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Deposit Plus Milestone Plan

Split payment across a booking deposit and delivery milestones, so cost and risk move forward together through the project.

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What it adds

The builder converts your project structure into a payment schedule where a deposit secures scheduling and each subsequent payment is tied to a verifiable deliverable. It converts by reducing the buyer's exposure at any single moment while giving the provider committed cash at the start, aligning both sides around the same completion events. The goal is signed projects with a payment structure that survives scope discussions.

What your builder is told to do

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The actual instructions, in order.
  1. 1

    Read the project phase and deliverable source files and list each milestone with the artifact that proves it is complete, discarding any milestone whose completion cannot be objectively verified.

  2. 2

    Size the deposit to cover the initial phase cost plus the value of reserved capacity, and describe exactly what it secures, whether that is a start date, discovery work, or materials.

  3. 3

    Weight the remaining payments to the actual cost distribution across phases rather than splitting evenly, so cash arrives when the work is performed rather than lagging behind it.

  4. 4

    Attach each payment to a specific completed artifact and define the acceptance step, including how long the client has to review, what happens on approval, and what constitutes a valid objection.

  5. 5

    Publish the full schedule as a timeline showing milestone, artifact, amount, and expected date, because buyers evaluating a phased structure are assessing predictability as much as total price.

  6. 6

    Define the exit conditions in advance, covering what happens if the project stops between milestones, what the client keeps, and how the deposit is treated, using only terms present in the source files.

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    Specify responsive behavior: on mobile, render the schedule as a vertical timeline with the current milestone expanded and payment status badges visible; on tablet, show a horizontal milestone strip above a detail panel for the selected milestone; on desktop, present timeline, artifact detail, and payment status in one view with completed milestones clearly distinguished.

Edge cases it handles

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The things an agent skips when you only say "build a deposit plus milestone plan".
  • Client delays in reviewing an artifact stall the payment schedule and need a stated deemed-acceptance window.
  • Scope changes mid-project must have a defined process for inserting or repricing milestones.
  • A milestone artifact rejected on subjective grounds requires an agreed revision allowance to prevent an indefinite hold.
  • Projects paused by the client need a stated position on the schedule, held capacity, and any restart cost.
  • If the source files lack phase-level cost data, payment weighting is arbitrary and must be reported as provisional.

Definition of done

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Your builder is required to check every one of these before reporting the work finished.
  • Every milestone has a named artifact whose completion is objectively verifiable.
  • The deposit amount is justified and what it secures is stated explicitly.
  • Payment weighting follows the cost distribution documented in the source files.
  • Acceptance windows, revision allowances, and objection handling are all defined.
  • Exit and pause conditions, including deposit treatment, are stated using source-file terms only.
  • Mobile, tablet, and desktop timeline presentations each match the specification.
  • The builder reports which source files supplied phase and cost data, and lists any milestone or term it could not source.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the link

    Grab the Markdown blueprint URL for this offer type.

  2. 2

    Give it to your builder

    Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whatever AI builder is already working in your app.

  3. 3

    It maps, then builds

    Your agent reads the blueprint first, then builds the offer into your app around the product, audience, and stack.

Works with your stack

These blueprints are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and use your source files instead of guessing the offer.

Need it tighter than that? Customize the offer file and tell it exactly which source docs and stack to use.