Contracting
How the house contracts.
Formation and paper
Every other page in the house names brands and relationships only. This one names the paper, because a counterparty checking who they are actually contracting with should not have to read marketing copy to find out.
| contracting entity | automata international inc — california |
|---|---|
| holding company | normnco llc — minnesota, est. 2018 |
| dba | aish records, a dba of automata international |
| practices | standard automata · automata studio · aeto labs · vibecom |
On request
produced for any counterparty with a reason to need it:
- w-9 and taxpayer identification
- certificate of insurance, naming the requester as certificate holder
- security and data handling questionnaire
- references
ask and it is sent. none of it is published here, and that is deliberate — a certificate names its holder for a reason.
Confidentiality and data
client names do not appear in our work. we name sectors.
read only, until you say otherwise. nothing is changed in your works during the intro.
these pages make no third-party requests, set no cookies, and run no analytics.
How an engagement starts
Through Standard Automata, in three steps: a twenty-minute fit check, a one-week baseline review at a fixed fee, then either a project or the retainer. Thirty days’ notice, both directions.
The scope, the boundary and the price are published rather than quoted on request — it qualifies both of us before anyone spends a call on it.
we do not resell tooling. we hold no vendor margin, so the recommendation is the recommendation.
a thin margin of growth, held to pay the people doing the work better than convention does. that is the sustainability clause.