Employer Placement Agreement

1. Parties

SprintPivot Ltd ("SprintPivot") — career transition platform operator
The Employer/Recruiter ("you", "the Client") — the organisation or individual registered to access talent via the platform

2. What SprintPivot Provides to Employers

• Project sandbox access: Post fractional business projects to attract and test pre-qualified candidates
• Anonymised candidate pool: Browse candidates ranked solely by performance score — names, universities, and demographic data are never shown
• AI + mentor-vetted submissions: Every submission you see has been graded by AI and signed off by a specialist mentor
• Interview invitation management: One-click invitation with ATS integration support
• Automated invoicing: Placement fee invoices generated automatically on hire confirmation

3. Placement Fees

Fee item	Detail
Placement fee	15% of the candidate's confirmed first-year gross salary
Trigger event	Your "Confirm Hire" action on the SprintPivot platform
Invoice delivery	By email to your registered billing address on the date of hire confirmation
Payment terms	30 days from invoice date
Payment method	BACS bank transfer or debit card (Stripe)
Currency	GBP (£ Sterling)
VAT	SprintPivot is registered for VAT. VAT will be added to invoices at the prevailing rate where applicable
Late payment	Interest charged at 8% above Bank of England base rate under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 1998

3.1 Salary definition

For the purpose of this agreement, "first-year gross salary" means the basic annual salary agreed in the offer letter, excluding any bonus, commission, equity, pension, or benefits in kind. If salary is not disclosed at the time of hire confirmation, a default figure of £35,000 will be used to calculate the fee, with true-up payable upon disclosure.

3.2 Replacement guarantee

If a placed candidate leaves within 8 weeks of starting (through no fault of the employer), SprintPivot will provide a replacement search at no additional placement fee. This guarantee applies once per placement, and requires notification within 5 working days of the candidate's departure.

4. Your Obligations

4.1 Fair and lawful hiring

• You must evaluate candidates solely on their SprintPivot performance data and project portfolio
• You must not attempt to identify candidates using information that could reveal protected characteristics
• You must comply with all applicable employment and equality legislation when making hiring decisions
• You must provide accurate salary information when confirming a hire

4.2 Project quality

• Projects you post must be genuine business challenges relevant to the skill area selected
• Project briefs must not contain confidential proprietary information or trade secrets
• You must not use candidate submissions for any commercial purpose beyond evaluation
• You must not copy, reproduce, or build upon candidate work without their explicit consent post-hire

4.3 Data handling

Upon hire confirmation, SprintPivot will share the candidate's personal details with you for the purpose of completing the employment process. You become an independent data controller for that candidate's data from that point, and must handle it in accordance with UK GDPR.

5. SprintPivot's Obligations to Employers

• Provide access to a pool of candidates who have completed real projects, been AI-graded, and mentor-approved
• Maintain the anonymisation of candidate profiles until hire confirmation
• Respond to account and billing queries within 3 working days
• Provide platform access with 99.5% uptime (excluding scheduled maintenance)
• Keep your company information and project briefs confidential

6. Prohibited Uses

You must not use the SprintPivot platform to:

• Post fictitious or misleading projects intended to extract business insights without intent to hire
• Access candidate data for any purpose other than evaluating and hiring talent
• Build tools that compete with SprintPivot using platform data
• Circumvent the platform to hire a candidate you discovered through SprintPivot without paying the placement fee (see clause 7)

7. Off-Platform Hiring

If you hire, engage, or contract with any candidate you first identified through SprintPivot (whether via the candidate pool, a submitted project, or an invitation) outside of the platform's hire confirmation process, the full 15% placement fee remains payable. This obligation applies for 12 months from the date you first viewed the candidate's SprintPivot profile.

8. Intellectual Property

SprintPivot retains all intellectual property in the platform, ranking methodology, AI models, and skill frameworks. You do not acquire any licence to the platform technology beyond what is strictly necessary to use the service as described in this agreement.

9. Term and Termination

This agreement continues until terminated by either party with 30 days' written notice. Termination does not affect:

• Outstanding placement fee obligations already triggered
• The off-platform hiring clause (clause 7)
• Any other obligation that by its nature survives termination

10. Limitation of Liability

SprintPivot's total liability to the Client shall not exceed fees received from the Client in the 12 months preceding the claim. SprintPivot is not liable for the conduct or suitability of any candidate placed through the platform. Hiring decisions remain entirely at the Client's discretion and risk.

11. Compliance with Employment Law

You are solely responsible for ensuring all employment offers, contracts, and employment relationships entered into as a result of a SprintPivot introduction comply with UK employment law, including but not limited to the Employment Rights Act 1996, Working Time Regulations 1998, National Minimum Wage Act 1998, and the Equality Act 2010.

12. Governing Law

This agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes.

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