Tehom delivers two parallel agreements to each operating-business customer. One entity, two streams, distinct IP boundaries.
Platform License Agreement
Grants the operating business consumption rights against the Tehom substrate — the canonical standards, the Internal Developer Platform runtime, the operating substrate that sits beneath both. Recurring. Sized to actual consumption: nominal during build phase, scaled as the operating business's application matures into production.
Development Services Agreement
Tehom delivers full-stack development of the operating business's bespoke application. Built on the Tehom IDP, conforming to the Tehom standards, aligned per the operating substrate. Time-and-materials or fixed-fee per Statement of Work. The application code, schemas, and customer-facing surfaces transfer to the operating business as work-product upon payment.
Why two agreements
- Honest revenue against honest value. Charging a platform-license fee against an application that has not yet been built is fictional revenue against fictional consumption. Charging only for development ignores the substrate IP that makes the development efficient. Both streams together correspond to what is actually delivered.
- Clean IP boundaries. Substrate IP stays with Tehom under the PLA. The bespoke application transfers to the operating business under the DSA's work-product clause. The split keeps the relationships unambiguous.
- Stage-appropriate billing. Build phase is DSA-heavy. Operate phase rebalances toward PLA as the application's substrate consumption grows. The model scales from founder-operated to multi-tenant without restructuring the agreements.
Methodology
DSA engagements run on Yehi, Tehom's bet-driven execution cadence for agentic teams. Yehi shapes cycles around must-ship outcomes, treats blockers as new decision surfaces, and requires deterministic proof before anything is called done.
The Yehi methodology spec lives at the developer surface, on tehom.dev.
Pricing
Pricing is set per engagement. PLA and DSA pricing structures are drafted in counsel review. Reach out to begin a conversation.