Terms of Service

These terms apply to the Unstack pilot: the marketing pages, the company workspace and the builder workspace. By using the service you agree to them. If you are agreeing for a company, you confirm you may do so.

Who operates Unstack

Unstack is operated by Startup Gurukul Innovation Private Limited, registered at the address below.

Accounts and review

Company applications are reviewed by hand. We check the corporate email domain and the authority to fund a bounty. Builder applications are reviewed the same way. We may decline an application, or pause an account that breaks these terms, and we will say why.

Company obligations

• Write a dossier that accurately describes the workflow, the systems and the acceptance criteria.
• Fund the bounty before it becomes visible, and agree the commercials before funding.
• Decide on RFCs and milestones on the criteria you wrote, within a reasonable time.
• Keep your account credentials secure and tell us about suspected misuse.

Builder obligations

• Answer a brief with an approach, a fixed price and a delivery plan you can stand behind.
• Deliver against the accepted RFC and its acceptance criteria.
• Keep brief content confidential and do not reuse it outside the engagement.
• Do not share workspace access or submit work you do not have the right to deliver.

Funding and release are manual

No payment provider is in the loop today. Transfers happen outside Unstack, and operations records each one against a bank reference. A brief moves to funded only when that reference is recorded. Release follows your written acceptance and is recorded the same way.

The ledger is the record. The escrow state shown in the workspace is derived from it. Operations can move a state only with a provider reference in hand, so a state change on its own moves no money.

A refund covers only the amount still held. Milestones that have been released cannot be refunded, and a refund cannot exceed the remaining balance.

No guarantee of an RFC

A funded brief may receive no proposal that fits. You may accept none and close the bounty, and operations returns the held funds through the ledger against a provider reference.

Fees and commercials

Commercial terms are agreed in the brief and in the accepted RFC before money is held. Unstack publishes no separate fee schedule for the pilot, and nothing in these terms creates a fee that was not agreed in writing.

Intellectual property

You keep ownership of the dossier you write and of the proposal you submit. Rights in the delivered work are set out in the brief and the accepted RFC. Unstack does not claim ownership of either document.

Acceptable use

• Do not use Unstack for unlawful work, or to move money for something the dossier does not describe.
• Do not attempt to reach another company's workspace or bypass an access control.
• Do not scrape the service or resell access to it.
• Do not upload malware or content you have no right to share.

The pilot

Unstack is running as a reviewed pilot. Features may change, and access may be paused while we fix something. We do not promise uninterrupted availability, and we will tell you before a change that affects a funded brief.

Disclaimers

The service is provided as it is. Unstack records funded bounties and releases against acceptance. It is not a bank and not an escrow agent, and it does not guarantee the quality of work delivered by an engineer. You decide which RFC to accept.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Unstack is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profit or lost data. Nothing in these terms limits a liability that cannot be limited by law.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Nizamabad, India.

Changes to these terms

We update this page when the service changes. The date at the top shows the current version. If a change affects a brief already in escrow, we tell you before it applies to that brief.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to Startup Gurukul Innovation Private Limited at the registered address above. You can also write to privacy@unstack.dev.