Continued Access After the Program

Your Platform access ends when the testing window closes. We will not migrate, convert, or transition your testing account into a Member account. Testing data is testing data. We may reset, archive, or delete it after the program at our discretion.

Participation does not grant you (i) a right to purchase, license, or subscribe at any preferential rate, (ii) a right of first refusal or priority over public registration, (iii) any founding-member, lifetime-member, or recognition tier of any kind, or (iv) any future credit toward a paid Membership. After the program closes, you may register through the same public signup path available to anyone else, subject to then-current pricing and the Member TOS.

10. Termination and Withdrawal

We may terminate your participation at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, including for breach of this Agreement. Termination for breach forfeits the gift card.

You may withdraw any time by emailing prelaunch@fashionweekblueprint.com. Withdrawal ends your Platform access and forfeits the gift card unless you completed the testing phases assigned to your cohort prior to withdrawal.

Obligations that by their nature should survive (confidentiality, non-use, feedback license, disclaimers, liability cap, indemnification, governing law) survive termination or withdrawal.

11. Acceptance

Acceptance of this Agreement requires both:

(i) Checking a separate, dedicated checkbox during cohort signup, distinct from the general Terms of Service checkbox, AND

(ii) Typing your full legal name in the e-signature field below the checkbox.

Both are required. Your typed name constitutes your electronic signature under the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq.) and the Wyoming Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (Wyo. Stat. Section 40-21-101 et seq.).

The text adjacent to the Section 11 checkbox will read:

"I have read and agree to the Pre-Launch Tester Agreement, including the confidentiality, non-use, feedback-license, AS-IS disclaimer, liability cap, indemnification, no-continued-access, and $100 Amazon gift card terms."

The Plain English Summary appears immediately above the checkbox and signature field.

Audit record. Acceptance is recorded as a tos_acceptance_events row capturing the server-issued timestamp, the active Pre-Launch Tester Agreement version, the typed full name (the e-signature value), the cohort signup flow as the acceptance method, the user IP, the user-agent, and a hash of the rendered Agreement text at the moment of acceptance. Each acceptance also writes an audit_logs entry referencing the acceptance event.

Version cutovers. When a new version is published, active Cohort Testers are notified in-product with a "What changed" companion document. Continued use after the notice period constitutes acceptance of the updated Agreement, recorded as a new tos_acceptance_events row, except for material changes which will require a new dedicated acceptance flow.

12. Governing Law and Disputes

Wyoming law governs this Agreement, consistent with Section 16 of the Member TOS. Any action arising out of or relating to this Agreement will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Sheridan County, Wyoming, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you and we each waive the right to trial by jury in any action arising out of this Agreement.

If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if it cannot be modified, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force.

This Agreement is the entire agreement between you and Fashion Week Blueprint LLC with respect to the Pre-Launch Testing Cohort. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in Section 19.2 of the Member TOS.