LCRL Champions Network × Orbis Design

1 · Parties

2 · Services

Orbis Design provides ongoing web, digital and production services for the Champions Network and, where requested, the LCRL site, covering the six workstreams set out in the Proposal:

• Site & podcast maintenance — champions-network.com and the LCRL site kept current; Liberty Action Alert episodes produced and posted weekly on approval.
• Chapter expansion — publicity kits and landing pages for each new chapter, on the chapter template.
• Lecture-first Academy production — each recorded lesson turned into a structured session page (chapters, discussion guide, quiz, glossary), built for individual study and group use.
• Subscriber Academy & payments — membership shell, admin backend, Stripe subscriptions with coupon codes and gift subscriptions, once the LCRL Stripe account exists.
• Champions Advocate Weekly — the live send path, source attribution, and stories surfaced on the site.
• Continuity documentation — written process documentation so a staff member or intern can run the production workflow.

Which of these proceed, and how far, is set by the service level chosen in §3.

3 · Service level and fee

All levels bill at $100 per hour, unchanged from the prior term. The level selected by the LCRL Board is marked below.

Selected level: [Build — $3,000 / month, 30 hours]   Annual total: [$36,000 · 360 hours]

4 · How the hours work

• Carry-forward. Unused hours in any month carry forward within the term. They do not carry past August 31, 2027.
• Over the allowance. If a month's queue would exceed the hours available, Orbis Design says so before doing the work, and the Client chooses to defer it, drop it, or approve it at the same $100 rate.
• Out of scope. Work outside §2 is quoted separately before it starts and is never billed as a surprise.
• Transparency. Hours are tracked in Clockify and visible to the Client at any time on the internal Status page; a summary accompanies each invoice.

5 · Invoicing and payment

• Invoiced monthly in advance on the first of the month, to LCMS accounts payable (Georgia Endicott), with Rev. Frith copied. Net 30.
• The first invoice covers September 2026; work performed from September 1 pending the Board's decision is included in it and not billed separately.
• Third-party costs (Cloudinary, Netlify, Resend, Stripe fees, domain and font licences) are passed through at cost or paid directly by the Client, as they are today. None is marked up.

6 · Approvals and working arrangement

• Rev. Mark Frith approves content and releases on behalf of the Client; approval by email reply is sufficient, as it is today for the Liberty Action Alert.
• A weekly check-in continues (currently Fridays, 11:00 Central) with a live working agenda maintained by Orbis Design.
• Material sent for Doctrinal Review is the Client's responsibility to route; Orbis Design supplies it in whatever form the reviewers accept.

7 · Ownership and access

• Everything produced for the Client under this agreement — pages, print files, session content, email templates, imagery commissioned for the Network — belongs to LCRL. Source files live in the Client-accessible repository and shared drive.
• Orbis Design retains the right to reuse generic tooling and templates it has developed (build scripts, admin panel, chapter-kit pipeline) on other work, without the Client's content or branding.
• Credentials for hosting, DNS, Stripe, email sending and Cloudinary are held so that the Client can recover them without Orbis Design; a credentials handover document is part of the continuity workstream.

8 · Term and ending it

• Effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027. Renewal is by written agreement before the term ends; the parties will review scope and level in June 2027.
• Either party may end the agreement with 30 days' written notice. Work in progress is completed or handed over cleanly; hours already invoiced but unused are refunded or applied to the handover, at the Client's choice.
• The level may be changed at any month boundary by agreement, with a written note from both sides.