Studio1. Who these terms apply to
These Terms of Service govern your use of the Studio:Blueprint Cockpit platform, operated by Howard Scott, sole trader, trading as Studio:Blueprint, England and Wales (referred to in these terms as "we", "us", or "Studio:Blueprint").
The Cockpit is offered exclusively to persons acting wholly or mainly for purposes of their trade, business, craft, or profession. By subscribing you confirm that you are purchasing entirely in a business capacity and not as a consumer. If you are not sure whether this applies to you, contact us before purchasing.
These terms, together with any documents expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between the parties relating to the Cockpit and supersede all prior discussions, representations, or arrangements. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement or representation not expressly set out in these terms.
By subscribing you agree to be bound by these terms.
2. The service
Studio:Blueprint Cockpit is a subscription-based operating platform for independent consultants and small agency founders. It includes pipeline management, financial monitoring, client health tracking, diagnostic tooling, decision logging, and related modules as described at studioblueprint.uk. The platform is a tool to support operational analysis and management. It does not constitute legal, tax, accounting, financial, investment, employment, or any other form of regulated professional advice. We do not warrant any increase in revenue, profitability, pipeline conversion, client retention, or business performance arising from use of the platform.
Except as expressly set out in these terms, the service is provided "as is" and "as available" and all implied warranties, conditions, and terms are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Certain features may be marked as beta, preview, or early access. These features are provided as-is, may be changed or withdrawn without notice, and may be subject to reduced support and availability commitments. We are not obliged to preserve data entered during trial or beta access unless and until you convert to a paid subscription.
Access is provided to a single named user per seat. Subscription tiers and seat limits are as published at studioblueprint.uk/pricing. Where you exceed your allocated seat limit, we may require you to purchase additional seats, restrict access for excess users, or suspend the affected accounts. You may not circumvent seat limits by sharing credentials across multiple individuals.
3. Subscription and payment
Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually in advance. Payment is processed by Stripe. By subscribing you authorise us to charge your payment method on a recurring basis until you cancel.
Annual subscriptions are non-refundable once payment has been taken. Monthly subscriptions may be cancelled at any time and will remain active until the end of the current billing period. No partial refunds are issued for unused time on monthly plans.
Prices are as published at studioblueprint.uk/pricing at the time of purchase and are exclusive of VAT and any similar taxes unless expressly stated otherwise at checkout. VAT is not currently charged. If this changes, applicable taxes will be shown at checkout and communicated to existing subscribers in advance. You are responsible for any applicable sales, use, VAT, GST, or similar indirect taxes in your jurisdiction, except taxes on our own income.
We reserve the right to change pricing with 30 days written notice to existing subscribers. Existing subscribers will not have their price increased mid-term on annual plans.
4. Trial access
Purchasing a paid diagnostic product entitles you to 30 days of Cockpit access at the Independent tier, subject to these Terms of Service in full. Trial access is activated via a unique link included in your diagnostic report. Trial access is single-use and non-transferable. At the end of the trial period you must subscribe to continue using the Cockpit. We may modify, limit, or discontinue trial access at any time. We are not obliged to preserve trial data after expiry unless and until you convert to a paid subscription.
5. Acceptable use and account security
You may use the Cockpit solely for lawful business purposes. You may not share your login credentials with anyone not covered by your seat allocation. You may not reverse engineer, copy, resell, or create competing products based on any part of the platform. You may not use the platform in a way that disrupts or degrades service for other users or that violates any applicable law.
You are responsible for all activity on your account, including activity by any authorised users on your seats. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your email access and any devices used to access the platform. You must notify us promptly at [email protected] if you become aware of any unauthorised access to your account.
Document upload representations
When you upload documents to the Cockpit Evidence Desk, you confirm that: (a) you have the right to upload and process each document; (b) you have satisfied any professional confidentiality obligations you owe to your clients in respect of those documents; (c) the documents do not infringe third-party intellectual property rights; and (d) you have a lawful basis under UK GDPR and applicable data protection law for any personal data the documents contain. Studio:Blueprint accepts no liability for documents uploaded without proper authorisation.
6. Our right to suspend or modify
We may suspend or restrict access immediately where reasonably necessary for security, planned or emergency maintenance, non-payment, suspected misuse or abuse, legal compliance, or protection of other users or the platform. We will give reasonable advance notice where circumstances allow.
We may update, modify, replace, or withdraw features from time to time. Where a change materially reduces the core functionality of a paid tier, we will give reasonable advance notice. We may use third-party providers to operate and deliver the service.
7. Force majeure
We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations under these terms where that failure or delay results from events outside our reasonable control, including but not limited to outages at cloud infrastructure providers, internet or telecommunications failures, acts of government or regulation, cyber incidents, natural disasters, or other events of force majeure. We will notify you as soon as reasonably practicable and resume performance as soon as reasonably possible.
