Terms of Service

01About the Studio and These Terms

GrayneAgainst is the working name under which Afeaki LLC offers fine joinery systems design, workshop platform integration, custom fabrication development, materials data pipelines, shop safety and compliance work, and managed operations support. The site is published from the United States, and Afeaki LLC is an organisation established and registered in the United States.

These terms form the agreement between you and the studio whenever you use the website or commission a service. They sit above the details of any individual quotation, proposal, or statement of work. Where a signed contract sets out terms that differ from these terms for a particular engagement, the signed contract governs that engagement to the extent of the difference.

02Acceptance of Terms

Your first visit to this website invites you to respect the conditions in this document. When you submit a form through the enquiry flow, when you email the studio, or when you accept a quotation, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to these terms. If you are acting on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to these terms.

We may update these terms from time to time to reflect changes in the law or in the way the studio operates. The date shown at the top of this page indicates the most recent revision. By using the website after a revision, you accept the revised terms to the extent permitted by law. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

We sometimes describe the way a shop should be set up in language drawn from the craft of joinery, such as a seam being squared, a joint held tight, or a board being book matched. These phrases are illustrative and are not meant to impose any engineering duty beyond the standards of professional care described elsewhere in these terms. They exist to make the spirit of the agreement readable, not to add a hidden technical promise that would not otherwise apply.

03Use of This Website

The GrayneAgainst website is provided to inform you about the studio and its services and to allow you to begin an enquiry. You may read the public pages, download information intended for public use, and submit the forms and mail channels that the site makes available for that purpose.

• You will not attempt to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the website or its servers.
• You will not scrape, mirror, or systematically copy the content of the site for commercial reuse without permission.
• You will not submit unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or abusive content through any form.
• You will not impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity when contacting the studio.
• You will not use the site in a way that breaches a law of your country or of the United States.

The site is a professional portfolio and enquiry point. It carries no user generated content area and no forum, so the acceptable use obligations above apply to the messages and files that you choose to send to us.

04Intellectual Property

The design, text, imagery, code, and graphical treatment of this website, together with the fixtures, drawings, and documentation that the studio produces for clients, are the intellectual property of Afeaki LLC unless a separate agreement states otherwise. Copyright, trademarks, and design rights protect this material.

Viewing this website does not grant you any ownership over its content. You may not reproduce, redistribute, or adapt the designs, copy, or images for commercial purposes without prior written permission. Deliverables that we create for a specific client are licensed to that client under the terms of their engagement and do not belong to anyone else simply by being visible on this site.

05Enquiries and Pre Contract Discussions

Submitting an enquiry, phoning the studio, or writing to notify@grayneagainst.autos does not create a contractual obligation on either side. An enquiry is an invitation for the studio to discuss the work and, where both parties wish, to prepare a quotation. No work begins until a quotation or statement of work has been accepted in writing.

In the pre contract period we may discuss your project in good faith, offer preliminary observations, and ask questions about your aims. Preliminary advice offered before a contract is signed is general and informative. It does not constitute a binding specification, a guarantee of outcome, or a commitment that a proposed technique will suit your exact material without further study.

06Quotations, Proposals, and Acceptance

Where we provide a written quotation or statement of work, that document describes the scope, the deliverables, the timeline, and the price for a defined project. A quotation is an offer and remains valid for the period stated on the document, which is typically thirty days unless we write otherwise.

You accept a quotation by signing the document, by emailing written acceptance, or by providing the agreed deposit where one is requested. Acceptance forms a contract governed by these terms together with the accepted document. Any changes you request after acceptance will be treated as a change to the scope and may affect the timeline and the price. We will not begin a project or purchase bespoke materials for it until acceptance has been received in an agreed form.

07Scope of Work and Deliverables

The scope of work states what we will deliver and what falls outside that deliverable. Typical deliverables for a joinery systems engagement include the architecture documentation, the fixture designs, the platform integration plan, the data reporting structure, the safety procedures, or the managed operations schedule, as named in the quotation.

Deliverables are produced to a professional standard, drawing on careful measurement and honest judgement about materials and methods. Because each bench, room, and material is unique, deliverables are understood to describe a plan that may need adjustment during installation or use to respond to conditions found at the workspace. Such adjustments are part of the professional engagement, and where they change the scope materially, they are agreed with you before they take effect.

08Fees, Payment, and Deposits

Fees are set out in the quotation and are quoted in the currency named there. Unless we agree otherwise, payment terms are as follows. A deposit, usually a proportion of the project fee, may be requested before work that commits studio time or purchases dedicated materials. The balance is due at agreed milestones or on completion as stated in the quotation.

Payment is made through an invoicing process we will describe to you. Overdue amounts may accrue a late charge only where this is lawful and is stated in the quotation. We may pause work on a project where payment is significantly overdue and unpaid. Where a project is cancelled after work has begun, we will invoice fairly for completed and committed work, including the cost of materials that were purchased for the project and cannot reasonably be returned.

