Terms of service
A working draft covering the platform rules that matter most today. This isn't a substitute for proper legal review before go-live.
Using the roster
The Fractional Roster lists fractional consultants and their services for genuine buyers looking to engage them. Profile pages, search results, and the demand data behind them are provided for that purpose only.
No scraping or automated access
You may not use bots, scrapers, crawlers, or any other automated means to access, copy, index, or extract data from this site — including profile content, contact details (whether or not they're visible to you), pricing, search results, or platform statistics — except for the standard, publicly-declared crawling of a search engine acting on our behalf. This includes bypassing or attempting to bypass rate limits, access controls, or the intro-credit gating on consultant contact details.
We monitor access to the platform and log requests for anomaly detection. Accounts or IP addresses found scraping, or attempting to circumvent these restrictions, may be rate-limited, suspended, or blocked without notice.
Fair use
The Roster includes some genuinely expensive things: intelligent matching, the market read, and Ava. We would rather give you those generously than meter you by the click, so our limits are set far above what anyone uses in practice. Most members will never come close to them, and we are not counting your normal work.
We do set a monthly ceiling on each of them, for two reasons: it keeps the platform fast for everyone, and it stops an automated script running up a bill on an account.
If you reach a limit, you keep working. On search, the matching itself does not change at all. You see the same experts, ranked the same way, in the same numbers. The only difference is that we write a simpler line explaining why each one fits, instead of the detailed one, until your next monthly reset. Nothing is taken away, and nothing stops.
Where we cannot fall back to a simpler version, on Ava for example, we will tell you plainly and point you to a person who can help.
Limits reset at the start of each month.
If you are doing something legitimate that needs more, please just ask. We would rather hear from you than throttle you, and we can put your allowance back while we work out what you need.
This is different from automated or scripted access, which is covered in the section above and is not permitted at any volume.
Contact details are gated for a reason
A consultant's phone number, email, website, LinkedIn and portfolio links are only shown to a buyer after a released intro connection — never to an anonymous visitor, and never in bulk. Platform messaging is the preferred way to make first contact once connected.
Accounts
You're responsible for the accuracy of what you list (if you're a consultant) and for keeping your login credentials secure. We may suspend an account that violates these terms, misrepresents its identity, or is used to abuse other members.
Changes
These terms may be updated as the platform evolves. Continued use after a change means you accept it.