8. Data and privacy
You retain ownership of all data you input into the platform.
For your account data — information about you and your firm — we act as data controller. We store your data on infrastructure hosted in the European Union. We do not sell your data to third parties. We use your data to provide and improve the service and, where you have consented, to communicate with you about Studio:Blueprint.
For personal data about your own clients that you input or process through the Cockpit — including diagnostic responses submitted by your clients — you are the data controller and we act as data processor, processing that data solely to provide the service to you. Where we process Customer Personal Data as processor, the parties agree that the data processing terms at studioblueprint.uk/legal/dpa form part of this agreement.
You are responsible for ensuring that any personal data you input about your clients has been collected lawfully, that appropriate notices have been given to your clients, and that you comply with all applicable data protection law in your jurisdiction and theirs.
We process personal data in accordance with English data protection law. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller. A list of subprocessors is available at studioblueprint.uk/legal/subprocessors.
AI processing of document content
When you upload documents to the Evidence Desk, the text content is extracted and sent to AI sub-processors for analysis. The original document is deleted from temporary storage immediately after extraction. The extracted findings are retained in accordance with the retention schedule in our Privacy Policy. A full list of AI sub-processors is available at studioblueprint.uk/legal/subprocessors. If you enable Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) in Cockpit Settings, AI processing is routed directly through your chosen provider using your own API credentials; in that case your provider acts under your own agreement with it, not under Studio Blueprint Ltd's sub-processor arrangements.
9. White-label diagnostics
Studio, Practice, and trial subscribers may create and publish branded diagnostic tools for use with their own clients using the Forge feature. Diagnostic responses submitted by your clients are stored against your account. For the purposes of data protection law, you are the controller of your clients' responses and we act as processor. The data processing terms at studioblueprint.uk/legal/dpa apply to this processing.
10. Confidentiality
"Confidential Information" means any non-public information disclosed by one party to the other in connection with this agreement that is designated as confidential or that reasonably should be understood to be confidential given the nature of the information and circumstances of disclosure. Confidential Information does not include information that is or becomes publicly known through no breach of this agreement, was already known to the receiving party at the time of disclosure, is independently developed without reference to the disclosing party's Confidential Information, or is required to be disclosed by law or regulation.
We will keep your account data, client data, pipeline data, and financial data confidential and will not disclose it to third parties except as necessary to provide the service, as required by law, or with your consent.
You agree to keep confidential all Confidential Information of Studio:Blueprint, including information about the platform's design, scoring methodology, pricing structures, non-public feature set, product roadmap, and technical implementation. You may share your own reports and outputs internally and with professional advisers but may not disclose our Confidential Information to competitors or use it to build competing products.
11. Intellectual property
The Studio:Blueprint platform, its design, scoring methodology, feature set, and all underlying software remain the intellectual property of Howard Scott trading as Studio:Blueprint. These terms do not transfer any intellectual property rights to you.
Your data and any diagnostic frameworks you create using the Forge feature remain your intellectual property. You grant us a limited licence to host, copy, process, and display your content solely as necessary to provide the service to you. We will not use your content for any other purpose.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss, including loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, anticipated savings, or business opportunity, arising from your use of or inability to use the platform, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise. We exclude liability for loss of data except to the extent caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill in providing the service, subject always to the liability cap below.
Our total aggregate liability to you under or in connection with these terms shall not exceed the total fees paid by you in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other matter that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
User indemnity for unauthorised uploads
You agree to indemnify and hold Studio:Blueprint harmless against any third-party claim, loss, or liability arising from documents you upload to the platform without proper authorisation, in breach of client confidentiality obligations, or in violation of applicable data protection law.
13. Assignment
We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to a successor business or company, including on a transfer from sole trader to limited company structure, on written notice to you. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these terms without our prior written consent.
14. Termination and data export
We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms, fail to pay, or if we reasonably believe your use is causing harm to the platform or other users. We will give reasonable notice where possible except where immediate action is required under clause 6.
You may cancel your subscription at any time via the Cockpit settings or by emailing [email protected]. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
Following termination of your subscription, your data is retained for the periods set out below before permanent deletion:
- Evidence findings and client records: 90 days after subscription end
- Decision Ledger and audit trail: 180 days after subscription end
- Methodology library and firm schema: 90 days after subscription end
- Raw uploaded documents: deleted immediately after text extraction (during the subscription)
You may request early deletion at any time by contacting [email protected].
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising under or in connection with these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
We will always try to resolve disputes informally in the first instance. If you have a complaint, contact us at [email protected] and we will respond within five business days.
16. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. We will notify existing subscribers by email at least 14 days before material changes take effect. Continued use of the platform after that date constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. The current version of these terms is always available at studioblueprint.uk/legal.
Contact: [email protected]
Last updated: April 2026