09Client Responsibilities

Some parts of a project depend on information and access that only you can provide. You agree to supply accurate details about your space, your equipment, your workflows, and your intended use of the work, and to give reasonable access to the relevant areas for surveying and installation.

• You will provide clear and timely answers to reasonable questions about the project.
• You will confirm decisions at the points the delivery plan requests them, so the timeline can hold.
• You will keep your contact details up to date so that project correspondence reaches you.
• You will not expect us to work with materials you have asked us to use without the agreed measurements and records.

Deadlines depend on both parties keeping to the agreed rhythm. Where a delay in your responses or your site access moves the delivery date, the schedule will be adjusted fairly to reflect workable reality rather than an unreasonable promise.

10Timelines and Change Control

We give our best professional estimate of the timeline at the point of quotation. A timeline is a good faith plan based on the information available then. Factors outside studio control, including the condition of your materials, events at your site, weather affecting deliveries, or a late requested change, may move the schedule.

If you request a change after the scope has been agreed, we will confirm the effect of that change in writing before proceeding with it, so that there is no misunderstanding about cost or time. Where a third party causes a delay, we will communicate honestly and keep you updated rather than making a promise we cannot keep. Where we cause a delay through our own oversight, we will say so plainly and put the schedule right.

11Warranties and Standards of Care

We carry out our work with reasonable skill and care, following the standards of professional practice for joinery systems and workshop engineering. Our deliverables are designed to be sound, legible, and usable for the purpose stated in the quotation. We warrant that the work we deliver matches the agreed specification at the point of handover.

Some recommendations depend on materials and use that evolve over time. The natural movement of wood, the wear of tooling, and changes made to a fixture after handover can affect later performance. Warranty therefore covers defects in the delivered work and does not extend to damage from misuse, from unauthorised modification, from abnormal loading, or from wear that is the normal result of the work being used for a long period.

12Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or in connection with a project, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, is limited to the amount you have paid for that project. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, meaning we are not liable for lost profit, lost production, lost orders, or damage to your reputation that results from a failure in the delivered work.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, such as liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Where a consumer protection law in your jurisdiction grants you rights that cannot be waived by contract, those rights are preserved and these terms are read consistently with them.

13Indemnity and Safety

Where you commission work involving shop safety and compliance, the final operation of your workshop remains your responsibility. We will deliver procedures, guarding recommendations, and audits to a professional standard, but you are responsible for training your staff, for maintaining equipment, and for following the procedures we hand over. You agree to operate any fixture or system in line with the guidance provided at handover.

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to hold the studio harmless from claims that arise from a use of the delivered work that is not in line with the agreed specification or the handover guidance. This indemnity does not cover claims that arise from our own negligence, which remain governed by section 12 of these terms.

14Confidentiality

We treat the details of your project as confidential. During an engagement we may ask for drawings, records, and information about your shop that you consider proprietary. We will use that material only for the approved purposes of the project and will not disclose it to a third party except where needed to provide the service, where the law requires, or where you have given permission.

We may wish to share a description or photograph of a completed fixture as a portfolio example, but we will not do so in a way that reveals your confidential data, and we will seek your agreement before publishing a case example that identifies you. This confidentiality obligation survives the end of the project.

15Termination

Either party may end a project engagement by written notice where the other party has committed a material breach that has not been remedied within a reasonable period after notice. Either party may also end an engagement by written agreement where an unresolvable difference in direction makes progress unworkable.

On termination, we will invoice fairly for all work completed and all committed or purchased materials up to the date of termination, and we will deliver to you any completed deliverables and work in progress for which payment has been received. Confidential obligations and the sections of these terms that protect ownership and limit liability continue to apply after termination.

16Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the state identified in the quotation or, where none is identified, by the laws of the State of Utah in the United States of America, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Subject to section 12, the courts of Utah have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from or relating to these terms, except that we may seek equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction where needed to protect our intellectual property or confidential information.

If you are a consumer protected by mandatory consumer law in your country of residence, any such protection remains available to you and is not removed by this clause. Where a term of this document is found to be unenforceable, the remaining terms continue to apply in full.

17Severability and Entire Agreement

If any part of these terms is held by a court or authority with proper jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that part is read as though it had never been written, and the rest of these terms continue in full force. We have no reason to believe that any clause here is invalid, but this safeguard protects both of us if a change in the law ever makes a single line unworkable.

Together with any quotation, proposal, or statement of work that you accept, these terms set out the entire agreement between you and the studio about the work described there. They replace any earlier conversations, draft estimates, or preliminary notes about the same engagement. Any variation to these terms must be agreed in writing and signed by an authorised person on each side to be effective. If you have received a verbal assurance that conflicts with this document, please ask us to confirm it in writing before you rely on it.