What you sign before day one.

This agreement is entered into between Aptexis LLC, which operates the Aptexis program and is referred to here as "Aptexis", "we" or "us", and you, the person named and signed at the end of this document, referred to as "you". It takes effect on the date you sign it and stays in force until every obligation in it has been discharged or has expired under clause 11.

"The Program" means the Aptexis curriculum track you are enrolled in, together with the platform it is delivered on. "Qualifying Employment" means paid work in a software engineering role — including titles such as software engineer, developer, web, mobile, backend, frontend, full-stack, data or platform engineer, and roles whose substance is writing or maintaining software under another title — that you begin after you leave the Program, whether as an employee or as a contractor, and whose Qualifying Compensation is $60,000 a year or more. "Qualifying Compensation" means your gross annualised base salary or contract rate, excluding equity, bonuses, overtime, and reimbursements. "Start Date" means the first day you perform work in Qualifying Employment. Work you were already doing before you enrolled is not Qualifying Employment, and neither is unpaid work, an unpaid internship, or a role you hold for fewer than 30 days.

On signing you receive access, for as long as your enrollment is active, to the curriculum for your enrolled track — the written material, videos, projects and quizzes — to the resume checking tools, and to the study assistant built into the platform. You may also request one-to-one sessions with a mentor through your dashboard. Those sessions are offered subject to mentor availability and are not guaranteed in any number, length, or timeframe; a mentor may decline or reschedule a request, and we may change or withdraw the sessions feature at any time without that affecting anything else in this agreement. No payment is collected at signing, and nothing further is owed unless clause 8 is triggered.

Alongside the curriculum, and outside the platform, we work on the employment side with you. That means promoting and marketing you to employers and to our own contacts, running recruitment activity on your behalf, putting your name forward for roles we think fit, and preparing you for interviews — practice interviews, technical and behavioural question work, feedback on how you present yourself, and help with your resume and applications. The aim of all of it is to shorten the time between finishing the Program and starting a job. How much of it you get depends on you engaging with it: we cannot market a student who will not talk to us, and we may reasonably scale this back for someone who stops responding, stops attending arranged sessions, or asks us to stop. We deliver this work with reasonable care and skill, and we decide how, when, and through which channels it is done. It is offered while your enrollment is active and for a reasonable period after you finish, and we may change how it is delivered at any time.

Clause 4 is a commitment to do the work, not a promise about the result. We do not guarantee an interview, an offer, a role, a start date, or any level of pay, and we do not promise any particular number of introductions, applications, or practice interviews. We are not your agent, we do not act for any employer, and we have no control over who anyone chooses to hire. Applying for and accepting a job stays your decision and your responsibility. Nothing in this agreement, on our website, in our emails, or said to you by any person acting for us is a promise of employment or of any particular outcome, and no such statement forms part of this agreement unless it is written in this document. The study assistant is a learning aid and can be wrong; it is not professional, legal, financial, or career advice, and you are responsible for checking anything you rely on.

The total cost of the Program is $8,000. Apart from the application and platform fee described in clause 7, which you have already paid (unless we waived it) and which is not credited against this amount, there are no additional fees, no interest, and no finance or service charges of any kind. The amount does not increase for any reason, including if finding a role takes longer than expected. The one exception is clause 10: if you fall into default and we have to recover the money, our reasonable costs of doing so are recoverable in addition, and nothing else is.

Before signing this agreement you paid a one-time application and platform fee of $99, unless we waived it for you. It covered processing your application and the cost of running the platform you are about to use. If you paid it, it is non-refundable, is separate from the $8,000 above, is not deducted from it, and is not returned to you — whether or not you complete the Program, and whether or not you ever begin Qualifying Employment. Nothing further is collected at signing. This clause does not affect any refund right you hold under law that cannot be waived by agreement.

You owe nothing unless and until you begin Qualifying Employment, as clause 2 defines it, within the window in clause 11. If that happens, the $8,000 becomes payable on your Start Date and must be paid in full within three (3) months of it — either as a single payment or under an installment plan agreed with us in writing before the three (3) months run out. The amount owed is the same $8,000 however you pay it. Losing that role, or leaving it, after your Start Date does not cancel an obligation that has already been triggered, but we will agree a revised installment plan on reasonable terms if you ask us in writing.

You must tell us in writing at info@aptexis.com within 30 days of beginning any employment you reasonably believe may be Qualifying Employment, and give us your job title, employer, Start Date, and Qualifying Compensation. If we ask, you must provide reasonable written confirmation of those facts — an offer letter, contract, or payslip is enough, and you may redact anything not needed to establish them. You do not have to tell us about work that is plainly outside clause 2, and we will not ask you to prove a negative. Deliberately concealing Qualifying Employment, or giving us information about it that you know to be false, is a material breach of this agreement.

