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Professional commercial terms

You never pay IT Modality for access to work.

There is no professional fee to apply, complete The Rigors, enter the network, appear on a permissioned client shortlist, or accept an engagement.

ForExperienced independent professionals

FocusAssessment, readiness, engagement operations, and support

The no-fee rule covers the complete professional path.

  • no application fee;

  • no assessment or re-evaluation fee;

  • no network-admission or membership fee;

  • no shortlist, matching, placement, or introduction fee;

  • no engagement-activation fee; and

  • no requirement to buy Academy education before assessment or client consideration.

If a workflow asks a professional to pay for access, advancement, a better score, network status, a client introduction, or an engagement, it is outside IT Modality's operating model and should be reported through professional support.

Rates follow the role and the evidence.

An engagement-specific professional rate is set from:

  • the role and responsibility boundary;

  • demonstrated seniority and evidence;

  • domain and operating complexity;

  • the market band for the work;

  • the unit, duration, service window, location, and working conditions; and

  • the actual scope, risk, and acceptance requirements.

Personal urgency, nationality, Academy enrollment, scholarship status, and course history are not rate inputs.

The rate and unit are written before commitment alongside the currency, approval evidence, invoice sequence, payment event, FX treatment, transfer-fee allocation, expenses, correction path, and remittance record.

An agreed rate stays attributable.

IT Modality does not reduce an agreed professional rate because a client later negotiates IT Modality's commercial rate down.

Any later change to the professional's rate or unit requires the applicable written change process and the professional's agreement. It cannot be introduced through a portal display, informal message, or silent deduction.

The public boundary is deliberate.

This page does not publish professional rates, client prices, spread, take-rate, margin, margin cap, workload, hours, duration, or expected income. Those facts either belong to a specific written engagement or are not promises the model makes.

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