No open contracts
There is no standing roster and no open req today. The account funds this as it fills, and the first contracts go out when the member count carries them.
This page is the working detail behind 50% of Vers Capital. It describes how paid work is scoped, priced and invoiced when the account carries it, so that the first contract is not also the first time anybody writes the rules down.
What this share pays for
Contract work on the platform itself. Four kinds, in rough order of how often we expect to need them:
- Design, build and front-end work on the storefront.
- Photography, styling and production on house drops.
- Copy, moderation and community work.
- Anything we would otherwise have paid an agency to do.
The test is simple. If we would have paid an agency or a freelancer outside the community to do it, it is work this account should buy from inside the community instead.
How work is scoped
Every contract is a fixed scope at a fixed fee. Not hourly, not retainer, not equity, not revenue share. The reason is that an hourly rate makes a DØLL carry the risk of our own vagueness, and a fixed fee makes us carry it.
| Stage | What happens | Who owns it |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | One page. What gets delivered, in what format, and the one sentence that defines done. | PTD writes it, you agree it or send it back |
| Fee | Fixed, agreed before any work starts, in writing. | Both |
| Milestones | Anything over a couple of weeks splits into two or three, each with its own deliverable and its own payment. | PTD proposes, you adjust |
| Sign-off | One named person accepts or asks for a revision. Not a committee, not a vibe. | PTD |
| Revisions | Two rounds inside the fee. Beyond that the scope changed, which means a new scope and a new fee. | Both |
If the scope changes mid-contract, the fee changes with it. Scope creep absorbed by the contractor is a pay cut with extra steps.
Rates
What is decided: rates are the same whoever is asking, they are stated before work starts, and they are not negotiated downward on the basis that the platform is mission-driven. A discount extracted on the strength of the mission is the thing this account exists to stop.
How to be considered
There is no application form, because there is nothing to apply to yet. What there is: a list. Send zo@studiozonyc.com a link to your work, the two or three things off the list above you actually want to be called about, and where you are. Three lines is enough. No deck, no cover letter.
It sits on the list until a scope exists that matches it. We do not keep a ranking and there is no queue position to ask about, because the trigger is a piece of work appearing, not a place in a line.
Invoicing and terms
- You invoice us. We do not issue self-billing documents on your behalf.
- Net 14 from the date we accept the deliverable, not from the date you send the invoice.
- Milestone payments are released per milestone, not held to the end of the contract.
- You are a contractor, not an employee, and you keep your own tax position. We do not withhold.
- You keep the right to show the work. A contract that buys silence is not one we want.
What this is not
- Not a stipend. It is payment for a defined deliverable.
- Not exposure. A credit is not part of the fee and never replaces it.
- Not equity. Nobody is paid in a stake in the company.
- Not spec. We do not ask for the work before deciding whether to pay for it.
- Not a job. There is no headcount here and this page does not describe employment.
When this opens
It is a function of the member count and nothing else. The account is funded by CLUB dues, 50% of it is earmarked here, and the first contracts go out when that share covers one. The allocation model on the Vers Capital page runs the arithmetic at a few different member counts, so you can see the same numbers we are looking at.