Sponsored Coaching Agreement

This agreement is between Seth Wylie Services, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company, and you, the individual who will attend the sessions. You must be 18 or older, the person actually receiving the coaching, and able to enter this agreement.

Your coaching is sponsored by your employer or another organization (your "Sponsor"), which is paying for the engagement under a separate agreement between me and them. Your Sponsor is not a party to this agreement, and you are not a party to my agreement with your Sponsor. How information flows among the three of us matters, and I describe it in Section 05.

Throughout this agreement, "I," "me," and "my" refer to Seth Wylie Services, LLC — not to Seth Wylie individually. "You" and "your" refer to you, the client.

Our work together is AI coaching — thinking together about your work, what matters to you, and how AI can support both. Sessions combine practical work (setting up tools, explaining features, working through specific AI questions) with exploratory thinking (clarifying what you're trying to accomplish, noticing how you do cognitive work, finding the question underneath the question). Both belong in the same conversation.

Sessions are conducted over video call, on a schedule we arrange together. The number of sessions and the overall cadence of our work are set by my agreement with your Sponsor. We will book individual sessions from that allotment at a pace that works for you.

Brief messages between sessions (such as scheduling logistics, a quick reflection you want me to see before we meet, or a brief technical question) are welcome. I reply within two business days, and not on weekends. If between-session work would take me more than twenty minutes of focused attention, I will tell you before continuing, and we'll figure it out together.

Life happens. If you need to reschedule, please give me at least 24 hours' notice and we will find a new time. If you cancel with less than 24 hours' notice, I will count the session as held against your Sponsor's allotted time — unless something urgent prevents you from attending (such as illness, a family emergency, or a crisis at work), in which case tell me and I will not count the session.

The same courtesy runs in reverse: if I need to reschedule, you will hear from me as early as possible, and I will find a time that works for you.

Sponsored coaching involves three parties: I have an agreement with your Sponsor, who pays for the coaching, and I have a coaching relationship with you. Your Sponsor has separately agreed in writing to a confidentiality structure that mirrors the protections I'm describing here, so what follows is both my promise to you and theirs.

Things of a practical, skill-building, or work-execution nature are not confidential between you and your Sponsor. I may discuss these openly with your Sponsor when relevant — for example: AI tools, techniques, and workflows you are learning or applying; the quality of the work product you produce; project status, blockers, and execution approaches; technical decisions and tradeoffs; capability development and skill progression; and recommendations I might have for resources, training, or process changes.

Things of a personal, developmental, or career-strategic nature are confidential to you, and I will not share them with your Sponsor without your prior consent. This includes your career intent, your satisfaction (or lack of it) with your employment, interpersonal challenges, your mental or emotional state, performance anxieties, and similar personal matters that a reasonable person would expect to remain private in a coaching relationship.

If a disclosure has both a practical and a personal aspect, only the practical aspect may be reported; the personal aspect remains confidential. When in genuine doubt about whether something belongs in either category, I will treat it as personal.

Three exceptions apply: (a) if you give me your prior consent to share something otherwise personal; (b) if I am legally compelled to disclose information (e.g., subpoena or court order); or (c) if I reasonably believe you or someone else is at imminent risk of serious harm, including harm to self. If I ever believe I need to act on the third exception, I will tell you first unless doing so would increase the risk.

My reports to your Sponsor about the coaching may include attendance, engagement, practical content as described above, and generalized themes that do not identify you specifically.

I may also write or speak about patterns I notice across my coaching work. When I do, I will remove names, identifying details, and anything specific enough that a reader who knows you could recognize you. If I want to quote you directly — in writing, marketing, or a conversation — I will ask your written permission first.

My confidentiality obligations to you continue after our engagement ends and do not expire.

Because this is AI coaching, our work will generate material that matters: the substance of our sessions, prompts and configurations we develop together, drafts and context you share with me, and any AI setup we build for your work.

What you bring to coaching that is yours personally — reflections, learning notes, personal explorations — remains yours. What you create for your Sponsor's work is governed by your employment or contracting relationship with your Sponsor, not by this agreement; I make no claim on it.

