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Getting it signed

The agreement in five sittings rather than one long one, for two people who have decided to write one.

Who this is for

You have both decided to write an agreement and you are looking at a blank page.

What it is

Five sittings rather than one long evening: the report you both read, the terms, the clauses, the vows, and the signing itself. Each one is a sitting you can stop in the middle of.

The steps, in order

You can take them out of order. Nothing here locks a module, and no step waits on the one before it.

  • The Structural Report

    Pairing dynamics, gaps, shared load and a friction band.

    Both Soundings side by side. Easier to write an agreement when you have both read the same thing first.

  • The Clauses

    Browse every clause. Applying them needs a plan.

    Read the clauses before you choose any. They are readable at every plan, deliberately.

  • Your Terms

    Ten sections. Plain language. Both signatures.

    Where the agreement is actually drafted, section by section.

  • Vow Curator

    Scores your vows for whether they can actually be kept.

    The promises, in your own words, kept apart from the terms.

  • The Signing

    A ceremony, or a countersignature. Your choice.

    You both sign, and the agreement is frozen as it stood that day.

A route, not a gate

A route is a named list of modules with something written down at the end of it. Nothing in a route locks anything, and you can take the steps out of order.

Why a route rather than a list

Thirty-two modules is a lot to look at when you do not yet know which of them you need. A route is somebody having already answered that: these ones, in this order, because the earlier ones give the later ones something to work from. The Structural Report is easier to write an agreement from than a blank page, and it needs two finished Soundings before it exists at all.

What it does not do

It does not lock anything, and it is not a course. Nothing is withheld until you finish a step, there is no schedule, and stopping halfway costs you nothing — what you wrote stays written and the modules stay open. Where a module genuinely needs both of you, that module is what waits, exactly as it would if you had opened it on your own.

What it never shows either of you

A route shows where each of you has got to and nothing else. It does not record how long anything took, or how long the other one has left something undone. Elapsed time is not a number this product prints about a person.