A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Work, Money, and Authority
You already know the feeling of watching work you contributed to take shape somewhere you were not invited. A name that is not yours. Revenue that did not come back. A decision you had no say in.
What you noticed at the time was accurate.
You just did not have anything in writing.
This course exists so that does not happen again.
Before You Collaborate is for anyone entering shared creative or professional work with real stakes - and no structure in place.
That includes:
There is one behavioral marker that matters:
You are ready to define the terms before participating in them.
If you want someone to walk you through feelings about past collaborations, this is not that course.
If you want a structural toolkit you can apply before the next one - now or any time after - this is that course.
Practical. Preventative.
Built for real-world collaboration decisions.
Four modules. Just over one hour.
Four worksheets you keep and reuse.
Module 1 - Position
Name what you are bringing, what you are not, and what you are responsible for. Before anything else gets defined, your position must be.
Module 2 -Ownership
Identify what you own going in, what gets created together, and what happens to it after. Clarity before creation, not after.
Module 3 - Money, Credit, and Compensation
Define the financial architecture before work begins. Who pays whom, when, for what, and what happens if the project changes.
Module 4 - Decision-Making and Exit
Establish how decisions get made, how disagreements get handled, and how either party can leave without destroying the work.
This is not a legal course.
It will not produce a contract.
It is not a mindset course.
It will not process past experiences.
It is a foundation course. It builds the structure that a contract is later written on top of - and the structure that makes a contract unnecessary in simpler collaborations.
You do not need a large audience.
You do not need a legal background.
You do not need past experience with formal collaboration.
You need clarity.
By the end of this course, you will know what must be defined before you enter any shared creative or professional work - and you will have the worksheets to define it the same way, every time.
Two ways in:
First time - You are entering your first real collaboration and you want to do this right before anything gets complicated.
Experienced - You have been in collaborations before and you are ready to enter the next one differently.
Either way, the course builds the same structure.
Module 1 - Position
Name what you are bringing, what you are not, and what you are responsible for. Before anything else gets defined, your position must be.
Module 2 -Ownership
Identify what you own going in, what gets created together, and what happens to it after. Clarity before creation, not after.
Module 3 - Money, Credit, and Compensation
Define the financial architecture before work begins. Who pays whom, when, for what, and what happens if the project changes.
Module 4 - Decision-Making and Exit
Establish how decisions get made, how disagreements get handled, and how either party can leave without destroying the work.
You bring ideas into shared work. Direction. Expertise. A way of seeing things that other people build around.
And somewhere along the way - those ideas ended up somewhere else. Someone else's project. Someone else's revenue. Someone else's name on the work.
That is not a you problem. That is a structure problem.
Before You Collaborate is a foundation course for anyone entering shared creative or professional work who is ready to define the terms before participating in them.
Four modules. Four fillable worksheets you keep and reuse. Just over one hour.
Not a legal course. Not a mindset course. A foundation course - built to define position, ownership, money, and exit before the next collaboration begins.
Introductory price: $97. Steps up to $147 after launch.
The course is ready.