Vendors · 06 terms · standing process
Policies & Procedures
How working with Marshall Media works, for the people who do the work. Every term below is stated before you accept a project, never after you deliver one.
The short version
- Non-exclusive. You are never signed away from anybody else.
- Paid on NET terms out of the project budget, at a number you saw before you accepted.
- Three documents for everyone: an NDA, a non-compete and an independent contractor agreement.
This describes the standing process. It is not the agreement — the agreement is the one you sign for the project.
The terms, up front.
Non-exclusive
We do not sign talent exclusively. Work comes project by project, and you keep every other client, every other agency and every other room you already move in. Nothing you sign here closes a door somewhere else.
NET payment, out of the project budget
Your fee is paid from the project’s budget on NET terms. You see the number and the payment terms in the offer, before you accept — not after you deliver.
NDA
Three documents come with the roster, the same three for everyone, and the application asks you to accept or decline each one before there is a project to talk about. This is the first of them. You get briefed on real client material, some of it under agreements that make the client unnameable in public, and the NDA is what lets us brief you properly instead of in hints.
Non-compete
The one edge on the non-exclusive term above, and it is a document rather than an understanding. You read what it covers before you accept it, and the application asks in writing instead of assuming. Declining is a real answer, asked while there is still nothing scheduled.
Independent contractor agreement
You engage as a contractor, not an employee — your own schedule, your own equipment, your own business, and every other client you already have. The third document states that outright, so neither side is inferring the shape of the arrangement a year into it.
Screened for fit, not only for skill
A reel gets you read. How you operate is what gets you on — standards, conduct on the day something goes wrong, and whether any of this means anything to you past the invoice. The answer is often no, and it is not personal: the people who clear it are the ones we intend to keep calling.
What the roster is for.
Steady, serious work that repeats. Scoped before you arrive, with usage and payment settled in writing instead of negotiated afterwards, and enough of it that the work funds the life rather than the other way around.
Time back is the point. A booked project is how it arrives.
How it runs.
Step 01
Apply
One application, on the vendor host. What you do, where you do it, and the work that proves it.
Step 02
Screening
We read the work, then we look at how you operate. Skill is the easy half.
Step 03
Terms
The engagement terms above, accepted or declined one at a time, before anything is scheduled.
Step 04
Work
Scoped, crewed and dated by a lead who carries the project. Deliver, invoice, get paid, get called again.
This is process, not law.
Nothing here varies a signed agreement, and nothing here is one. Engagement terms live in the agreement you sign for the project. Site rules are in the terms of service, and what we do with your information is in the privacy policy.
A term here you want to talk about first — intel@marshallmedia.io