ROYALTY SPEAKS PITCH READY AGREEMENT

1. Program Description

The Royalty Speaks Pitch Ready Program (“Program”) is a four-week live group training and preparation program designed to help participants strengthen how they communicate their businesses for pitch competitions.

The Program may include:

·  live group instruction;

·  participant workbook exercises;

·  pitch-structure guidance;

·  pitch-deck structure and development guidance;

·  business-case and competition-readiness guidance;

·  competition application guidance and preparation;

·  Q&A preparation;

·  mock pitch presentation and live group feedback;

·  an AI Pitch Competition Finder prompt or related search tools;

·  checklists, frameworks, worksheets, examples, and other educational resources.

The specific Program dates, times, format, price, payment options, and inclusions are those stated on the applicable checkout page, invoice, receipt, or written Program description.

2. Group Program; No Private Coaching or Done-for-You Services

Client understands that Pitch Ready is a live group training and facilitation program.

Unless expressly included in Client’s purchase in writing, the Program does not include:

·  private coaching or consulting;

·  private application review or application writing;

·  private pitch review or pitch rewriting;

·  done-for-you pitch development;

·  done-for-you pitch-deck creation or design;

·  private financial-modeling services;

·  private market research;

·  individualized feedback between sessions;

·  one-on-one meetings or make-up sessions; or

·  submission of any application, pitch, deck, grant, funding request, or competition entry on Client’s behalf.

Royalty Speaks may provide examples, demonstrations, selected participant hot-seat opportunities, and live feedback during scheduled group sessions. Client is not guaranteed individual coaching, individualized review, or equal hot-seat time during every session.

3. Participant Responsibilities

Client is responsible for completing Client’s own workbook exercises, research, application responses, pitch drafts, pitch deck, rehearsals, supporting materials, and final submissions.

Client remains solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, legality, originality, and appropriateness of all information Client provides or presents, including business claims, revenue figures, customer counts, projections, market-size data, competitor information, financial metrics, testimonials, statistics, intellectual property, and other factual statements.

If Client does not know or cannot verify a fact, number, source, deadline, eligibility requirement, or competition rule, Client is responsible for verifying it before relying on or submitting it.

Royalty Speaks’ discussion, review, examples, or feedback do not constitute independent verification or approval of Client’s information.

4. Competition Applications and Eligibility

Pitch Ready may provide education and guidance concerning common competition application questions, how to organize business information, and how to strengthen responses.

Client is responsible for independently reviewing and complying with the official rules, eligibility requirements, geographic restrictions, deadlines, application instructions, pitch format, slide requirements, prize terms, tax implications, and other requirements of each competition.

Royalty Speaks does not control third-party competitions and does not guarantee that Client is eligible for, will be accepted into, will be selected to pitch at, or will receive any benefit from any competition.

Client is solely responsible for submitting Client’s own application and materials on time and through the correct official channel.

Royalty Speaks is not responsible for monitoring competition deadlines, reminding Client to apply, confirming eligibility, paying application fees, registering Client, arranging travel, or covering travel, lodging, entry fees, taxes, or other competition-related expenses unless expressly stated in writing as part of Client’s purchase.

5. AI Pitch Competition Finder and Third-Party Information

The Program may include an AI Pitch Competition Finder prompt, search framework, links, examples, or similar tools intended to help Client identify potential pitch competition opportunities.

Artificial intelligence tools and third-party websites may produce incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, unavailable, duplicated, or inapplicable information. Royalty Speaks does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, availability, or current status of any AI-generated or third-party information.

Client must independently verify each opportunity through the official competition organizer or official competition website before applying, paying a fee, traveling, sharing confidential information, or relying on any deadline, prize, eligibility criterion, or event detail.

6. Private Group Chat and Between-Session Communication

Royalty Speaks may provide participants with access to a private group chat or designated communication channel during the Program.

The group communication channel may be used for Program announcements, reminders, community connection, encouragement, and brief Program-related questions or clarification.

The group communication channel does not include private coaching, detailed application review, deck review, pitch rewriting, financial review, lengthy document review, individualized consulting, guaranteed immediate responses, or unlimited access to the facilitator.

