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Terms of Service
These terms describe how Next Role Studio (the “studio,” “we,” or “us”) provides its services, and what you agree to when you sign up. They are written in plain language on purpose. Where a signed service agreement applies to your engagement, that agreement and these terms should be read together; if they conflict, the signed service agreement controls.
The rule everything else follows: we guarantee the work — scored, truthful applications, prepared on time, with a scoreboard you can check. We never guarantee a job, an interview, or a salary. Anyone who promises you an outcome is selling you something else.
1. The service
Next Role Studio is a human-run, done-for-you job search service. For each client we maintain a criteria profile; scan job boards and the open web; score each opening against that profile; prepare tailored applications and cover letters from facts the client has verified; draft recruiter outreach and follow-ups for the client's approval; draft post-interview follow-ups for the client's approval; prepare reference briefs; file and triage application mail; prepare interview briefs; and report all of it in a private client portal. Nothing public is sent under a client's name without that client's approval. We never ask for or store a client's LinkedIn or job-board passwords.
2. Managed Search plans and salary bands
Managed Search is a monthly subscription priced by the annual salary of the roles you are targeting:
| Target salary band | Recruiter outreach included | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Under $75K | 10 messages / week | $99 / month |
| $75K–$110K | 25 messages / week | $149 / month |
| $110K–$160K | 35 messages / week | $249 / month |
| $160K–$220K | 50 messages / week | $399 / month |
| $220K+ | 80 messages / week | $549 / month |
| Executive handling | No preset weekly cap (see §3) | $749 / month |
Band coverage. A plan covers roles paying up to the top of its band: the under-$75K plan covers roles up to $75K, the $75K–$110K plan covers roles up to $110K, and so on. The $220K+ band and Executive handling have no salary cap. Roles above your band may be shown in your portal, clearly marked, but they are not worked under your plan. Moving up a tier raises your cap from the moment the change takes effect (§6).
Executive handling seats. Executive handling is limited to 15 clients at a time. If it is full when you sign up or upgrade, you will be placed on its waitlist and your plan will not change until a seat opens.
No success fee. There is no placement fee and no percentage-of-salary fee, ever.
Included on every plan. Every Managed Search plan also includes, at no extra charge: offer review & negotiation help — a structured written review of an offer you have received (what looks strong, where there is room, and a suggested counter with talking points); post-interview thank-you follow-ups drafted for your approval; and reference prep briefs for your references. Executive handling includes Negotiation Plus instead of the standard review: everything in the standard review plus a total-compensation analysis, multi-round counter-draft revisions as a negotiation moves, priority handling, and a 30-minute strategy call on request.
3. Recruiter outreach and LinkedIn Premium
Recruiter outreach is included in every Managed Search plan at the weekly volume shown above. Unused weekly volume does not roll over, except where an add-on or reward states otherwise.
LinkedIn Premium is required for recruiter outreach to work properly, on your own LinkedIn account and at your own cost. Outreach does not begin until your Premium status is verified: you provide proof (a subscription screenshot or receipt) and the studio verifies it. Verification lasts 30 days and must be renewed with fresh proof. If verification lapses, or the studio suspends outreach because Premium is not active, outreach pauses automatically until verification is restored. Pausing outreach does not pause the rest of your plan or its billing.
“No preset weekly cap” on Executive handling means there is no fixed number in your plan; outreach remains subject to the limits of the platforms it runs on, reasonable volume for a single search, and the verification requirement above.
4. Add-ons: pay, and access follows
Optional add-ons are bought inside your portal. When a payment succeeds, the add-on is credited to your account immediately and automatically — no manual approval step.
- Recruiter outreach packs — +10 messages ($15), +25 messages ($29), or +50 messages ($49) for the current week. One-time; unused pack volume does not roll over to the next week.
- Above-band role unlock — a one-time fee ($25) to have one specific role above your band worked under your current plan.
- Live mock interviews — a practice interview session with a written feedback brief, $89 per session. Weekly slots are limited; a purchased session that cannot be scheduled in a given week stays credited until it is used.
- First-90-Days plan — a written 30/60/90-day plan for starting a new role, $129 one-time.
- AI headshot polish — a polish of a photo you provide (lighting, background, finish), $49 one-time. It is a polish of your own photo, not a generated person.
- LinkedIn ghostwriting — $129 per month, available on any Managed Search plan. Up to 3 posts per month are drafted from topics you set; nothing is final until you approve the draft in your portal, and you post approved posts to LinkedIn yourself — the studio never logs into your LinkedIn account. Unused monthly posts do not roll over.
Add-on purchases are final once credited, except where §6 applies or the add-on could not be delivered at all.
5. Referrals: outreach rewards and next-month discounts
Every client receives a personal referral link, shown near the top of the portal and in the Refer a friend area, and may share it with up to 5 people at a time by email or text from the end-of-signup invite step or the portal.
- A referral counts as confirmed when the referred person signs up with your link, verifies their email, and chooses a plan. The studio's system records this automatically.
- For each confirmed referral you earn +25 recruiter outreach messages for the current week. If your plan has no preset cap (Executive handling), the reward is recorded as a thank-you and does not change your allowance.
- You also earn 10% off your next month's Managed Search plan price per confirmed referral, up to 5 discounted referrals per month — a maximum of 50% off one month's plan price. Discounts apply to the Managed Search subscription price only (not to add-ons or website packages), are credited in your Billing automatically, and do not carry beyond the month they are credited to.
