No contractor or agency works with the team in any source we read, so this page says so, separates the vendors we pay from people we hire, and proposes when and on what terms we would bring someone in.
Today
No contractor, freelancer or agency, and no contract or rate, appears in any note or document. memory brew-handbook
One planned need: the brand direction review found base art generated and capped at about 6 to 7 out of 10, and said to redraw the winner with a real illustrator. memory brand-directions-2026-10-25
Vendors we pay for services are tools, not contractors: Sloosh makes paid finals quoted first; Apify Starter was bought on 23 Oct. memory brew-sloosh-finalsmemory brew-jam-v2memory brew-apify-watch
Tomorrow
Item
Version
Tag
An illustrator for the picked direction
v1
New, after the pick
Written terms for any contractor
v1
New, see Open
How we do it
Proposed terms for anyone outside the team:
A short written scope: what, by when, for how much, who reviews.
We own everything made for us, including source files.
They get only the access the work needs, removed on the last day; never production, never brand partners' data.
They follow the writing and truth rules for anything a customer reads.
A row in the table below for each one.
Who
For what
Terms
Started
Ends
None yet
Numbers
Metric
Definition
Where measured
Contractor spend per month
Money paid to people outside the team
Finance, Proposed
Open
Hire an illustrator once a direction is picked? Proposal: yes, a fixed-price brief for the character sheet and 12 key poses, reviewed by Param and Sai.
Who signs contracts? Proposal: Param, for the company, on a one-page template kept in Security, privacy and legal.
May a contractor run Claude sessions on brew? Proposal: no, until they are onboarded like a teammate.