Questions requiring substantial review, coaching, or discussion may be redirected to a scheduled group session. Participants should use the designated Program channel rather than contacting the facilitator privately unless specifically invited to do so.

Royalty Speaks does not guarantee that any private group chat will remain available after completion of the Program.

7. Attendance and Missed Sessions

Client is responsible for attending scheduled Program sessions.

A missed session does not create a right to:

·  a refund;

·  account credit;

·  reduced payment;

·  private make-up session;

·  one-on-one replacement session;

·  Program extension;

·  automatic transfer to another cohort; or

·  individualized replacement instruction.

If session recordings are made available, they are provided as a courtesy unless expressly guaranteed as part of Client’s purchase. Client remains responsible for catching up on missed Program material.

8. No Refunds

Due to the live nature of the Program, limited enrollment, access to proprietary curriculum and materials, and resources reserved for each participant, all payments are non-refundable, except where otherwise required by applicable law.

Failure to attend, participate, complete assignments, complete an application, complete a pitch, complete a deck, apply to a competition, use Program materials, or fully utilize the Program does not create a right to a refund.

Client’s decision to discontinue participation does not create a right to a refund or cancel any remaining payment obligation.

9. Installment Payment Plans

If Client selects an installment payment plan, Client agrees to pay the full Program investment.

An installment plan is a payment arrangement for the full purchase price. It is not a pay-as-you-attend arrangement, month-to-month membership, or cancel-anytime subscription.

Client’s obligation to make all remaining scheduled payments continues even if Client stops attending, withdraws, becomes inactive, misses sessions, fails to participate, fails to complete assignments, fails to complete Client’s application, pitch, or deck, fails to use Program materials, experiences a scheduling conflict, is not selected for a competition, decides not to apply to a competition, or decides not to continue.

Failure to attend or participate does not cancel, reduce, suspend, or delay any remaining payment obligation.

10. Past-Due Payments and Program Access

Client must remain current on all scheduled payments in order to continue participating in the Program.

If a scheduled installment is not successfully paid when due, Royalty Speaks may immediately suspend Client’s access to live Program sessions, Program recordings, Program materials, the private group chat, and other Program resources or benefits.

Client may not continue attending or participating in Program sessions while the account is past due unless Royalty Speaks expressly authorizes continued participation in writing.

Suspension of access does not cancel, reduce, suspend, or otherwise eliminate Client’s obligation to pay the remaining balance owed under the installment plan.

Once the past-due amount is paid and the account is brought current, Royalty Speaks may restore access to the remaining Program sessions and resources, subject to the existing Program schedule.

Royalty Speaks is not required to provide private make-up sessions, additional sessions, extensions, or replacement instruction for Program time missed because Client’s account was past due.

Royalty Speaks reserves the right to pursue any unpaid balance and remedies available under this Agreement and applicable law.

11. Cohort Transfers

Enrollment applies to the specific cohort purchased.

Client does not have an automatic right to transfer to another cohort because of missed sessions, scheduling conflicts, withdrawal, travel, illness, work obligations, personal circumstances, failure to participate, competition scheduling, or non-selection by a competition.

Royalty Speaks may approve an exception or accommodation at its discretion.

An accommodation provided to one participant does not create an obligation to provide the same accommodation to another participant.

12. Program Schedule Changes

Royalty Speaks may reasonably adjust a Program session date, time, facilitator, delivery platform, or Program schedule when necessary.

If Royalty Speaks reschedules a session, Company will make reasonable efforts to provide a replacement session or reasonable alternative.

A reasonable scheduling modification does not constitute cancellation of the Program and does not create a right to a refund.

13. Events Beyond Company’s Reasonable Control

Royalty Speaks will not be considered in breach of this Agreement for delay, interruption, rescheduling, or inability to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including severe weather, natural disaster, public-health emergency, government action, widespread technology or internet outage, platform failure, labor disruption, venue or supplier failure, or similar events. When reasonably practicable, Royalty Speaks will make reasonable efforts to provide a rescheduled session, substitute delivery method, or other reasonable alternative.

14. Intellectual Property

All Royalty Speaks Program materials remain the intellectual property of Royalty Speaks, LLC.