I treat your materials with care, and use reasonable measures to keep them confidential.

My pre-existing coaching methods, frameworks, and tools remain my intellectual property. You are welcome to apply anything you learn in our work together, but the underlying methodology is not transferred by this agreement.

Coaching is a collaborative endeavor. I bring attentiveness, care, knowledge, skill, and experience; you bring your effort, curiosity, and willingness to engage. I don't guarantee specific outcomes — your results will depend on what you do with the work. I can't guarantee anything about your job, promotion, pay, or how things go with your Sponsor; that's not in my hands.

AI tools are probabilistic and can produce errors, omissions, or confident-sounding mistakes. Anything we build together — prompts, configurations, workflows, drafts, code, or scripts — is for your review and judgment before you rely on it. I don't guarantee that any specific AI tool will remain available or keep behaving the way it did in our session.

The tools and systems we build together run on your devices and under your control after our session ends. You are responsible for how you use them, how you keep them secure, and anything that happens as a result of your use. If your use leads to a claim against me by someone else, you will be responsible for the costs I incur defending against that claim and for any damages I end up owing. Two carve-outs apply: (a) where the claim comes from my own fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct, and (b) where the claim really belongs to your Sponsor under your employment or contracting relationship with them.

Beyond what this agreement specifically says, I make no warranties — express or implied — about the coaching, the materials we create together, or the AI tools we use. Nothing in this paragraph limits any protection that Massachusetts law (including chapter 93A) does not allow me to disclaim.

My total liability to you for anything arising from this agreement is limited to one thousand dollars ($1,000). I am not liable for consequential, incidental, or indirect losses. Nothing in this section limits liability for fraud, intentional misrepresentation, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or claims under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 93A.

Either of us can pause or end our coaching engagement at any time, for any reason, with notice. Notice can be by email to seth@thewildedge.ai (or another email address I provide in writing) or a clear verbal communication during a session.

If your engagement with your Sponsor ends, or my agreement with your Sponsor ends, our coaching ends with it. When I can, I'll offer you a brief closing session if you'd like one.

If circumstances beyond either party's reasonable control — such as serious illness, natural disaster, internet or platform outages, or government action — prevent a session from happening, we will reschedule at the next mutually available time. If the disruption continues for more than sixty days, either of us may end the engagement under Section 09.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Any legal proceedings arising out of or in connection with this agreement shall take place exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and both parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts.

Before any legal proceedings, both parties agree to first attempt to resolve disputes through direct conversation. If direct conversation does not resolve the dispute within thirty days, both parties agree to attempt non-binding mediation with a mutually agreed mediator before pursuing litigation. While we are in direct conversation or mediation under this section, the statute of limitations on any related claim is paused from the date either of us sends written notice of the dispute until thirty days after mediation ends or until one of us withdraws from mediation in writing, whichever comes first. We will share the mediator's fee equally, unless we agree otherwise at the time.

If any provision of this agreement is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. Any invalid provision shall be interpreted or reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable and to preserve the original intent of the parties. This agreement is binding upon and will benefit the parties and their respective heirs, executors, legal representatives, successors, and assigns.

This document is the entire agreement between us about coaching, and it replaces any earlier conversations, emails, or proposals on the same subject. We can change it for future sessions by written agreement; an email exchange counts as written. Any notice under this agreement should be sent by email to the address in Section 09. Neither of us may assign this agreement to someone else, except that I may assign it to a successor entity that takes over my practice. If I don't enforce a provision in one instance, that doesn't mean I've given up the right to enforce it later. Section headings are for convenience and don't affect interpretation.

I am an independent contractor. Nothing in this agreement creates an employment, partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship between us.

Your acknowledgment of this agreement through the coaching intake form (or other clear assent communicated to me before substantive coaching begins) constitutes acceptance of this agreement in the form displayed at the time of acknowledgment. If these terms are updated for future clients, your engagement remains bound by the version accepted at the time of intake. By checking the box and engaging in coaching, you are signing this agreement electronically; your electronic acceptance has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature under the federal ESIGN Act and the Massachusetts Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.