A lightweight freelance agreement covering scope, included revision rounds, payment with a deposit, and a kill fee for early cancellation. Use it for short project engagements that need clear, simple terms.
This agreement covers a freelance project in plain terms: what will be delivered, how many revision rounds are included, how and when the freelancer is paid, and what happens if the project is cancelled before completion. It is written for short, well-defined engagements and deliberately keeps the terms light.
Client company name (the "Client") engages Freelancer full name (the "Freelancer") for the following project: Project scope description.
If the Client cancels the project before completion for reasons other than the Freelancer's material breach, the Client pays for work completed to date plus a kill fee of Kill fee percentage of the remaining project fee. The deposit counts toward these amounts and is otherwise non-refundable. The kill fee reflects reserved time and turned-down work; it applies whether the cancellation is for budget, timing, or a change of direction on the Client's side.
The Freelancer is an independent contractor: they work with their own equipment, set their own schedule around the agreed deadlines, and handle their own taxes and insurance. Each party keeps the other's non-public information confidential and uses it only for this project; this obligation survives the agreement. Confidential information does not include information that is already public or already lawfully known to the receiving party.
Either party may end the agreement immediately if the other materially breaches it and does not fix the breach within a reasonable period after written notice. On any early end, the Freelancer hands over the completed and in-progress work covered by the amounts paid. The parties will try to resolve any disagreement directly and in good faith before taking formal steps.
Freelancer: ✍ Freelancer signature Date: Freelancer signature date
For the Client: ✍ Client signature Date: Client signature date
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