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SDI Practitioner Licence Agreement
The agreement that lets an advisor, coach, or consultant deliver the Systems Drag Index™ to their own clients as an SDI Certified Practitioner. This is the cover – what the agreement does and the terms that carry the weight. The executable contract lives in OneDrive.
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SDI Practitioner Licence Agreement v1.1 · Word document. The contract stays canonical in OneDrive; this page never reproduces its clauses.
A limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence. It lets the Licensee administer the assessment to their clients through the platform, generate and discuss the analyses, describe themselves as an SDI Certified Practitioner while certification is current, and reference the framework in their own thought leadership – all within the SDI Framework Use Policy. Governed by the laws of Western Australia.
Diagnosing systems drag does not confer the right to claim resolution of it. A practitioner may name and measure the load; only Hummingbird Hummingbird OS is positioned to resolve it. This single distinction is what holds the whole licensing model together – legally, ethically, and strategically – and a breach of it lets Hummingbird terminate immediately.
Grant
Limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable. Personal to the Licensee – no assignment or sublicensing without written consent.
Certification
The right to use the Certified Practitioner mark is conditional on current certification. Lapse means the mark comes down within 14 days.
Fees
Annual Licence Fee, payable in advance in AUD. Due within 14 days of invoice. Fee schedule in Schedule 1 of the contract.
IP & confidentiality
The SDI assets stay exclusively Hummingbird's. Scoring logic and profile-weighting are trade secrets – confidentiality on those survives indefinitely.
Term
Initial term, then automatic 12-month renewals unless 30 days' notice. Either party may terminate for uncured material breach or insolvency.
Insurance
The Licensee carries professional indemnity cover of no less than AUD $2,000,000 per occurrence for the term plus six years.
This cover is a reading aid, not the agreement. Where anything here and the executable contract differ, the contract governs. It connects to the licensing model named in the Strategy and Commercial sections – the practitioner stream is one of the routes the SDI framework reaches market.