This includes, without limitation:

·  participant workbooks;

·  Royalty Speaks frameworks and methodologies;

·  worksheets and exercises;

·  AI prompts developed for the Program;

·  templates and checklists;

·  teaching slides;

·  training materials;

·  session recordings;

·  facilitator-created resources;

·  written instructional materials; and

·  other proprietary Program content.

Client receives a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use participant materials for Client’s own business and professional development.

Client may freely use Client’s own original business information, application responses, pitch, deck, stories, ideas, expertise, branding, financial information, and presentation content for Client’s own business purposes.

Client may not, without prior written permission from Royalty Speaks, copy or reproduce Royalty Speaks materials for others, distribute or publicly share Program materials, sell Program materials, upload Program materials publicly, share Program materials with non-participants, teach or sell the Royalty Speaks curriculum as Client’s own program, sublicense Program materials, or create substantially derivative commercial training programs from Royalty Speaks proprietary materials.

15. Program Access and Sharing

Program enrollment is for the registered Client only.

Client may not share meeting links, passwords, access credentials, workbooks, recordings, prompts, digital materials, or other restricted Program resources with unauthorized individuals.

Unauthorized sharing may result in suspension or termination of Client’s Program access without refund.

16. Group Confidentiality

Participants may share confidential or non-public business information during Program sessions, including business ideas, pricing, customer information, financial information, strategies, pitch drafts, deck content, intellectual property, and application materials.

Client agrees to respect the privacy and confidentiality of other participants.

Client may not, without the applicable participant’s permission, record another participant, publicly disclose another participant’s confidential information, publish another participant’s unfinished pitch or deck, screenshot and distribute private participant communications, reproduce another participant’s proprietary ideas, or publicly share another participant’s confidential Program content.

Royalty Speaks cannot guarantee that every participant will comply with confidentiality obligations. Client should use discretion when choosing what confidential or proprietary information to disclose in a group setting.

17. Session Recordings

Royalty Speaks may record Program sessions for educational, administrative, quality-assurance, or participant-access purposes.

Client understands that Client’s name, voice, image, comments, questions, pitch, presentation, screen share, or participation may appear in such recordings.

Recordings made available to participants are for enrolled participants’ personal educational use only and may not be publicly distributed, reproduced, sold, or shared with unauthorized individuals.

Any separate public promotional use of identifiable participant footage will be subject to applicable permission or authorization.

18. Client Business Content and Third-Party Rights

Client remains responsible for the accuracy, legality, originality, and appropriateness of Client’s business, application, pitch, deck, and supporting materials.

This includes Client’s stories, business claims, financial representations, statistics, quotations, images, logos, testimonials, customer information, case studies, market research, competitor comparisons, intellectual property, and third-party content.

Royalty Speaks’ discussion, review, or feedback does not constitute legal review, accounting review, securities review, fact-checking, copyright clearance, trademark clearance, tax advice, or approval of Client’s content.

Client remains responsible for obtaining any permissions, licenses, consents, or rights required for third-party material Client chooses to use.

19. No Guarantee of Competition or Business Results

Royalty Speaks provides education, guidance, frameworks, feedback, tools, and practice designed to help Client prepare for pitch competitions.

Royalty Speaks does not guarantee that participation in the Program will result in:

·  eligibility for any competition;

·  acceptance of any application;

·  selection to pitch;

·  advancement to any round;

·  winning or placing in any competition;

·  prize money or non-dilutive funding;

·  investment or investor interest;

·  grants;

·  loans or other financing;

·  customers, contracts, partnerships, or sales;

·  revenue or profit;

·  media coverage or publicity;

·  business growth; or

·  any particular professional, financial, or competition outcome.

Competition and business outcomes depend on numerous factors outside Royalty Speaks’ control, including Client’s business, eligibility, stage, market, numbers, execution, application quality, pitch quality, deck quality, competition rules, judging criteria, other competitors, judge discretion, timing, and Client’s preparation and performance.

20. Financial, Investment, Legal, and Professional Disclaimer

Pitch Ready is provided for educational, communication, business-presentation, and professional-development purposes.

