Terms & Conditions

The terms governing use of www.honistee.com and engagements with Honistee LLC.

1. Acceptance

By using www.honistee.com, booking a call, or engaging Honistee LLC ("Honistee," "we," "us") for services, you ("client," "you") agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site or engage our services.

2. Services

Honistee provides operator-led consulting across operations, revenue, infrastructure, and AI. Specific deliverables, timelines, and fees for any engagement are governed by the published engagement tiers at www.honistee.com/services, a Statement of Work (SOW), or another written agreement signed by both parties. Consulting deliverables are business advice; they are not legal, tax, accounting, medical, or regulatory-compliance advice, and where an engagement touches those areas we say so and bring in a licensed specialist, quoted separately and disclosed in advance.

3. Engagement structure and minimums

• Standalone advisory calls — one-off working sessions priced at the published hourly rate. Pre-payment is required to hold the time. Retainer clients have advisory calls included at no additional charge.
• Retainer tiers (Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3) — require a 3-month minimum. Guidance, access, and network introductions only deliver value across a runway.
• Diagnostic projects — fixed scope and fixed price, agreed at kickoff.
• Custom-scoped consulting projects outside the published Starter packages carry a $5,000 minimum. Starter packages are fixed-scope and priced as listed.

The engagement tiers in effect at the time you sign an engagement are the ones that apply to that engagement.

4. Network introductions

Some introductions and referrals made through the Honistee network — not all — carry a commission paid to Honistee, depending on what the introduced party provides to your business. We make the introduction because it serves the engagement; the commission never decides who we put in front of you.

5. Payment

• Advisory calls: pre-payment in full at booking.
• Retainers: monthly in advance unless otherwise agreed in writing.
• Projects and Starter packages: terms specified in the SOW or estimate (often a deposit on signing and the balance on completion or per milestone).

Late payments may pause work and accrue reasonable late fees as specified in the engagement agreement.

6. Confidentiality

We treat all non-public client information as confidential. We do not share, sell, or use client information for any purpose outside of delivering the engagement. Mutual confidentiality terms are typically formalized in the engagement agreement. We reference our work with you publicly — including any case study — only with your written permission.

7. Intellectual property

Pre-existing frameworks, methodologies, tools, software, and templates ("Honistee IP") used during an engagement remain our property. Final deliverables created specifically for you under an engagement become your property upon full payment, except where the engagement agreement specifies otherwise. We retain the right to use generalized learnings, anonymized observations, and improvements to our IP that arise during the work.

8. No guarantees of results

Consulting and advisory services are inherently advisory. We bring our experience, judgment, and frameworks to your situation in good faith. We do not guarantee specific business outcomes, revenue results, regulatory outcomes, or financial returns. Decisions you make based on our guidance are your decisions.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Honistee's total liability for any claim arising out of an engagement is limited to the fees paid by you to Honistee for the specific services giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, regardless of the legal theory of the claim.

10. Termination

Either party may terminate an engagement in writing. Notice periods, refund terms, and payment for work completed are governed by the specific engagement agreement. Retainer engagements may not be terminated below the minimum committed term except by mutual agreement.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Honistee against claims, losses, and expenses arising from your use of our advice or deliverables in ways that violate law, infringe third-party rights, or breach agreements you have with others.

12. Website use

You may not use the site to send unlawful, abusive, or automated submissions, to probe or disrupt its security, or to scrape its contents for resale. The site is provided "as is"; we aim for accuracy but do not warrant that every page is error-free.

13. Governing law and disputes

These terms and any engagement are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois, unless the engagement agreement specifies otherwise (including any agreed arbitration provision).

14. Changes

We may update these terms. Material changes are reflected in the version and dates above. Continued use of the site or continuation of an engagement after a material change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

15. Contact

danny@honistee.com

These terms are operator-drafted and provided as a reasonable baseline. They are not legal advice.