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Abliven, Inc. | Deck Team. Version 3.0.

This Agreement confirms your engagement as an Independent Contractor in the role of Lead Generation Specialist on the Abliven Deck Team for Abliven, Inc., a Texas corporation (the "Company").

1. Independent Contractor Relationship

You are engaged as an independent contractor, not an employee. You are solely responsible for your own taxes, contributions, and filings under Philippine law. You will provide a current IRS Form W-8BEN before your first payment. You provide your own equipment, internet, software, and workspace. The Company does not withhold U.S. taxes from your compensation.

2. Your Responsibilities

Identify United States businesses that meet the Company's published qualification criteria, verify the required details, and record them accurately and completely in the Company CRM. Submit a daily report. You are not engaged to close sales or to conduct a sales process. Maintain professionalism in any contact with a prospect.

3. Performance Standard

The performance standard is eight (8) qualified leads per working day, which is forty (40) per week. Your monthly target is eight (8) leads multiplied by the working days in that month, where working days are the weekdays in the month less any Recognized Holidays falling on a weekday. The Company provides the tools, criteria, training, and support. This standard is a requirement of your engagement, not an optional target. Accuracy is part of the standard: a lead that does not meet the published qualification criteria does not count. Sustained failure to meet this standard is grounds for termination under Section 13.

4. Working Hours

You are expected to be online and contactable for a full workday, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM U.S. Central Time (which includes a 30-minute lunch), Monday through Friday, from your own quiet, private workspace.

5. Compensation

Daily rate. Your compensation is a daily rate of PHP 1,500 for each day you work. Your monthly total varies with the number of weekdays in the month: a month with twenty (20) weekdays pays PHP 30,000 and a month with twenty-three (23) weekdays pays PHP 34,500, at full attendance. Days you do not work are not paid, except Recognized Holidays under this Section and time off approved in advance under Section 7. The daily rate is set by the Company and is not negotiated by the contractor.

Recognized Holidays. "Recognized Holidays" means the days published by the Company in its annual Recognized Holiday schedule, issued each January. The schedule includes the Regular Holidays designated for that calendar year in the annual Proclamation issued by the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, together with such United States holidays and other days as the Company designates in writing. Days not appearing on the published schedule are regular working days. You are paid your full daily rate for a Recognized Holiday that falls on a scheduled weekday and that you do not work. A Recognized Holiday falling on a Saturday or Sunday is not paid. Each Recognized Holiday reduces that month's lead target by eight (8) leads.

Lead bonus. For each qualified lead beyond your monthly target in a calendar month, you earn PHP 185, with no ceiling. Leads up to your monthly target are the standard of your engagement and do not carry a bonus. Bonuses are calculated on the calendar month and paid on the first Friday falling at least three (3) days after the last day of that month, allowing the Company time to reconcile.

Qualified leads and offset. A lead counts toward your target and bonus only if it meets the qualification criteria published by the Company. A lead later found to be inaccurate, duplicated, fabricated, or otherwise non-qualifying does not count, even if a bonus has already been paid on it, and the related PHP 185 will be offset against your future bonus. To the extent it cannot be offset, it is a recoverable amount owed to the Company. This offset is automatic.

Payment of daily rate. Your daily rate is paid twice a month (semi-monthly), on or about the 15th and the last day of each month, through your selected channel (EasyPay/Payoneer, Wise, or GCash). Where either date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or Recognized Holiday, payment is made on the business day immediately before it. Each period closes on a cutoff ten (10) days before the pay date. Your first payment is prorated for the days actually worked and is paid on the first pay date after onboarding is complete.

Annual completion bonus. The Company may, at its sole discretion, award an annual completion bonus in December to contractors with at least three (3) months of service measured as of December 31 of that calendar year. Where awarded, it is calculated as the total compensation earned by the contractor during that calendar year divided by twelve (12), computed through the last completed pay period, and paid on or about December 24. The bonus is payable only to contractors in good standing and actively engaged on the payment date, and is forfeited in full on resignation or termination before that date, whether or not the three (3) month service requirement has been met. This bonus is a gratuity, not a demandable part of your compensation, and may be revised or discontinued at any time.

6. Evaluation Period

The first ninety (90) days are an evaluation period assessing performance, reliability, and fit.

7. Leave and Time Off

Paid leave is not provided, other than Recognized Holidays under Section 5. You may take unpaid time off with at least 48 hours' notice where possible, except in genuine emergencies, ensuring pending work is handed off. Time off that is not approved in advance is unpaid and may be treated as a failure to meet your obligations under Section 3.

8. Equipment and Workspace

You maintain a reliable computer, quality headset, stable high-speed internet, a quiet private workspace, and a backup plan if your connection fails.

9. Call Recording and Monitoring

You consent that the Company may record, listen to, and monitor your calls in real time, including listen, whisper, and barge, for quality assurance, training, and coaching. You will inform prospects of recording where required.

10. Handling of Customer Payment Information

You will never collect, request, type, or store a customer's card numbers. To take payment, you send the customer a secure Company payment link or route them to the Company's secure checkout.

