Terms of engagement — Nigeria

Every role is offered on a contractor basis. You invoice for services under a contractor agreement, and you are responsible for your own tax filings in Nigeria. We do not deduct payroll tax, remit pension, or hold an employment relationship with you, and no listing on this board offers one.

Nothing in this document creates an engagement by itself. The engagement begins on the date named in your signed agreement.

Every ongoing engagement begins with a probationary period of 90 days from your start date, paid at 85% of the full stated rate.

There are written check-ins at day 30, day 60 and day 90. Each produces a manager scorecard covering delivery, communication, quality, and reliability, and you can read your own scorecards in your dashboard at any time.

The engagement may be extended once, by a further 30 days, with written reasons and a stated target. Once extended it cannot be extended again. At day 90 the decision is confirmation or exit, in writing. If no decision is recorded by the end of day 90, you are confirmed automatically and move to the full rate from the following pay period. This is not a courtesy: the platform treats you as confirmed from that date whether or not anyone has filed the paperwork.

Pay is stated in the role listing on one of three bases: a monthly naira salary paid to a local bank account, a monthly amount earned in dollars and paid in naira at the spot rate, or an hourly rate tracked on a timesheet and paid every two weeks.

Where a payout converts currency, the spot rate applied on the payout date is printed on your payslip. We do not hold back a spread on conversion.

Monthly payouts run on the 15th. Biweekly payouts run on alternate Fridays. Payments arrive within two business days of the run.

Some roles pay a fixed rate only. Others pay a base salary plus commission, or commission only. Which one applies is stated in the listing and in your agreement, with the rate, what it is calculated on, the target, any cap, and any draw.

Commission is earned on cash collected, not on signed value, and is paid on the same run as salary in the month after collection. A commission-only role may include a monthly draw, which is recoverable against commission you earn on that engagement and never against a later month, another engagement, or your final payment.

Commission is not reduced during probation. Where a role has both, only the base sits at 85% until confirmation.

Bonuses are stated as terms, not promises: the amount, what triggers them, and when they pay. Bonuses accrue from your start date and are paid after confirmation. Targets may be changed for a future quarter with 30 days notice, never for a quarter already underway.

Creative and project work is engaged per project rather than per month. The listing states the fee, the deliverables, the milestone split, the window, the acceptance period, the kill fee, who holds the rights, and your credit. Nothing outside that list is owed by either side.

Payment follows written acceptance of a milestone, and acceptance is due within the stated window. If the acceptance window passes with no written response, the milestone is treated as accepted and becomes payable. Notes that arrive after acceptance are a new scope conversation with its own fee.

Probation does not apply to project engagements. The first milestone serves the same purpose: if it is not accepted, either side may end the engagement, and the first milestone is paid in full regardless.

If we cancel a project mid-flight, the kill fee stated in the listing is paid on top of any milestone already accepted. If you walk away mid-milestone, you are paid for accepted work only.

Rights transfer on payment of the final milestone, not on delivery. Until then the work is yours. Your credit and your right to show the work in a portfolio survive the engagement and cannot be removed later. Where a royalty or points apply, the rate, the base it is calculated on, and the statement schedule are stated in the listing, and statements are sent quarterly whether or not anything is owed.

Your weekly hours and required overlap are stated in the listing and in your agreement. Overlap means hours where you are reachable, not hours where you must be at a desk.

You set your own time off and give a week of notice for anything longer than two days. Public holidays in Nigeria are not automatically paid time.

Power and connectivity interruptions are expected. Tell your team in advance where you can, and log the hours you actually worked.

You may hold several engagements on this platform at once, and the platform is built for it: each one has its own terms, its own probation clock, its own pay period and its own reviews.

Your committed weekly hours are summed across engagements and shown to you. Above 45 hours a week in total, your managers are told that you hold other engagements — not which ones, or for whom.

A draw, an advance or a recovery on one engagement never reaches another. Nor does a review: a rating is attached to the engagement it was earned on.

A one-time equipment stipend is paid at the start of the engagement, sized to the role and stated in your offer. It covers a machine and a power arrangement.

Equipment bought with the stipend is yours. If you leave within twelve months of the payment, a pro-rated share is recoverable from your final payment unless the exit was our decision and not for cause.

A mutual non-disclosure agreement is signed before access is granted and survives the engagement by two years.

Work produced in the engagement belongs to the engaging company. You keep the right to describe what you did and to show work publicly once it has shipped, unless the listing says otherwise.

Managers may record a review at the end of an engagement, and during it. A review carries a rating out of five and is attached to the engagement, not to you in the abstract.

A review is either shared with you or kept between hiring managers. You can always see how many private notes exist about you, and you can always see every review that was shared. A rating shared with you cannot be edited afterwards.

Your overall rating is shown on your profile once at least three reviews exist. Below that it is withheld, because an average over one or two reviews would let you work out the contents of a private one.

During probation, either side may end the engagement on 7 days written notice. After confirmation, notice is 30 days either side.

We may end an engagement immediately for gross misconduct, which is defined in your agreement and does not include disagreement with a decision.

Every exit runs through the offboarding checklist: notice acknowledged, handover notes filed, access revoked, equipment settled, final pay calculated, and a 30-minute exit conversation whose notes stay private.

Final payment covers days worked in the period, commission earned on cash collected up to the last working day, any bonus already triggered, and any stipend recovery, and is paid within seven days of the last working day.

A payslip showing the calculation is sent with the payment, including the spot rate used. If you dispute it, raise it within 30 days and we will show our working.

Raise a dispute with the studio lead first, in writing. If it is unresolved after 14 days, it goes to the operations lead, who responds within a further 14 days.

Nothing here removes your statutory rights under the law of Nigeria.