- You cannot refer yourself. Referral rewards earned through accounts created to game the system may be removed.
If you move to Stay Ready after landing a role (§9), referrals you make from then on earn free Stay Ready months instead of outreach and discounts — one free month per confirmed referral, up to 6 free months in any rolling 12-month period, applied as a credit against Stay Ready fees. Rewards you already earned while on Managed Search are unaffected.
6. Plan changes, cancellation, and refunds
- Upgrades take effect immediately, including the higher band cap and outreach volume — subject to the Executive handling seat limit in §2.
- Downgrades take effect at the start of your next billing month; your current plan's cap and allowances stay in force until then. A scheduled downgrade can be cancelled before it takes effect.
- Cancellation. You may cancel at any time, effective at the end of your current paid month. There are no cancellation fees and no exit process beyond confirming in your portal.
- Refunds. Subscription fees for the current month are not refundable once the month has begun, because search work runs continuously through the month. Add-ons that were paid for but could not be delivered at all will be refunded or re-credited. If we ever fail to deliver the core service for a full billing month, we will refund that month.
7. Job Seeker Website packages
The Job Seeker Website is a one-time add-on available only to active Next Role Studio clients, in six packages aligned to the same salary bands as Managed Search: Launch $149 (under $75K), Career $249 ($75K–$110K), Professional $349 ($110K–$160K), Leadership $499 ($160K–$220K), Executive $649 ($220K+), and Executive handling $749. You are offered the package for your own band first and may choose it or any higher package; packages below your band are not offered. Executive handling website packages share the 15-seat limit in §2.
- You own the site and the domain. Your domain is registered in your own name, and the first year of the domain is included in your package price — there is no separate domain charge. Domain renewals after the first year are yours, at the registrar's then-current rates.
- Everything happens in your portal. You provide your details, choose your domain name, and pick a design inside the portal; the studio handles registration and the build in the background.
- Review rounds. Each package includes the number of pre-live review rounds listed for it (one round at Launch, Career, and Professional; two rounds at Leadership and above). A package does not go live until you accept it in the portal; that acceptance is recorded.
- After go-live. Ongoing edits are yours, and no ongoing support is included in any package unless a separate plan you buy says so in writing. Update help bought later is still requested through your portal.
- Search setup. Higher packages include basic search-ready setup (page titles, descriptions, clean structure). No package includes or promises any search-engine ranking.
8. Search Starter
Search Starter is a one-time package ($199) open to anyone — you do not need to be a Managed Search client. It includes three deliverables, provided through a portal account: (1) a criteria intake — your target roles, salary aims, locations, deal-breakers, and timeline; if you are changing fields, the intake includes a career-pivot map of your transferable skills against the field you are moving into; (2) a resume review against applicant-tracking standards and a structural rebuild; and (3) a full review of your LinkedIn profile with findings and suggested wording. Search Starter is not a job search: no applications are prepared or submitted and no outreach is sent under it. When your Search Starter is complete, the full $199 is credited toward Managed Search if you start a Managed Search plan within 30 days of completion; the credit applies to your first month and expires unused after those 30 days. Search Starter is not a subscription and does not renew.
9. Stay Ready (alumni plan)
Stay Ready is a monthly plan ($19/month) for clients whose Managed Search has ended because they landed a role. It includes a monthly freshness note on your resume and LinkedIn, delivered in your portal, and a monthly digest of roles the studio spots that look like a strong fit for you. Stay Ready is a watch service only: no applications are prepared or submitted, no recruiter outreach is sent, and no salary-band coverage applies. Stay Ready is billed monthly and may be cancelled at any time, effective at the end of the current paid month, under §6. Referral rewards on Stay Ready are described in §5.
10. Your responsibilities
- Tell the truth, and check ours. Your applications are built from the record you verify with us. You are responsible for the accuracy of the facts, documents, and standing answers you provide and confirm, and for reviewing drafts you approve.
- Your content is yours. For your Job Seeker Website and any materials you supply, you are responsible for having the right to use the text, images, and claims you provide, and for the truth of what your site says about you. Publishing acceptance in the portal confirms the site may go live as reviewed.
- Your accounts stay yours. You keep control of your LinkedIn and job-board accounts and comply with those platforms' own terms. We never ask for your passwords.
- Be reachable. Approvals, interview scheduling, and time-sensitive replies depend on you responding within a reasonable time; delays on your side can mean missed deadlines on ours, which are not the studio's fault.
11. No guarantee of employment outcomes
We do not guarantee interviews, offers, employment, or any salary or start date. Hiring decisions belong to employers and depend on the market and the interview room. What we promise is the work described in these terms: honest, scored, verifiable applications and follow-through, with a scoreboard that shows exactly where things stand. Testimonials and the week-one results described on our site are one real search run by the studio's Founder on himself before launch; they are not client results and not a promise about your search.
12. Liability, in plain terms
The service is provided as described here, and we work to run it carefully and continuously. To the extent the law allows: the studio is not liable for hiring decisions, platform outages or policy changes at LinkedIn or job boards, or indirect losses such as a role you did not get. If something does go wrong that is our fault, our total liability for a claim is limited to the amounts you paid us in the three months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here affects rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.
13. Changes and contact
We may update these terms; the current version always lives at this page with its date, and material changes will be noted in clients' portals before they take effect. Prices for existing subscribers change only at renewal, with notice. Questions about these terms: use the contact form and choose “General question.”
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