The deal, in writing. Plain-English summary first, legal language second — both say the same thing.
The short version: these terms are between you and MAD1SON FOUNDRY. Using this site or our services means you accept them.
These Terms of Service govern your use of mad1sonfoundry.com and, together with any signed engagement agreement, the services provided by MAD1SON FOUNDRY, with offices at 600 West Broadway, Suite 700, San Diego, CA 92101 and 521 5th Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10175 (“MAD1SON FOUNDRY,” “we,” “us”). Our full legal entity details appear in every signed engagement agreement. If a signed engagement agreement conflicts with these terms, the signed agreement wins.
The short version: we provide marketing services in three published tiers, and every engagement starts with a free founder-signed audit.
We provide marketing services — including SEO, AEO, GEO, paid media management, branding, content, web design, and related work — in the tiers described on our pricing page: Foundry Core, Foundry Growth, and Foundry Enterprise. The specific scope of any engagement is what's written in your engagement agreement and tier definition, not what's implied elsewhere. The founder-signed Rapid Audit is provided free of charge and creates no obligation on either side.
The short version: you pay the monthly tier fee to us. Ad spend goes from your card straight to Google, Meta, and the rest — we never touch it or mark it up.
Fees are the monthly amounts stated in your engagement agreement, invoiced in advance. Advertising spend is always separate: paid directly by you to the advertising platforms on your own billing, with no markup or margin added by us. Work is delivered for paid periods; if an invoice is unpaid past its terms, work pauses at the end of the last paid period. You are responsible for applicable taxes.
The short version: the promise on our pricing page, formalized: everything we build for you belongs to you — reports, dashboards, configurations, content, and your data history.
Upon payment, you own the deliverables we create for your engagement: reports, dashboards and their configurations, content, schema and site changes, creative assets, and the historical performance data accumulated during the engagement. Wherever practical we build in accounts and properties you own from day one. At the end of an engagement we hand over or disconnect per our access log — departure is a checklist, not a negotiation.
The short version: the machine that produces your deliverables — Foundry OS™, Foundry Metrics™, Campaign Intelligence™, our methods and tooling — remains our property.
Foundry OS™, Foundry Metrics™, Campaign Intelligence™, Foundry OS Messaging™, and our underlying methodologies, software, templates, prompts, and know-how are and remain the exclusive property of MAD1SON FOUNDRY. You get the benefit of these systems during your engagement and you keep their outputs (Section 4); you do not acquire the systems themselves or any license to operate them outside the engagement.
The short version: timely access to your accounts, accurate information, and — if we run SMS for you — a customer list with real consent behind it.
Effective delivery depends on you providing timely account access, accurate business information, and prompt review of items awaiting your approval. For Foundry OS Messaging engagements: you warrant that the contact lists you provide were collected with proper consent for SMS outreach, and that information you give us about your customers is lawful for us to use on your behalf. We implement opt-out handling, quiet hours, and batch-approval controls; the lawfulness of the underlying list is your responsibility.
The short version: we measure everything and guarantee our effort and process — but nobody can guarantee a specific Google ranking or AI citation, and we won't pretend otherwise.
Search engines, AI answer engines, and advertising platforms are third parties we do not control. We do not guarantee specific rankings, citations, traffic levels, or revenue outcomes. What we commit to: executing the agreed scope with professional skill, measuring results honestly against baselines, and reporting them weekly — wins and losses alike. Historical results shown on this site, including verified client figures, are real but do not promise your outcome.
Each party will protect the other’s non-public information with at least the care it uses for its own, and use it only for the engagement. We never share one client’s data or strategy with another. Public case studies are published only with the client’s permission or with identifying details removed.
The short version: our total liability is capped at what you paid us in the three months before the problem, and neither of us is liable for indirect damages. A lawyer should calibrate this section to your risk profile.
To the maximum extent permitted by law: neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or revenue; and the total aggregate liability of MAD1SON FOUNDRY arising out of or relating to the services is limited to the fees you actually paid us in the three (3) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
The short version: your engagement agreement sets the term. When it ends, you get the handover, we get paid for work done, and everyone keeps their reputation.
Engagements run per their agreements. On termination for any reason: amounts owed for delivered periods remain payable, we complete the asset handover described in Section 4, and each party returns or stops using the other’s confidential information. Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, and 11 survive termination.
For client engagements, the contracting entity, governing law, and dispute venue are set out in your signed engagement agreement — in writing, where they belong. For questions about these website terms, contact us first at info@mad1sonfoundry.com; most things resolve with an email.
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