If an amount properly due under clause 8 is not paid, and it is still unpaid 30 days after we have written to you at your last known email address asking for it, you are in default. From that point we may recover the unpaid balance, together with our reasonable and documented costs of recovery, including court fees and reasonable attorneys' fees, to the extent the law allows. We charge no interest and no late fees at any point. We will not report a default to a consumer credit agency. Nothing is owed, and nothing can fall into default, in any case where clause 12 applies.

The obligation in clause 8 can only be triggered by Qualifying Employment beginning within five (5) years of the date you complete, withdraw from, or are removed from the Program, whichever comes first. If that period passes without Qualifying Employment beginning, this agreement expires, you owe nothing, and nothing further can become owing under it however much you go on to earn.

If you do not complete the Program, or you complete it and never begin Qualifying Employment within the window in clause 11, you owe nothing. No payment is due, no debt exists, no debt is recorded against you, and we will not pursue you for one. That risk sits with us. This clause survives the ending of this agreement for any reason.

You may withdraw at any time by telling us in writing at info@aptexis.com; your access ends and clauses 7, 11 and 12 decide what, if anything, is owed. We may suspend or end your enrollment if you materially breach this agreement or the Terms of Service — including by sharing your account, redistributing the curriculum, or abusing the platform or the people who run it — and we will tell you why unless the law prevents us. Ending your enrollment does not cancel an obligation already triggered under clause 8, and does not create one that was not.

You agree that signing this document on screen creates a legally binding signature with the same effect as signing on paper, and that this agreement may be formed, delivered, and kept entirely in electronic form. On signing, a PDF containing this text, your signature, and the date and time you signed is generated and stored, and you can download it from your dashboard as many times as you like for as long as your account exists. Aptexis LLC keeps an identical copy. If you ever lose access to your account, request your copy at info@aptexis.com and we will send it to you. You can ask us for a paper copy at the same address at no charge. You should download and keep your own copy now.

To create this record we store your name, email address, the signature image you draw, the time you signed, and a one-way hash of your IP address — never the address itself. That record is kept for as long as Aptexis LLC may need it to establish the terms you agreed to. Everything else about how your information is handled is set out in the Aptexis Privacy Policy, published at /privacy, including what the study assistant sends to our AI provider when you use it. Questions about your data go to info@aptexis.com.

The curriculum and everything in it remains the property of Aptexis LLC. While your enrollment is active you have a personal, non-transferable licence to use it to learn, and that licence ends when your enrollment does. You may not copy it out, republish it, sell it, share your account, post the material publicly, or use it to build or run a competing program. Anything you write yourself is yours.

The Program and the platform are provided as they are. We work to keep them accurate and available, but we do not promise they will be uninterrupted or error-free, and to the fullest extent the law allows we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, Aptexis LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss arising out of this agreement or the Program — including lost earnings, lost opportunity, and loss of data — and our total liability to you for everything arising out of this agreement is limited to the greater of the amounts you have actually paid us and $99. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for personal injury, or anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

This agreement, and any dispute arising out of it, is governed by the laws of the State of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Where the law of the place you live gives you consumer rights that cannot be overridden by agreement, this clause does not take them away.

Talk to us first: email info@aptexis.com setting out the problem and what you want, and neither of us starts a formal proceeding for 30 days while we try to settle it. If that fails, any dispute arising out of this agreement is resolved by binding individual arbitration before a single arbitrator, seated in Prince William County, Virginia, under the consumer arbitration rules of a recognised arbitration provider we agree on, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. Either of us may instead bring a qualifying claim in small claims court, and either of us may go to court to protect intellectual property. Disputes are handled individually: neither of us may bring a class, collective, or representative action, and the arbitrator may not consolidate claims. If the class waiver in this clause is held unenforceable, this whole clause 19 falls away and disputes go to the courts named in clause 18, rather than the class proceeding going to arbitration. You may reject this clause 19 in full by emailing info@aptexis.com within 30 days of signing, with no effect on the rest of this agreement and no consequence for your enrollment.

Deferred tuition arrangements are regulated differently from state to state and country to country. If any part of this agreement is prohibited, capped, or requires a disclosure we have not given in the place you live, that part applies only as far as the law there allows, and the law there wins over this document to that extent. If a term is held wholly unenforceable, it is severed and the rest of this agreement stays in force. We will not enforce any term against you that the law where you live does not permit us to enforce.

This document, together with the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy published at /terms and /privacy, is the entire agreement between us about the Program, and it replaces anything said or written beforehand. Where this document and those policies disagree, this document wins. We may change the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy as they describe, but this document can only be changed in writing signed by both of us. If we do not enforce something straight away, we keep the right to enforce it later. You may not transfer your rights under this agreement; we may transfer ours to a company that takes over this business, and your terms do not change if we do. Notices to you go to your account email address; notices to us go to info@aptexis.com. Clauses 5 to 12 and 14 to 21 survive the ending of this agreement.