11. Confidentiality

All Company access and information is confidential. You are separately executing a Non-Disclosure Agreement, incorporated by reference. Improper sharing of access or information is grounds for immediate termination.

12. Company Policies

You agree to follow the Company's reasonable policies as provided and amended through the Abliven Contractor Handbook, including warnings, suspension, and termination.

13. Term and Termination

Either party may terminate for any reason on fourteen (14) days' written notice by email. The Company may terminate immediately for cause, including breach, dishonesty or fraudulent sales activity, serious misconduct, or sustained failure to meet obligations. Confidentiality, IP, non-solicitation, and non-circumvention survive termination.

14. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas. Disputes are resolved first by good-faith negotiation, then by binding arbitration conducted in English, seated in Manila or remotely by agreement. The Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 may apply.

15. General

This Agreement, with the NDA, is the entire agreement on its subject matter. It may be amended only in writing. It may be executed electronically and in counterparts.

Abliven, Inc. and Independent Contractor. Version 3.0.

Abliven, Inc., a Texas corporation (the "Company"), engages you (the "Contractor") to perform remote lead generation and related services. In doing so you will access confidential and proprietary information belonging to the Company.

1. Definition of Confidential Information

"Confidential Information" means any non-public information disclosed by the Company, in any form, that is confidential or reasonably should be understood to be. It includes, without limitation: business plans, financial data, pricing, and projections; client, customer, prospect, and lead lists and contacts; trade secrets and methodologies, specifically including the Company's accessibility audit methodology and scoring, its litigation-risk scoring approach, its sales scripts and pitch deck, its lead qualification criteria, and its lead-sourcing methods, which the parties acknowledge are among the Company's most valuable trade secrets; marketing plans; software, systems, credentials, and access keys; personnel and internal records; intellectual property including patent-pending material; and any third-party information the Company must keep confidential. It is protected whether or not marked "confidential."

2. Obligations of the Contractor

You will hold all Confidential Information in strict confidence and not disclose it without the Company's prior written consent; use it solely to perform the Services; take reasonable precautions to protect it; immediately notify the Company of any unauthorized disclosure; and not copy, export, photograph, or retain any portion of the Company's lead lists, prospect lists, client lists, scripts, or pitch deck. You will not use it for any personal benefit. You will not share, delegate, or sub-contract any part of the Services involving Confidential Information without written consent.

3. Exclusions

Obligations do not apply to information that becomes public through no breach by you, was rightfully known before disclosure, is received from a third party without obligation, or is required to be disclosed by law (with prompt notice and minimum disclosure).

4. Intellectual Property

All work product created in performing the Services is work made for hire and the sole property of the Company. To the extent it does not qualify, you assign all rights to the Company and waive moral and attribution rights to the fullest extent permitted by law. You will not use the Company's name, brand, or logo publicly without prior written consent.

5. Return or Destruction

On termination, completion, or the Company's request, you will promptly return all Confidential Information, permanently delete and destroy all copies in your control, and certify the return or destruction in writing if asked.

6. Non-Solicitation and Non-Circumvention

During the engagement and for twelve (12) months after, you will not solicit, contact, accept work from, or do business with any client, customer, prospect, or lead of the Company you became aware of through the Services, including leads and prospects assigned to or worked by you. You will not circumvent the Company to deal directly or indirectly with any client, customer, prospect, lead, vendor, or partner of the Company for your own or another's benefit. You will not poach the Company's contractors, employees, or affiliates. This Section 6 is active and enforceable.

7. Limited Non-Compete (Dormant, Not in Effect)

This Section 7 is included for review only and is not currently in effect. It is dormant and not binding, enforceable, or operative unless and until the Company activates it in writing following review by its legal counsel. Until activated, the parties' obligations are governed by Section 6 only.

8. Term

This Agreement is effective on signing and continues for two (2) years unless terminated earlier on thirty (30) days' written notice. Confidentiality, IP, return, non-solicitation, and non-circumvention obligations survive, and confidentiality survives for three (3) years after termination.

9. Independent Contractor Relationship

Nothing here creates employment, partnership, joint venture, or agency. You are responsible for your own Philippine taxes, compliance, equipment, internet, software, and workspace.

10. Data Privacy

You will comply with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (R.A. 10173) for any personal data accessed in the Services, processing it only as instructed and for the Services, not retaining or transferring it beyond what is necessary, and reporting any breach immediately.

11. Remedies

You acknowledge a breach may cause irreparable harm for which money damages are inadequate, and the Company may seek injunctive or equitable relief in addition to other remedies. The prevailing party may recover reasonable legal fees and costs.

12. General Provisions

This is the entire agreement on its subject matter. It may be amended only in writing, may be executed in counterparts and by electronic signature, and is written in English, which controls.

13. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

Governed by the laws of the State of Texas. Disputes resolved first by good-faith negotiation, then by binding arbitration in English, seated in Manila or remotely by agreement.