Nothing provided through the Program constitutes legal, financial, tax, accounting, securities, investment, grant-writing, fundraising, valuation, medical, mental-health, or other licensed professional advice.

Royalty Speaks does not act as Client’s attorney, accountant, financial advisor, investment advisor, broker, agent, grant writer, fundraiser, or representative.

Client should seek appropriate independent professional advice when necessary, particularly regarding financial statements, taxes, securities, investments, contracts, intellectual property, fundraising, valuations, and legal compliance.

21. Third-Party Platforms, Competitions, and Services

The Program may reference or use third-party platforms, websites, AI services, video-conferencing services, payment processors, competition portals, or other external services.

Royalty Speaks is not responsible for third-party outages, changes in terms, platform errors, removed competitions, changed deadlines, changed prize amounts, cancelled events, data practices, eligibility decisions, judging decisions, or other acts or omissions of third parties.

Client’s use of third-party services is subject to the applicable third party’s own terms and policies.

22. Professional Conduct

Client agrees to participate professionally and respectfully.

Royalty Speaks may suspend or remove a participant whose conduct is abusive, threatening, discriminatory, harassing, dangerous, fraudulent, materially disruptive, or substantially interfering with another participant’s experience or Royalty Speaks’ ability to provide the Program.

Except where otherwise required by applicable law, removal for violation of this provision does not create a right to a refund or eliminate any remaining payment obligation.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Royalty Speaks, LLC and its owners, employees, contractors, representatives, agents, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost opportunities, lost prize money, lost funding, lost investment, lost revenue, lost business, travel expenses, application expenses, or competition-related expenses arising from or related to the Program.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Royalty Speaks’ total aggregate liability arising from the Program will not exceed the amount actually paid by Client to Royalty Speaks for the Program.

Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that legally cannot be limited under applicable law.

24. Payment Disputes and Chargebacks

Client agrees not to initiate an improper payment dispute, chargeback, payment reversal, or similar claim for Program services that have been delivered, provided, accessed, or made available in accordance with this Agreement.

Before initiating a payment dispute, Client agrees to provide written notice to Royalty Speaks describing the issue and allow Royalty Speaks at least five (5) business days to review and attempt to address the matter.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Client may be responsible for reasonable chargeback fees, administrative costs, and third-party processing expenses incurred by Royalty Speaks as a result of an improper payment dispute.

Royalty Speaks may suspend Program access while an unresolved payment dispute remains pending.

25. Non-Transferability

Client’s Program enrollment is personal to Client.

Unless Royalty Speaks expressly agrees otherwise in writing, Client may not sell, assign, give, or transfer Client’s enrollment or Program access to another individual or organization.

26. Severability

If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

27. No Waiver

Royalty Speaks’ failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement on one occasion does not waive its right to enforce that provision or any other provision later.

28. Governing Law

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

29. Entire Agreement

This Agreement, together with the applicable checkout page, invoice, receipt, or written Program description, constitutes the agreement between Royalty Speaks and Client concerning the Pitch Ready Program.

Any modification to this Agreement must be made in writing by Royalty Speaks or mutually agreed to in writing by the Parties.

30. No Partnership, Agency, or Fiduciary Relationship

Nothing in the Program or this Agreement creates a partnership, joint venture, employment relationship, agency relationship, fiduciary relationship, investment-advisory relationship, or authority for Client to bind Royalty Speaks or for Royalty Speaks to bind Client.

31. Survival

Provisions concerning payment obligations, intellectual property, confidentiality, Client content and third-party rights, disclaimers, limitation of liability, payment disputes, governing law, and any other provisions that by their nature should survive will remain effective after completion, withdrawal, suspension, or termination of Client’s participation.

32. Electronic Acceptance

By signing this Agreement, checking an agreement box, clicking “I Agree,” completing checkout, submitting payment, or otherwise electronically indicating acceptance, Client acknowledges that Client has read, understands, and agrees to the terms of this Agreement.

Client’s electronic acceptance constitutes Client’s electronic signature.

The date and time of Client’s acceptance recorded by Royalty Speaks’ systems will constitute the Acceptance Timestamp and may be maintained as evidence of Client’s acceptance.