Terms

These are the terms for working with Kwirita and for using this website, in plain words. Before work starts, a short written agreement sets them out for both sides to sign.

Last updated October 21, 2026.

1. These terms and the written agreement

Three words have a set meaning here:

• Kwirita means Lance Quejada, working as Kwirita, from Manila.
• You means the person or company named as the client in the written agreement, and anyone using this website.
• The work means what Kwirita does for you under the agreement.

Before work starts, both sides sign a short written agreement. It names the parties and includes these terms as they read on the date it is signed. If the agreement and this page differ, the agreement wins. It also sets out the governing law and the details of invoicing and payment.

By signing the agreement, you accept these terms. If you only visit the website, section 17 is the part that applies to you.

2. The service

Kwirita designs and builds the product direction, interface, and front end with founders and their teams.

It does not suit a team that needs several designers at once, or a fixed price for a fixed list of screens. Kwirita does not quote fixed-price projects. The working session and the first-version review are priced per session and per review.

3. Plans, prices, and tasks

Prices are in US dollars. There are two plans:

• One task at a time, $6,000 a month: one piece of work in progress at a time, from a list you keep in order.
• Two tasks at a time, $10,000 a month: two pieces of work in progress at once, for a team working on two fronts.

A task is one piece of work you can review on its own, ending in something usable: a designed flow, a merged pull request, or a deployed prototype. You keep the list in order, and the next task follows it. You can reorder the list any day. When a request is bigger than one task, Kwirita splits it into tasks and says how up front. Changes to finished work go on the list as new tasks.

Two other ways to start are paid separately:

• A working session, $300 for an hour of advice, paid in advance. It counts toward your first month if you subscribe within 30 days.
• A first-version review, $2,500 per review. It is a written review of your product’s interface, front end, and readiness for agents, delivered within a week with a call to walk through it. It counts in full toward your first month if you subscribe within 30 days.

Your price holds for as long as you stay subscribed.

4. Subscription and payment

A month runs from the day work starts, or the day the last month ended, to the same day the next month. Each month is paid at its start.

The subscription renews each month until you cancel. To cancel, write to Kwirita (section 16).

The written agreement sets out how invoices are issued and paid, and what happens if a payment is late.

5. How a month runs

Written, asynchronous work is the default. A written plan is ready in the first week of the work: what to build first and what to leave out. After that, every month runs the same way:

• Working software is available every week.
• A written note goes out every Friday, Manila time. It covers what shipped, what changed, and the decisions Kwirita needs from you.
• One 30-minute call a week is for decisions only. It is skipped when there is nothing to decide.

Code and decisions live in your own accounts from day one.

Calls are held from 7 to 9 a.m. Manila time, which is the afternoon in California, and from 9 to 10 p.m. one evening a week, which is the morning in New York.

What gets built first is in the written plan.

6. Canceling and stopping

You can cancel any time. Work continues to the end of the month you have paid for, and nothing renews after it.

You can stop at the end of any month and start again when a slot is open. There is no pause in the middle of a month.

Kwirita can also stop at the end of a month, with at least two weeks’ notice. If Kwirita ends the work before the end of a month you have paid for, section 7 applies.

7. Refunds and credits

If Kwirita ends the work before the end of a month you have paid for, the unused part of that month is refunded, whatever the reason.

The refund is the fee you paid for that month, times the calendar days left, divided by the number of calendar days from the first day of that month to its last. For example, if Kwirita ends the work with a third of a paid month left, a third of that month’s fee is refunded.

The credits for a working session and a first-version review are in section 3. Anything about refunds beyond this is for the written agreement.

8. Ownership and licenses

Once a month is paid, the work from that month passes to you: code, designs, files, and the written decisions.

Kwirita keeps its own tools and general know-how. Where one of them is built into your product, Kwirita gives you a free, permanent license to it.

Parts of the work that are open source keep their own licenses. The same goes for fonts, images, code libraries, and services that belong to someone else: they keep the terms their owners set, and those terms apply to your use of them. Each side is responsible for the licenses to what it supplies (section 12).

9. Confidentiality

What you share stays private, and so does work you have not released. Kwirita signs your reasonable NDA at no extra cost.

10. Your accounts

The work happens in your own accounts, with the least access it needs, so you hold the code and the decisions throughout. The written agreement covers the rest.

11. Showing the work

Your work appears in Kwirita’s portfolio only with your written permission. Without it, Kwirita does not show the work.

12. What each side is responsible for

You are responsible for what you supply. That includes your content, your accounts and the access you give, the decisions you make, and the licenses you hold. You confirm that you have the right to give Kwirita what you provide for the work.

Kwirita is responsible for what it supplies, including the licenses to the tools and materials it brings to your product. What that means for the quality of the work is in sections 13 to 15.

If something you supply, or something Kwirita supplies, turns out to be missing a license it needed, the side that supplied it is responsible for putting that right.

13. Warranty

Kwirita makes one promise about the quality of the work: the bug fix described in section 15. Kwirita makes no other warranty, written or implied, about the work or about this website. Kwirita does not promise that:

• the work will be free of every error;
• your site or service, or this website, will always be available;
• the work will produce a particular result for your business;
• the work will fit any particular purpose of yours.

Apart from the fix described in section 15, the work is provided as it is.

14. Liability

Kwirita’s total liability to you for anything arising from the work or these terms is limited to the fees you paid for the most recent month. The cap does not reduce a refund owed under section 7 or the fix described in section 15.

Neither side is liable to the other for indirect or consequential damages. These are losses that follow from something else going wrong, such as lost profit, lost sales, or lost data.

Nothing here limits a liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

15. After you stop

Everything is meant to be in your accounts, with the decisions in writing for the next person to pick up.

Bugs in the work from your final month, reported within 14 days of its last day, are fixed at no charge. A bug is work that does not do what its Friday note said it does. After those 14 days, help is a working session or a new month. There is no on-call support.

16. Working in writing

The written plan, the Friday notes, and the decisions are written down, so both sides can look back at what was agreed.

Email counts as writing. Notices, written permissions, and agreement to the written plan or a decision can be given by email, and signing the written agreement electronically counts as signing. Kwirita’s address for this is the one named in the written agreement. The address for you is the one you use for the work or name in the written agreement.

17. This website

Reading this website creates no engagement and no agreement between you and Kwirita. An engagement begins with the written agreement.

Sending a message through the contact form does not start the work, and it does not accept or change these terms. What the site collects, how it checks a message, and what it does with it are in Privacy.

The website is provided as it is (section 13). It may be unavailable at times.

18. Changes to these terms

When these terms change, the date at the top changes. A change does not alter a written agreement you have already signed. That agreement stays as it is unless both sides change it in writing.

19. Governing law

The governing law is left to the written agreement.

20. Other terms

The written agreement is the whole agreement between you and Kwirita for the work. It replaces earlier emails, calls, and proposals about the same work, but not a non-disclosure agreement signed under section 9. If that agreement and section 9 differ, that agreement wins.

If one part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies, and that part applies as far as the law allows.

21. Contact

Write through the Contact page. Kwirita works from Manila (UTC+8), and messages come straight to Lance Quejada: “I reply within two working days, Manila time.”